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Episode: Bob's Fridge (Part 2)

Author: Distractible
Duration: 01:06:14

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Summary

In episode 2 of Bob's Fridge from the Distractible podcast, hosts Mark, Wade, and Bob engage in humorous discussions centered around Bob's refrigerator troubles. The conversation covers Bob's delivery mishaps, customer service frustrations, and preparations for Thanksgiving. They reflect on friendships, personal quirks, and the absurdities of life while sharing funny anecdotes. The episode captures the lighthearted banter and camaraderie among the hosts, making everyday household challenges relatable and entertaining.

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Good evening, gentle listener, and welcome to Distractible. this episode. Yes, it's time for Bob's Fridge Part 2. Now sit back and prepare to be distracted and enjoy the show.

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I'm writing a decorative distractible score at the top. With all your colors? I'm trying to. Hey, what's up guys? I'm not looking at the camera because I don't care about the viewers. It's the listeners that really earn my heart.

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You're not looking at them either. I'm looking in their souls and I don't like what I'm seeing. Why you gotta come back to the viewers? The grass is greener where you can see grass. The ass is greener on the other side. He's right about that.

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Distractible is a show that you need. It's not the show you deserve. It's the show you get. We have destroyed all other podcasts. We're the only one left. I'm sorry and you're welcome. I am your host today because that's how it works.

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on my non-branded, I'm not talking about it, I'm just very happy to have it, score sheet. Digital score sheet. Is that against the rules?

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I'm remembering a bylaw that might have been... Theoretically, it gets the rules, but I want you to enjoy things, so I'm not going to put up a fight.

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I won't either, unless I lose. If we lose, ha ha ha. This is officially a red flag moment, so if you guys remember by the end of the episode, whoever loses has a very legitimate red flag to throw.

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But I think E-Ink does qualify as physical because it's physically like Etch-a-Sketching to the top.

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I will give you this if you start calling it I-Ink.

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Mark just grabs a real piece of paper like, nevermind. I'm getting the points out here.

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No, I mean, that's true. That's fair. It requires electricity. But once it's done, been electrified, then it is written physically. It's pretty much counts.

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I don't know how it remembers each time, but I guess it's just all instructions for the whatever magnets are happening there.

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Yeah, it must just like save whatever the last screen was and then in the end goes back where it's supposed to go.

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It really freaks out about the color, but I think that's got to be a very particular process to do that. Not sponsored by this thing. That's why I didn't say what the name of it was.

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But if you pay me many, many dollars, I will say the name of this out loud and happily, too.

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That's good marketing.

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I don't know if they have any left because I get about 19 ads for that thing on my Instagram every single day. It's like the only ad I get on Instagram. They really think I need to take a lot of e-ink notes. You'll cave. I mean, I always do.

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Like, I'm not buying stuff that I see repeatedly on the Internet, please.

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Oh, you mean ink? Wade, I'm giving you minus one. Okay, I'm going to say ink!

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Is that better keep trying keep vamping explore that really get in there or in like spanish a e a ink Because e is pronounced a and i is pronounced e so Sometimes e's are pronounced a's in english, too.

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I don't care about english I want to give you points if you said that in spanish right then and there that would have been that would have been worth something But as it is right now, that's not worth any points

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No care de los ingleses.

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No, bad. Myropa. Myropa. Change-o, myropa.

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Okay, that's a very personal story you're bringing up.

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That's a personal story you've told like twice on the podcast.

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I'll tell it again. So here I was barbecue sauce on my ice cream.

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Oh yeah, I prefer barbecue sauce on the titties. Anyway, I saw this. I saw this headline. This is not going into Smalltalk or the episode. I just saw it. Trump's NATO pick used to work for a company offering a quote masculine toilet for well endowed men.

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And I know you, good news guys, I know we've all suffered the problem. Dick's so huge, just literally dunks in the water every time you are standing to pee. When it sits down, you know, it could get lost in the drinks.

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Yeah, it's so big it has its own sitting posture.

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It's really dangerous if you accidentally bump the flusher while you're sitting down, tell you what. Yeah, I had to modify a garden hose crank wheel to wheel it all back up. And now I don't have to fear for that on the toilet.

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Something about... Scrotorooter. You guys ever put it in and then flush it? Just to get a flush job?

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Just to feel something? Just to get a flush job?

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Call the plumber and be like, there's something clogging my pipes! It's me!

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I know why you've had all those water problems, Wade. I couldn't get it.

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Why do you think I got the power flush?

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Well, you don't have to worry about that anymore. I think this toilet was already for sale. Actually, probably the company's shutting down because he's gonna go work for NATO now.

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I'm glad NATO's getting access to masculine toilets.

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Sounds like the kind of toilet where it's designed for in case your junk is too big, but also every time you sit on it, it makes a fake splashing noise just so that anyone within the earshot knows your penis slashing the water in the toilet, because that's how big it is.

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My secret splash button.

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I sit down, a voice goes like, whoa there, big guy. Let me make some space for you.

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I don't know if I have a big enough toilet for you.

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It's got a whole soundboard to make sure every time you're in the bathroom, it's masculine enough.

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It's actually a toilet seat cover as well. You take it with you in the airport bathroom, so everyone knows. Watch out, big dick coming through. Okay, enough of that. That's all. Small talk. How are you guys doing? Or big talk.

00:07:31 Speaker_05
I need to talk about refrigerators.

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Oh shit.

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I feel like I should get mine out quickly before that happens. I can't- I can't follow him up on this.

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I thought you were just gonna say, I don't have anything at all. What do you have? You've got gold.

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You're saying I'm gold.

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We'll see about that. I s- Oh no. I'm not supposed to use this mug. Why not? This is Avery's mug.

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Well, good thing there's no video evidence of you betraying that trust. Let me just, uh- Hey Mark, can you hold it up again real quick? Let me just- Alright, how many points is this blackmail worth?

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Just blow this mug up.

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I've seen you already take several drinks from that you carried it all the way into your office Did you sincerely just realize that it's I just realized it because I pulled it straight out of the dishwasher And flipped it around and I was in such a hurry to like okay.

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I need coffee. I need to get in here I only looked at it, right?

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She's not gonna be like mad or anything, but it's just I mean you just when you're done Just go wash it and stick it back in the where it goes, and it'll be fine. That's why I'm not allowed to use

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I don't know if I want any more of this particular small talk. We're going down a lane I don't know if I can come back from. I appreciate your honesty, sir. Do you treat it like a pan? It gets more seasoned the more coffee goes in without wash?

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Oh, of course. Yeah, you gotta season it with like old cream. Mmm. You gotta season your coffee cups. It's time for Bob's Fridge Part 2, which will be the name of this episode, whether or not I actually have a topic. Yeah.

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Two weeks ago, we live in Ohio, which means we have a basement fridge. And two weeks ago, our basement fridge, Mandy, I think Mandy went to get ice cream and she grabbed it. You know, ice cream is hard when it's frozen. She literally grabbed it.

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It was like slosh, squish. It weren't cold no more. The freezer was more of a refrigerator and the refrigerator was just a very small room in the basement. So we were like, ah, let's get a new fridge. Damn it. Because we had Thanksgiving coming up.

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This was two weeks ago. So we got time. We got time. We'll go and we'll pick one out. And we were like, you know what? We have some complaints about our upstairs, our main fridge in our kitchen. It's fine.

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But there are a couple of things we wish were different. What if instead of getting just like a cheapo one for the basement, what if we get ourselves the one we are dreaming of for the kitchen and then move the kitchen one downstairs? That'll be fine.

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Great move. Great move. Yeah. Turns out the one we actually want was really expensive. And we looked at it and we were kind of like, oh, how badly do we want that? Turns out you can buy refrigerators that have been returned.

