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Chapter 1: What personal struggles with burnout do the hosts share?
Good evening, gentle listeners or watchers, and welcome to Distractable, this episode Malefluent Mark finally gets his just rewards, has a blue bucket for blood, and has supply issues. Brainy Bob trainily cooks, lands cool tuition, and experiences excruciatingly harrowing explosive eruptions.
White-whiskered Wade gets befuddled like Strake, demands lube, and opens up about his truly terrible trials. From cold opens to heartfelt hard truths. Yes, it's time for burnout. Now sit back and prepare to be distracted and enjoy the show.
All right, ready? Fart noise. That was my mouth sound. I was making a fart noise as a sound of acquiescence. That's how I communicate with James. Sorry, I'm ready.
That's how I show your dominance. I assert your dominance. Welcome to Distractible.
Oh no, no, no, no, no. This is the show. Where we have a very concise, clean intro every time, and cold opens are a thing that are relegated to a Baldemort, who is way better at them than us as we are.
Did you emphasize bald more than usual in that name this time?
Are you just sensitive to it?
I really thought you were calling me a name. I feel like you were calling me his name, and I don't like that. Call me by my name.
Bald. Alright, I'm gonna give you a bald point. I'm particularly sensitive about that today, apparently. It's all right, man. It's all right, man. That's what this episode is going to be all about. Spoiler warning. What spoiler? I was trying to think of what the spoiler was, but then I realized it was a bit.
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Chapter 2: How do the hosts use humor to cope with difficult topics?
What the hell? What the hell? His name's Baldemort. Please don't quit.
Please, yeah, please, please. Baldemort. Please.
Don't listen to Wade. He doesn't speak for us. Look, we both have bald going on. Does that mean you feel dirty all the time? What are you getting at?
Kind of, yeah. Sometimes, like, you have no hair to absorb the grease. It just kind of sits there. And then, like, you go to fry dinner on your head. It's like, all right, well, at least the grease is already in place, you know? You have to get like your little coffee can to like scrape it in because you don't want it to get in the sink or whatever.
I don't want to yes and you. I do not want to yes and you.
No, you have to yes and. That's the rules of the show. I am abstaining from this yes and. He's just highlighting one of the advantages that bald people have. When I cook dinner on my head, there's so many hairs in it, it's gross. Imagine scrambled eggs with this.
and how welcome to distractible we are uh the triumvirate of men a very unique perspective in the world of podcasting uh three dudes on a podcast that's what my mom keeps telling me uh but did you know also we like to play games that's a unique thing about us put a jigsaw Actually, there was never really any game. All right, I don't want to get into this. There was never really any game.
Hold on, let's go. It was like, do you want to play a game? Yeah. Well, too bad. There's a key in your liver. Get it.
Yeah, that one's called Operation. Do this or die. If you don't hit the right spot, you go and then you die.
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Chapter 3: What experiences led to the discussion of mental health and burnout?
But, you know, I think it's time for us to all just kind of talk, talk about the world maybe a little bit, talk about, you know, everything going on in life, where it is. But before we do that, Oh, they sent you one.
Yeah, you finally got sent one. You had a meeting and they were like, yeah, we love you, Mark. Here's the thing you wanted.
No, well, you know, I hope. I hope now because I'm showing it. I'm showing my brand loyalty. I have my GoPro for everyone who's listening at home. You can hear the quality of the camera.
Slam it on the desk. Let them hear it.
There's the camera. Don't you have a spinning, uh, stage for it? Yeah, I do. Yeah. On this, on this, uh, I showed the guys this. So this is the, the, the, the editing wheel someone gave to me, uh, or, uh, or I think I bought it, actually. And I have never used it for editing, but I am using it as a rotary display for my GoPro.
Dude, look at your lighting, though. Elite-level lighting. Look at those. Oh, yeah, that's pretty good. Splashing, it's catching. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Flies off. You hear the cartoony glass-breaking sound as it leaves frame.
It wouldn't do that. It's tough. It's meant to be thrown around. Well, I mean, I know they're not calling it an action cam, but it's like... It's GoPro. I would certainly believe it's still tough. What did it take for them to finally send you one? Me paying money, and then the release date. Right.
This transaction is what took place so they they sent you one because they legally had to because of I see I see Can we ship this guy like an open box sir, do we wait returns yet or da we just released no returns ass shit Alright, well open one up banging around a little bit Lick one and then put it in the packaging and see if he notices.
Oh, God. Anyway, I got it. Not many people know or remember I used GoPros a lot on the van vlogs. Dude, I love the van. The barrel. Yeah, and I use it, so I'm very familiar with using GoPros, and it was funny because I just Googled barrel as if that was going to get me anywhere. What the fuck's wrong with me?
