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Episode: Edutainment!
Author: Distractible
Duration: 01:02:55
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Professor Mark gives students Bob and Wade the hefty assignment to find the most entertaining and educational content before dismissal.
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Summary
In this episode of the Distractible podcast titled 'Edutainment!', hosts Wade and Bob explore the intersection of education and entertainment. Wade shares his technical challenges in upgrading to 4K monitors and the mysteries of networking. Throughout the conversation, they discuss various forms of edutainment—from nostalgic educational shows like 'Schoolhouse Rock' to YouTube channels like 'Mind Your Decisions'. The hosts reflect on their favorite childhood games and media that effectively blend fun with learning, while also commenting on the impacts of educational content on engagement and retention.
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Power Master Balletic Bob believes fiber's mystical, screws a box, loves retro training, and milking turtles with steel. From tech issues to math blaster. It's time for edutainment. Now sit back and prepare to be distracted and enjoy the show.
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Hello, and welcome to Distractible, the podcast where I'm the host and I judge the worthiness of both you, the audience, and the competitors that are here today. Today is an audience versus competitors episode. No, stop.
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That would be fun though, wouldn't it?
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We're not worthy. I think we kicked their ass. I'd be excited for that. The audience don't got nothing on me.
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So the way it works is I'm going to judge them and I'm going to assign points based on what they have to offer. And then the winner will host the next episode. If there is a winner, wink.
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I thought you were going to say, if there is a next episode. It's like, oh my God, the stakes have never been higher.
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It's true. It's true. All right. Yeah, I could set a point threshold. And if we don't get above that, the podcast is canceled.
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That's the end. I mean, that seems like the only reasonable thing to do, really.
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Honestly, it might be the most reasonable thing we've ever done on the podcast. So, before we get into any of that though, we need to talk about our lives and what's going on in those lives, or in the greater universe, or local community.
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You guys won't believe this, but I, Wade, have a Wade's Tech Corner update. Whoa. Do I ever have technology updates? The answer won't surprise you, it's no.
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I'm going to give you a point before, and I'm going to take it away if it's not worthy of that point.
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I don't want to stop and allow that to happen. I'm sure you'll earn it. I have been plagued by a mystery for a while. The weighty boy here bought some monitors back in like 2015, 2016. And I used those puppies all the way up until this year.
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And I decided, you know what? It's time. The universe said 60 Hertz isn't the cap. You can go beyond that now.
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You've been using 60 Hertz monitors up till now?
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So what I did was I bought some new monitors. These bad boys 4K dual mode. Don't even know what that means. Up to 244 or 240 hertz. One of the two. Don't even know. The numbers are so much bigger than I'm used to. I slapped these bad boys on.
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I had display ports on the old ones, and I was like, you know what? Display port seems to still be the thing after a decade. Let's keep display ports on these bad boys. Fired up the old PC.
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By old, I mean less than a year old, because we're all new here at Wade Studios. And all three monitors flickered on, and I was like, oh, baby, we're in business. I launched up my first game ready to check out my new sweet puppies.
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And one of my monitors was like, Oh, oh dear. Oh my. Oh no. Heavens to be- went black. And I've talked to you boys about it off camera a little bit for almost a month, couple months, a month, something like that. Like a month and a half, I think.
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I have had three different people in the house. I have had at least six hours of calls trying to get these monitors to work. They all work individually. Two of them work at a time. Couldn't get all three to work at the same time again until yesterday.
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If the solution is you got other monitors, I think you deserve to lose more points than he gave you.
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These are the same three monitors. These are even the same three cords and cables. No new parts were added. The solution was not to download software. It wasn't to get a beta version of NVIDIA's GeForce experience.
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The solution wasn't to go in and update all of my graphics settings. It wasn't to go into the NVIDIA control panel or the display control panel. It wasn't to change the hertz, though that might have helped, hard to say.
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The solution wasn't even just to unplug them and plug them back in. But yes, it was, actually. The solution was not just to unplug them. It was to unplug them from both ends of the computer, the monitor, the wall, the thing.
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Every cable had to come unplugged and sit and then be plugged back in. And then it worked. You didn't try a new cable first?
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You didn't try that for a month and a half?
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I unplugged all of the cables, sure, but I was like, well, if I unplug them from one source, they're unplugged. I only don't plug it from both ends.
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I had assumed that the first thing you would do was try a different cable, which would necessitate you unplugging from both ends.
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I did try that, which is crazy. I tried switching from DisplayPorts to HDMIs. But you didn't try another DisplayPort cable in the same- I did- so, yes and no. Uh, I had a fourth cable, and I did try that cable, but like, I was- here's the thing.
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If I turned off one monitor, the other two would work. If I turned off that- no, one of those two and turned this one back on, these two would work.
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I didn't even suggest this to you because I assumed you would get here at no point in your troubleshooting. Did you unplug everything and start by plugging one single monitor in and then go from there and see what I did.
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But that but that didn't solve your problem. No. Oh, that's weird. All right. That's weird. That's weird.
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I could not tell you why. I think at all points there was at least one cable plugged in, whether it was a power cable or a DisplayPort or an HDMI.
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But this was literally unplug every cable from every monitor, leave it sit for a few minutes, and plug it back in.
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Pro tip, if you want to skip the wait time, if you unplug everything and then hold the power button on most devices, that it will be enough to discharge any capacitors that are holding on to any pesky juice in there on that circuitry.
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I don't know if it would, because yours might have haptic buttons or God knows what, but
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fun that's just a fun tech tip they all worked before just not at the same time i'm confirming this tech point that seems weird enough and you solved it by whatever magic whatever machine god you prayed to the omnisire blessed you i call him jp that's a weird name for an omnisire hey it's my omnisire i can call him
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All right, well, you get that tech point. How long has your fix been fixing? Because I've definitely had things like this where I was like, it's fixed. And then like a week later, it was not, in fact, fixed yesterday.
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Oh, so you're still well within the window of it's not fixed.
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So far, it's survived four restarts, four different game launches running OBS YouTube video game at same time.
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Have you updated anything? Update any drivers? Update any windows? That's probably not gonna cause all the same problems to happen all over again.
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Everything is fine. Has it survived this?
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Break! Now! Break!
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Break! Break! Break! Break! Now! Break! Now! It'll never break! It's not gonna break!
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I will say, just one second ago, I don't know if you saw me shift my focus, one monitor did go black, but it just fell asleep. But I was like, oh no, did I just ruin my own tech point?
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Well, you've got it so far, but if your monitor dies at any point in the episode, I will take that one away.
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I think at any point in the future, if the fix breaks, he loses a point as soon as that happens. Are you okay with that, Wade? I would prefer not. There's like a 0% chance we're gonna remember that, so it's really low stakes. Don't worry about it.
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But you gotta confess it.
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Well, I guess you don't have to. You could be a liar. I'm gonna look at your irises and I'm gonna zoom in and see which monitors are active.
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I'm gonna zoom in.
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Did the bit work? Yes. Okay, good. Yeah, it worked. Yeah. Well, that's good. All right, Wade. Good tech update. Very proud of you for figuring that out. And honestly, I've been dealing with a similar thing with networking.
