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Good evening, gentle listeners or watchers, and welcome to Distractible, this episode. Morbid Mark discusses the profit and loss of parrots, then unleashes oddities on his hombres. Bulldozing Bob goes top-down, bloviates about blowing, channels Kris Kringle, and shows interest in penises.

Rangan Wade contradicts his comrades, reports on Portland P, and goes full Tepej. From pizza to saggy truck nuts. It's time for even more Broken News. Now sit back and prepare to be distracted and enjoy the show.

Hello and welcome back to Distractible. My name is Markiplier. I am your host this week because I won last week. But one of these two gentlemen that I'm with is going to be the winner this episode and they will be the host next week. So if you don't like this episode, I'm hurt but only a little bit. And then next week or later in this week, you'll have another episode that will be better than this one. And you won't have to hurt my feelings anymore.

Way better. Seems likely, yeah. One of them is going to have a terrible episode next week. One of them is going to have a great episode. So it's up to them and me to pick who it's going to be. I almost accidentally said the word already.

And I don't know what that would have meant. Oh, there's no pen attached to this. Oh, no. Time to write with some ketchup. Mr. I'm ready over here isn't actually ready. No, I'm ready. Hold on. Wake up. Wake up. Wake up. I'm a deductive point for myself for not being ready. Good boy.

Yeah, I'm deducting a point for that. I'm sorry. Good boy. There's another one gone. Okay. Bad boy. Oh, you got one back for that. Oh, you bad boy.

All right. Points for boy is out. Bad girl. Good man. All right. All right. This is a terrible start. I told you everybody this is going to be your least favorite episode. I want to hear about these two gentlemen's life. I can start this time because I...

Bob, you hosted an episode not too long ago where we talked about Cincinnati. And you and Mark were agreed on the front of LaRose's Pizza Bad. That made me want LaRose's Pizza again. And I ordered some. I got a large bacon pepperoni pizza.

And it was so good. Like one of the best pizzas of all time. I enjoyed every bite. I wanted more. I couldn't get enough of it. And all I can think to myself is how wrong your two's opinion of this was. This must be how you guys feel about me with tacos. Every bite, every smell, every swallow, every bit of that pizza was just so good in my mouth hole and throat cavity. I enjoyed it so much. And I want more right now. I've been craving it again ever since. La Rose's is great.

underappreciated under the radar if you're in cincinnati try la roses don't listen to these two it's not underappreciated it's a huge fucking chain restaurant there's like a thousand of them but everyone seems to like i was talking to our friend jesse and jesse was also like yeah i'm not big on it it's like how do all of my friends not like the best pizza in cincinnati or at least one of the top three those are very different claims

Just sort of throw that out there. I don't know which one's my favorite. I'm not as picky on pizza. I like a lot of pizza. So to say which one's my favorite kind of depends on which one I'm craving because I crave different ones at different times. But right now, La Rosa's number one crave. I deducted a point. I feel sad for you. I knew you two would appreciate it, but the audience deserve to know the truth. Audience, if you come to Cincinnati, definitely get La Rosa's so that you can understand how

How wrong Wade is. The thing is, it's fine. Yes, exactly. It's not like we're saying it's awful pizza. It's just unremarkable. It's better than that. They put the pepperoni under the cheese. It's so unique. It's not meaningfully better than any of the other chain pizza restaurants. And it's definitely not a thing that deserves to represent Cincinnati in a meaningful way. My pizza experience is perfect.

probably been shifted because I started to appreciate like brick oven pizza. Whereas like when I was growing up, I never would have actually enjoyed that. The thin crust, you know, kind of style, just a margarita pizza. I wouldn't have gravitated towards, but now that I had, well, the one place that I really like shut down where I was living before. And then I was never able to find it ever again. Not that I've looked, but you know, every once in a while you get a good restaurant that does real brick oven pizza. And it's just something about that, that char, cause I'm always a char kind of guy.