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We found an open box refrigerator that was over a thousand dollars off. It was almost half price of what the fancy, like top of the line, bougie, ridiculous, you know, unnecessarily cool fridge was. And we were like, oh,

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It had a dent. It was from San Francisco, right? Someone's side yard?

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It had a dent on the back. Oh, it was listed. It had like a couple dents where you couldn't see him. And it was like, oh, and it doesn't come with documentation. And I was like, I don't read those anyway. That's fine.

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That's just less shit that will be piled in that one cabinet where I put all the manuals I've never read for all the things we own. But anyway, we're like, well, this is just a bargain and it works. And we looked and it was documented as working.

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And we asked the guy and he was like, yeah, it's out here. It works. Should work. Don't worry about that. And we were like, we won't. And so we ordered it to be delivered last Friday. And it was. Oh, there's a thing that happened before that.

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So refrigerators, we're moving them. Turns out when people deliver refrigerators, they don't move ones up and down and all over the fuck. So we had to pay guys to come before we got the new one to switch the broken one to the upstairs. Whatever.

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If you ever design a kitchen, you have to design the opening of the kitchen so that it's as wide as a refrigerator is. Can I just say that? I didn't even think I measured doors. Well, I Mandy thought to do this. Mandy measured doors.

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We measured hallways. We measured everywhere. We were like, yeah, all these places where a fridge might not, whatever. And we measured and it just fit. I never once imagined I should measure the kitchen that the fridge was in to see if it would fit.

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So me and the two guys we hired had to physically pick up the entire fridge and carry it beneath the lights, but above the countertop and between the wall like it fit exact. It was like a like a 3D puzzle.

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It fit in one orientation at one height, and we still scratched the absolute fuck out of the corner of the wall.

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and I'm gonna have to go ahead and repaint that but I was helping and honestly those guys were really chilled they did a great job and they were very helpful the first fridge comes and this whole time Mandy and I are like oh my god fucking fridge delivery we didn't get it from Lowe's tell you that much and spoiler alert we're not getting any more from this new place either ever for the rest of our lives

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You're on a fridge blacklist, man. Literally, I'm running out of places to buy fridges from. But so the whole time leading up to the fridge, we were like, there's no way it's going to go wrong, right? Like they can't mess it up.

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They have to bring it in the door and go 20 feet. The kitchen's right there. They couldn't possibly fuck up the delivery. Aside from the fact that apparently they deliver fridges before God himself wakes up. It actually did go fine.

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The it's it's I knew it would happen. But when you order, we ordered the fridge and they were like, OK, well, we don't know what time until like the day before the send you a message. But your your delivery window is between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m.

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So, of course, our fridge was delivered at 630 a.m. Because why the fuck wouldn't it be? I wouldn't be so mad if that was the only time I had to wake up before 630 a.m. for a refrigerator. We'll get to that. Anyway, we're dreading this. It happens.

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And the guys are actually awesome. They take the old one. No problemo. They bring the new one in. Nothing in the house is destroyed. The fridge is not dented or it's great. It takes literally 20 minutes.

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between when they got there and I opened the door and they're like, okay, sir, looks like it's all set up and they leave. And I just look around. I'm like, okay, we did it. Great. The fridge is on. You can feel it's like cold air is coming out.

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It's like, yeah. Oh my God. Okay. And literally like I shouldn't have unclenched because I internally, I was like, we didn't happen again. We've made it. You know how the one fridge we had wouldn't get cold no more.

00:14:03 Speaker_03
Yeah, must have gave its disease to the new one as they pass going out the door because it was an open box fridge, but it was literally like a brand new fridge that someone had delivered and then returned.

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I'm going to guess because it didn't work, but they had it look brand new, like it had tape from the factory on it, but literally plugged in, got cold and like it was getting cold and getting cold.

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But then it reached a point where it stopped and we're like, that feels kind of like a fridge in a freezer. And I was like, I have five thermometers and the other one in the base will get some thermometers.

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And I like put them in there and they have like zones on the thermometer. And one of them says not safe. And the other one says refrigerator. But and the needle got right into the bottom quarter of that not safe and then stayed right there.

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And literally for 36 straight hours, it was like, OK, don't open the fridge. Give it a fighting chance. Let it cool down. OK, it's been a couple hours. Open the fridge. The thermometer is still right there, like tink, tink, tink. Is it broken?

00:14:59 Speaker_03
Is it what if we move them around? Well, we bought digital fridge thermometers, wireless fridge thermometers, so we could monitor the temperature without having to open it. Because if you open it, it lets all the coldness out.

00:15:10 Speaker_03
Two straight days of fucking obsessively just being like, what temperature is it now? Oh, that's not cold enough. There was like a slow march down the path of sadness because in the beginning we're like, well, it's only been six hours.

00:15:23 Speaker_03
It's only been like 10 hours, 12 hours. Maybe it just needs more taste. It's like an energy efficient fridge. Maybe it takes, it's only been 30 hours. How long do fridges take to get cold? It's only been two days. Maybe it needs like a week.

00:15:35 Speaker_03
How long do we let this go on for? We give up hope, right? We got this from Best Buy. I'm just going to throw that out there. This is from Best Buy. This experience. Because we were like, not Lowe's, Best Buy. Don't buy their fridges.

00:15:47 Speaker_03
Anyway, I call and I'm like, this is happening. It's happening again. And I call and I expect the guy to just be like, Oh, I don't know. I call and the guy's like, Oh man, no, that's really terrible, sir. No, look. Yeah, no.

00:16:00 Speaker_03
Well, let's set up an exchange. I think we can have a fridge out to you in the next couple of days, which will still be before Thanksgiving, which was supposed to be today, this morning at God's hour. And he was great.

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And the whole time I asked him like a dozen times, I was like, OK, and you're just going to send us a brand new one, right? And we'll have to pay the price difference because we pay the steep discount on this one. Don't even care.

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We'll get the brand new one. That way we know it'll work. And he was like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I got it all set up. There'll be five, blah, blah, blah. All of this happens. I get it all sorted out. And the sense of dread fades away for about two days.

00:16:35 Speaker_03
The fridge still isn't working. Turns out it doesn't need four days to get cold. It just isn't going to get cold.

00:16:40 Speaker_04
Why didn't you turn the thermostat of the house down to the fridge temperature? That way it would cool the fridge from the outside.

00:16:45 Speaker_03
He's got a point. That is true. Maybe we didn't give that first fridge its fighting chance, but they were going to just give us a brand new one. And we're like, good, because Thanksgiving is coming.

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And in a couple days, we're gonna have 14 people at our house expecting to eat mountains of food from which I got out of the refrigerator probably is the plan. So it's all good.

00:17:06 Speaker_03
And today is the day they were supposed to come take the broken one and give us the brand new one. And it's fucking 630 in the morning again, right, right inside our window of 7am to 7pm.

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They call before that and then they show up and they get to the door and I'm like, Yes, all right. Hey, what's up? And the guy's like, All right, so we're taking away a fridge today, right? And I look at him and I'm like, yep. And putting the new one in.

00:17:28 Speaker_03
Right. He looks and does that thing where he's like. And immediately sense of dread floods back in like the dam is broken and I am washed away in an eternal river of sadness. Fuck it. And he looks right at me and he's like, no, we're just taking it.

00:17:47 Speaker_03
Okay, so there's like another truck or something. And he could tell I was immediately just on the verge of screaming. And I think just to avoid me getting mad at him. He was like, Oh, yeah, no, they do that. Probably different truck. Not us truck.

00:18:04 Speaker_03
We'll just take the fridge and be out of here. And I was like, Well, I should probably call and check on that. Do you have a number I could call?

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And he and he gives me the number and I call and while they're taking the fridge, I'm like on the phone with the customer support people getting increasingly enraged.

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And the conclusion from the phone people is, oh, no, sir, we just have a return on the books for you today. We're just taking that back and we're going to just issue you a refund. Right. And I was like, no. In fact, Very explicitly no.

