The Smell You Can Lick

28:39Mark Fischbach:make or invent voices for people but if there's like a movie adaptation or show adaptation of something i've read and it's not at all what like i guess i imagined i noticed that more if it's if it's close enough i'm like okay that's fine but there's been i can't think of an example off the top of my head but there's been certainly times where i've seen like a show or a movie and someone talks is like i don't imagine like the book of mice and men you know if christopher walken played Lenny's like I tend to rabbits George it's like that is not what I imagine Lenny sounding like I can't get into the movie because that character is so not what my brain thought he would sound like I don't appreciate it whenever it's more like what I expect whenever it's the opposite or very different than my brain's like wrong wrong can't get into this movie can't get into this movie wrong voice bad voice bad voice you don't want the bad voice that's so funny I've always thought people were just being ridiculous when they see a movie and they're like that character's all wrong that's not how batman would talk and that's not how he's supposed and i'm like this is the one movie of this he looks like he looks in the movie i feel like but they're you know they have read the comic books they have read the non-comic regular books whatever they have these images i don't have that problem i'm easy going i guess that's why i'm so casual i am vengeance well we wandered away a little bit but so you guys don't have any more or less a fantasia as applies to audio stuff i don't think so i hear it pretty well no yeah i can i can play pretty much whole songs and i have about the same i think it's hard to hear the instrumental in the lyrics at the same time i kind of have to focus on one a little bit more than the other there's some parts where they overlap but if i'm focused on the words it's harder to hear the music but then like as soon as like gripping your pillow tight that's like then i hear like the drum drop what is it what song is that interesting man biting your pillow hard flipping your pillow to the cold side mr sland man well i don't know if any of these are going to be different then i guess i was curious if it was like all the so far we're all we're all the same no one's the avatar of senses in their heads i i'm willing to bet i don't know maybe mark is mark mark seems to be the strongest of us with the different types of bending we've discussed so far but all right next one smells nothing this is where i think i actually have a fan nosia no no fanta nose fantasia oil Olfactorasia.

30:53I could not tell you what a thing smells like to save my life. I don't have strong smell memories. Some things will be like smell and I'll be like, oh, I've smelled that before. I really, truly don't have a smell genation. I hate that word, but it's very accurate.

31:11Mark Fischbach:A handful. I can go a rose and gasoline. I can kind of get the scent of if I imagine. But other things I'm like, okay, garlicky mashed potatoes. I can kind of get the garlic like a really strong garlic but like I'm just trying to like a steak I'm like come on give me something like no nothing really coming there I sometimes wonder if I have a sense of smell and I go like no I can smell that okay well so so yeah so conjuring a smell is tough but what about if you I don't know you know gasoline is kind of what if it's like the smell of your house growing up or the smell of a grandparent's particular cologne or perfume or something.

31:48I'd have to actually smell it. Yeah, I'd have to actually smell it. Shit. But if I actually smell something, it's like a smack in the face still. Like, I do have a strong connection to it memory wise, but I don't know if that changes whether I'm

32:01Mark Fischbach:nose fantastic or not. Smells a tough one. I don't have a lot of smells that I'm like, yes, I can I can bring that out of nowhere. So like if I smelled that smell, yeah, I'd remember it probably. I'd be like, oh, man, this reminds me of like bacon at my grandparents house. I'd wake up and it was cooking. I smell it. But like right now I'm like, come on, bacon smell, bacon smell. It's just not coming. I can't conjure anything. Like even if it bad smells, like just poop, straight poop. I can't smell. And I'm grateful for that. No, that is nice. That is nice. I'm like, give me food. Mark's like poop.

32:30Come on, poop. No, I'm saying a strong smell, like a bad one. Cause you know, negative memories are stronger than positive ones sometimes. So it's like, I don't think that I can conjure that smell in my imagination. I wouldn't even know the capability of doing that. I wonder if people can do that. That crosses a barrier to be like where if you're trying to imagine a visual or if you're trying to hear something, that's a thing where like, it's not completely tangible. I mean, audio is sound wave. So you are, but like when you're trying to imagine a smell or a taste, which we'll also talk about next, it is a thing where it's like, it's a chemical thing.