LaRosa's is thin crust. I wouldn't call it brick oven pizza. It is thin crust by default. But it's floppy. And you cut it into squares. It's so good. I do like a square cut pizza and LaRosa's is by far my least favorite square cut pizza I've ever had. What's my small tongue?

Alright, well done. You lost a point for it. Bob. Bad me. For those who weren't watching, the way Wade just patted his head really added to that. I'm giving you a point back for that. Thanks, man. Speaking of Cincinnati and places, guys, it's happening. The

The first day where it was nice enough outside that I drove around with all the windows down and the sunroof open when I had to go out to go do some errands or something has finally happened. It's been pretty gross most of the other days since then, but goddamn is there nothing quite like driving around with the windows all down with some music playing so you could just hear it above the wind noise and the sunroof and it's blowing and it's...

So you would say that there was good weather. There was one good weather. One. And also...

Sunday night, we were in the basement because there was a tornado warning. You texted me. I was texting Jesse. Like, we had like this we're getting older friend moment where we're all like, this wind is crazy. Are you okay? How are you? Are you in the basement? Did you see what's coming? It's like, dude, it's living in L.A. Anytime there's a tiny earthquake, it's raced to social media to see who posted first.

right? Cause you'll just see earthquake, earthquake, earthquake. Was there an earthquake? I think it was an earthquake. We apparently have two more of those storms coming through. I don't know if you saw Bob this entire week after today, first alert, weather warnings, severe thunderstorms, winds, rain, lightning, flood, all coming. We were not in the dead center, but this was the first time since I was a kid where the, the storm track was up.

and they were they were like drawing the line and the boxes and all the stuff and i was like oh yeah we're right in that oh interesting and the guy was like look here look at this swirl this you see this this is tornado activity and that was like there was a line drawn from the tornado over our house and i was like oh that's not that's not that's unsettling we

We had a weird moment. We were not like in a tornado watch. We had a weird moment where we were just all of a sudden in a tornado warning, which means that there is one. And it was just like tornado warning. And like, we're like, the sirens aren't going off. It's not even that windy yet. Like weirdly calm right now. Well, it was, I feel like it was just really windy a minute ago. Nothing. I'll go outside. Well, we were just, we were like, did we get all the animals into the base? Because normally, you know, the loud sirens go off when it's your turn to go down. But we were like being told we're like the,

the wind is crazy. The rain is crazy tornado. And we like, that says it's us. But right now that's not, it was like 10 minutes later, it started to get crazy. But like, it was just really weird that it was like, are we in it? Did the tornado pick us up? Is this like our, we're in Kansas moment? This, this storm on Sunday was one of those very, like, it was a hard wall of storm. Cause we had the same thing. It was like, I forget. It was like maybe like seven o'clock.

and my phone was like, ooh, thunder, tornado watch, and blah, and I looked outside, and it was kind of sunny, like sunset, but like dusk. I was like, really? In 20 minutes, there might be a tornado here? It was a little later than they thought, but it was like half an hour later. It was just absolute chaos. Also, can I just throw out, I can't be the only one. Do you guys get that instinct? We were in the basement, and

And the sirens went off and we got the warning and we were like, okay, let's go in the basement. Tornado warning. And we were watching... James was watching something. It was after bedtime, so he was real sleepy. So we were just trying to keep him happy. And I had my phone and I was watching the weather. And part of me was like...

we should just go upstairs and take a peek it's probably it sounds fine it doesn't sound like there's a tornado maybe i should just go upstairs and just take a peek like i that instinct is so hard to fight every part of me was like you're not gonna die if you just go just go take a peek i've never seen a tornado i want to see one i've seen funnel clouds yeah i want to step outside and see if i can see one yeah well if i go if it looks like a tornado when i go you go back downstairs

Yeah, you'll be like, whoa! And then you leave. What are the odds you're going to open the door and it's going to rip the door off its hinges and you're going to be sucked out? Listen, it's not like an airplane, okay? So... This might be less problem... Well, it's probably not less problematic here. I don't know, trees, tree branches, that kind of stuff can do it. There was a...