00:18:35 Speaker_03
Is there a recording of my phone call that I had for several hours with that gentleman who promised me a new fridge?

00:18:42 Speaker_03
And apparently there is and apparently the recording and some information was sent to some manager somewhere who's not going to do a fucking thing about it.

00:18:49 Speaker_03
While I'm on the phone and this is happening and I'm literally like I had to get out like my my disapproving parent voice like I literally at one point she was like

00:18:57 Speaker_03
Yeah, I don't think there's anything we can do, you know, but I don't think we can get you a fridge before Thanksgiving. I would say just go back to the store and and do like a new order. And I was like, that is unacceptable.

00:19:08 Speaker_03
This is not an outcome that works for us. Thanksgiving, you know, Thanksgiving, you remember food, fridge, company, all that shit. And she was like, oh, yeah, I've got lots of food in my fridge at home waiting for my company to come in.

00:19:23 Speaker_03
I was like, yeah, yeah, no, no. And like, I didn't actually scream at that lady because it wasn't her fault explicitly, but man, was she completely useless.

00:19:33 Speaker_03
And while this is all happening, the delivery guys are like slowly, quietly sneaking the fridge out the door and they have it all loaded up on the truck. And I'm still on the phone. And at one point he comes in and he's like.

00:19:43 Speaker_03
Sir, do you want to talk to you? And I'm like, and she just starts talking. And I'm like, hang on, talk on the phone.

00:19:49 Speaker_03
And they're like, in the act of trying to sneak away like the Lowe's delivery guys did without what when I come out the door, because I'm finally free. I'm like, What did you What's up? What did you want?

00:19:58 Speaker_03
And he's like, Sir, I just wanted to make sure that you know, this was not our fault. which at which point I was like, man, you should have really just snuck away and not said a fucking word, huh? I don't know.

00:20:13 Speaker_03
I've I've worked at restaurants and I get it that you don't want people to be mad at you. Every fucking step of the way, the guys who were at the house this morning were like, oh, man, we don't have a fridge. Not our fault. We don't load the truck.

00:20:27 Speaker_03
We're sorry about that. But we didn't do it. It's just shut up. I don't think it's your fault, but you're the one who's here representing the fault. So and I didn't even yell at them.

00:20:37 Speaker_03
I just got so quiet that I think I scared them away again like I did with the first guys. Anyway, they left. Before seven, they were gone. Like the shadows at noon. That's fucking something. I don't know.

00:20:50 Speaker_05
Like the shadows that Gandalf chased away when he came at the light of the first dawn. Sure. The two towers, you remember?

00:20:56 Speaker_03
Yeah.

00:20:57 Speaker_05
When he came down the hill.

00:20:59 Speaker_03
They looked to the east on the light of the third day and there he was. Gone, like my hair at 28. And Pippin was like, do they have a fridge with them? No, they don't. They fucking don't. Got no fridges anywhere. Anyway, they're gone.

00:21:13 Speaker_05
You know, at a fridge, the guy, the, the, the, the chancellor, whatever, the chaplain, the guy on the throne eating his tomatoes, where do you think he got them from? Palpatine. Palpatine. Yeah, that guy. Palpatine.

00:21:24 Speaker_05
When he was eating tomatoes on the death star. Vader, I prefer them fried. I remember. I remember that movie very explicitly. I remember. I'll have a Waldorf salad.

00:21:43 Speaker_03
Yeah, no, I love those movies. That's a great. That's a great franchise Young Skywalker after lunch the beacons of Gondor lit riders of Rohan Mmm, Rohan will answer the call Is that Smoda? I don't have Yoda.

00:21:59 Speaker_04
Okay, just I'm just trying to play along but I thought that was Smeagol and Yoda is like one Smeagoda? Smeagoda?

00:22:08 Speaker_03
my precious you are guests arrive in under 48 hours 14 people arrive in under 48 hours and right now our kitchen has an empty hole in it and the best I could get was an answering machine at the actual Best Buy where we bought this from

00:22:25 Speaker_03
which I will say was a lot of my experience previously. It's like an outlet, which is not a thing that's very common, but it's like a Best Buy outlet store. So they don't have a full staff. It's it's they don't always answer the phone.

00:22:35 Speaker_03
They're they're always kind of short staff.

00:22:37 Speaker_04
But is it possible that it's just like a cardboard cut out of a Best Buy in front of this warehouse that will fall over and it's not really part of Best Buy?

00:22:44 Speaker_03
And then what? It's a Lowe's worst buy. It's only an OK buy. They got me. Oh, that was the other thing. The one thing about the guy on the phone, he was great. But after a while I talked to him and I was like, yeah, it's broken.

00:22:58 Speaker_03
And it's, you know, we're, we need to, we need to fix that. We need an exchange. They tried to charge us for delivery after all of that. And I was like, please come fix like either fix or take this broken ass fridge. And he was like, okay.

00:23:10 Speaker_03
And that'll be a 120 bucks for a delivery and disposal of a fridge. And I was like, try again. And he thought about it for a second, and he didn't even say anything. He was like, oh yeah, can you hold a sec? I'm gonna go talk to my manager.

00:23:24 Speaker_03
But otherwise, he was great. But they tried to charge us for delivery for the fucking fridge. Well, to be fair, they gotta deliver another one, man. Well, imagine if they charged me for delivery to not deliver anything this morning at my house.

00:23:35 Speaker_03
The thing is, it's not over. I'm still living with the sword hanging over my head, because we found a place, a local place, not a big box place, that had the fridge that we want, and they could deliver it for

00:23:47 Speaker_03
a relatively expensive fee, but for still actually a really good deal on the fridge overall. They could deliver it tomorrow, the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.

00:23:56 Speaker_04
So we had another podcast episode tomorrow then.

00:23:58 Speaker_03
I still have an empty hole and we might have a fridge, but also we don't. And I have, I literally just don't even have hope that it's going to happen. Like we left that store and I was like, Better find the next store.

00:24:10 Speaker_03
We're going to try and buy a fridge from. There's no way these guys are going to come through like fucking dumb question.

00:24:15 Speaker_04
Basement fridge probably can't hold what you need to hold.

00:24:17 Speaker_03
We we are like very stocked, like the freezer probably couldn't hold another anything. And the fridge is like very full. It's one of those where everyone, you know, people show up on Thanksgiving, at least in our family.

00:24:28 Speaker_03
Everyone's going to show up with like a dish that they brought, right? You're going to bring and they're going to be like, oh, stick this in the fridge. And it's like, but also it means to cook anything.

00:24:38 Speaker_03
I'm about to have to cook a whole shitload of food. I have to go up and down to the basement, which is very first world problem, but it's just like an extra pain in the ass, right? I'm cooking food for 14 people. It's not a thing I do a lot.

00:24:48 Speaker_03
Well, 16, Mal and I are coming too, and they didn't invite us, but. But anyway, this was not nearly the hilarious calamity that the first time was. But why the fuck can't I just buy a fridge?

00:25:00 Speaker_03
If the one comes tomorrow and it's good, that's going to be the fourth fridge that I've bought in eight years. That's way too many.

00:25:07 Speaker_04
Toilets and plumbing you fridges mark. Fuck you.

00:25:11 Speaker_05
I guess I don't know but oh man You could have gotten the Segway point. You were so close. You were so close. Can't believe you didn't get that Oh, you're gonna chuck it over. It's gonna be so perfect. Yes.

00:25:23 Speaker_05
Yes Tell me what I should have said I'll say it to get the point Anything that I have been buying a lot of any single thing that I was doing a lot of lately Glauber salt No, not lately, man. Anyway, Bob, that was great.

00:25:40 Speaker_05
I wanna know, the customer service when the fridge didn't work, did he go, oh no, or did he go, oh no! That's terrible!