33:06It's not like you, your body conjures the correct chemicals and then

33:09Mark Fischbach:you smell it it is like i don't know yeah i can't tell if i if it's like the sensation of the smell or the smell because sometimes like you know your nose gets a tickle if you smell something like like the gasoline it's like it's right there it's almost like we remember words at the tip of your tongue it's like the gasoline's right there but i can't quite smell it i can rotate the gasoline in my head i can hear the sound of it glugging into the into the car i i can picture me pouring gas all over myself at the pump but i can't smell it now imagine that but all your other senses and then you're just like me i can't relate to no i can't relate can't imagine that couldn't be me all right well this one's pretty closely related but then so let's also talk about taste is it any different for taste for you guys can you conjure up a taste of a thing and have that like i think this would be like there's a vague outline of it because if i imagine sour like if i imagine biting into a lemon i'll start salivating like so clearly there is it and and my tongue will start to feel weird.

34:06Like if I think of that warhead video that we did, I'm like, I already got it. It's already building up. So there's something there. I can vaguely be like, I think I know what Turkey tastes like. I think I can kind of imagine that, that flavor. There's also texture to it, which is a hard thing to separate out. Yes. I'm with you on that one. Yeah. Texture. I can picture vividly. That's, that's no problem at all. The taste though is, is like vague, ethereal, but it's there, but it's less concrete.

34:33Mark Fischbach:Yeah. The other senses are coalescing and making it hard like i like biting into an apple i can feel it i can feel the juice i can almost taste or smell it but like it's all the others like the sound of the crunch like all of that is there but like the taste and the smell both are kind of eluding me again garlic i mentioned like the garlic mashed potatoes i can feel them going into my mouth like even like occasional lump in it where it wasn't fully mashed like all that's there and there is the sensation of garlic i can't tell if it's the taste the smell neither both it's too lumped in with the other ones and the texture is a big part of that biting into like a skittle versus a steak versus a bread roll there was a place called a grand finale in cincinnati that closed down and went to a handful of times in the past and they had these really great rolls like i loved their bread it's right there going into my mouth and tasting it's been gone for like five years but i just can't i stop right short of being able to enjoy it in my imagination it's like it's going to my mouth but gone this is a random tangent and i thought i did this really fascinating but the rolls i have only been to the grand finale once costco's in-house yeasted dinner rolls you have to buy them in like a huge fucking bag but those are close and they're insanely good i got them randomly this holiday season because we hosted a bunch of people tell me that name again like if you just go to costco and go to the bakery they just sell huge bags and i think they're just called dinner rolls it's just like the made at costco made in-house dinner rolls they're like yeasted dough they're fucking amazing we hosted a bunch of family over thanksgiving and christmas this year i swear every person who was here was where did you get these rolls did you make these no it's just huge fucking 10 pound bag of rolls from costco but they're really good anyway random thing and you have to buy a whole lot of them so it's kind of a like you can freeze them maybe or whatever but it's kind of a pain it's right there like the the ripping apart a little something in the center a little circle in the center i can see the butter melting on top i just want to taste it again uh you try the Costco ones.

36:29You'll have to eat a lot of them, but they're real good. There is the strange association that we've talked about in this podcast before, where it's like, if you can imagine yourself licking something and you know exactly what it would feel like to lick it, not so much the taste, but just the texture. I don't know why that is so strong because if the taste is not that strong, but pure texture is like, is that just tying into the whole body's ability to sense like touch?

