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Chapter 1: What do the hosts reflect on as the year ends?
I don't know if those count as regrets, but they're certainly like dings on the fun that this year had. I mean, it sounds like you regret not turning the water off. That's for sure. I regret not flipping that little handle right away, too. It's really easy. Once the water's off, those filters could not be easier to change out. Yeah. It's like putting a cap on a water bottle. It's so simple.
When there's water not pouring out, it's crazy how easy it is to screw that in. It's totally understandable for me to do this because I've been doing a lot of water cooling and I have made some really stupid boneheaded decisions about the wrong thing to unscrew at the wrong time. The difference is I'm surrounded by very sensitive electronics.
Even a drop gets in one of those power supplies, it's gonna explode. Maybe. I had something that was not my fault that I didn't realize was an issue because I had one. It was a pre-built like mount for a CPU. So you put it on there. It's cooler with like pre-piped, you know, tubing to go through so you can just plug it in something. But it had an adapter at the end that I didn't have.
So I was just going to cut it off and replace it because I'm like, I was cutting all this tubing anyway. I'm like, it looks like high quality tubing, but it still cuts. I didn't realize this thing was pre-filled. Ha! Which to me makes no sense at all. So all of a sudden I cut it. Goosh. I don't know why it was pressurized, but it was pressurized.
This stream of viscous green goo that I've never seen in my life. Like cartoon radioactive material goes pshh. And it's getting everywhere, but thankfully it's going against the wall and not into the server. If I'd have been pointed that way, right into the server. Thankfully, right against the wall. So it was, like, pressurized, though, huh? They must, like, vacuum prime those.
Like, pull a vacuum and then just, like, open a valve and it's all... And sucks it in and... Probably, yeah. Because it was sealed with, like, quick-release couplings at the end. And I was like, that's cool, but I didn't have the connectors for it. But I have connectors for other ones.
As it's getting all over the wall and it looks like, you know, an alien just like got shot and the green acidic blood just went against the wall and all over my hand as well. I remember seeing a warning on the box that said, warning contains perchlorate materials. It's hazardous waste. And I'm like, what in this could possibly be hazardous waste? Oh, I bet it's that green stuff.
on the wall and on my head. Spitting it out.
I had already taste tested it at that point. So I was like, I wonder what this is.
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Chapter 2: How did the hosts celebrate the holidays?
and then come up with a powder-to-powder ratio, and you could just make, like, eaten powder. Maybe. Would it counter spice, like a ghost pepper with two dots of brazine? It would counter it right out, I'm sure. And I actually, one of the first things I said to Amy was that, like, what if instead of the cinnamon challenge, I did the brazine challenge?
I tried to eat a whole spoonful of this without any water. Oh, man. Oh, no. No. You mean that stuff that shows up with a don't ingest warning? I think it's a great idea. That was not applicable to this. I don't think that that was related. I'm not 100% sure. Keep that sheet around just in case you end up going to the hospital though. You read the warnings on this, right? Yes. I knew it was wrong.
While my family was in town, she wanted me to invite friends for dinner. And so I, of course, being the guy that I am, said, you want to try some brazine to everyone at the table? And they were like, yeah, yeah, we do. So I... I put powder on a plate and I use a knife to divvy it up into little sections.
And my cousin comes over, Yeojin comes over, and she's just looking at the plate like... She doesn't speak English perfectly, so it's just like she doesn't know how to ask if we're doing drugs or not. And I don't know how to say what we're doing, so I didn't even bother. Anyway, so everyone tries it and it ruins the meal for everyone because it was right before dinner.
It didn't ruin it entirely, but everything after that tasted sweet. Every single thing we ate, especially the soup. So when I... The rest of the food got okay after a few minutes, but then the soup stayed sweet for me the entire time.
Every time I went to... It must have, like, the powder was hiding in your mouth and the soup was, like, dissolving it and finding it in all the little... In your gums and whatever. When they say a thousand times sweeter than sugar, they just mean, like... You only need one one thousandth of this to match the effect of sugar.
And they are not lying.
I don't have a measuring cup like that. We were talking about that in the context of it's sweet, but it's protein based, right? Yes. Yeah. So it's not actually a good source of protein. It's just interesting that it's not. It has no glycemic response. Yes, exactly. Where's my one four thousandth cup of sugar? Yeah. All right. These cookies cook recipe calls for one cup of sugar.
So let's run that conversion. I don't even know if you could. What's one? What's one one thousandth of a cup? A micro teaspoon. I think the imperial system fails us at scales like this. Damn it. We should have used kilograms. That's the word. Alga kilograms. Yes. Is that what they use over in London? Yeah. Where the Weebly fruit is imported from Africa.
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Chapter 3: What funny stories do the hosts share about their kids?
I think so because you reach the end of the road and you're like, oh man, I feel like it wasn't as satisfying as it should have been, especially if it was like something you thought about in the long run. You know what you could be, though, Bob and Mark, you as well. I told Bob this earlier. I got an email from a guy works in the fossil industry.