00:25:49 Speaker_03
No, I didn't get Bill Hader on the phone when I called.

00:25:54 Speaker_05
That he was he seemed sincere, but he might have just been a good actor cuz I'm thinking if it was a fan and they knew you they're like Content potential. Oh my oh, yeah, we'll get you a fridge.

00:26:07 Speaker_03
All right Best Buy and I are off forever now, which is sad cuz I used to like Best Buy That's one of my favorite places to go. I'm done

00:26:15 Speaker_05
It also could be and I'm probably going to head off a lot of people on the subreddit. There's a thing about refrigerators when when that new one was installed, that they have to turn it sideways and get it up over like all the counters and stuff.

00:26:27 Speaker_03
No, that's the thing. Yeah, because I know refrigerant has to like settle. And when you buy like mini fridges and stuff, you have to like set them upright and let them settle for like 24 hours before you turn them on.

00:26:37 Speaker_03
No, this fridge was shipped upright. It went upright straight in our big wide front door. And then there's literally like an eight foot wide path all the way straight to where it went. So there was no shenanigans.

00:26:48 Speaker_03
And the one we did have to do acrobatics with works fine. Worked immediately. Didn't even think about that when we did that. Eight foot path. So you have what, like six side yards now? How rich are you? That's all inside, baby. I live in Ohio.

00:27:00 Speaker_03
We got everything.

00:27:02 Speaker_04
You said Ohioans have basement fridge. I think a lot of Ohioans also have garage fridge.

00:27:05 Speaker_03
If we had a big enough garage, I would rather have a garage fridge, but we don't have that kind of garage.

00:27:10 Speaker_05
I have the strongest urge to dig into the ground to make a basement. I yearn for a basement. It's they're not out here.

00:27:19 Speaker_04
Isn't that bad in California to have basements?

00:27:21 Speaker_05
See, I don't know if that's true because like earthquakes are an issue. But at the same time, if you got a house on the ground, why can't you have a house below the ground as well?

00:27:30 Speaker_03
And like, yeah, I feel I've always wondered there must be a way to construct a basement that would still be earthquake like certified or whatever. Maybe it's more expensive. I don't know. But there's that tunnel lady.

00:27:41 Speaker_05
Right. And her only issue was that she publicized it and made videos of it. If I just start digging, who's gonna know? Nobody.

00:27:50 Speaker_04
Yeah, apparently it's trying to maintain the structural integrity of houses while you have basements with an earthquake.

00:27:56 Speaker_04
And also apparently a lot of the reasons basements are a thing in colder states is to have pipes and stuff down there to limit their exposure to freezing, which you don't have to worry about.

00:28:04 Speaker_05
You're in a basement right now, aren't you?

00:28:06 Speaker_04
I am.

00:28:06 Speaker_03
We both are. Damn.

00:28:08 Speaker_05
God, I wish I had a basement.

00:28:09 Speaker_03
I've got no windows, just dirt and walls. I have no windows, just ghosts. Did you ever figure out what that was? I did figure out what that was, actually. So I can't see it from here. But so I'm in I'm on like the basement's divided with like a half wall.

00:28:25 Speaker_03
So I'm kind of in a part of the basement. But on the other side of the basement is like the normal basement stuff. It's like there's some couches. There's a TV. There's a fridge. The only.

00:28:34 Speaker_03
fridge for whatever reason, the TV had turned itself on to a photo slideshow. So and it was doing this thing where it was like sliding them around in a grid.

00:28:45 Speaker_03
So it literally was the reflection of people in pictures from across the entire basement, moving back and forth and just getting caught randomly on this corner of the reflective TV thing behind me. But I stood up.

00:28:59 Speaker_03
I can't see that at all from my entire office because I stood up during that episode and looked and didn't put together TV slideshow pictures. All right. Well, mystery solved. I mean, it's ghosts. Ghosts. Good, good, good.

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00:30:03 Speaker_05
So we're going to move on to the meat of the episode and let Wade you get something else.

00:30:06 Speaker_04
I got green tiles for my second Hanabi set. Westchester Toys guy has been very nice to me. Very great guy. Shout out Westchester Toys again, because now I've got two Hanabi sets and extra blues.

00:30:16 Speaker_04
I'm going to play so bad, you guys want to play some Hanabi?

00:30:19 Speaker_03
We're kind of doing something here. Can you play that over the internet? Could we do an episode where we just play Hanabi? Tabletop Sam might have it.

00:30:26 Speaker_05
Yeah, that's true. They might. So the reason that there was a potential segue point is because I was going to give anything for like anything that I've been buying a lot of and or having problems with. LENSES!

00:30:38 Speaker_05
could have been but it's too late now a segue this is either gonna be Bob's fridge part two or it's going to be called hyper fixation station I've got a sad sad news guys I am out of hyper fixations ooh I've been able to keep up a chain of focus on random things that I go way too deep into for almost a year and a half now

00:30:59 Speaker_05
But right now, I don't need to buy any more lenses. My render farm is working. All the computer parts that I've got actually go together, minus some errors here and there. But honestly, the actual obsession that I had for it has kind of gone away.

00:31:14 Speaker_05
Cameras, I got the camera I need. I don't need an upgrade for many years. You know, computer stuff. Yeah, I got a few issues, but I'm running them into the ground anyway. So it's like I'm going for it.

00:31:23 Speaker_05
I have nothing in my life that I can fixate upon, so I need to turn to my friends to come up with potential future hyper fixations that I am going to become enamored with, that I will become obsessive with, I will spend thousands of dollars a pawn.

00:31:40 Speaker_05
I will talk to you guys endlessly about this is your chance to kind of guide the next six months of my life. Maybe one maybe a few weeks, maybe a couple days.

00:31:50 Speaker_05
I don't not sure guide it in a way that you can accept what I'm talking about and what that obsession is.

00:31:57 Speaker_05
The person who I pick the obsession of or listing out I will get points for that and I'm going to let you think about it because I have never had to pee so bad in my life I might become obsessed about Peeing. Okay. Product. Physical. Action. Exercise.

00:32:11 Speaker_05
Masturbation. Uh, drugs. Alcohol. It could be anything. I'm going to die. I have to go.

00:32:19 Speaker_04
But we both know the correct answer is horse semen, but we can't give him that one.

00:32:22 Speaker_03
Imagine if we could get him into that though.

00:32:24 Speaker_04
Imagine horrible delivery service with horse semen. Like, ah, I got defective horse semen. Hell of a story. How do you know it's defective? That's a question for the, for him, I guess.

00:32:33 Speaker_03
It's not really for use like that. I don't.

00:32:36 Speaker_04
I don't know. Alright, so what's the worst thing that we can agree upon that he has to start collecting?

00:32:40 Speaker_03
I want him to start to collect Heelys. I have no idea why, but just to become really hyper-focused on Heelys.

00:32:46 Speaker_04
It's gonna be really bad for him. He already broke an ankle with normal shoes walking a dog. Imagine with Heelys.

00:32:51 Speaker_03
He's in fucking different casts every week. Breaks don't work. Wait, maybe we were doing this wrong. What would we like to hear about? Oh, that's true. Hey, man.

00:33:01 Speaker_05
Listen, you can't make handshake deals because I'm the judge and whatever you did, I hereby irrevocably revert. Do it.

00:33:08 Speaker_06
Whoa.

00:33:14 Speaker_03
You got us mark. We didn't make any handshake deals mark.

00:33:18 Speaker_05
All right, that's good. I like that. I like that Then why were you so suspicious when I came back?

00:33:22 Speaker_03
I wasn't I literally said oh hello or whatever I said I was just that's how I greet people and I'm always suspicious.

00:33:28 Speaker_05
It's cuz he's bald, but it's time for hyper fixation Hold on timeout.