36:55Mark Fischbach:Mark, you get another segue point. My brain did something horrible where I got hair, like licking hair sensations. I love it. No, yeah, that's the next one. That's called tactile imagery, and it is different from smelling and tasting. It is specifically the texture, and it's involved in eating because you can feel any part of you that has nerve endings. You could feel a tactile sensation if you lick something or you touch it with your hands or whatever. This is one where I think I actually am not a zero. of all the things that I can't, like you said, wait, it's like dramatic things. Like if I imagine licking a basketball or hair, I can almost taste the rubber.

37:37Mark Fischbach:It's right there with the basketball. Like I can feel this is the one where it's like, it grosses me out. This is why I'm sort of sensitive to textures and food. This is the one thing where it will gross me out, where it's like, if I imagine the texture of a thing, I really didn't like that I ate or that I had trouble. I can summon that a little bit and it can I can get that reaction where it's like queasy whatever you brought me to styrofoam just now I'm not happy about it yeah I'm really glad I don't hate styrofoam because I could totally probably summon the texture enough but I could kind of do it guys but it sounds like it's really vivid for you guys like it's crisp sharp texture is pretty strong it's pretty strong it's to the point where if I imagine all the textures that I really really don't like touching it just makes me physically uncomfortable like what you're I was saying, especially like the felt roof of an old car.

38:23And just like, I'm literally fidgeting with two little pieces of felt right here on my desk. Cause I think it's funny. Cause it's, it's fuzzy. What is wrong with you? What is wrong with you? Well, look, these are like, they're like little feet you put on furniture, right? They're just like, yeah, I know. I get it. I'm licking them right now. I know what they are. I'm not licking them. Wait, I don't like that. No, that's not good. Yeah.

38:47Mark Fischbach:See, see, I love the listening. perspective of some of what we said oh that tastes so much worse than the texture is what is that it tastes like glue markiplier licks feet live on distractible i did not do that that is not true slander slanderman there's nothing wrong with felt you weirdo psychopath who doesn't like felt not as bad as cotton or styrofoam but it's not great like felt and velvety textures yeah cotton balls are concerned i hate it last night i sliced my hand open with one of those like Reynolds wrap little serrated edge things. Like I can feel my thumb just running along the edge lightly and I can kind of feel the cut again.

39:24Mark Fischbach:And the cut part's not pleasant, but like I can, I can feel those textures. I can feel the texture of the actual aluminum foil or plastic wrap. Like texture to me comes very easily in my imagination. Can any of us imagine positive textures or is it only the shitty textures that we hate that we can? Oh, like ice cream. I can imagine the like creamy, delicious texture of ice cream. That's a good one, right? We can all agree. Yeah. I like shakes with chocolate chips in them sometimes, like a chocolate shake with hot fudge and like chocolate chips. I can feel the chocolate chips coming through the straw.

39:52Or like the first lick of like a sucker. Like you unwrap a Tootsie Pop and when it's dry and you're like, um.

39:59Mark Fischbach:The little edge, the little lumpy edge that you go and hit, yeah. And sometimes there's like chunks out of that or it's a whole different. Again, mashed potatoes or steak or apple, like all those textures are there. I think that's literally the only category where I feel like I'm not just a straight up zero. so you qualify as human i think if you can do that if you're all zeros across the board you're not a human but if you have any imagination in any of your senses then you can't well thank god i made it because i don't think this next one counts for me either i don't even know if this is a sense pro pro-propriation pro anyway yeah proprioception motor imagery movement imagery i've always thought this silly when there are things right where it's like i'll teach you how to golf now envision your swing and your swing and i'm like i just fucking wagging my arms around how is this going to help me actually golf is that do you guys if you're imagining you're doing something especially if it's a thing you know how to do do you feel like you have a good vivid imagery of whatever chopping an onion it's not 30 fps you know if that makes any sense like i'm not getting full frames in my imagination there's like missing sections but like i can see a swing but like it's not a smooth just like ah yes there it is there's pieces missing but yes this ties into something that i experiences in my childhood when i was going to sleep oftentimes i would imagine my whole bed was swinging and i could feel the like myself swinging i could feel like my center of gravity shifting even if like i'm not moving so i think that ties into that because it's like the the body position thing i stopped doing it for a while and it got like i lost the ability to do it for a little bit but then you know a few years ago when i was trying to um when i was doing my my polyphasic sleep bullshit i'll be like okay i gotta i gotta force myself to take this 45 minute nap i only have 45 minutes to sleep i gotta get to sleep so i would start to do that again i'll be like i wonder if i can still do that and it was really weak right it was weak it first, but the more I did it, the more I practiced it, the more I got better at it.