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Networking is one of the weaknesses in technology that I don't fully understand, and I'm only just starting to. It's so complicated. It's so complicated. It's so complicated. Unnecessarily so.
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You still have to know a little bit of programming to even get your network up and running or access anything remotely without like a convenient software for it. But if you need to do like command line level stuff, you need to know a little bit.
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Nothing makes me feel more like a chump than downloading third party software to manage networking stuff. But boy, is that the only way I've ever gotten it to work.
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What kind of networking stuff do you need third? I don't think I've ever had to deal with this. So what I'm doing is I'm building out like, uh, so I have my main house network and it has its own server rack, like a small one.
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And then I have a remote one for the server, the render farm that I'm building. uh, but networking in between them is really complicated. So I have, I have a fiber optic internet, but I also have fiber optic cable going there.
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And to get that to work requires a very specific coupler at the end of it that goes with the wavelength of light that it's using with whether it's LC or L S like, and you have to have a specific receiver that can take it and understand it.
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And then they communicate with each other and you got to get the order, right? Because it's two prongs.
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And it's not just a goes in a and B goes and B on the other side, B has to go in a and a, because it's got to be the out to the in and the into the out has to go to each one. Uh, it's not just a one plug. So it gets complicated really fast.
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And if you get the wrong connector, well, you're waiting two days for the next one to come in, buddy. Like it's yeah. So.
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Dude, fiber optic is like magic. Like I understand completely, like I understand well enough how it works in principle, but the actual, if you have it like in your house or if you have to deal with it, it's crazy shit.
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It's not just an ethernet cable that you plug in. It's, there's things and I don't know them and it's scary.
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You know what's fun about it though? It brings back the old days of blowing into a cartridge because you got to keep the end of it clean. You shouldn't blow into it probably, but if it's dusty, you go.
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No, probably like compressed air or something would be preferable or just like you shouldn't have blown into the cartridges.
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But we all did. Yeah.
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Yeah. But yeah, it's it's complicated. Bob better be technology related.
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I have a an electronics story that's very similar to Wade's, but I'm outside the window of it refilling. Probably maybe both of our cars now are plug ins. I keep referencing that I'm selling Subaru. The new car I have is a plug in hybrid.
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So it has a gas engine, but also it has a plug in battery bank. And so we charge them in the garage. Our other car's a Tesla, so that was just batteries. We charge them both in the garage, and we don't even have level two chargers.
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We literally just plug them into the wall and charge them at like 10 amps or whatever, because charcoal charging is good enough for our use case.
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But the plug that the new car was going to plug into was on the other side of the garage, and somehow it got smashed. I don't know what happened but it was a GFCI plug and it got smashed so it was no longer functional.
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Replacing an outlet is pretty trivial as long as you're smart and understand the idea of making sure you're checking to see if the wires are live, making sure you turn the breaker off so that there's no danger of you electrocuting yourself or doing something else stupid.
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It's really like you undo three screws, you take the wires off, you put the wires in the exact same spot on the new thing and tighten the screws like it's very trivial. So it's not impressive that I did that. But I did that.
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And I also put like a like, you know how the outside plugs have a box over them to keep the water out. I put one of those over it so that it can't get smashed because I think like the trash can lid opened and hit it or something.
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So I put a protective box on it. So I did that too. Also pretty trivial. It worked perfectly. I replaced it. It functioned when we plugged the car in and it was great. And then I think it was when the Hurricane Helene blew through our area.
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It was real windy, real wet. And the day after that, the outlet that I replaced stopped working. Nothing else was wrong in the house. That circuit was fine because there are other things on that circuit. But that outlet
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just mysteriously it wouldn't it's a GFCI outlet and it wouldn't reset every time you push the reset button it would just pop instantly and I did some research and it was hard to tell exactly what the problem was but I was like maybe the outlet's bad I don't know there's no reason it should be like this and so I was gonna like replace it and as I was going out to the car to go to the store to replace it I was like I'll just push the button again this was like a week later after it broke I pushed it and it popped in and reset and worked perfectly
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Literally, all I had done was turn the power off to it, take it out of the wall, make sure everything was still attached, put it back in. That fixed it. I didn't even unplug all the wires at once.
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I just checked them one at a time, and that was a month ago now. But using the same power that Wade used to fix his monitors, I fixed electricity, which is some pretty serious shit.
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That's why I'm giving you a point calling you Power Master. Yes. We must all refer to Bob as the Power Master. Please do. Wait, I'll call you Plug Man. Oh, okay.
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Can I at least be Plug Master? No. No. Power Master just sounds a lot cooler than Plug Man.
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You relied on others or someone else's knowledge and expertise to fix your problem.
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You're just the man who did the plug in and plug man's cool like Mega Man, Spider Man, Superman. I feel like I'm going to be put into a bunch of like butt memes.
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Why would that happen? It's not like there was an episode previously where we talked about you being a butt plug for an extended period.
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I have the same amount of points though, right?
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Yeah, you do. Yeah, yeah, no need to worry about it. It's fine. Other thing about networking that's really cool is once you discover the potential of power over Ethernet, it is fucking magical. You don't need to run electricity to it.
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You just power it from your network. That's really cool. So security cameras, stuff like that, and also lights. You can you can have lights out out in random places. And so you can you can do some pretty cool stuff.
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I need to discover the magic of this because our house that we live in had a built in security system when we moved in that was just like inoperable. And it has power over Ethernet cameras. I have no idea how the fuck what to do with that about that.
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But they exist, and I should figure that out because it's cool.
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But also, I don't know anything about it. It's surprisingly simple, a lot simpler than what it's what it seems like. That part of networking is not that bad.
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Do I cut the Ethernet cable, strip it back, make it into two prongs and then stick it into a plug? Sure do. OK, I'll go do that right now. Editors, please put.
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No, I actually got my own RJ 25 stripper and like crimper and crimper. Oh, dude, those are so fun. It's so satisfying to click.
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I haven't done it yet, but I realize you got to make some you got to make some terminations, bud.
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I will. I will. I'm going to make tons of terminations because it's got a guide in there and everything. So you can see exactly what wires. Yeah, you just got to get the wires in the right order.
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And then you and then you click. Oh, that's the best.
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So you're gonna make your own network, so you don't need, like, Spectrum? Big network? You're gonna make your own?
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He's building his own internet, Wade. Everyone go plug into Mark's house. He'll have the new internet. You can!
00:17:10 Speaker_05
You can! Wait, actually, uh, future business idea. Forget the movie theater. Forget all that. Web 4.0?
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Are we making Web 4.0? Oh, you know it. Or maybe it's 3.1. I don't know how the versioning works for that stuff.
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I was a 4.0 student, so I'm qualified to be a part of this endeavor.
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for going out GPA, I'm afraid we're gonna have to be a web 3.2. I'll elevate us.
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Yeah, I got you.
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Yeah, I can't say that my GPA probably dip below three but I want to show you something get on my back boys. We're going 4.0. So here's the thing, right? We can start our own internet provider business.