news segment yesterday we got to see we were at the car dealership for six hours so we got to see this on repeat because they repeated the same four stories just on repeat for six hours it was awful you mean the news yeah yeah

I thought it was Molly just likes watching Weather Channel reruns. She records it, just plays it over again, makes sure there's no missing details. I love this one! There was a house out in, like, the rural... Some rural part of Ohio, I don't know where it was. But they had, like, the tornado go through their property. It didn't hit their house. But, like, they walked up to a tree, and they have, like, a metal roof on their barn that got ripped off. And they walk up to a tree, and there's just this big, straight piece of metal that went...

into the tree and she like tried to yank it out the thing did not budge at all and so whenever i was thinking about like i could just go outside and take a look i saw that and i was like i am never going to go outside and take a look if this piece of metal can go through a tree like a big solid tree like that just from this wind what would that do to me probably nothing good you have to think about it though if it's going through a tree what's a what's a window gonna do like that's gonna keep you safe might as well just go have a peek

I didn't. I ultimately did not. Mainly because we have security cameras on the outside of the house. So I'll totally admit I was like, I had the weather up on like my phone and then I had my iPad and I was like, this camera?

Ooh, it's windy. This camera? Ooh, it's windy there too. Ooh, like the whole time I was like, maybe I'll see it on the cameras. It was some of the most vivid lightning I've ever seen. Like the lightning strikes. There was like horizontal lightning. I've never seen lightning just go completely. Like I didn't see any of it going like this at one point, but there was just completely horizontal lightning. No, yeah, it was a lot of like cloud to cloud lightning stuff. It was crazy. So there were vertical bolts, but it was all very like,

severe because there was like there was a moment where you'd see the bolt you'd wait you'd wait you'd wait then the thunder would hit and it was like some of the craziest thunder I've ever experienced and finally when the storm got really close and we had the instant bolt the whole fucking house man shook like it has like it was the biggest bolt I've been a part of I've had some hit close to home where like you there

their whole house moves. There was something about this particular storm where I felt like it was the craziest thunder I've experienced. I did have flashbacks. The only other time I've been in a storm that had lightning of that craziness was when we lived in the Bay Area. There was a lightning storm that came through that was... There was no rain.

And it started a couple hundred fires because it was the craziest fucking lightning storm. Literally, it started like early in the morning. So like it woke us up at like six in the morning. And for a second, my brain was like,

We're being bombed? What's happening? Because it was just a storm with lightning, but it was literally just like... For like an hour straight, there was no breaks. It was some crazy fucking lightning. All right, listen, I forgot how old we are. I didn't mean to make us talk about the weather for an hour and a half, but... That's cool. Bob, you actually earned points for your small talk. Good boy.

Naughty, naughty storm. Can we just stop the episode? Can we just cancel it? You said this was going to be everyone's least favorite episode. We're just trying to help you out here. Bob and I are fighting for the callback point. All right, so I have another thing. So...

This is not to plug Prusa anymore, but this is about the Prusa ship. So I said I told everyone before that they've hooked me the fuck up. I didn't know how much because I have the shipping information that it's coming in on. And it's three pallets. Jesus Christ. Five hundred and sixty seven kilograms.

package that they have sent to me, right? So I did not know this. I knew it was going to be a lot. I didn't know it was going to be that much. So that's great and all, except I got an email from the Customs and Border Patrol. That was just because whenever you have a shipment that large from international...

You know, it's, it needs to be verified. Yada, yada. I've done that before, but not to this quantity, but I've done that before. So I submit my paperwork. I do all that yada, yadas. And then they're like, great. It's ready for pickup. Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!