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Chapter 4: How do the hosts manage personal and professional pressures?
It was very pretty, and people liked it. But, you know, I realize I actually don't have that much cool things to film in slow-mo, but I'll find them. I filmed the faucet because I didn't know what else to film, and it was like, wow, 960 frames.
Did you get the shot of, like, the drops coming across frame and everything? Oh.
man i would it's this one doesn't do macro yet even though although i did an experiment where i held one of my other lenses like my minolta's in front of it like this and i gotta i got actually a pretty cool shot out of it um so there's i'm going to fake it until it happens i don't care if i have to 3d print like an amount to get other optical things on there i'll figure out a way i can do it i can do it i wasn't i was almost an engineer
Yeah, because I know it's going to have, like, adapt... Anyway, I don't need to talk about it, but I'm very excited about this. I truly... Anyway, it's going to have, like, the Hero 13 had, where it's, like, interchangeable lenses where you can have the macro and the things like that, because this comes off in case it breaks.
That's why it won't break, because it'll just break this lens cover, and then you can just... Boop! It's a little cheap replacement. You put it right back on. But they'll have adaptable lenses. And then I can probably get a macro thing in here, but I still want the actual Micro Four Thirds one. And then you're going to film your next movie on it. I would. I actually would. Not the whole thing.
No. No one take that quote and run. I would. I actually would. Hey, look, if GoPro wants to fund my adventures and sponsor me, I'll film a movie on it. I'll film an entire movie on it.
We're on the final stretch of this one, so you can start a new one anytime.
Yeah, you're almost free for a new one. I would love to be involved in it. Please, I could make really pretty footage.
I could make things happen.
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Chapter 5: What insights do the hosts offer about seeking help for mental health?
Eh, maybe. We could not tell what you were going for when you were saying it to us, so I wouldn't be so sure. I'm rooting for you out there. I'm rooting for you. Also, I might think you're absolutely insane for doing that. Don't mind me. I'm taking selfies.
The next episode, without either of our inputs, is just going to be like, Sponsored by GoPro. Filmed entirely on GoPro. It's just Mark's camera the whole time, but it's him on GoPro.
Can you livestream? Can I use this as a webcam?
Yes, you can. You can do it wired for sure. And I believe some of I only have a 10, so I don't know what the newest ones are. I believe you could do it wirelessly if you because I have looked into using those as like the camera in the corner of my room or for like when Mandy and I did cooking streams for a long time. We did stream. We used a GoPro for that, but we had it wired into a laptop.
It's very good. Oh, I will look into that. Yeah, I mean, I'm I'm looking for a stream cam. Hey, GoPro, I know how much you love working with Mark and how much you're supporting him. There's any splash off. You know, this camera could be a GoPro. It's just some webcam right now.
I'm looking for an upgrade. Please, please, GoPro. So I will sell my soul and my audience. I've volunteered to sacrifice my audience for this, and my audience has been like, yeah, yeah, sacrifice me. I don't want it that bad, but if you send me one, I'll probably use it. You've heard of Jonestown. Have you heard of Markiplier Town?
No.
Markville. Say that joke again, but in a Dracula voice.
You've heard of Jones, pal. But have you heard of Markiplier, pal? Take this GoPro and this cyanide pill. Put them together and swallow.
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Chapter 6: How do family health issues contribute to feelings of burnout?
But it was a very good.
I just want to reiterate for our audience, we are not sponsored by GoPro, despite how hard it feels like we are. I don't even have like a coupon. I realize that.
I don't even have like a, hey, get 10% off by using my code. I don't even have a code.
I think Bob and I even have GoPro codes.
You've got codes? How'd you get codes?
They just like us, I guess.
I don't know if we're allowed to tell him about that, but yeah, it's fine. Everyone's in your boat, Mark. No one's more left out than you are. That's for sure. Well, we have GoPros in our boat. He's got Go Amateurs in his. Got him. Nah, that's not what you said. I'd like you to stick to what you said the first time around. Couldn't remember. You have to remind me.
Nah, I'm pretty sure you remember. You remember.
Babe. Do you actually not remember? Oh, no. Jesus. If I have a superpower, it's that I can't remember much.
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Chapter 7: What role does community support play in overcoming burnout?
It's hard for me to think of anything right now except for the evening, not last evening, but the night before that I spent. Honestly, probably the second most worried I've ever been about a person. Which, not for good reason. He was fine. But James was sick. We put James to bed Sunday night. We always turn the monitor on, right? We have a video monitor so we can watch him.