00:17:50 Speaker_05
Because if you look at this, so this is a this is one of the networking companies that sells parts and you can get home networking stuff. You made this. It's 4000, right? That seems like a lot until you realize this could serve 2000 subscribers.
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Oh, hell yeah. 2048 client capacity, if all of them are paying a moderate price of $299 a month, think of how much money that is.
00:18:14 Speaker_04
Which is a deal in today's economy. Yeah, it's a deal. $299 a month. Hold on, that saves. For fiber internet, I assume.
00:18:22 Speaker_05
Fiber. Look at this. Fiber. So we can deliver 10 gigabits per second to over 2,000. That's only $2 million a month to us. I mean, really, we'll be breaking even.
00:18:32 Speaker_04
It doesn't seem like there's enough plugs on that thing to serve 2,000. I'm not going to lie. Splitters. You get splitters. You do get splitters. I know what those are.
00:18:44 Speaker_05
You got 16 plugs. You just need, uh, what is that? A couple hundred splitters. And, and technically we have to provide the clients with one of these random things, which, you know, they cost.
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Oh, they buy their own equipment. That's actually rolled into the price, the monthly. They buy the equipment and then they lease it from us and then it's, oh, they have to return it to us when they cancel their service.
00:19:04 Speaker_04
But they can't cancel their service until 24 months, so there's not really any danger of that happening.
00:19:09 Speaker_05
I'm glad that's all just hypothetical and doesn't exactly represent how it actually works in the business.
00:19:14 Speaker_04
I still get emails and phone calls from the last two companies that I got internet from, one of which is in California and the other of which is in North Carolina, a state I haven't lived in since 2018.
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And they still will just be like, Hey, did you ever return? That router, I'm like, yeah, I took it to your store and handed it to some teenager at the counter. Let me guess. They didn't type it in correctly.
00:19:38 Speaker_04
Jesus Christ, your forty five dollar router that never worked. Is it worth all of this phone call shit? Not like you gave us good hardware. Dumb son of a. Anyway, I'm not mad about it. It's fine.
00:19:49 Speaker_05
Anyone at home, you can buy your own modem. You can buy your own router. You should. You should get one of them Motorola surfboard modems and get one of them.
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Any kind of router other than what they give you. It's probably better.
00:20:01 Speaker_07
The companies will scare you, though. They'll give you jargon that's like if you have issues and you use your own equipment, we can't service it.
00:20:08 Speaker_04
My favorite is in the last service we had set up in California, the company required a technician to come out, which they required you to also pay the fee for for having a technician.
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But they they wouldn't let me just plug my stuff in and then turn it on on their end because. They could do that, but they would not allow that. So a guy came out to the house and he's like, where's the stuff?
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And I took him in and he's like, oh, this is all, oh yeah, this looks right. And he got a little iPad out and put three buttons on his iPad and turned our internet on. And I paid $80 for the privilege of talking to Daryl for eight minutes.
00:20:42 Speaker_07
Fucking scam. I had somebody come to the house that literally just opened something up with a key. Then they had me do all of the work and interface with it. And they closed it, sealed it up.
00:20:52 Speaker_07
And they're like, I think we're just going to charge you a usual service charge today. That'll be $79.99. And I was like, you were here for 20 minutes. I did all the work. And I owe you $80?
00:21:03 Speaker_04
80. It's a bad sign when somehow cable technicians still feel like less of a scam than like scam roofing guys who will come to your house, inspect your roof in air quotes and tell you you need a whole new roof, even though the roof on your house is three years old.
00:21:18 Speaker_04
Somehow I trust them more than I trust the cable company. What if your roof is like 30 years old? That's pretty old. You know what? I bet I know a guy who could give you a new roof, give you a real good deal on it.
00:21:29 Speaker_04
How old is good roof bad 30 is about the maximum age for a roof Most roofs are are rated to last like 20 to 30 years depending on like the type of material and everything But that's it sounds like you might be due for another fun expense on your house soon.
00:21:45 Speaker_07
Yay houses. Yay I don't want any more updates. Can we move on? Yeah. All right, we can move on. I'm sad now. Oh
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We'll put the fiber optic internet business that we're going to start and take over the country with. I'm going to think about that while we do this. That's in the back. Because today is about learning. Oh, you all boo. I mean, yay! I love learning.
00:23:33 Speaker_05
Except I'm going to learn you this. OK, hold on. OK, hold on. Wait, wait, hold on. Hold on. Tell me if you can hear this. Three, two, one. What? What? Yeah, you hear it. You fucking liar. That's a minus for you. That's a minus, WadePoint. Worth it!
00:23:56 Speaker_05
You should lose a point for being tricked. Trick me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, then shame on me. Then I lose a point if you trick me again. If you trick me again, you get your point back in the rest of the episode, okay?
00:24:06 Speaker_04
Trick me a third time, but won't get fooled again? Alright, here we go.
00:24:20 Speaker_01
Be careful. If you're ready to tear up your opponent, empty sticks. This is the stuff for Gambit! Oh, stuff for Gambit! So evil! So evil! Stuff for Gambit!
00:24:29 Speaker_02
Yeah! Protecting the enemy from rhythm will move a push of aiming at your heart. Pitch up! Stabbing the life of your mistake, desperate hesitate.
00:25:05 Speaker_05
I can't Yes, let's do it mark. Oh, you know you know oh No All right. Yeah, there's a bonus bonus there for you. All right. Okay, so I love that so much.
00:25:25 Speaker_05
Not because I really love chess, but because it is so goddamn impressive the amount of stuff that's to teach a single chess move and sensationalize it in a way that's just so Stafford Gambit. Is that the same speaker that fell?
00:25:45 Speaker_05
Yeah, it's because it's a long ass cord and I crossed my leg. One second.
00:25:49 Speaker_04
All right, hold on. We're in cross episode bits now.
00:25:56 Speaker_05
That that is edutainment. That's edutainment. It's educational entertainment. You learn something from that. You learn about the Stafford Gambit.
00:26:07 Speaker_04
So evil. Was white or black doing the Stafford Gambit? I was unclear. I guess black was from our perspective. So we were the ones. Yeah. Yeah. I see. I see.
00:26:17 Speaker_05
I watched that like 10 times in a row. I probably wouldn't be able to execute the Stafford gambit, but I'd be able to get pretty close. And also probably no one would fall for it or if it's a trick at all.
00:26:27 Speaker_05
I don't even know, but I know what the Stafford gambit is. So I want you guys to present me with your favorite piece of edutainment.
00:26:35 Speaker_07
Edutainment.
00:26:37 Speaker_05
Edutainment. Is there a time limit how old it can be? No, no, not at all. It could be anything, anything from any time. This just happens to be a TikTok that I saw.
00:26:45 Speaker_07
So there's a channel I watch. I don't have to pull up a specific video, but there is a channel I watch sometimes. I don't know if it's the titles, the thumbnails or just the puzzles themselves that get me, but the channel is Mind Your Decisions.
00:26:56 Speaker_07
And I don't know how entertaining it actually is, but there's something, like, fulfilling?