42:07So it's one of those weird things where I think actually you can get better at that one because then eventually that evolved into something else I talked to you guys about, which is where I was like trying to find these meditations. What I would do is I was like, I would imagine myself sitting in a chair. I could feel my arm lift and there was this wooden bowl of like wooden spheres, right? So I'd pick up a ball and I'd put it in another bowl and I'd be counting as I did. and I could feel the tactile, like less about the wood, but more about my position in my trying to separate my clearly laying down body and me moving an imaginary arm.

42:39And it was, it was the stronger that that connection got the quicker. I was able to just like slip into sleep. Weirdly enough. I don't know why. That's really funny. I never connected that to that. You were really imagining the motor. I use that. I specifically that scenario of like sitting at the table and moving a thing from a bowl to another bowl. I use that. That does help me like fall asleep and or sort of meditate when I'm trying to focus and like quiet everything in my mind. But I don't at all. It's not about the sensation of the motor skills part of it. It's entirely about like using it as enough of a focal point to where it captures my attention, but it's not enough of an activity that it requires any serious imagination or thought.

43:27Cause it's, you know, it's equivalent to like counting sheep or other things that people, you know, do and that come up examples of that. But part of it is that you feel the motor imagination and that's like what makes it calming. Yeah. And cause I think it's like, you're stepping out of your physical form into your mind, which is where you are when you sleep. So it's kind of health set, right? And it's something you can get better at. I do think that it weirdly is the more you practice that one, you can improve it. Maybe you can improve the other ones, but I don't know. That was actually kind of my follow-up question on this one too.

44:00You can get better at the imagining. Do you feel like if you were trying to learn something, if you were trying to learn how to chop an onion or how to cast a line with a fishing pole, do you feel like if once you've done it a little bit and you're imagining it, are you practicing that? And does that help you get better at the actual activity? If you're, does it translate back and forth or is it just that you can get better at imagining the sensations? There are scientific studies that actually have shown that this, that, that, um, shadow boxing improves boxers performance, that if you're doing martial arts, there's certain athletes that if they visualize the thing that they're trying to do, their performance does increase.

44:39Like the, the science study that I saw was set up in a way where it's like you had a control group of people that were actually practicing and you had a control group of people that weren't doing anything, no preparation. And you had the test group, which was they were only imagining doing the task. And so they had a control of nothing and a control of actual practice and where the imagination group was actually closer to the practice group, not to the level of the physical practice, but they were far away from the control do nothing group. They just showed up and they did it. They were still trained athletes to do the task, but it's like the certain metric that they were trying to improve did not get better or maybe they weren't as well okay i'd have to look at the study but this this does exist that's weird because boxing as soon as

45:20Mark Fischbach:you said boxing for whatever reason my i did a good job of like i almost fully zoned out to visualize was like a full daydream moment but i was like okay i'm in a ring it's pure darkness and like ronda rousey standing across trying to punch me in the face and i could see it and the swing went right left to the left of my head that was like oh i hear the like as she like that was close like i could hear that and feel like the almost breeze and it's like okay but And I was like, well, let me try to visualize more. Okay, now there's a crowd. There's camera flashes. I'm adding a bit more to it. Now there's more noise.