I thought they were going to be concerned. They're like, this guy bought a .22, some greasy bullets, and now he's buying all this international printing? What's he up to? They said, ready for pickup, and also we're going to charge you, starting today, $578.14 per

that it's not picked up. That was Friday. Today is Tuesday. Good thing you got that truck, man. But here's the thing. Here's the thing. I chased this down day of, right? I'm like, oh, fuck!

And I start making calls and I ask Gavin to make some calls. And so we're back and forth with this. And I'm like, this was supposed to be delivered to door. That's what I was assured of. And I was like looking at the manifest. I was like, oh, God, because it didn't have the number for the street. Maybe that was a problem because it wasn't on there. I looked and I'm talking. And then what we find out is that, no, they're supposed to still deliver it. And they're just going to coordinate it.

And they just haven't picked it up yet. And my thought is, why haven't they picked it up yet? Because it's costing them $500 and more. They're not being charged $600 a day. It's you, isn't it? Well, how many other packages have they not picked up? Because they do a lot of the shipping. And so I'm just wondering, like...

Is this just normal for these businesses to run this way? This can't be right. I don't know who, I don't know where it is. It just says it's at LAX, which is very far. Yeah, just go to LAX, find your pallets. Back into some loading bay somewhere. You just drive across the tarmac, you get to the loading bay, and everything's fine. Look, I have a truck now. I can take one pallet, and that's it.

be the worst back and forth day trip of all time. Can you stack three high like it's Farm Simulator and just throw some ratchet straps over? Storage Hunter Simulator! Just throw that shit in there. No, so I'm still waiting for that because apparently it's supposed to be delivered, but I'm just fascinated that they're just eating that cost because that is now added up to more than what the entire shipping cost probably

probably was. They must have like a, maybe it wasn't communicated to you, but FedEx has like an area where it's like, put our shit over here and they get it. It's a lower rate or something. Or there's like, there's no way they're just eating that cost. And then FedEx is just going to pay that.

But no one's delivering it yet. And I've confirmed this multiple times, but I still got any, I'm still getting the emails. The emails are still coming to me that like, this has not been picked up yet. You are now accruing a price. That seems bad. I really hope that no one crossed a wire here and I'm supposed to

pick that up because it's getting really expensive really fast yeah that's a lot of money very quickly you're already five days in yes that's why I wanted to take care of it on Friday I was like oh god we gotta rent a U-Haul truck or something we gotta go where am

gonna get a forklift yeah well i hope the place that has the thing has a forklift but goddamn i'm here with my u-haul i was thinking of getting a forklift but inevitably i didn't because i'm like i don't think i have a use for it now i really wish i did because i would drive my forklift down there and i would go get it i'm just trying to figure out what part of the airport you go to to pick up your international pallets i don't know i know that you can rent box trucks but i just

I haven't had to do that. I've had to rent U-Hauls before, but not this. I mean, U-Hauls can carry pallets. You probably, for three pallets, you'd need kind of a big one, but they have U-Hauls that can carry three pallets, probably, maybe. Can you lift, like, are they heavy? Are they so heavy you couldn't just lift it with a dolly? Like, do you need a forklift to move these things? It's 567 total kilograms, so damn near 200 kilograms apiece. That's pretty heavy.

The three of us combined could do it, but we'd struggle a lot, especially to give it up. One of us would definitely, like, lose a finger trying to get it into the bed of a truck or the back of a, like, a box truck or something. I like my fingers. That's how I pat people and say, good boy. I need all five for that. All right. Anyway, that is the small talk round. I just wanted to say that because it's interesting. I still haven't resolved any of my other issues. I'm sure it'll be fine.

But today, we're going to be going back to old reliable. It's broken news! Alright! Whatever the... I probably should have prepared something for that. Ah!

I may have just accidentally thrown my coin onto... It's not important. I'm going to stop fidgeting with that. That's very heavy. I've been intentionally avoiding the news because it's been super not funny. And I want to read you guys some headlines and talk about these wonderful news stories that are occurring out in the world. So ready. First one. It's a lot of pee, man. Sorry. It's a lot of pee.