00:27:01 Speaker_07
Because the problems are presented to you, and they're usually, like, logic puzzles, or different kinds of puzzles, and they're things like, here are some matchsticks, move one matchstick to make this equation true, or something, and I'm like,
00:27:13 Speaker_07
How do I move the matchstick? I need to move two. How do I move just one? And sometimes I'll think of the solutions. I'll feel really smart. And other times I'll watch the solutions play out. And I'm like, I wish I'd thought of that.
00:27:23 Speaker_07
It's less on the entertainment scale as far as like funny or like rock out or whatever else. But it's more so just like, I enjoy the brain teasers and I like feeling smart occasionally.
00:27:34 Speaker_07
And at the very least I walk away and I'm like, you know what, next time I'll know what to do. do.
00:27:39 Speaker_05
So for those who have never seen mind your decisions, it's a YouTube channel and also a website. And if you go through it, it doesn't seem super entertaining off the bat. But I can understand what he's saying.
00:27:50 Speaker_05
It's like videos like only 1% can solve this and then solve for the magical angle. It's like, kind of like, you know, online IQ test type dilemmas that present a question and probably solve it. So okay, I see that. All right. Okay.
00:28:06 Speaker_05
That is edutainment, whether it's its entertainment value is to be determined, but it's educational for sure.
00:28:12 Speaker_07
And I'm entertained watching it.
00:28:14 Speaker_05
That's great. That's great. Bob, what you got?
00:28:16 Speaker_04
So this is sort of a genre I really, really like and miss, even though it's not a thing I'm likely to have to deal with anymore. But I like the way that companies decided to do employee trainings in the 80s and 90s.
00:28:32 Speaker_04
There are any number of very unhinged videos that you can find, but I found this one and I can share this if you want to see it. I can share this one.
00:28:42 Speaker_08
Oh yeah.
00:28:53 Speaker_04
Anyway, this is a Wendy's training video?
00:28:54 Speaker_08
Just the fuckin' dumping, that was great. I like how concerned the trainee looks.
00:29:26 Speaker_04
Also, he's got the gold plated spatula like goddamn. Anyway, that's it could go on forever and there are tons and tons and tons of these.
00:29:34 Speaker_05
Yeah, I haven't seen that one. I saw like the coffee one or the serving drinks or cash register one.
00:29:40 Speaker_04
They're all good. It's not a thing I've ever had to learn from, which is unfortunate. Like, I feel like people would respond very positively to this if you were starting your job at wherever target some restaurant, whatever.
00:29:52 Speaker_04
And they were like, all right, we're going to watch the training videos now. And then something like this started. I feel like people would be into that. I feel like that's a little I feel like that's a bright spot. in the workday.
00:30:02 Speaker_05
I'm sure at that time when that came out, they rolled their eyes. But right now, whatever they have in current day training videos, it was not superior to that. That's the truest form of edutainment. And for companies like that is a big thing.
00:30:15 Speaker_05
It's just like, how do you get your new employees to retain the information? And it has to be entertaining in some way to capture their attention because no one likes watching training videos. But you know, it is. They're usually pretty terrible.
00:30:26 Speaker_05
My training videos at the engineering job I had were just horrible.
00:30:32 Speaker_07
I remember watching driving school and whenever I worked at United Dairy Farmers, I remember like the ice cream videos and dude, they were old, not funny and just so boring.
00:30:42 Speaker_04
Dude, the videos were rough, but the guy who taught my driver's ed class was a legend. I remember still sitting in that room. He had a bunch of like stuffed animals and each one was for a different purpose.
00:30:55 Speaker_04
And every time we would talk and the one I remember the most was if you're at a four-way stop, what you have to do is you stop at the line and then you stick your head out and you become a turtle.
00:31:05 Speaker_04
And he had a little stuffed animal turtle and he would just be like, turtle, look left, turtle. look right turtle and he had like literally he had a whole cast of characters. Each one was a different action in a different. It was very effective.
00:31:19 Speaker_04
Also, everyone thought he was completely insane because he was like a really old dude. He's like like a retired age guy who was like doing this because he enjoyed it clearly and all the kids who are in there learning were always just like.
00:31:32 Speaker_04
I thought it was fucking great. Absolute legend. I don't remember his name.
00:31:35 Speaker_04
I remember it was this little not very well ventilated musty room in a little thing in downtown Dublin and that dude would just have his stuffed animals up at the front and we would go through scenarios and he would go through and he would turtle and there was a bunny and there was a cow for some reason.
00:31:52 Speaker_04
I don't remember what the cow did. Something about the udders. I don't recall. My classic udders driving dilemma. You keep your hands at ten and two and then milk it. Milk it. Milk the wheel. Does he think he's teaching six-year-olds to drive? I don't know.
00:32:08 Speaker_04
It worked, man. It worked on me. Every time I stop at a four-way stop, I still go turtle.
00:32:16 Speaker_07
Turtle and now Bob can both drive and milk a cow. That's true.
00:32:20 Speaker_05
Yeah multiple learnings.
00:32:21 Speaker_07
That's very edutainable I have a classic example if I may I hope I'm allowed to share this if not I guess we can mute some audio, but I think I'm good guys.
00:32:30 Speaker_05
Remember this. Oh, we're gonna get claimed immediately And we'll just say it
00:32:35 Speaker_04
I'm just a bill, just a little bill, sitting on Capitol Hill.
00:32:42 Speaker_05
All right. Schoolhouse Rock. I'm going to call that all just like under the umbrella.
00:32:47 Speaker_07
It is Schoolhouse Rock. But man, what a thing that we actually look forward to watching and learning when we were in school. I think I always had a good time. I never heard anyone complain about the Schoolhouse Rock days. Yeah, absolutely.
00:33:00 Speaker_07
And I, that's how I know how our government should work. And immediately both of you knew exactly, like you saw just the Capitol building and you guys were like, I know this. It was just, it's so effective. It's older.
00:33:11 Speaker_07
I don't know what year this even came out, but man, watching this elementary school, it was like, dude, schoolhouse fucking rock day.
00:33:17 Speaker_05
Yes. All right. That's down there. Uh, specifically school, just a bill, but I'm going to call that all schoolhouse rock. So all schoolhouse rock is off limits now.
00:33:26 Speaker_07
Okay, that's a lot of stuff. I have another one. If you need a moment, Bob, I'm still looking. Go ahead. He's racking it up. Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill Nye, the science guy.
00:33:35 Speaker_04
Why are you just going to claim all of Bill Nye? I was looking for a specific Bill Nye bits.
00:33:39 Speaker_05
I'll let it be a showdown for Bill Nye bits because since I've already let him have all the schoolhouse rock, let's say if you both can come up with a bit, I'll put both bits on the board. It won't even be a competition.
00:33:51 Speaker_07
Let me start with what the first thing I think of with Bill Nye, which is kind of a weird one, is the Brought to You By, which was always a gag. It was like, Bill Nye is brought to you by H2O. Water. Stuff like that.