45:47Mark Fischbach:And like, I actually kept building and it went pretty well. That was more frames in my imagination as I was moving and dodging and whatever. I wasn't swinging back and her fists kind of become Acme Acre. Like the glove just kind of launched at me and she was still as far away. So it wasn't perfect, but like it was building into something more and more interesting. And there were more sensations like the crowd making noise and the whooshing while. Yeah. So I was able to build upon it there, which was cool. Trying to think about the senses. I'm sure I've done that. I've just never consciously thought about the process of building the scene in my mind.

46:19I think that to tie all that together, like what you're saying is since I've started doing these like movies and stuff, there's a big part of directing. I think that is like visualizing the shot, right? Getting better at imagining what that what that is. I don't think that my imaginations are any more vivid or clear, but there is a level of practice where it's like, I've seen more camera angles. I've seen more lens options. I've seen more positions where it can be. I know the difference between like a probe now. So I can apply those to my imagination. And at the very least I can hold it in my head longer.

46:53Cause my biggest problem is I can imagine things are a song, but I can't play it all the way through because I'll, it'll shunt to a different thought pretty quickly. So concentration, I think, and that kind of meditation of the focus in that space and in that state is the practice that you can do and the way that you can improve besides just experiencing new things. I think that the proprioception is one that you can actually tangibly get better at. I don't know why that would be, but I think because in my experience as a child, I did a lot more and then I fell out of it. I was worse at it and then I got better at it.

47:27Your out my ass conjecture would be it's because that's one you can immediately feel in real life like if you're trying to get better at that but it's with smell or it's with imagining objects that you're like seeing you might like you'd have to have it in front of you right if you were trying to practice if i'm trying to get better at picturing an apple and i have an apple and so you're like don't look at the apple look at the apple don't but when it's your body when it's a physical motion like you can you maybe not even doing it but the the pathways in your brain of like, and now I'm jumping now I'm moving in this way.

48:04Like it's a constant connection that you have. You don't need a thing to look at or a thing that you're smelling or hearing to like practice. You're constantly switching back and forth between like, I'm imagining what it might feel like. And now I'm, I'm getting the real sensation of like trying to figure fire these nerves in this way or whatever. Like it's, I imagine that has to do with it because almost Also, the other senses, it's like you're sensing a thing that's outside of you in some fashion. Maybe I can get better at it. It's interesting to me that smell and taste are definitely the weaker two of all the ones we've talked about.

48:37Which is funny because smell is supposed to be like the, oh, it's your olfactory is your strongest side to memory is your strongest thing. But I guess that doesn't mean that it's a thing you're good at imagining inherently in the same way. I've seen some kind of like MRI, functional MRI scans that show the pathways of like smell compared to a dog's like a smell for dogs ties almost everywhere into their brain like the visual centers or the the memory centers stuff like that whereas for humans it really doesn't go very far it doesn't tie into all the other parts of the brain whereas like vision does it bounces through the entire like you use your eyes are in the front the vision processors are in the back and it transverses through the entirety of it i think similarly with audio like there's there's much more brain activity in those senses than um smell i don't know about taste probably similar which is weird considering how much humans like food well yeah smell and taste are linked right so that would make sense that they would follow a similar path oh there was one more thing um for the proprietor session i wonder if this has to do with why people have a really interesting ability to kind of become the vehicle they're piloting because when you're driving you just kind of i don't know it's not like you become it but you you you get integrated in it where you subconsciously can feel the the the car's movement and you kind of like personality wise people have big trucks not me of course but people have big trucks are like i look how big i am you know is that what that's about wait is that a sensation that you both of you guys identify with where you feel like if you're in the driver's seat in some way you're like becoming the vehicle because i exclusively feel like i'm in the driver's seat and i'm piloting the thing and i have an accurate perception of my car because i know how big it is and how wide it is but not at all do i feel connected to it like you're describing it feels like i'm driving the thing and together we're a team and the car is always separate from me and it feels like a thing i'm using i wouldn't say specifically but i i can't remember where i was reading this is more just like other observations of other people for these like things but there also is that trance like state where you lose all perception and the car is still going in the right direction and not crashing and you have made exits.

