Chapter 1: What memorable tech issues are highlighted in this compilation?
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Worst tech issues. Mark is either gone or sitting very still. Hello? He's thinking. Hello? Hello? Let's try a simple one. Mark, how many fingers? Hello? Oh, wait. I know how to fix this. Mark, how many fingers? Hello? I texted you. Hello? You know what, Bob? I'm going to give you a good internet point. Thanks. That seems fair.
hello they tried to take me out it didn't work the world government oh sweet fucking jesus no no not again hello all right sorry everyone we had to break in the middle of our context there mark's tub got us all very wet so we had to take a moment to dry off but uh uh where we were chatting just a moment ago which is right where we're picking up for you guys but a few minutes later for us
Oh, there they are. Red and... What happened? Hello? Why did... Can you hear me?
Suddenly my... A light went out and this... My headphones went out.
That's not good. Unplug it and plug it back in. Unplug it and plug it back in.
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Chapter 2: How do unexpected tech failures impact live discussions?
All right. Head empty, foam wet, not on walls. It's not my fault. My laptop is dying. Will, this might need to be an edit out, depending on what's said here. I had it plugged in over here for a while. Oh, no. I think maybe it got put in the cabinet at some point. I really wish you'd start talking shit about us. I'm not saying that you touched it. I know.
The painting people moved all the shit around. Painting person. I feel like we shouldn't listen to that. I know. So, uh, what's up? Small talk? You got anything interesting in mind? Oh, laptop charger. Where did I leave you? Oh, it's in my backpack, which is upstairs next to my computer. Okay. Fuck. I can't un-listen. Oh, I'm wearing a microphone. I wonder if they can still hear me.
Did you guys hear me that whole time? We kept going like, oh no, we shouldn't listen to this. I found my charger, guys. It was right here five feet away from me. Wow. Can you believe it? Oh man, that's crazy. We were trying not to listen, but we couldn't help it. Why would you try not to listen? We were trying to talk over you. I'm the one who went to the bathroom wearing my love.
That's the rule. Hello? Mark, are you taking the longest drink of coffee in history or are you frozen? Hello? Remember that noise Mark was talking about his computer started making? I think.
might have just gone horribly wrong hello hi oh okay all right yeah that that was super weird my ethernet adapter just failed i've never had that problem ever and it just started working again or did you have to like go into the device manager or something i switched to wi-fi if i go into my device manager my ethernet is now appearing and disappearing and the whole adapter is like
on and off and what's weird is that's a motherboard integrated ethernet adapter yeah that's not great i don't like that that happened then i heard that weird fan whirring that might not be a fan that might be the power supply yeah you might be in trouble this episode let's look at it this way you know if i were to list the Why did that happen?
Are you about to get consumed by a creature of the darkness?
Are you all right?
For those who are... Oh, my God.
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Chapter 3: What troubleshooting steps are discussed during tech malfunctions?
And I'm like, where, where am I? Why? I didn't do it. You okay, buddy? Mr. Stark, I don't feel so good. Too much abuse of the bomb switch. The camera's getting ornery. Hey, I ordered a new mattress. Ding dong. Oh, wow.
so dumb oh so we have an idiot a sleep deprived guy and a sick guy doing a podcast episode today and this is what you get wait you left yourself as the idiot yeah i don't have any other excuses right now i was telling you i was i was doing a firmware update on this thing oh what's the lens like on that we should see the lens uh it's the same as uh a bomb
It's like when you give toddlers technology and they make their first video and it's like really shitty and they look at it embarrassed 20 years later like, what was I thinking? We don't have to be these people, guys. We can change our lives for the better right now. Doesn't that blow your mind that you could just decide right now to become a different person?
I'm gonna stand up. I'm becoming a different person as you speak.
I'm gonna stand up. Have fun with that, fucking losers. I'm standing. Mark, your height didn't change that much. It did, though! I'm on camera! That's so rude of you! I'm literally out of the frame! I'm so tall! Plot twist, you have a little stepping stool by your chair. I know this is gonna rip cables out from everywhere, but here I go.
Mark freezes and disappears again. Mark, no! Oh, everyone's frozen!
Why did that happen? What could have possibly pulled? What did that? You must have lost wireless fidelity for a moment.