00:34:02 Speaker_07
I don't know why, but I was always like, dude, I love the Brought to You By because it's not actually just some stupid company. It's something fun and interesting.
00:34:10 Speaker_07
And then obviously the episodes always would be too, but man, the Brought to You Bys, always looked forward to those.
00:34:15 Speaker_05
Alright, that's Wade's claim to Bill Nye. Bob, what's your claim if you have one?
00:34:21 Speaker_04
I was trying to find it like a specific bit that he does. It's it's kind of a whole episode and it's kind of a segment in the episode.
00:34:28 Speaker_04
But the there's an episode on static electricity and specifically there's a segment where he has a balloon and then he has like a piece of like aluminum foil suspended inside a glass jar. So it's like there's no wind or anything.
00:34:45 Speaker_04
And then he like rubs the balloon to get a little static charge in it. and then uses that to like move the foil in the jar.
00:34:52 Speaker_04
I remember at the age that I watched that, I understood like that if you rub, you know, you could static electricity, you could static shock. I sort of, but I remember seeing that specifically and just being like,
00:35:04 Speaker_04
Wait a minute, wait, electricity, wait, field. Oh, hang on. And there was like that specific demonstration.
00:35:14 Speaker_04
I generally enjoyed Bill Nye videos in school and stuff, but that specific demonstration, I remember I saw it and something in my brain was like, oh, wait, it was like the perfect like something clicked in place, edutainment moment.
00:35:28 Speaker_04
But there's a lot, I feel like there's a lot of that with Bill Nye, but I was just struggling to find the perfect one. I don't know if that's, that's not the most exciting thing they ever did, but that one, that one really got me.
00:35:39 Speaker_05
Well, that's good. It's on the board. Wade, you got anything?
00:35:42 Speaker_07
Chris Hadfield's Ted Talk. I don't know if you guys enjoy Ted Talks. I enjoy Ted Talks. Chris Hadfield was the astronaut who also performed David Bowie's Space Oddity, but his Ted Talk I found really fun.
00:35:54 Speaker_07
that do stuff that you know you'll probably never do in your life like going to space and then like talking about it talking about a moment like there was a moment he was talking about where like he just could not see he lost all of his vision he was outside and he had to rely on his training to get through a moment and he's like yeah but whatever's scaring you to stop you from pursuing your dreams is probably also pretty bad like you know funny but it was funny it was really informational learning about like what he'd experienced and gone through and then i don't know hearing him perform space oddities just really fun
00:36:19 Speaker_07
And he kind of changes the lyrics to make it less like ominous and either sad or whatever and more upbeat and just, I don't know, enjoyed his TED talk quite a bit in TED talks in general. But I want to claim all TED talks in case Bob has.
00:36:30 Speaker_05
Yeah, I don't think he's going to bring up another TED talk. As far as entertainment value goes, TED talks in general, probably not the most edutainment because edutainment is specifically I'm putting it on. It's here. It's here. Don't worry.
00:36:42 Speaker_05
But I say I'd say edutainment is more specifically entertainment, more than just educational. I guess that's fair. Because TED Talks are just educational, pretty much. They can have a lot of entertaining moments, but, you know.
00:36:56 Speaker_07
Some people do a pretty entertaining job. I would agree, though, that not all TED Talks are super entertaining. Glad I picked a specific one, then.
00:37:02 Speaker_04
I think TED Talks are a decent category for that, but I see what you're saying. Also, TED Talks to me, this is a joke from a kids movie, but it really is the perfect summary to me.
00:37:11 Speaker_04
It's in the Wreck-It Ralph 2, Ralph Breaks the Internet or whatever it's called. There's a character at one point and there's a guy who's like, I saw this TED Talk and I don't remember anything the guy said, but it made me feel good.
00:37:26 Speaker_04
And I think the point was something like, I respect your journey. And like, that's how I feel about most TED talks that I watch. You watch it. And while I'm watching it, I'm like, oh, oh, interesting.
00:37:39 Speaker_04
And then it gets to the end that I'm like, what the fuck was that about? I don't know. I enjoyed it, though. I think I respect your journey, man.
00:37:46 Speaker_05
You know, sorry to interject here, but there's a, there's a coincidentally educational things, uh, more by education as in don't ever do what you're seeing here.
00:37:56 Speaker_05
There was a video of someone, it was some TV show, I think, or maybe a YouTube channel, uh, where they were trying a whole bunch of different things, whether it was for therapeutic purposes, but either way, they were smoking some kind of frog venom.
00:38:12 Speaker_05
Have you ever seen this? No, no, that doesn't sound like a good idea at all.
00:38:17 Speaker_05
It was not a good idea because the the people said like it's it's goes 5050 either you have a really beautiful journey where you feel nothing but love or you're flung headfirst into hell and you stay there for a long long time and the first guy to go got flung into hell so hard he just
00:38:42 Speaker_05
started like freaking out, throwing up. He, he started spasming. He slid into a river where he was like face down in the water, spasming while the guy guiding them through this is like, it's okay.
00:38:55 Speaker_05
Relax while he's in the water, like face down, just inhaling water. Jesus horrible experience. And the guy who's going to go second is watching this and the camera cuts. So he's just like, but that guy does it still.
00:39:09 Speaker_05
And he has the all love beautiful journey. 50-50 and I learned to never ever ever do that ever We here at distractible support coin flips.
00:39:23 Speaker_07
Oh god We will let the frog venom decide who is truly right. Let us know if you want a frog venom episode. I don't know if I want that experience.
00:39:35 Speaker_04
I have one that's really more of a person. I have a positive and a negative and they're two different people. So I want to cover this. I feel like this is good. All right.
00:39:44 Speaker_04
Legend of edutainment, legend of conservation and ecological advocacy, Steve Irwin, the crocodile hunter. I think there are still debates about if what he did was too disruptive and whatever. I feel like his heart was in exactly the right place.
00:40:04 Speaker_04
And I don't know enough about the ecology or the whatever the animals to know if he was really fucking them up or if it was fine. But like his show in terms of awareness of creatures and and teaching, but being very entertaining, top notch.
00:40:18 Speaker_04
Love Crocodile Hunter. Very good combo of edutainment.
00:40:22 Speaker_04
Can I just say there's sort of a modern riff on that that's embodied in large part by a guy who's named Coyote Peterson, who on a YouTube channel where I've seen on the channel Brave Wilderness, where it's like a similar vibe.
00:40:39 Speaker_04
He's like the outdoorsy guy. He loves all creatures. But one of the things that he seems to do a lot is just get really fucked up by animals.
00:40:47 Speaker_04
Like there's the videos where it's like, I get stung by the world's most poisonous, painful, venomous thing, or I'm bitten by a snake or whatever. I don't like that. I don't think that's a good version of the Crocodile Hunter school of edutainment.
00:41:02 Speaker_04
I hate those videos.
00:41:04 Speaker_04
They make me squirm and I hate it and it makes me not interested in the creatures of the wilderness very much, as opposed to Steve Irwin who made me feel like I wanted to explore and meet, you know, see all these beautiful creatures.