50:48Mark Fischbach:Oh yeah. Where you like zone out and all of a sudden you're just five miles further. Specifically what you said that triggers it is like how connected people are to what their car is and how that makes them feel like the joke about, Oh, he must have a small penis. Cause he's got a huge truck or whatever. I've always felt like the car I have, or like I had a motorcycle in college. I always thought the motorcycle was cool as shit. And I knew that I looked like I was huge. Like I'm this big, tall, fat dude on this motorcycle. I looked like I'm a, like a clown on a tiny motorcycle i did not give a shit because the thing was cool the car the motorcycle is cool right now i'm really like my car like i'm i miss my subaru uh but the car i have currently is a really nice car i think it looks awesome i do not think it makes me look cool i think i look like a huge dweeb when i'm driving along singing the system of a down in my bmw but the car's cool as shit but like if people feel like their identity merges with it somehow like that makes a lot of sense because people get obsessed with like how their car makes them look or feel and it like becomes a part of their personality like jeep people become jeep people when they get a jeep never understood that but it's a whole it's a whole phenomenon they get their ducks gotta give a duck away you see another jeep put a duck on it that makes a lot of sense but i've never felt that in that way or anything i wouldn't say i feel it too strong I'm curious what the subreddit's gonna say about all this This is the whole point of this episode is I just want to put this out there And then I'm gonna read all the comments that the subreddit leaves Because I want to know what all these different people have to say about these things But that's really interesting I mean you can feel your car You get to know your car right so you can feel the bumps in the road You can tell when something's kind of off with the car Because you get used to the way it's supposed to feel But I've never felt like the car and I have become one symbiotic being or anything I can't feel like I've felt that merging Plus the internet tells me I still don't have a car So I wouldn't know that feeling anyway Yeah, someday you'll get one and then you'll be able to talk about this.

52:44Mark Fischbach:One day. I feel bad for you walking everywhere. All right. Don't mind it. I see how that happened. I see how... That's a point, buddy. Thanks, Bob. Hey, I didn't do it. And that's not fair to you. That was funny. See, now I can picture the scene from Pulp Fiction where he's holding the pocket watch and talking to little Bruce Willis. This episode is brought to you by State Farm. Listening to this podcast instead of doom scrolling? Smart move. Another smart move? Getting help from one of State Farm's 19 ,000 local agents when you choose to bundle home and auto. Bundling. Just another way to save with the personal price plan.

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53:34Well, this was fun. I love when we do episodes where we're just talking about a thing that applies exclusively to me. I did give you points, though.

53:40Mark Fischbach:I didn't think I felt like it applied more to us because we could visualize and experience more. No, no. It's all about Bob. I hope everyone finds it interesting, but I found it very interesting, which is all I care about. No particular order. Wade, you earned a segue point, but it's crossed out. You earned a mom point. Can't remember why. You earned a point for your impressions. You earned a point for bad voice. You earned a point for not being able to smell at all. You have medium taste. You have medium tactile. You can sort of imagine your motor stuff, and then you're walking everywhere, leaving you with a total of nine points.

54:17Mark, you earned a point for being so famous. You earned the real segue point. You earned the voices in your head point. You earned a reading comprehension point. You earned also no smell, medium taste, another segue point, and then a good tactile sense point. and then you were to point for vivid motor imagery which leaves you at a total wait what i have also nine wait a minute hang on let me count this again why is that so outrageous i should have been counting okay you both have nine points i don't know i just felt like i said a lot more stuff for mark yeah it seemed like it seemed like he had more things listed under the

54:57Mark Fischbach:point yeah man i feel like i'm being treated fairly here wait you just did not nearly as good as mark i can't believe you're tied i just felt like mark performed a lot better but actually it's tied great that we all feel that way congratulations you exceeded expectations isn't that what you want i don't feel as good about it as you think i should you should feel great you should be really proud of yourself buddy i think you just don't want to see an even number here i would love not to see an even number here how many wheel spins will there be