Man has no idea who is putting gallons of urine in his recycling bin. Gallons? It's a lot of pee. How does he know it's gallons? Is it in containers? Yeah. Well, if it's in containers, I have to ask again. How does he know it's pee? I'm sure there was some test protocol going on here. I'll show you a picture of what we're looking at.

That is a lot of pee. One of them looks particularly unhealthy, I gotta say. That's the apple juice pee. What is this, Pinola oil? Ah, mmm, yeah, mmm, yeah. Anyway, glad we're starting off with this one. So, Alex Van Dween... I'm so sorry, Alex...

It's spelled D-U-Y-N. I'm starting to figure out why Alex is getting picked on when people pronounce his name like that. Are you trying to pronounce Van Doon? Dude, I'm pretty sure it's Do-ee. Do-een. Do-een. This poor guy's getting piss rained on in his house. I'm just making fun of his name. He's named after the noise Wile E. Coyote makes when he walks off the edge of the cliff. So, Alex Van...

How did you say it? Dun. Dun. Dun. Dun. Dun. Dun. Dun. Said the prom started in September when he noticed his recycling bin had not been collected. So I opened the blue bin and lo and behold, there was a nice deposit of gallon-sized bottles of urine, to put it plainly, and there were six of them. Then, a following week...

There was more urine. What seems to be more than one person could possibly produce in the weeks that followed. I've not ever collected all of the urine that I make over the course of any number of days, so I'm not super sure, but that does seem like a lot.

for one human to make. I'm just struggling with, I don't really care why, why for so long? Like, even if you had a purpose for collecting the urine, weeks, weeks of this? I think it's pretty obvious. Oh, yes. First account from our reporter in the field, Wade, here. So I was interviewing a neighbor by the name of Bill. Bill, do you want to tell us your story? Yeah, hi, man. Just wanted to let you know. Ha ha ha!

Recycling here, it ain't free. We can't all afford recycling. But the water supply, it's been a bit rough. It's hard to get water. So I was talking to some of the other folk, and we decided, well, we make liquid, right? And they could probably recycle it and make something good out of it. So I went around with my bucket. I started collecting urine. We put it in some nice sealed containers, and we put it in Mr. Dween's bucket. And we're like, oh, they'll come collect the bigger bucket.

Because they'll recycle it. I mean, it's liquid. Why can't you recycle liquid if you just have wood and cardboard and plastic and all that? So we're just trying to do some good for the community. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Whatever your name was. Bill. Yes, Mr. Bill. Back to you. Thank you to Wade, Reporter Wade, reporting from Portland. Where water is a problem. Yep. And people talk like that. To close out this.

He has a message for the mystery man. Might not be a man. Nobody knows. Quote, maybe he's watching. I don't know. Please stop. Please just don't do it anymore. It's a lot of pee. I mean, this guy's really pissing me off. End quote. Whoa. He's just going to throw in a joke at the end of this? I think he's in on it. I think they're all pissing together and it wasn't collected so they made it a story. I'm saying this is him saying,

Doing this to get the news people to hear so he can make that joke at the end. It's all elaborate He lost a bet and the bet was can you make the news talking about your urine and he's like bet Well, I hope the Portland water crisis ends soon so they can stop having to use people's urine Yeah, it's truly a tragedy out there If only there was a way to process urine in a way that didn't have to go in buckets Like if only you could flush it somewhere. No way

No, it's impossible. All right, I'm going to show you guys a picture before we get to the next one. Ooh, somebody was drunk. Someone driving the paint truck just bouncing curb to curb as they go paint the lines on the road. Wait, please describe this picture for everyone who's just listening.

Unfortunately, what we're looking at is a really messed up image of the corpse of an old road. You can see the chalk lines where they were drawing where the road had died, and they paved a new road right on top of it, but they redrew the chalk lines to make sure you could see where that old windy road died. What you're actually seeing... Bob, no, Bob's got this. Thanks. Thanks, you waded the field. You're welcome.