00:33:34 Speaker_04
What the fuck what happened with the pregnancy thing man? Why oh why? I've been harassed everywhere. No, that's interesting. Let's address that. Yeah. My mailman's like, congrats on the pregnancy.

00:33:46 Speaker_05
What the fuck's happening? Dude, I don't even know. So there I was, I was doing a I'm back stream and there I was talking about, you know, I said like, yeah, I'll have something to say at the end, uh, some fun stuff.

00:33:57 Speaker_05
But anyway, so my uncle passed away and yada, yada, yada. I was talking about that. And then chat was just like,

00:34:04 Speaker_05
You're pregnant male pregnancy pregnant and I'm still talking about like ignore for a little bit and I'm and it just catches on and I'm like Yeah, I was real sad, you know, but you know taking care of a family and being there.

00:34:16 Speaker_05
It was good Pregnancy pregnant. I told them that like alright anybody who's into M preg is cringe and I Called them out on that. I was like da da da and that didn't stop him. And so I was basically like oh

00:34:28 Speaker_05
Hey, I heard that you congrats on the pregnancy. I said like, Oh no, no, not me. It's Wade.

00:34:34 Speaker_04
So it was annoying you and you couldn't stop it. So you deflected it to us.

00:34:39 Speaker_05
Oh, I'm sorry. I was talking about a very personal thing and they wouldn't stop talking about pregnancy. So I diverted them. I diverted the flow.

00:34:46 Speaker_04
Oh, we've all lost uncles, man. World didn't stop for mine a year ago.

00:34:52 Speaker_05
Look at this. I needed to, I Tai Chi'd it away. And look, you can Tai Chi it to someone else. Just, yeah, no, it's not me. Yeah, now we're and impreg friends. It's gotten worse. Look, it's just the way it is.

00:35:06 Speaker_05
If they want to be cringe, you got to just point the cringe somewhere else.

00:35:10 Speaker_04
People come to my Twitch stream the first time chatter and all of it is like, wait, pregnant Bob Mark daddy's Tyler daddy, Ethan daddy.

00:35:21 Speaker_03
What I'm hearing is your friend sent you a lot of viewers to your Twitch stream and you're just moaning about it and complaining. I don't want those little shits. Why don't you wanna, why don't you wanna black less pregnant, Wade?

00:35:32 Speaker_03
You got an announcement coming that you don't wanna, you don't wanna be able to talk about? What you doing?

00:35:36 Speaker_04
Look, I might be not as in shape as I used to be, but it's not because of a baby bump. Okay, what is it about? A foodie bump.

00:35:43 Speaker_05
He's just lying. He's covering. So you're into feeding.

00:35:45 Speaker_04
I get it. Is that vor? No, that's whenever someone's inside of you. He's into vor, you heard him! Vorpreg? I hear Mark. Guys, next Mark stream, make sure you let him know. Man, you have lost so many points. You know what? You lost points for me too.

00:36:01 Speaker_04
Wait till I host next. If I ever win again.

00:36:03 Speaker_05
Well, anyway. All right. Back to the topic at hand. Oh yeah. We got to help you with shit. Now that Wade's lost himself another point. Oh, eat my ass. Take another. I don't know what to do. I mean, I hurt me.

00:36:17 Speaker_04
I want you to hurt me. You want to know what I'm really into?

00:36:20 Speaker_05
Okay, we'll get to it later. I'll hold off on that. Wade, you've gone first enough. We're going to let Bob take a turn. All right, my turn.

00:36:27 Speaker_03
All right. All right. I have one. I can't let go because it's ridiculous. They're just expensive. Are you familiar with metmo? Metal, metal in motion, I think is what that stands for.

00:36:40 Speaker_05
Met.

00:36:41 Speaker_03
Mo. It's a company that makes finely machined metal kerjiggers. They make pens, a screwdriver type thing.

00:36:51 Speaker_03
The things that they make that I'm interested in the most is they make these like fidget toys where it's like such a precisely machined piece of metal. It's just two pieces of metal. One fits inside the other, but it's like almost an airtight seal.

00:37:06 Speaker_03
The one I really like is called the piston. which is I think one of their new ones. And it's literally just a piece of metal that slides into another piece of metal.

00:37:13 Speaker_03
But it's like airtight, like literally it's like there's a spring in there, but it's just air pressure.

00:37:17 Speaker_03
Their stuff is ridiculously expensive for what it is, because it's just you could buy like a $2 fidget spinner to get a similar type of fidgety enjoyment.

00:37:26 Speaker_03
But there's just something about like a perfectly machined piece of brass with the knurling and the it just looks so satisfying. And they only have a small roster of products.

00:37:38 Speaker_03
But even the one they make one that's just like a pen that has like threads on it. So you can it just looks so cool. It looks so cool. Let's see how satisfying that is.

00:37:49 Speaker_05
OK, this is this is a great start. The way you're being crushed. This is awesome. The cool thing that this reminds me of is like water cooling.

00:37:57 Speaker_05
The fun thing about water cooling parts is that there's so many little different parts that also go into different little things. I would love a larger ecosystem of this, but I do love this.

00:38:07 Speaker_03
I've never heard of this at all, and I'm shocked, but this is super cool. I don't have no concept of how big this company is, but it's a it's a company in the UK. It's just I can't let it go.

00:38:17 Speaker_03
I stare at their website and I'm like, Oh, but it's expensive. Oh, but I want to need to see what that's like. God.

00:38:24 Speaker_05
God. Yeah, the tool bundle alone. Just two tools like a wrench and a screwdriver $262. Oh, the pen is like 120 bucks.

00:38:36 Speaker_03
Oh, the the cube one is three hundred and twenty dollars. It's a steel cube that has two inserts. Like, this is why I don't have one. But also, I just can't stop staring at it. Three hundred and twenty. Did you say that already?

00:38:51 Speaker_03
Three hundred and twenty dollars for the whole. The Mark III steel metmo cube. They literally do limited drops and sell out every single time. They never have stock. They sell all of them.

00:39:03 Speaker_05
Engineering of that precision is very difficult to do. So I do understand the level of precision that that has to fit into each other. And they definitely don't carve it out of the same thing.

00:39:14 Speaker_05
They carve it from two separate sources, then carve it into each other. So you need that precision twice because if you cut it out of the thing that it's in, even with a laser, you're going to ablate away too much so that it wouldn't fit like that.

00:39:25 Speaker_05
You have to machine it from the cube and then you have to machine the two parts and you have to machine the holes. It's difficult to do, not impossible, but yeah, even then it shouldn't be that expensive. It definitely shouldn't be.

00:39:36 Speaker_03
I that the cube is specifically is made using some technique called advanced wire EDM, which I have no idea what the fuck that is. Some kind of electronic dance music. Yeah, that's it.

00:39:47 Speaker_03
But apparently it requires a lot of something that cost an insane amount of money because it's just so fucking expensive. But anyway, that's an interesting one, because I feel like that's one where it's like a lot of hyper fixations.

00:39:58 Speaker_03
It's like, oh, there's a lot of stuff to buy. There's like little bits. And so you buy like little chunks here or you find a little thing.

00:40:04 Speaker_03
This is one for me where it's like, I don't know if I'm ever going to buy one, but I still I like there's a new when there's a new video that comes out on someone playing with the thing. I'm like, oh, I got to see. I got to see.

00:40:15 Speaker_03
I got to see what that looks like. I like a great start. Wade.

00:40:19 Speaker_04
Young me is so excited for this. I don't know if you care much about it, but I hope you do How about collecting dinosaur bones and building your own fucking dinosaurs in your house, man?

00:40:30 Speaker_04
You collect them bone by bone It's legal to buy and sell from private collections that are legally obtained You could just have a fucking t-rex or a skull in your background and be like, that's not paper mache It's an actual fucking dinosaur

00:40:43 Speaker_04
Because you know what's cooler than metal being sculpted? Mother Nature a billion years ago. Which is not exactly when dinosaurs were here, but like, you know. You get dinosaur bones. You can actually have real dinosaur bones. How cool is that?