00:41:17 Speaker_04
It's a bad, it's a bad version.
00:41:19 Speaker_05
But, uh, yeah, Steve Irwin, that's a good one.
00:41:22 Speaker_04
I think that's... Steve Irwin, absolute legend.
00:41:24 Speaker_05
Wade, what you got?
00:41:25 Speaker_07
I've shouted this one out before, I think, for a different context, but Urban Rescue Ranch is a YouTube channel.
00:41:30 Speaker_07
It started off with a guy who just had, like, got an emu, I think, named, I think it's an emu, I could be wrong with the species, but an emu named Kevin and he got a kangaroo and named it DaBaby.
00:41:41 Speaker_07
and like some of the early episodes he had like some chickens he had this kangaroo and he had this like angry running giant bird over the years it's actually developed into a lot more where now he has like a non-profit he does rescues so like people will drop off or he'll pick up like you know injured rabbits or birds or hawks or possum squirrel you name it
00:42:01 Speaker_07
He's kind of been learning along the way, so you kind of learn some lessons with him. He'll be like, oh man, I need to do the pins this way. I did it this way. I thought this would work, but I need to do it this way.
00:42:09 Speaker_07
But some of the stuff is just like, as a kid, I found an injured squirrel one time. And my friend and I were like, I don't know what to do about this. Let's take it home and try getting it some milk or something.
00:42:18 Speaker_07
And we probably didn't do the thing any favors. But like he goes through and he shows like, hey, we got this injured animal. You might find one of these. You can call these numbers. These places are everywhere and they can help you.
00:42:27 Speaker_07
Or at the least you can give them this kind of food, but make sure you don't do this. So it's really they're entertaining, fun videos, but also like there are a few things where I'm like, I didn't know that kind of place existed till now.
00:42:38 Speaker_05
this. I now know who you're talking about. Because it sounds like Oh, what a lovely channel. And then you go to their channel. And he's got a video. It's like how to bottle feed a baby beaver. And the next video is how to raise beavers for meat.
00:42:52 Speaker_05
It's all memes. But yes, I found I fed a groundhog to my prairie dog big ounce dies how to catch and cook baby owls emotional
00:43:01 Speaker_05
100% clickbaity memes, and he's always been that way, but uh... I think there is some learning to be had there, so I'm putting it on as a urban rescue ranch.
00:43:09 Speaker_07
There actually is. Believe it or not, there actually is. But it is very entertaining, but like, every now and then you're just like, man, if I'd known that years ago, I might have been able to save that bird that flew into a window.
00:43:18 Speaker_07
I could have saved that chipmunk. You might have been able to, yeah.
00:43:22 Speaker_05
Actually, people said on the subreddit that like, there really wasn't anything more I could do, which I guess makes sense.
00:43:27 Speaker_07
It was nice of them to lie to you like that.
00:43:28 Speaker_04
General PSA, at least if you live in America, what you want to do is call your local animal control if you have an animal that you feel like really needs help.
00:43:36 Speaker_04
I'm not saying this to you, Mark, because I think that poor chipmunk was fairly well on the way out the door, and I doubt animal control would have gotten it.
00:43:44 Speaker_04
But if you have an animal that's like not on death's door that you feel like will survive, but you have no idea what to do for it, animal control will totally get your back. They will come help you out.
00:43:51 Speaker_04
and they generally know how to deal with lots of stuff. It's kind of their thing. Fair enough.
00:43:55 Speaker_07
Somehow didn't know they existed until I was older in life. Like as a teenager, had no idea animal control was a thing.
00:44:01 Speaker_04
I mean, I would not have guessed that as a kid either.
00:44:03 Speaker_07
I knew that there was some company you could call that wasn't the garbage company to pick up animal corpses. Did not know there was a company you could call for animals that weren't dead yet.
00:44:12 Speaker_04
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00:44:29 Speaker_05
Are you saying you threw away the Game Boy when your batteries died?
00:44:32 Speaker_07
Yeah, it's dead. It's dead. Isn't it less expensive?
00:44:35 Speaker_04
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00:44:47 Speaker_05
All right, next up, any last ones were getting down to the wire. So if you want to shout out, I have a video game.
00:44:54 Speaker_04
Actually, I have a couple of video games, but edutainment games were big business when we were kids. And I have one from my childhood, but also possibly Mandy's favorite game that's ever existed that I feel like I have to throw in here.
00:45:08 Speaker_04
Mine would be, well, one storybook weaver. Did you guys ever play with storybook weaver or a book weaver? I don't know. It's almost like just like a mod on like MS Paint. But the whole thing is it has like a bunch of like backgrounds and clip art.
00:45:22 Speaker_04
And you can you can make a storybook. You can you can design the scene and you can have pages so you can design a whole story. And then you just write like the you write the story underneath it. I played with that just.
00:45:36 Speaker_04
for hours just to be like, well, what can I make? And then what's the story with this? Interesting, but it's not a game. There's no like objective. It's just a creative sandbox of write your own book.
00:45:48 Speaker_05
Wait, I've got, I've got one image of this I want to share because I've like, I think this really puts forward exactly what this is about. Jesus.
00:45:57 Speaker_05
It's a clown on a unicycle behind an explosion with fire all around a courtyard and it says, Larry was expelled into the wicker courtyard for his misdeeds. I really like it. That's, I've never heard of that game.
00:46:13 Speaker_04
dude storybook weaver was what's up also my next favorite childhood game very edutainment math blaster of course oh my god love that shit can't get enough and then Mandy's game which is sort of like a
00:46:29 Speaker_04
logic and puzzle game that had a lot of like cryptography games and serve logic based stuff is called the logical journey of the zoom beanies. I was just calling zoom beanies. It's it's like a little kids puzzle game, but it has very cute characters.
00:46:49 Speaker_05
Amy talks about zoom meetings. Yeah, she's she's mentioned that before.
00:46:53 Speaker_04
I did not play this when I was a kid, but I have played it as an adult because Mandy showed it to me and we play. It's a great game. It's super fun.
00:47:00 Speaker_04
I think I probably would have been too stupid for it as a kid because I was not good at this sort of puzzling problem solving stuff. But it's a great game and it's got some very like it has lines that Manny and I still just like say to each other.
00:47:12 Speaker_04
one of which being there's a game where you're trying to build. You have three trees and they each want pizza, but each of them wants different toppings and won't eat certain toppings. You have to like find the right combo.
00:47:22 Speaker_04
And one of them, every time you give them something they don't want, they go. There's something on there I don't like. And just like the most memorable delivery, like burns into your brain. Is that where the guy goes? Make me a pizza.
00:47:37 Speaker_09
Make me a pizza.
00:47:38 Speaker_05
He says that all the time. Whenever we order pizza, pretty much, me and I say that to each other. So I got three down, the Chorebook, Weaver, Math Blaster, and Zoomies.
00:47:47 Speaker_05
I would say Math Blaster of those is the more specific edutainment, but I've got them all on the list. Wade, last chance.