55:30ah look at that it's gonna be three again hey all right it all comes down to this who would have guessed that seriously though three three three two okay well there's four twos in a row but there's two threes and whatever yeah suspicious suspicious and not at all statistics i would next constitution we will have a suspicious be a trigger word for something

55:51Mark Fischbach:oh i got yelled at by someone on stream they were like you guys said unfair twice in this episode and no one noticed it and I was like oh well that's part of the rule we have to notice it that's part of the rules everybody if no one catches it you don't get mad I call unfair on the audience oh it's unfair that they keep forgetting how the rules work well I guess we have to get a meaningful head a meaningful coin toss before we have to decide what it means we're all looking for meaningful head I think that they uh uh they shouldn't be able to ever get mad if an unfair is not caught, and if we go heads down, it'll be they are allowed to get double mad.

56:35Alright. Well, I'm sure nothing bad will happen from this coin flip. Uh-oh. I got heads. No, wait. No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no. I got tails. I got lion ass. Oh, God. Wait, so that means... The audience is allowed to get double man oh yeah mark wins if we get all heads but we got all tail am i sure this is tails yeah because the lady is heads why don't you get a coin with actual heads and tails on it because this one has a lion and he has a tail and that's tails enough but it's not because i'm i never remember so if we miss an unfair now i guess we have to be punished for it good thing this is the last episode i think the audience gets to decide what the punishment should be so if we miss an unfair and the audience catches it the moderators need to make a thread on the subreddit and maybe the top comment will be wow let's hold on now let's not give up too much power has to be some discretion no if i've learned anything about the internet it's that you should never use the top comment for anything of value how about we let it'll be the top two comments or three and we get to veto like we have to pick which one but you know that way if there's two options three seems not that's too loose two would be that way they can't just make a joke top one yeah what's the top two

57:56Mark Fischbach:comments are the guys in the podcast are the guys doing episode completely naked like i don't want to do either of those because this is one one-off kind of thing maybe we could make three i don't know what if we each get a veto so we have three vetoes and we just keep going down or we do nothing and say status quo and say no the head the coins have spoken if we don't honor the coins none of this means anything next council distractible we're getting rid of the coin i don't think that's gonna i love the coin the coin is my favorite part of the whole thing i love the coin the coin's great we might need to change the word because apparently we say unfair a lot and then don't notice it but so we does that does that seem like a do we each get one veto like the vetoes are emergency escape hatches we're not supposed to just all veto to get but if there's three things that are like they have sex and wade kills bob and whatever like we can it's up to the audience to come up with serious punishments this is a this has a ripple effect so wait does it punish all of us since we all would have missed the unfair it would be an arbitrary new rule i think that we have to apply or it's a straight punishment or something else but it's every time we would miss it well as long as we don't look at the subreddit that's not real but they can't defend you if you don't look at it what i'm gonna add to the bonus point wheel is you get a point if you are the one who claimed unfair in the episode oh sweet awesome it's completely unbiased it just so happens that mark is the one who did that in this episode hey but we all have the chance to claim unfair whatever we so choose it's so weird hearing the word now every time you oh you said it unfair unfair get out of your system boys unfair unfair unfair unfair unfair unfair unfair unfair unfair unfair unfair unfair anyway we got three spins and i'm sure that The subreddit won't do anything that will make us regret this and inevitably have to stop following this procedure because they're going to ruin it because the internet's not allowed to have nice things.

59:49Makes you feel any better. I already regret it. I regret nothing. All right. Spin number one. Bobald? Current record holder for most points. Someone posted a spreadsheet of the points recently. Oh, it was posted like yesterday. Yeah, yeah. Wait a minute. Most points in a single episode? Current record holder is Bob. But whether or not you want to apply the host rules to that, second place would be me. Third place is Wade for most points total. At least I meddled, I guess. I'm going to say I don't get it. I'm going to give it to Mark. All right. Yes. Wade, you have 572. I have 649. Bob has 666 and a half.

