Bad Mood

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Hello and welcome to another episode of Distractible. That's right, I'm your host, the guy who's in this room today. No, it's not Mark. It's me. I'm in weird places. My name's Bob. I'm hosting because I won the last one despite... All that stuff I said in it. And I'm joined today, as always, by my two competitors slash co-hosts, Mark and Wade. Hi. I'm going to say a bunch of stuff today.

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Who knows where it's going to take me? Probably right to the top. I'm going to say some stuff today, which will take me to the top too, right? Almost guaranteed, probably. Anyway, if you've never been here before, I always host this episode while sitting in an unpowered Halo Fireteam Raven arcade cabinet. That's why I have this thing in my hands.

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Also, as the host, I will be giving the boys some sort of game or prompt or whatever. We'll talk about it and I'll give them points, which I'll write down on this book thing, which is not my usual one, but whatever. And then there'll be a winner and they host the next one. That's how it works. Could I introduce some bias early on into the episode? Okay. Okay, so think about it this way, right?

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If I were to win, that would give me enough time. Now that I have all this free time, and I'm probably going to blast through all the Dungeon Crawler car books in the next, like, day or two. So I'll be so desperate for time. I'll be able to spend time to make the perfectest crime episode ready for the next recording session. Bang, boom, it'll be the greatest episode of Distractible.

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You could be on the precipice. This obviously won't be the greatest episode of Distractible ever. Obviously. Obviously. But if you fabricate a reality where I win despite all my shortcomings, don't make a joke about that You got tall Cummings not short Cummings Sound clip that forever clip that send me the wave file. I'm gonna use that in everything I'll just send it to game developers.

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But from what I hear, it's going to dip down to the 40s and then the 30s here. And it's going to be during a moisture event. So it's going to be likely...

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I mean they're already predicting on the mountaintops it's gonna be full blanket snow coverage like two feet of snow up on the top but there's a chance we'll catch some flakes drifting our way you know just and that would be that would be astonishing Amy is actually thinking of actually by the time this episode's coming out this is already passed so we'll know if we're buried and died in a blizzard uh but Amy's thinking of canceling a trip that she had because she's never seen

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snow here it's like if she leaves and doesn't catch it who knows when it would ever happen again but then i said i mean obviously it'll happen again next year because this shit ain't gonna get better so you know oh and isn't that just a fun light-hearted joke we all love to laugh about Anyway, I'm getting a new microphone as well. What kind of thing?

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So I'm trying out a different microphone because they discontinued. I mean, Blue just got bought by Logitech. And so they discontinued a lot of the other models. And I never really liked this microphone that much anyway. So I'm trying out a warm audio. Something, something, something. 8,000. That's a big number. Oh, it is a big number. All 7,999 of the other models must be jealous.

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I remember when Tony Stark got in the newest Iron Man suit and said, I hear you 8,000. That was my favorite moment. Laugh. I don't know enough things about Marvel to understand that joke. Sorry. It was aimed at a very specific member of the audience. Just one. You got it, right?

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He said the thing is it possible for the bullets to just go off and just I mean, spontaneous combustion's a thing, so I'm sure spontaneous shoot is a thing. I'm sure it's not impossible, but I feel like I'd be surprised if that happened with something like that. I don't know. Like, if it fell and it hit something just right, it hit the firing pin, would the bullet go off?

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It wouldn't be able to go with as much speed because it'd just be kind of like a... No, it doesn't have a barrel, right? It would only be propelled with whatever the casing could hold, but the casing would probably explode. It would probably not be good. Yeah, not great, yeah. It's like those little Halloween, those Fourth of July fire poppers you throw at the ground, just like peep, peep, peep.

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Just like that, I bet. I'll throw it real hard to the ground. I'll tell you what happens. But with metal fragments flying everywhere, which is probably good. Yeah, probably.

528.433 - 532.877 Wade

Anyway, it fell off the desk the other day, and I had that thought as it was going towards the ground.

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So I'm fine. That's fine. I'm sure it's fine. It wouldn't do that. With these huge bullets I got next to me, these gigantic, very manly, very red meat-eating bullets, you know, around me. I wouldn't know anything about having weapons in my area. I see two blurs. I see one slightly blue blur, and then I see some shiny off of it, and then I see a... They're very cool arcade weapons.

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When you tell jokes, people go, hmm, that's funny. I feel like I'm the guy people go, hmm, that's funny. The compliments of like not laughing, but being told, man, funny. Really the same. I feel so warm and fuzzy inside. People tell me, funny. I do that. I feel like I do that a lot. And I apologize because I do go, no, that's funny.

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I do that a lot.

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I get that a lot here. Yeah, I don't know. You do that to me too. Wait a minute. Oh no, but to you. No, it's really funny when it's you. Wait, hold on. What do you mean really funny? Look, you're both really funny. Trust me. Oh, okay. Thanks. Oh no, I fell for it again! I got a low sense motive against his charisma rolls. Yep. Everything else. All my other stats way low, but my charisma.