00:40:54 Speaker_05
It's not a direction I would have ever thought of, so originality is definitely there. I'm not sure how much it costs, but you know, do they have refurbished dinosaur bones?

00:41:02 Speaker_04
I mean, there are a couple of different places. There's a place called fossilera.com. I've done no venting. Vending? Vetting. I've done no venting or vetting of these sites, so I have no idea of the legitimacy or anything else.

00:41:13 Speaker_04
But, uh, there's some ethical questions apparently about this, which I'm not sure... Oh, ethics.

00:41:18 Speaker_05
That's not a hyperfixation concern.

00:41:20 Speaker_04
And you'd be displaying. I'm like, you're a content creator, right? Then we'd be right behind you.

00:41:23 Speaker_05
I just want the rush. They're not for display. It's just for me. I want the rush of it.

00:41:28 Speaker_04
Originally this started with, I found a place where you get like a T-Rex tooth. I was like, oh, that's cool. Then I was like, well, if you can have a T-Rex tooth, can you have like more of a T-Rex? And apparently the answer is yes.

00:41:38 Speaker_05
Okay, you can get on this website, you can get an articulated hadrosaur caudal vertebrae from Montana, a fossil iguanodon dinosaur sacrum. You can get the sacrum of a dinosaur.

00:41:51 Speaker_04
It's like Exodia, man. You can get the whole set and build one.

00:41:54 Speaker_05
And when you get the whole set, it comes to life and it'll destroy your enemies. Yeah, no, you can get a sauropod metacarpal hand bone, which is 14 inches long. Good lord. Tyrannosaur phalanx bone. Wow. This is the real deal. You can definitely get it.

00:42:11 Speaker_05
Oh, okay. This is a very good suggestion because it goes deep. It's something very niche and it would be entirely for my own personal gain and I wouldn't share it with anybody. Dude, I would have loved as a kid to have access to real dinosaur bones.

00:42:26 Speaker_05
It'd be so cool. I mean one of these is gonna be my next hyper fixation. So this is this is a this is a good This is a good option. I do have to say though. It's a lot of teeth a lot of vertebrae Don't blame me blink on

00:42:41 Speaker_04
I didn't design the body, man. You want it to be a hyper fixation? It'll last while you get all those teeth.

00:42:45 Speaker_05
Alright, well, thank you. That's a- that's a- that's a great suggestion.

00:42:49 Speaker_04
What better defense from, like, people breaking into your server farm than a T-Rex guarding it, you know?

00:42:53 Speaker_05
A pristine serrated Tyrannosaurus tooth is the most expensive item on this, which it has a video to prove it. For just the tooth? Just one pristine three-inch tooth. God dang.

00:43:07 Speaker_04
Alright everyone, we're going up to five distractible episodes a day for the next three years.

00:43:14 Speaker_05
I mean, the sacrum costs $5,000, so the butt bone of this thing... I don't think my ass is worth that much. Put it up for auction.

00:43:22 Speaker_04
How much would you pay for our asses? A good question to ask. Who are you asking? The viewers. The listeners. The viewers specifically. Fuck the listeners, right?

00:43:30 Speaker_03
Listeners aren't allowed. This is a viewer-only auction.

00:43:32 Speaker_04
Yeah, if you're gonna view our ass, you gotta pay for it. Or wait, no, if you're not gonna view our ass.

00:43:36 Speaker_03
Listeners may bid on the right to hear our ass, but they may not bid on the right to see it. They're separate rights. Very separate. This is like mineral rights and oil rights, and it's complicated. Wouldn't understand.

00:43:49 Speaker_05
Yeah, a single vertebra can cost anywhere between $7.55, probably lower than that, to $1,345. Collecting the whole set's gonna be tough.

00:43:59 Speaker_03
I'm sure it's not as easy, and I don't think it's easy, but I'm sure it's not this simple. You know what it sounds like to me? Is there's good business in making really accurate replica fossils?

00:44:10 Speaker_03
I mean, that's is that your suggestion for hyper fixation? How to con?

00:44:15 Speaker_06
Ooh.

00:44:15 Speaker_03
look who really gets hurt they get to own the bones of the creature they love i guess or whatever that is and you just make a little money off of a person who was going to spend that money anyway and and and you know what so what if the it's just paper mache and a little watercolors

00:44:32 Speaker_03
Same difference.

00:44:32 Speaker_04
They get the same enjoyment as long as they believe it's real. Unrelated note, did you guys know that I've got the Mona Lisa in my house and apparently Mona Lisa is spelled with two S's in Lisa? I didn't find that out till I bought it.

00:44:44 Speaker_04
Oh, you got the Mona Lisa?

00:44:45 Speaker_05
Yeah. Now the Mona Lucy is is the most valuable one.

00:44:49 Speaker_03
How many NFTs can we make that are just Mona Lisa puns? I wanna risk a one that's called the Mona Lisa. I got the Moana Lisa, the Hawaiian version.

00:45:01 Speaker_04
I got a Jar Jar one, it's the Mona Weesa.

00:45:03 Speaker_05
I want a Simpsons themed one that's called the Moan Lisa. I got one that's actually just the background only, it's a No Mo Lisa.

00:45:10 Speaker_04
I got one that's wearing a hat and got a beard called the Gnome Lisa.

00:45:15 Speaker_03
I've got one that's just a girl cutting to the front of the line called the Gnomee Lisa.

00:45:23 Speaker_05
I got one that's as a Time Lord and it's the Chrono Lisa.

00:45:29 Speaker_04
I'm not going to give any more Lisa's.

00:45:31 Speaker_03
And that's it. I guess that's how many we can make.

00:45:37 Speaker_05
OK, but Bob, what's your official new hyper fixation for me?

00:45:40 Speaker_03
I've got just the thing for you. It's not expensive like the ones we've been talking about. It's still it's still it probably for what it is. It probably is a little pricey, but it's very cool. Come with me on this one. I'm where I'm ready.

00:45:51 Speaker_03
Marbles, not just marbles. Mark, have you seen Marbula one? I have.

00:46:00 Speaker_05
And I was hoping you were going to go there because I actually know what you're talking about.

00:46:06 Speaker_03
Marbula one is one of my favorite YouTube series. YouTube dot com slash gels marble runs, I think. is that's the people who originate and make because their content gets stolen everywhere and put on TikTok and everywhere in the world.

00:46:21 Speaker_03
But I think this is the place it comes from. They have a bunch of different series, but the Marbula One series is by far my favorite. They have teams. They have cheering sections. They have different raceways.

00:46:33 Speaker_03
The number of things that you could do with just collecting different types of marble runs and then putting them together in different configurations and then the way they produce the content. They have like action shots.

00:46:44 Speaker_03
they'll have like a camera around the corner. And as the as the leaders are coming, they do the old like, you know, the old Neil deGrasse Tyson. It's just a meme of just Neil deGrasse Tyson.

00:46:54 Speaker_03
He's giving an interview and he's answering some question about but he just goes.

00:46:59 Speaker_05
And it's like, it's just a meme that gets used a lot. No, I, I do know about this and I know there's a lot of knockoff ones, but they have announcers like calling them. They have trackers of all the thing.

00:47:09 Speaker_05
They're really well produced and they're captivating to watch. It's kind of like the, uh, subway surfers in the side of content, but it's, it's subway surfers itself. Me and Amy, we've watched it before and we've been like, green's going to win.

00:47:20 Speaker_05
No way, striped red is it all the way really entertaining.

00:47:23 Speaker_03
I really appreciate the crowd. They have shots of the crowds and the different fan sections and they actually stop motion animate them. And if you look like each marble in the crowd is moved slightly.