1:00:31Mark Fischbach:All right. No more points for me. Leave it right there, everybody. I must be too generous with points. That must be why I'm so far behind. I give out a lot more points. You really are. I would say that you give out more points than Mark and I do, generally speaking. Mark is stingy. Mark will have episodes where it's like five to seven. Oh, yeah. Okay. You're right. You're right. Which isn't wrong. Mine are like 52 to 48. There's no established scale for that. That's just how we've all... Wade will give out like 30 points an episode. I used to give out way more than I do now. Earlier on in this book here, I got episodes where it's like, Mark has 36 and Wade has some other joke number i just have this whole bag of points i bought i guess i just felt like i should use them before they expire expired points that's that date's a lie you have to listen to that oh no oh oh interesting why hey click view stats real quick you've had some really bad wheel luck lately bob gotta be fucking kidding me with this uh six for sudden death that's that's pretty man sudden death has hit six times which makes it tied for third fourth all right okay that's so unlikely listeners are up seven to five of our viewers i have it scribbled on the back of my notebook it's not holy shit i just got a cramp in my hand yeah because we had two we had two add tens currently i have it written down that the winner's wheel is supposed to be at 28 88%.

1:01:56Mark, Wade, or one man show?

1:02:06No, no, no, no, no. Oh my God. Jesus God. I mean, I wasn't worried. I could do it. It's okay. Only a measly 2 % gets added. Yeah, what do we add? Is it 2 %? Isn't it 6? I thought it was 2%, which ended up being like 6 points. I thought it was 2%, because it used to hit a lot more. And then now we've gone out of our way to make sure it never hits. All right. I'm going to say 2 % and I've documented March 3rd, 2026, 30%. Wade wins and nothing else needs to happen. And that's the end. And let's stop threatening me with one man shows. Congratulations, Wade. Mark, would you like to give your loser speech?

1:02:42Listen, the wheel speaks the truth, but you know who speaks harder truth? The coin. So I know it was my fault for calling this on you guys out there. But hey, remember who I am. If you don't remember, check the headlines. They always tell the truth about him.

1:02:59Mark Fischbach:Yeah, yeah, yeah. Remember me? Hello, everybody. Hello, everybody. Thanks, Mark. Wade, winner's speech. Thanks. I'm glad that the coins and the wheels generally kind of give me a bit of a break. Because, man, it's tough to get points. Even whenever I do get the right amount of points to tie or win, they're surprised. My co-hosts are surprised. Like, I didn't think Wade was even in this episode. I'm surprised he tied with Mark. But the sad realization is that even whenever I do win, I win with the same amount of points as somebody else. I'm never going to catch up. I will always be behind. But maybe we'll get surprise least point golf rules added to the wheel someday.

1:03:34Mark Fischbach:So I'll have another chance. You actually won this episode with less points than Mark, to be clear. The score was 10 to 9 when it was declared a tie and we entered sudden death. I feel even worse about my victory. You won from last place. It's a miracle. Great. Congratulations. Well, that's Wade's winner speech. I'm going to end it there. Make sure you follow the podcast and then you'll know when new episodes. Spend some extra ones. You might have missed them. If you're not following the show, you'll never know. Make sure you follow Mark and Mark Plyer. Wade at LordMinion777 or Minion777. I am MySkerm on the internet.

1:04:09Make sure you keep checking the shop, distractible.shop, because there will be merch there soon. That's the end of the episode. Wade is going to host the next one. I know we're all shocked, but it's true. Wade's going to host the next one. I'm sorry, Mark. I really tried. That's the end of the episode. So thanks so much for watching. See you next time. Podcast out. This is why you get sudden death. I love that.

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