Fuck!
No! Oh, he froze. Why is that happening? Oh, you're stretching those cables. Mark, I think you're still out of frame. You're going to have to keep moving it. I got to keep going. It's got so far up to travel. Here we go.
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Chapter 4: How does humor play a role in addressing tech problems?
Yeah. Every time Mark goes out of focus or his light turns off and on again, that's just the AI loosing object permanence for a second and having to remember what the hell was going on. What's going on? Oh, you're out of focus. That's weird. Yeah. That's so strange. Segway. You always have something weird going on every time. I don't know why that's been happening.
I did a firmware update for this lens, which is a weird thing to say, but it still is a little funky. Oh, we almost had a whole episode without Mark saying the word lens. Points to Mark for saying lens. Unprompted. Oh, God, what have I done? Oh, sweet Jesus. No memory card. Mark, there's no memory card in slot one. You madman. It's fine. It's fine. It's fine. It's fine.
I've never ever crossed this threshold- God, this freaking light. I don't know. I don't know what to do. For the listeners, Mark's light just turned itself off for like the dozenth time today.
I don't know why- and here it is again. It just turns on and off.
I don't get it. I can't- I'm not even like connected to it in the app. I've unplugged it, turned it back on, reset it. It still just like turns off every once in a while, and then turns back on. TGP, thing-o-ping. I like that. I'm frozen! HELP!
Your thumbnail just updated so now it's the frozen image on the side panel.
You're so good at holding a pose. Hello. There he is.
Hey man, welcome back.
Uh, it froze so thoroughly I couldn't even hit the reboot button. I had to shut the whole thing down. Your computer heard you might be upgrading it for Belling. Well, better get in line because I got the other computer I just built right next to it ready to go. Don't let them too close to each other, they'll shit talk you. Oh. Are you okay, Mark?
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Chapter 5: What personal anecdotes are shared about tech mishaps?
If you're watching on Spotify podcasts, if you're watching the video only available on Spotify, you could see the horrible situation that Mark is in. Yeah, it's suffering. Look at the illumination levels, Mark! It's not, yeah, I don't have quite the same amount of
edge lighting, but if it goes this way, then it's going to just, it's going to glare the screen and right there.
And literally my camera lens is like shadowed right there. Oh, that fixed it. Oh, perfect. I just moved my monitors. That's what it was. My monitor got moved too. Anyway, it's all good guys. All of Mark's problems are solved. That's all you've got going on over there, right? It was such an easy fix. I'm professional. You should laugh at that. That's that.
I think you told it well enough to earn some money. I think Mark is slowly being engulfed by hell the more we go into this. Yeah, Mark, are you second circle? Third circle? How far down? What the hell's happening to you? People are just listening at home. I am slowly sinking into a pit of lava and I am really embracing the pain and taking it like a champ.
You just want to see if your body can take it? Yes, exactly. And surprisingly, it can. It can.
Didn't you look normal like two minutes ago?
Yeah, no, my main light, they're just these little battery-powered lights right now, because that's all I could bring with me.
One of them just went out, because I don't have enough plugs for anything. My camera was running out of power before this, so I had this as my accent little, like, flavor light.
Now it's my main light. Is it only red? It's not, like, adjustable? No, I could turn it to another color, but it... Oh, no, well, leave it, though. Yeah, exactly. Okay, I see. I'm with you. It's freaking Wade out. Wade looks like he's going to have a panic attack.
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Chapter 6: How do guests react to ongoing technical difficulties?
I also keep all of my best stuff in boxes. That didn't help at all. I thought that if there was a bright behind me, it wouldn't be like, oh, that, that background's bright enough. You really just look like you're green screened in at this point. Look, I could be in Mark's office too! Editors, explode Mark's background! Wait till I do this. I'll give you something to explode on. No. There we go.
There we go. There we go. Guys, my capture card is broken.
Dune! What? Dune? You're in Dune! I'm in Dune. Doesn't that look like the palace in... Wait! Hit the screech!
I'll queue up the point! Ahhhh! It started actually on almost the correct note. That actually was really close. Yeah, but then he didn't understand what you were trying to get him to do. Yeah, I don't know what the hell you're referencing. What's wrong with that one part of Dune? Wait.