00:47:54 Speaker_07
I'll go with video game because Bob opened my mind up to one that I think, again, I've mentioned on here before, but in case I haven't, in case you guys don't remember it, Operation Neptune. The predecessor of we need to go deeper.
00:48:06 Speaker_07
You have talked about that before, but the further down you go, the more complex math equations you have to solve. So it teaches you. Well, I don't remember if it teaches. It's been as long as I played it. Oh, Operation Neptune is part of D-Day. Oh no.
00:48:20 Speaker_07
Well, not this video game. I got to see a submarine, a very colorful scape landscape.
00:48:26 Speaker_07
But it starts off, you have like basic, simple, like addition, subtraction, and then like you'll work your way, you'll fight some sea monsters, whatever, and you'll work your way to the next zone.
00:48:36 Speaker_07
and the next zone you have to like send up some kind of like research or something the further down you go. But like eventually you'll get to like multiplication and like division and like as a kid, I couldn't I couldn't do those things.
00:48:47 Speaker_07
I was too young. I didn't understand how to do them. So I never got super far into the game.
00:48:50 Speaker_07
But I loved playing it and like trying to figure out the math equations and making sure I was saying the research up like I actually really enjoyed it, even though ultimately it was like a math
00:48:58 Speaker_07
game, but it had like the mechanics of I think firing your torpedo and swimming around and dodging things. It was very much like a mathematical kids version of we need to go deeper.
00:49:08 Speaker_05
That's great. I think you have mentioned it, but I did not know of it specifically. That's that's good. That goes head to head with Math Blaster. It's going to be a fun matchup.
00:49:17 Speaker_07
I want to play it.
00:49:18 Speaker_05
Any last ones? Wade, Bob, anything?
00:49:20 Speaker_07
Shout out to Oregon Trail and Amazon Trail. I learned stuff from those, even though I don't know that they're necessarily supposed to be educational games.
00:49:26 Speaker_07
But man, but I learned a lot of animals and Amazon Trail and I don't know other things about traveling and stuff.
00:49:33 Speaker_04
I have one I was curious for your verdict on if it counts or not. The Darwin Awards. My dad thought those were very funny. And so I've we like I read some and listened to they had like audio book versions where they told the stories and stuff.
00:49:46 Speaker_04
It's not really educational, but I think the point of the Darwin Awards is like, for anyone who doesn't know, it's awards that are given out to people who essentially killed themselves in hilariously stupid ways or outrageous ways.
00:50:02 Speaker_04
I didn't know it was an actual show. Yeah, it was it was a big hit in the like the 2000s. And so I I feel like I learned a lot of things of like, oh, that never would have occurred to me either.
00:50:13 Speaker_04
Like there was a story I remember of a guy who like drove his truck out onto a frozen lake to go ice fishing, but didn't like check the thickness of the ice and his truck like fell through the ice because it was it wasn't very thick.
00:50:26 Speaker_04
Things of that nature. People dying in It's sad because people did die, but like in ways that are a little ridiculous or comedic or otherwise outrageous. And so you learn, you learn things not to do or things you should do to avoid, you know, dying.
00:50:41 Speaker_05
Fair enough. All right. Wade, last chance.
00:50:44 Speaker_07
I'd love to shout out Distractible Podcast. We're very informational, but God, are we one of the most entertaining things out there.
00:50:51 Speaker_04
I learn new things from me every week.
00:50:54 Speaker_05
All right, I'm putting it on the list. All right, and that's it. Judgment is closed. You know, just some honorable mentions that weren't brought up. Bob, you made me remember Dumb Ways to Die with the Darwin Awards. Oh yeah.
00:51:07 Speaker_05
And I feel like if that specific piece of media was mentioned, that's pretty up there for edutainment. That was about rail safety in Australia? Something like that.
00:51:17 Speaker_05
Specifically, all of those deaths were leading up to don't stand in front of the yellow line in train stations. That was the whole purpose of that cartoon. I didn't actually know that I thought it was just for for fun. No, it was.
00:51:29 Speaker_05
That's how entertaining it was. And educational, even though the education that it was trying to put across wasn't really remembered as much because all the other ones don't don't do the dumb things. It's still a meme.
00:51:40 Speaker_05
Like, I'll still come across like TikToks and things where that that song is used. And then Kurzgesagt, which was not mentioned, but is a great channel with tons of informational and educational things.
00:51:52 Speaker_05
Honestly, Amy sometimes think it's too existential because they often talk about crises of the universe exploding and things like that. And it's for some people, it can be stressful. But those were honorable mentions that I wanted to bring up.
00:52:04 Speaker_05
So here's how it's going to work. I'm looking at your list. And the reason I put down everything is because I have a ranking one to five.
00:52:12 Speaker_05
And I'm going to rank who gave the most edutainable, given that Stafford Gambit was like the bar I said is like, this is crazy entertaining. And still, it actually teaches you a chess move. Very educational.
00:52:27 Speaker_05
So I put that like, I'm going to rank number one has to be close to that ish, and that's how I'm going to order these. So give me two minutes to narrow down this list, and then I'm going to doodle-a-do. Feeling pretty good about my list.
00:52:41 Speaker_05
How about you, Bob?
00:52:42 Speaker_04
Uh, I feel like I was struggling to remember I think there are some still sort of deep in the recesses of my mind that I've neither one of us I kept wanting to bring up neither one of us brought up like magic school bus.
00:52:52 Speaker_07
I feel like that's pretty Oh, I did enjoy magic school bus. That was good. Some of those types of shows and stuff
00:52:57 Speaker_05
There's tons and tons of good stuff like that. I've narrowed it down to five. It's hard for me to judge between the two Bill Nye suggestions. Oh, you gotta pick one. Bob's was specific, but also I do remember a lot of the Bra T-Bys were funny.
00:53:10 Speaker_05
And they did sometimes teach a little bite-sized thing, but I don't know. It's tough to call that one.
00:53:15 Speaker_04
Wait, I could change my bill my bit. So it's bit for bit. I know a bit that's even better than the brought to you by Okay, like we changed last minute. What the fuck did you know that? Now, you know Those bits were always really good.
00:53:29 Speaker_05
Those were really good. That is true. But I mean now I don't want to I don't want to know I want to claim that one I'm just gonna flip a thing.
00:53:36 Speaker_04
All right, I claim brought to you by then
00:53:39 Speaker_05
Would you flip a pen? No, I have a little, it's not a coin, but well, it's never going to show it. It's got two sides, a little like screwdriver thing. So I did two sides.
00:53:47 Speaker_07
Why don't you just get a dice, man? Odds and evens. What is that for your, for your ultra rolls when you're playing D&D?
00:53:54 Speaker_07
Uh, we don't use real dice, but I wanted to have one because whenever I roll bad, I want to roll dice again, but I can't because we're like five or whatever. So I just roll this to get my frustrations out.
00:54:02 Speaker_05
Okay. All right. You ready? In number five. I put Urban Rescue. The reason I put it in number five is because I have not personally watched it except for the videos that have come across my feed and I didn't learn anything from them.
00:54:16 Speaker_05
But I believe in the educational entertainment value of those videos, so it's on the ranking. I'll take it. I'm on the list.