What we're looking at is actually the trail of the largest known snail to ever live on Earth. It happened to just be just about as wide as this one paved road was, but it wiggled down the road and it kind of went back and forth a little bit, and it's just like a wiggly little trail. And it's not little, it's huge. It's literally as wide as a two-lane road. But like, from far enough away, it just looks like a little snail trail. Is that a better description?

What we're actually, actually looking at is some of the most brilliant McDonald's marketing of all time. If you see the M's and the yellow lines, they want you to drive down the road and know you're headed toward McDonald's breakfast. What the fuck is this and why is this? It's like the road was too quick to get down. It's like, well, we need to make the road longer. What if we just make them curve around a little bit, make it take longer to get down the road? You got there eventually. Yes, this is a speed...

to try to get people to slow down in their driving. Now, here's the thing. This is in, where is this in? This is Pennsylvania.

And it's meant to zigzag because you can't, obviously, well, you totally can go fast doing this. And here's the thing. Texas roads are insane. Filming some projects in Austin, like, that's not even the worst of it. But one of the things in Austin is that there's a lot of bike lanes that become protected bike lanes, suddenly not protected bike lanes, turning into different lanes. So the road kind of does this.

Anyway, while you're doing that, maybe by design, maybe not. Every time I've driven on those, I say to myself, I can't believe they're making me do these maneuvers at speed. There's nothing in my head that went slow down. It's just, man, I hope this car can handle these turns. And so I'm sure that's what a lot of drivers are doing. It's just that or they just drive straight through the middle of it.

Well, I can't tell if it's better or worse in...

Around my parents' house, there are roads where they've essentially done the same thing, but what they did instead was they put in pinch points where the road just gets really narrow and there's hard curbs on both sides, or there's like a traffic circle, like a tiny little traffic circle where you could literally drive straight over it and you might mistake it for a speed bump. But it's for the same purpose of like, so you have to drive more slowly. But with those...

say it snows six inches or if you don't see the curb if it's like dark out or whatever you just fucking destroy your car if you drive straight into a curb at 30 miles an hour or whatever however fast you might be going i guess this is better because no one is going to get into a terrible car accident if they don't see that the lines are all squiggly and shit but

but also I would just if I was on if I live near this road and I had to drive it regularly I'm just gonna drive straight down the road I'm not fucking doing that just because being in a car even going slow is so miserable when you're like I'm not fucking doing that I'll drive slow I just will drive in a straight line because that sucks

I've got one of the local residents here who apparently has been experiencing other unforeseen issues. Uh, Drake Ulysses La? Uh, do you want to tell us what you've been seeing? Huh? It's actually pronounced "drac." Uh, the neighbors and I, one of the things we haven't noticed is that the paint prices have gone up dramatically since the roads have been painted in such a way. Wait, you said "Pennsylvania," not "Pennsylvania."

Oh, man. She just actually think it was translocated for a while. Back to you. That's my line. My bad. That's Drac. Back to you in the studio. Drake Ulysses. That almost made me vomit. Can't just unleash something like that. You.

You weren't even laughing. You just jumped straight to vomit. Oh, man. Right to vomit. Right straight to vomit. When I said that name, did you guys have any idea what was coming? No, I was so fucking confused. That's the dumbest shit. Whoa, man. Yeah, that might be. That might be. That might be your dumbest. Good vampire.

Oh, man. Next article. There's nothing about this article, really, but I wanted you to hear the title. Florida Senate race. Randolph Bracey slams sister for running against him in Orange County. Like, burpily? Like, they fucked? Or, like... That's it. Okay. Randolph Bracey, huh? Slams sister. For running against him. What's her name? Lacey Bracey?