Why hook us up with some really expensive fossils we could buy? I was never in on fossils. That was a you and Mark thing, just to be clear. I think when you reach this age, we have a few paths ahead of us that are slowly diminishing. And if car guy isn't your thing, then you've got gun guy and way too political guy. Those are the only two other options? Those could be the same thing, actually.
Those most likely are the same thing. Woodworking guy. Woodworking? You could do woodworking. Can I be golf guy? No. Oh. You can, but like golf is what you do when you're not doing one of the other things. Wait, we've talked about this. I think I might be a woodworking guy. I have dreams. I'm that guy. Like I have no woodworking skill and a random smattering of tools for things.
I have projects I've done one time ever, but I'll look at videos online where someone is like, I built this custom fit cabinet. It fits perfectly in this spot. It's trimmed in. And I look and I'm like, Yeah, I could definitely do that. Get some two by fours. You build the base. Get some nice plywood. You know, some finished plywood. Use a little iron on veneer on the edges there. Get some nice.
I could do that. Never done it in my entire life. The tooliest tool I own is the cheapest circular saw. I could buy it at Lowe's one time when I needed to build a step in the garage out of like two by fours and two by sixes. But I absolutely could be a woodworking guy. Maybe that's my new era this year. What if I did that? Do you guys want some woodworking stuff?
I would love for you to become a woodworking guy. Jason is big woodworking guy. Not my brother. Pam's Jason. He's huge into woodworking. He just builds stuff all the time. And he has the tools for it. And he understands the tools. And it's like it combines a lot of different little hobbies. And it's like, oh, man, that's really cool. Like, he's gonna get a CNC, a wood CNC soon.
I got him, like, a low-powered laser, like a laser cutter. It doesn't take any gas, like, it's a pure, just, like, electric laser, which, you know, has limitations in the amount of power that it can put out. But he can definitely etch into things, burn, like, designs into wood, and cut through some things. And it's like, he really does make a lot of stuff, and it's really cool.
I just go to Ryobi days, and I look around, and I'm like, oh! I'll buy this tool and then I never use it because I don't have anything to use it for. That's kind of where I'm at right now. This is this is turning me on to. I don't know if this is a thing I will do. This is not a defined personality. You've said I could have.
There is a YouTube channel called Strange Parts, who is a guy who lived in China and shopped at the marketplaces for like secondhand iPhone parts and stuff. And he's done a lot of videos about customizing iPhones and things. Recently, he released a video. I think it's his most recent video. Still, he made his own iPhone.
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Chapter 4: What mishaps have the hosts experienced with household items?
Chapter 5: What regrets do the hosts have for the past year?
I honestly do, but I don't think the Internet is capable of that quite yet. That's crazy that you only need one grain per day and you have a whole bag of it. Yeah, well, you have like a lifetime supply of that shit now. I was wondering why a kilogram costs $270. It makes a lot of sense now. Wait, so that's a kilogram. Oh, I don't know how dense it is. How many milliliters in a kilogram? Oh, man.
It's one liter of water is one kilogram. You have 2,365 cups of sugar in that bag? Is that accurate? Wait a second. I just did math in my head. It's probably wrong, but... No, I think you might be right. I think I have a theoretical equivalent of 2,300... A couple thousand cups of sugar. Hey, for 200 bucks, that's a deal. That's not bad.
I'll be pissed if my neighbor comes over and asks for a cup of... I have a cup of brazine. What are you making? That's my entire warehouse of sugar. World's largest pancakes. I think some people listening to this podcast may hear me talk about some random bullshit and assume that I'm just talking about it in a very theoretical sense. I've gotten everything that I've talked about.
I have obtained every single thing that I have mentioned that I am obsessed with. I have a bucket full of glabrasol. I have a lot of it. It's sitting in a tub outside. I can't wait to see that that cooling system. I'm ready for it. I have a theory to make it work that would simplify a lot of things. I realize more cowbell. God, no, please.
No, but I have a theory of how it could work, but I won't get into it because I've been yapping way too much for this episode. And you guys, I need to hear your regrets. Well, Wade was talking. I was trying to think about regrets. I think we talked about New Year's resolutions at the end of last year. And I basically said, I don't do that because I am low.
The obvious one for me is I don't think I've worked out maybe five times this year. Probably not enough to see results. What about getting your fridge from a major corporation? I did have to buy a fridge again this year. That was a pretty big failure. I was trying not to do apply. You did like house and appliance based failures. I was trying to do other stuff. We're adults here.
We're allowed to have adult regrets. All right. This is this is real. And people people have been talking about this since I mentioned it in passing. My car, my Subaru. I feel a little bit like a failure for that. I am selling it. It will be gone soon. It was a good car and it was like a dream car. And I did all the stuff to it that I wanted to do.
I think I'm not as much of a car guy as I thought I was. I think that's a thing because it wasn't really like a hyper fixation. I always like cars and I still like cars. I still just like go on cars and bids and websites like that and look and be like, oh, there's a there's a 1992 Fox body Mustang. Oh, it's a roller chassis. Bring your own engine and transmission. I don't know if I can do that.
It's hard. It's such a hard hobby. I'm so used to hobbies being more like computers where it's like a huge pain in the ass and you have to learn some stuff to do car shit. You need like, you know, like a big space.
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