00:54:23 Speaker_07
That's more than I expected.
00:54:25 Speaker_05
Uh, so in number four, we have math blaster. I ranked math blaster versus operation Neptune as head to head on Amazon reviews. Cause it's the only place that sold both of them. So we had math blaster in search of spot, which is the one I played.
00:54:42 Speaker_05
And I believe that's the one Bob was talking about versus Super Solvers Operation Neptune, which had a 3.5 out of 5 stars and Math Blaster had a 3.6. So just barely, Math Blaster's eked out the rating of that.
00:54:58 Speaker_05
However, if it was Math Blaster's Adventure Math,
00:55:02 Speaker_05
that has a 3.4 but I don't believe that was the one that people actually played I played in search of spot so it's like depending on which version it might be above or below but given my experience with math blasters in search of spot that puts it at the four four bob
00:55:19 Speaker_05
And then at number three, I did a toss-up. I did a coin. We have two Bill Nye things. Wade said Bill Nye first, Bob said specifics, and then he claimed another one. I'm not really counting that. It was heads for Bob, tails for Wade. It landed tails.
00:55:33 Speaker_05
Wade gets number three spots.
00:55:35 Speaker_04
Still never won a coin toss in my entire life.
00:55:38 Speaker_05
What a streak I'm on, boys. Look, I don't know what to tell you. That's just the way it turned up.
00:55:43 Speaker_05
Number two, and I find myself shocked that I put this above Bill Nye because I cherish Bill Nye, but I can't deny I remember every single Schoolhouse Rock thing. I've ever been shown Schoolhouse Rock lands in at number two.
00:55:58 Speaker_05
And at number one, the one that is closest to what I presented with the Stafford Gambit in terms of that specific genre is the Wendy's training video, because it just it had a song. So much education. I learned so much. I felt so much.
00:56:16 Speaker_05
Number five, Wendy's tops the list.
00:56:19 Speaker_07
I've been humming it in my head this whole time, the press down. Yeah, it's right there.
00:56:24 Speaker_05
Wendy's gets Bob plus five points. All right. Bob gets plus five. Schoolhouse Rock gets Wade plus four points. Bill Nye gets Wade plus three points. Oh, Math Blaster gets Bob plus two points. So just by those rankings, it's tied. Urban Rescue gives Wade.
00:56:46 Speaker_05
Urban Rescue was mine. One point. Here's the thing. I just see, I see what's happening here. Bob, you scored one point in the pre-talk. Wade, you scored one point in the pre-talk and lost one point for tricking me. The score is a perfect tie. Oh, God.
00:57:05 Speaker_05
Because you tricked me.
00:57:07 Speaker_07
That's right, baby. It was a trick from the start. I knew I'd put you in position to have to do a solo show. I'm saying it's time for your wheel. We're tied.
00:57:16 Speaker_05
Wait, you just said the whole thing was a trick to trick me. You tricked me twice. Yes. No, I'm just kidding. I'm not gonna play that. Of course I'm not. Damn it!
00:57:26 Speaker_05
I could get out of the wheel by claiming that, but I'm not gonna because you'd fuck me then, I guess.
00:57:32 Speaker_07
Oh, Bob, we're gonna have a really easy job. We just gotta write him an episode. This guy's gotta do a whole one by himself. What are the odds? You gotta do a better job of assigning points away that can't end in a tie.
00:57:42 Speaker_05
Dude, I made a ranking! He did make a ranking. I talked it all through. I could have said Math Blaster went the other way, which would make a decisive winner, but I go with the version I played, and that's what the score is on Amazon.
00:57:56 Speaker_07
What are we up to? 99% chance that Mark has to do solo episodes, is that right?
00:58:00 Speaker_05
You know it. No, it's 10% chance, so.
00:58:03 Speaker_07
I don't think I've had more than a tie in a long time. Hooray! You sure you're not Trixie? Are you sure you're not really Tricky? Oh, this is looking pretty good. I don't know. Wait, why are you such a lying sack? Come on.
00:58:15 Speaker_07
You don't want him to have to host his own episode? We have to write it for him. Yeah, there's no, there's no, like, how much we have to write. I could be as lazy as I want on the writing process. I'm not looking.
00:58:28 Speaker_05
Oh, no. Oh, it's fine. Oh, God. What are you? Don't scare me like that.
00:58:34 Speaker_07
What's wrong with you, God? So close. Was that a trick? Were you tricking me?
00:58:40 Speaker_05
Whatever.
00:58:40 Speaker_07
I was, but it's too little too late.
00:58:43 Speaker_05
All right, Wade, congratulations. You won. It was a very close game between the two of you. We learned a lot. We were very educated. And now the Boy and Man Show goes up to 12%.
00:58:52 Speaker_07
Yay! Woo, can't wait for the next tie! That gave me heartburn for some reason. I don't feel good.
00:58:58 Speaker_04
All right, Bob, loser's speech first. I enjoyed this very much. I love edutainment in general. I do feel like these sort of, I'm gonna call them anthology episodes, are really tilted against me because I have the memory of a man twice my age.
00:59:16 Speaker_04
I'm sure I had some real diamonds in my rough, if I could just remember what was in the rough. There were definitely some diamonds in it, and so I could have won. I would have won if I wasn't so old. Thanks for the win. I appreciate it.
00:59:30 Speaker_04
Alright, well, okay.
00:59:32 Speaker_05
Wade, your winner's speech. Loser's speech.
00:59:34 Speaker_07
Well tied, Bob, well tied. So I guess technically we did both win for a minute there until the wheel. It's nice doing episodes like these as well because I do have an awful memory, but I feel like my nostalgia memory is pretty good.
00:59:47 Speaker_07
Like a lot of things prior to like making content, we have discussions and I'm like, oh my God, that game or that show or that episode.
00:59:54 Speaker_07
But man, oh man, when people talk about games we played like four or five years ago, I have to go back and look and I'll even watch it and I'll be like, I have zero recollection of this ever existing.
01:00:04 Speaker_07
I cannot believe my face is on this with hair, no bald, and playing it. I don't know what's changed in the last, like, 10, 15 years, but man, has my memory gotten a lot worse. I'm gonna try to just live in the moment or live in the way back past.
01:00:17 Speaker_07
Play some Operation Neptune, like the old days, and forget all of the modern games that clearly aren't as good because I don't remember them as well.
01:00:24 Speaker_05
Okay, well, somehow I'm depressed. We also didn't mention Mythbusters, which I just remembered is a... Ooh, that's a great one, yeah. Too bad, they're not there.
01:00:33 Speaker_05
So if you guys have any edutainable things, post them to the subreddit, the Distractible subreddit. Thank you, Bob and Wade, for participating. Look forward to Wade hosting in the next episode. Distractiblestore.com for merch while it's there.
01:00:46 Speaker_05
It's limited time or something like that.
01:00:48 Speaker_07
Well, Jackass taught me what not to do.
01:00:51 Speaker_05
Fair enough. Fair enough. But it's not on the list. Thank you for listening and or watching. Podcast out.