00:47:34 Speaker_03
So like it's a real they're cheering and the signs go up and down. And I just every time I watch those, I'll get in rabbit holes where I'll watch just like a bunch all at once. And I'm like, I could probably

00:47:44 Speaker_03
I could probably have my own Marbula One, my own world.

00:47:48 Speaker_05
I think they 3D print some of these raceways. I'm looking at the latest videos and I noticed some of the obstacles are really interesting.

00:47:55 Speaker_03
They're like little... I think they do because they make, they like make new ones and update them. And I don't think they're all like production things. I think that they, they sort of craft their own little world.

00:48:04 Speaker_05
So is my hyper fixation getting into like making a competitor marble run?

00:48:10 Speaker_03
Well, I think it starts with investing in buying some entry level stuff, but it leads to a room filled with two dozen 3D printers constantly pumping out your new concept for your newest marble run customization obstacle that you're

00:48:27 Speaker_03
You know, like it leads down a lot of sort of ancillary fixation paths.

00:48:32 Speaker_05
It does. I won't give you points for all those accessories just yet, but it's a it's that is a clever strategy to get me down those paths. I'm going to definitely marbula one. No, I can't give you all a 3D printing.

00:48:44 Speaker_05
Wade, steal 3D printing right from him.

00:48:46 Speaker_04
I mean, this is maybe close, but not quite 3D printing. I'm not going to do that. He's literally offering you points. Nope. Not taking them. Not taking the bait. It's a trick. Know better not falling for that one Mark have you heard of battle bots?

00:49:04 Speaker_04
I have did you know you can sometimes find and buy Battle bots like after they've been in the battle kind of crushed up. Who do you think he is William Osman? Oh You're saying I'm like William Osman? Listen, I've got Hypershock as seen on TV for sale.

00:49:22 Speaker_04
Almost a fourth of its normal price. Now only $69,999.99. Was Hypershock any good? Dunno, but you can get it for $70,000 instead of $225,000 right now, except for it's sold out. But when it gets... You can collect battle bots!

00:49:41 Speaker_04
Wait, alright, okay, wait, where was this battle bot for sale? I've found links to old listings that have expired, like on eBay and such, but people sell battle bots.

00:49:51 Speaker_06
Oooh!

00:49:53 Speaker_04
It's, it's something.

00:49:54 Speaker_03
Did it win?

00:49:54 Speaker_04
You think I watched? I don't know anything about battle bots.

00:49:58 Speaker_03
I don't see a lot about it winning, but it has some interesting stories.

00:50:02 Speaker_05
Oh man, it's on sale to down from two hundred and twenty five thousand eight hundred and six dollars. That's a steal.

00:50:10 Speaker_04
But I found like different Reddit threads and other things where people have been like trying to help each other find them and stuff. So like there's a community of people helping others find them.

00:50:16 Speaker_04
Seems like they're always in the 10 grand plus price range, but like, you know, these are true warriors.

00:50:23 Speaker_05
You're right. I mean, this is one I could, it's definitely an interesting hyperfixation because it taps into like my engineering side. I want to build them, tinker with them. There's a lot to do. Battle them. All right. No, I'll count that. All right.

00:50:36 Speaker_05
Bob, are you going to fall for the 3D printing trap?

00:50:39 Speaker_03
Listen, Mark, I don't know if you've seen this device that I have sitting behind me in my room here.

00:50:44 Speaker_00
Is that a 3D printer? Whoa, shit.

00:50:49 Speaker_03
I don't know if you're familiar, but that is a 3D printer. You know what you can 3D print, Mark? Anything you can imagine. Water cooling components? Almost definitely. Marble runs for Morbula One? Definitely. Dinosaur bones? 100% battle bot parts?

00:51:09 Speaker_05
Yes. You know, in all honesty, 3d printing is probably something I will become hyper fixated on in the future. It seems like a thing you'd really enjoy. I have a 3d printer, Amy uses it a lot more than I do.

00:51:22 Speaker_05
It's currently broken because it clogged up like I it's it's the one that bamboo lab sent me that I begged for basically and it was like please everyone and they did and it's great but it's like a Pre-kickstarter version of it.

00:51:34 Speaker_05
It's not even like the production one. So they've made modifications to the print head Like they've reinforced in upgraded and they sell an upgrade kit and I have it I just haven't actually taken the time to go do it. It's a new head breaks printer

00:51:47 Speaker_05
I'm nodding as if I understand the reference. I don't actually, but I'm like, yeah, you don't know the vine of no head.

00:51:52 Speaker_04
And the guy like throws his phone and breaks his skateboard in half.

00:51:55 Speaker_03
We should know it because Wade exclusively made that reference for quite a long time. I know what you're talking about.

00:52:01 Speaker_05
But yes, 3D printing. And especially because I haven't checked in on the latest advancements in 3D printing. So there probably is a whole new world. That's some crazy stuff. It's it's definitely getting more and more intense.

00:52:15 Speaker_05
And we all I think we all know that, like the future of manufacturing probably lies in 3D printing advances, because there are certain things that you can do with 3D printing that you just cannot do with normal, like reductive processes instead of an additive process.

00:52:28 Speaker_05
So it's like it's very it's very, very interesting. 3D I'll give you the 3D printing.

00:52:33 Speaker_03
I don't know a lot about the tech, but I do know my current favorite form of 3D printing is carbon powder center printing. Basically, there's a bed of like carbon fiber dust and then a laser fires into it and centers it one layer of dust at a time.

00:52:53 Speaker_03
And that's how it 3D prints. And you end up with a 3D printed carbon fiber part. It's cool as fuck because you could just have anything you want made out of carbon fiber.

00:53:02 Speaker_03
And that's not an easy thing to get with traditional carbon fiber, like laying and epoxying and stuff type methods.

00:53:10 Speaker_05
That actually is something that I would really like because it does coincide with a lot of things that I want to do. I bet they're probably crazy expensive. I think the last time I checked in those. wintering machines are like start at $100,000.

00:53:22 Speaker_03
Insanely expensive, still very like cutting edge industrial. They don't make a Bamboo Labs home sinterer. No, I don't think so.

00:53:32 Speaker_05
And it's like Bamboo Labs and things like it say they can do the carbon fiber like deposition printing, but it's not the same. It's it's very difficult clogs all the time and like

00:53:43 Speaker_03
I think you still end up with different material properties at the end, right? Doesn't the sintering is almost like you end up with like forged carpet as opposed to like layered, not even woven. Anyway, I don't know the details.

00:53:56 Speaker_03
I just I like it because it's cool stuff.

00:53:59 Speaker_05
I honestly, this might be the one that I do obsess about because it seems pretty cool. And there's a lot of people in it as a hobby and as like a future of of yada yada. But, you know, it was right there where you had it.

00:54:10 Speaker_04
OK, I got a better one. You ever look around online, you just see something like, oh, that's really cool. I wish I had that. Have you heard of 2D printing? You get a printer.

00:54:23 Speaker_04
It's even one less D so it's more convenient That's true, you know what I think they really have mastered 2d printing at this point I thought about going the trading card route, but what about mark?

00:54:35 Speaker_04
I don't know but you have this famous phrase from back in the day. Where's the blacksmith? What if you were the blacksmith get a forge meltdown some metals fucking hammer away some fucking swords? and shit.

00:54:47 Speaker_03
My brother did that for a while.

00:54:49 Speaker_05
It actually does seem kind of fun. Actually, though, you might be onto something because that's the original 3D printing, if you think about it. And the 3D printers right up here and right in here. And what do I love to do? I love hidden things.

00:55:02 Speaker_05
I like heat. I don't like heat, actually, but I love air conditioning. If I have it when I'm working on the heat, it'll feel even better because of the I'm hot. And then I'm like, oh, the relief.