What?
This is a really inconvenient cutout that definitely won't be exploited. I'm sure no one will ever do anything wrong with this. Random unrelated question. How wide can you open your mouth? Oh, really wide. No. Wow. I hate this. Everything. I hate everything. How about this? Oh, look at that. Is this the whole, is this, is this small talk? Is this your small talk? No, I got other small talk.
Let's do small talk. Let's move on to small talk. Wade, go ahead. My understanding is that's actually true. That if you got a butthole print, every person would have a unique butthole print. Did Bark disconnect or? I thought he was just that disgusted with you. Maybe he did disconnect again. Hello! I really thought he was just that, like, not having it with what you said. Oh, here's the text.
Here you go. What were you talking about that made me think of anus chocolate? Something about... I was gonna bring up that we have... Oh, okay. Hey, man. Hey, how's it going?
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Chapter 7: What insights are provided about the reliability of tech equipment?
What in the fuck did I walk into? Have your anus and eat it too? Oh, so fucking close. Best looking. I didn't shower like I showered yesterday morning. So it's been like more than a day since I've showered. Are you trying to talk yourself out of the point or into it? I'm just being honest. Like, I don't know how I look to you guys. I feel pretty grimy. I'm not feeling like I look that great.
I showered just yesterday. I'm on vacation. I'm so rested and relaxed. I'm glowing practically. If that's how you two want to determine it, I guess I can go that route. I was going to say I was going to give it to Bob because Bob's camera quality is just so much better today. I am. I'm more well lit. My camera is definitely doing a lot of work here. Hold on. Let me turn on studio light. Yeah.
My God, your shoulder is so sharp. Center stage.
No, come on. Come on, do it. Come on. Come on. Come on, do it.
Come on. Come on.
Oh, there you go.
Yeah, for some reason when I turn it on in center stage, it kind of follows me. And then when I turn it off, it just zooms in. But why would it zoom in? That's really confusing, yeah. Apparently it can now, it was not like designed to do this, but it just started doing a thing where you can have it generate something and then take like a frame. Oh, for fuck's sake.
Listen to AI camera. Zoom out! Zoom out, you fuck!
You can take a frame, which I'm gonna indicate like this. You can take a frame of video. Alright, well, um, our final score is 20 to 17 after the wheel spins. Uh, Mark, would you like to give us a winner's speech?
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Chapter 8: What lessons can be learned from these tech blunders?
Okay.
Uh-oh. Is Bob gone? Oh, Bob! Come back! What a frame, though, to leave on. That's a great frame. That's a great frame. Hello? Hey, Bob! There he is! Oh, okay. There we go. Hey, man. Welcome back. Wasn't like Mark, where my eyes were in different directions, and I was all... Hello?
The reason I turned my light on is because I feel guilty about it, but possibly for the first time ever, this is...
Maybe I should turn that setting off on my camera. No, it's a great setting, man. What were you trying to show us? You gotta learn to do the political gestures. Yeah, like, oh yeah, like flight attendants. Or two fingers for like the, you know, the Disney people. That would probably still do it. I don't even know. And V's and B's are pretty close.
Didn't you also say before this recording to remind you to talk about something? Cowbell. That was it. Cowbell. So I still, much to my chagrin, and I've talked about it endlessly, drive my Tesla that I've had for eight years, the giant piece of shit. And that's not just me like hating for hating. No, it's been bad. It's been really bad. I drove it off the lot as a piece of shit.
It's been a piece of shit through every year of its warranty in which it's been in service every single year for many times the same problem, and they've done full replacements on the suspension three times, and now it is officially out of warranty. So if it happens again, I'm screwed. Anyway, in Tesla, there's a cowbell mode that... What? Is activated by pressing the cruise control four times.
And the thing is, if I press it twice and it doesn't activate, I'm gonna press it, because to activate it, you press it twice, right? I go to click click and it doesn't go, so I go click click again. And then I activated cowbell mode. So for the rest of the fucking drive to Tyler's house... Wait. So is it, is it actually the song?
Is there something weird about pressing cruise control multiple times and don't fear the reaper coming on? It is exactly, it was exactly that.
It was don't, all the time. What the fuck?
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