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I can't wait to hear your new microphone, Mark. I'm sure I'll notice. I mean, I doubt that it's going to sound any better, but I think from a functionality standpoint, it'll just be a little nicer.

740.247 - 741.37 Wade

That's all I'm really hoping for.

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What's the actor's name? Oh, it's the bad guy on Seinfeld, yeah. Neumann? Seinfeld heads are going to get really mad if we say that. Sorry, Steinfeld. That's it. Wait, did you do Smalltalk? Probably, yeah, about going outside and so on. It was as good as my jokes, man. It was funny. That was really good small talk. What if I point this at you? That was really good small talk.

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I'm the pillars on which this foundation is set, and then you guys are the stars that stand on top of it. That's nice. That's really sacrificial of you. Just power wash me occasionally, then reseal. That's just another step I don't want to take. Explains the cracks in the bald. This episode is brought to you by T-Mobile 5G Home Internet.

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But literally, I would just go lock myself in. I would go away and lock myself in a room and be like, Everyone stay away, I'm in a bad mood. But then people intrude on that, because I don't live in a vacuum. I live with family and stuff. But like, anyway, I've been having some bad moods lately. I felt kind of bad about that. And I was curious, maybe you guys can teach me

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how to deal with my bad moods better, or if you have any funny stories, or if you have a similar or your own unique version of how you behave when you're in a bad mood. I just want to talk about it. I'm working some stuff out here, guys. Help me. Therapize me. Therapize you? Therapize him in the face? Hit me with the therapies. I'm going to hit you with the theranin.

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I don't know what that is, but it sounds entertaining.

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Is that next to neon on the periodic table? Theranon? Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it, yeah. Yeah, Theramin is the little electromagnetic device. Theranon was the company that that person was made, the lady on the Forbes. It's German, Theranoin. Theranoin, probably. She went to jail. Yo, the lady who just straight up lied. Theranos. Allegedly.

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No, it was pretty much conclusively proven that she went to jail. We're not making those claims. You can look it up. She did not succeed in her defense in court. But yeah, no, that was, man, if that machine did exist, it would really do a lot of good stuff.

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Oh man, I can't believe it.

1126.8 - 1141.493 Wade

That was not the voice that came through. I'm very scared right now. I'm very scared. I'm fine. I'm perfectly fine. Just like Bob's magic trick that scared me legitimately. I actually, I'm not going to lie, Bob, when you disappeared in that closet, I actually went, where'd he go?

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I'm not joking. I fully had a second there. I know. I have that effect on people. I'm quite the magician. We here at Distractible incorporated our toddlers. What was the question? I don't even remember what we're doing here. What are we doing? Wade knew about Theranos after we talked about it for a solid 90 seconds. He was finally like, I know what you guys are talking about. That's right.

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I didn't know the name, but I knew the subject matter. So once it was explained, it was like, oh, I have heard that story about the lady who was selling the whatever, Theranos. I felt like part of the group for once. I was on the inn. I knew. You're literally already in Imagine how we must feel knowing so many more things, so much more of the time. It's like a constant high, man.

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I don't live that life, but I was here once. I peaked. I was Icarus. I flew too close to the no. Now I'm falling back down. I got bad mood stuff, I suppose. Mark, you got bad mood stuff? Yeah, I've been in bad moods every once in a while. What do you do? How does it go? Do you take it out on everyone around you like I apparently didn't realize until now that I do?

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the tantrum and covered myself in like i don't remember pizza or whatever the hell it was and then i was in like an even worse mood kind of but also it kind of reality checked me where i was like huh me acting like baby makes mess like baby now i've got to clean up this mess that i made because i was being a big bitch for no reason i deserve this This doesn't have to be a theme of the episode.

1341.576 - 1363.792 Mark

You are allowed to be in a bad mood. And I feel like slamming your desk and making a mess is kind of like, from our perspective, now that you're not in a bad mood, seems silly. I feel like of all the things a person could do, that's pretty good. Like if you go punch a pillow or you go scream into a pillow or you slam your desk, as long as you're not hurting yourself or breaking your own stuff.

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So it's like you just kind of made a mess. That's not that bad. It may feel silly that you did that. You're like, I got to clean this up now. But you didn't like scream at someone or like, dude, like, you know, that's fine. That seems okay. Sometimes you're in a bad mood. I just yelled like, fuck, and slammed my fucking fist down and then made a huge mess. And then...

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I'm still in a bad mood, but it's like I was no longer in a ragey, self-destructive mood. It was just like, well, now I'm an asshole. I see that I'm an asshole. I have a mess to clean up and I'm still in a bad mood. What did that accomplish? Didn't help my mood, but I guess it did help my mood, but it didn't help my mood. That sounds like it helped a little.

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I can't really imagine you doing that with sincerity. I could imagine you being like, for the bit, just be like, doing something crazy and make it a big mess. I don't get actually mad very often. Like I get upset or like annoyed. Actually mad is very rare for me. That was an actually mad moment. That sounds like a decently healthy way to trying to work it out.