And he always just sort of sleeps. Sometimes he gets up and gets a drink or whatever. He's very independent now. I know I moaned a lot about how he had trouble sleeping when he was younger. He's great now at sleeping. He sleeps on his own. He'll wake up and he'll soothe himself and get back to sleep. It's awesome. With the monitor on, it was like a normal Sunday. And we were kind of like, whew.
like got through the weekend had some fun times now we got to get ready monday tuesday we got a pack because we're going on this big trip lots to do uh we were putting it off over the weekend and like half an hour after james went down i heard like a weird noise which happens but usually if i hear something i'm not 100 sure what it is like it's you know sounds he makes every night when he sleeps i look and i pulled up the monitor and looked it was like oh that's a weird it's like really shadowy
Oh, that looks funny. And then he sort of just looks up and goes, ah, and I was like, oh, fuck. Oh, my God. He had thrown up. But we get up there and James watches this in the future. I mean, this in the nicest way possible. God, the smell. Man, you just never get used to it. I always was like, man, how do parents deal with that? And for me, at least, the truth is you don't get used to it.
Poops always smell bad. Throw up always smells bad. It really gets me. But you don't have a choice. He threw up in his bed and he had it on himself and on his jammies. And so I had to grab him and touch the throw up and get him to the bathroom. It was rough.
but was like okay that's weird this is out of nowhere he wasn't sick today he was totally happy and we put him in the bath and got him cleaned up and after a while of like oh god okay let's like air it out let's change the sheets he's in the bath and everything's great he seems happy he seems chill i stand him up get him out of the bath start drying him off and he's standing there in the bathroom with his towel around him and he just looks up at me and goes like oh
into the towel into my hands onto the floor he proceeded to throw up about every 15 minutes for the next four hours of the evening which is a long time for that pattern to go on the first the first couple obviously we had just had dinner and then had the ice cream as a little treat and then gone to bed eventually he was empty but for several hours he was totally empty there was no food left
And still, he would, like, I was holding him in the chair, sitting with him, and he would, like, lay down and just be like, oh, because he's fucking exhausted because it's horrific to throw up constantly. And he's, like, passing out, just like, oh, and I'm sitting there watching. I'm making sure he's still breathing. Everything's good.
And every 15 minutes, he just sits up and goes, nothing comes out, like, just like bile. Like, nothing is coming out. Misery. And every time he throws up, it's like, oh, I'm just holding him. So that whole night, I held him until he stopped throwing up, which was a little more than four hours, maybe. And actually, Manny swapped out for the second half. That's not fair. But we were crazy.
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Chapter 8: How do the hosts find motivation amidst their struggles?
But Jesus Christ, laying up all night, staring at him, wondering if he was okay, trying to figure out what the fuck to do in the middle of the night. I have not felt that kind of worry since James was born and Mandy's C-section and everything that happened in the hospital was more stressful for me than her, thankfully, but like...
it's awful and like this is not the point but the whole time i kept my mind kept going back to like okay but imagine this but like you have a child who has like a terminal illness or a child who has like a chronic illness or something i don't know what people do not the point and not my experience but thanks to tick tock i see a lot of videos about kids who you know have different disorders diseases whatever
I can't imagine. It was one night for me and I felt like I was going to pass out from stress and he's fine. And I shouldn't have been so worried because it was a long time of throwing up, but he was fine.
But like, God damn that now, now when TikTok shows me those videos, even more than before, I'm immediately just like, okay, I have to scroll or close TikTok or whatever, because I don't know what people do.
I don't know that kind of, I don't know if it's a particular button for me that I don't handle very well, or if that's just how it feels for everyone, but it's an actual nightmare to just be laying. And it doesn't have to be a kid either. I'm sure if you have a parent or sibling or anyone, you know, who's ill, who you care that much about, I cannot fucking imagine. And it's exhausting.
And the punchline of my story is he's totally fine. He possibly had a stomach virus or maybe he's like lactose intolerant because he's never really liked milk or ice cream and he ate more ice cream than he ever has before, which was like a small scoop of ice cream on Sunday.
So we put him to bed last night, and it felt like we finally got him to bed after Sunday night, because all day we were watching him, and it was whatever. Put him to bed last night, and it was like, okay, well, there's 24 hours gone. In 24 hours from now, we'll be on a plane to England. Better start packing and stuff, I guess.
That's intense, man. Good news is you got two points for that story.
Was it worth it? Do it again. How much sadder does it need to be to get another point out of it? Well, okay. Did I emphasize how much he was crying about how upset he was?
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