00:55:10 Speaker_03
It's like a sauna. You go you go in and out when you.

00:55:12 Speaker_05
Yeah, I'm not going to lie. I've thought about that before. When I was a teenager, my dad built muzzleloader rifles. So he worked with someone that had a garage blacksmithing setup.

00:55:24 Speaker_05
He forged the barrels and had a big drill press to bore out the long barrels for muzzleloader rifles and had some woodworking things. I loved that workshop. I think everyone yearns for the garage workshop.

00:55:38 Speaker_05
I don't know about blacksmithing, but Amy has like a big kiln and those things are get up to like basically blacksmith forge temperatures. And so the idea of having that in your garage and or in a workshop that you have is not crazy.

00:55:53 Speaker_05
It's it's not crazy. And it's really actually kind of cool that

00:55:58 Speaker_05
idea of just like being able to do that shit working with metal in the same thing with 3d printing is like the big barrier of accessibility like being able to make things out of metal having a big cnc machine you know having metal 3d printers and stuff like that they're huge barriers to entry forging metal in general is still like a

00:56:17 Speaker_05
We were just watching a video the other night about this big metal fabrication factory and smelter in Korea and watching all this stuff. There was some crazy shit.

00:56:26 Speaker_05
I thought it was like they were opening up a portal to hell because they were gonna have the big thing, they put all the scrap metal in, they light the furnace, and then they start sticking this massive like telephone pole-sized pillar in it and it's like shooting light as if there is a portal like Stargate Atlantis opened up inside there and it's just like the ceiling is just BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM

00:56:46 Speaker_05
it was insane the amount of energy that goes into it you couldn't have that in your in your home but blacksmithing i'm gonna put it on there i'm that's a good one and i think we're gonna close with that suggestion my future hyper fixation is in this list i have vorpreg on here but that's that's that's a minus point

00:57:03 Speaker_05
It's still on there if we're spinning a wheel that has to be on the wheel and 2d printers use ink not ink Bobby got points for about fridge part 2 big fridge sale God's hour met mo Marbula one and 3d printing you got points for all those Wade you got points for flush job Westchester Hanabi fucking dinosaurs not falling for it points battle bot and blacksmithing so if you count up just the additive points your neck and neck yes, however

00:57:31 Speaker_05
Wade, you lost a point for Ankh, you lost a point for Ink, you lost a point for Vorpreg. Even though that's on the list of hyper fixation, that is, um... Which he might choose! I feel like if he chooses it, you should get that point back.

00:57:44 Speaker_05
I should, yeah. I'll give a bonus point to what I pick, and if you've been to the score,

00:57:52 Speaker_04
Don't call it a comeback baby Yeah, let's see.

00:57:55 Speaker_05
All right, so we got met mo. I don't think that has the depth required. So I'm checking that out war preg I'm just gonna

00:58:03 Speaker_04
I was on the list. You can't just choose Mark. You need a wheel.

00:58:07 Speaker_05
Oh, am I putting it? Did I say that at the beginning of this?

00:58:10 Speaker_03
No, you did not say that. Wait, it's just trying to sell harvest a win out of an absolute tragedy right now. All right. Let me, let me, let me put it. Sorry. I'll put a wheel. Oh boy. Okay. Well,

00:58:21 Speaker_04
That plus one point will make all the difference for me.

00:58:24 Speaker_05
Wade loses by over double score wheel. All right. So I'm going to share the wheel here and this will be my hyper fixation from here on till forever. Okay. I know which one I'm really, really hoping for. Alright, are you ready?

00:58:44 Speaker_04
Here we go! Please, no. Oh, oh, oh! Oh, the most expensive one! Battlebot!

00:58:52 Speaker_05
Well, 3D printing depending on how far you go. Yeah, they all could be pretty expensive. I gotta admit, I am extremely not excited about Battlebots.

00:59:03 Speaker_04
Yeah, me either. Respin! Alright, hold on.

00:59:06 Speaker_03
BattleBots is fucking cool. Alright, nevermind. Yes! Alright, well, it's the second one. You have to choose it. You only get one veto. That's the episode. I agree. Thank you, everyone. This is the only condition under which I will accept Wade winning.

00:59:21 Speaker_05
Alright, well, even though technically I picked two of Wade's things, so he gets a point for each one I picked, that still doesn't put you up ahead, Wade.

00:59:31 Speaker_04
That's okay, man. Just promise me you won't share any of your new passions with them.

00:59:35 Speaker_05
I'm gonna be talking about my passion in every episode of Small Talk from here on out. You're welcome, everybody. Thank you, Wade. But congratulations, Bob. By one point, you have eked out the win. Wade, how do you feel about this loss?

00:59:49 Speaker_04
I feel like this was unjust. I should have gotten extra points for ink and ink. I should have won by double digits. But you know what? That's OK. The real winner is you, Mark, because you have a great new passion you get to enjoy.

01:00:01 Speaker_04
And I'm excited for you and your future endeavors. Mm hmm. I can't wait to Google this. And the real loser is Bob's Thanksgiving meal.

01:00:10 Speaker_05
That's true. Yep. All of his guests are the real loser.

01:00:13 Speaker_03
Look, the fridge is going to come tomorrow. Nothing bad can happen. Third fridge is the charm.

01:00:18 Speaker_04
Well, it takes 60 hours to cool, so you can be able to use it in time.

01:00:22 Speaker_03
This could be nude on Thanksgiving. I would be like, maybe fridges are supposed to be 48 degrees inside. Maybe I think wrong things about fridges. This must be how fridge.

01:00:30 Speaker_04
You bought the refrigerator. You need the refrigerator.

01:00:33 Speaker_03
No, it's just the new food safety standard. It's still pretty safe. All right, Bob, what's your winner speech?

01:00:41 Speaker_03
Oh... I was really honestly hoping it would be Marbula 1, just because I enjoy that very much, and I was hoping the next time, like I come over to your house, you'd have like a whole room that's just like marble runs, and we could just do that instead of whatever, probably I was coming over to do like film a podcast or something, we just do

01:01:01 Speaker_03
So feel free to do that. And also there's a relatively decent chance I might do that because James would probably enjoy it as much or more than I do. No Marbula One in this house, but we'll see. Someday I just hope to have access to some of that.

01:01:15 Speaker_03
It's just exciting. It's an exciting future. That is an exciting future.

01:01:18 Speaker_04
Real quick about that. Growing up. I don't know. I've not seen more Marbula ones.

01:01:22 Speaker_04
I don't know exactly what it entails, but my family had like a custom made wooden like marble block set where you could like build your own track to send marbles and stuff down. That's really cool.

01:01:32 Speaker_04
I don't know if we still have it or not, but we had like a bag of marbles and we just had this big box of like wooden blocks with holes in them and you could just build the marble thing and some of them were like open so you could see the marble go through some of them were fully sealed so it was like tunnels.

01:01:44 Speaker_03
That sounds really cool.

01:01:46 Speaker_04
It was really awesome.

01:01:47 Speaker_05
That's good to know. Thank you, everybody. And thank you for your suggestions, Bob and Wade. The luck of the dice has dictated my future. But hey, you know, it'll turn over in a few months. I'll be over whatever that is.

01:01:58 Speaker_05
And then I'll be on to the next thing. And I've got a list of things to be on to next. In all honesty, it's probably gonna be 3D printing because now that you reminded me about it, Bob, I'm looking up the new advancements and I'm like...

01:02:09 Speaker_03
There's really cool home resin printers now that you can do lots and lots and lots of stuff and then you cure them in UV and then they're basically, you know, solid as steel.

01:02:18 Speaker_05
John, my buddy John, he is obsessed with like metal sintering. He's like yearns for the day, but those I think are a little too. Oh, they're pricey and dangerous because the metal powder, if you breathe it in, you're going to get lung death.

01:02:31 Speaker_05
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