I don't know. I didn't read the article. I'm just looking at the title. What was his name? Rudolph? Randolph. Randolph. Randolph. There's nothing else about it. It's the slams. Are you focusing on the names or anything else in the title? I've actually got a local citizen here. Sir, what was your name? Uh,

I go by Saint Nicholas. Yeah. Old Rudolph Bracey. I was actually going to have him lead my sleigh tonight, but he told me just before we were about to take off. He's running for Senate, apparently, and he's on the naughty list, so that's not likely. Not likely. His sister, though. I'd slam her.

Alright, anyway, Santa Claus, everybody. Thanks so much for the interview, sir. Yeah, Santa Claus lives in Florida. He retired to Florida. That's where he spends the off-season. Did I do it right? Yeah, you sure did.

Anyway, you just don't you just relax onto that because of the slams. Yeah, I just I've always had a problem with titles of articles where it's always like X SLAMS Y and I'm like It's lost all meaning to me I think it's silly in this context, but I've never taken anyone insulting anyone is like he is slammed them I just feel bad for Lacey Bracey. It's not her name. I don't

I don't know her name because if I click on this link, this is the most ad-infused, horrifying website of nightmarish proportions you could ever have. There's this quote in here. I click it. I was like, this is a sad day for the Bracey name. Don't break their heart. They're Lacey Bracey. Whatever. Anyway, moving on. Don't you dare pick out any people to interview. All right. Next one.

Police chief defecated in office put viagra in office coffee wade He's gonna interview somebody I won't he's trying not to but he's going to sympathize with the police chief Because sometimes when things are hard shit gets real

Great story. I just have to ask, is this the police chief from the same place where wasn't there a female officer who was like making OnlyFans videos by sleeping with all of the other male officers in her precinct and she got in some amount of trouble because you're not supposed to do that. I believe I remember a news story about that, but this must be her police chief. She only got in trouble because

Because they all had their 9mms out with the safeties off.

Hmm.

And spiked coffee with Viagra. See, one of those things was omitted from the title. Not that I'd love to know, but I feel like I need to know the context of how exactly was he in a position to stick a needle into another man's penis? Sometimes you don't want to lead off with the fact that you have a needle dick. Was it through pants or not through pants? Because that's not clear.

I have no idea. I don't even know. Reading this article feels like I'm reading just AI-generated nonsense. I have no idea. Did you say it's Bergen? North Bergen, New Jersey. Why is it the same place as where the bad guys live in the Trolls movies? Ha ha ha.

Is that where it is? I swear to God, the Bergens are the people in the Trolls movies that eat the trolls, and I think they live in Bergentown or something. It is called Bergentown, yeah. New Jersey, what are we doing? I don't even know if this is real. Okay, Attorney Patrick Toscano of Fairfield has requested in a letter to Attorney General Matt Plattkin dated March 26th that the state take over the police department in Hudson County Town, in the Hudson County Town,

Where are we? Fairfield, Hudson County. Saying that the officers now fear for their safety, Toscano sent various notices of tort claims. Tort? T-O-R-T? Tort is a thing. A tort is a civil claim against another person. Like assault. Non-criminal assault is a tort. That's a very common thing. It's not a word you hear if you're not a lawyer, I guess, but that's just what civil claims are called, basically.

Okay, so the accusations and the claims filed on behalf of the various officers range from on-the-job harassment to pranks, quote-unquote, including Chief Robert Farley defecating in offices and on the bathroom floor and leaving it there and chasing one officer around a room and stabbing his penis with a needle and drawing blood.

The claims also accuse Farley of sending a pride flag and masturbation cream to another officer's home, which his family saw, exposing himself at work at random times, dropping drugs believed to be Viagra and Adderall into coffee. A claim also says one officer's fish were believed to have been poisoned with the drugs. He also placed dangerously hot peppers in the officer's food. Is this where the movie Super Troopers is from, or?

So what actually happened here, what actually happened here is it started off as a harmless prank. It was two guys making a bet, one upping each other, kind of like yelling penis to kind of escalate. Unfortunately, at one point, one officer dared another one to watch all of the Saw movie. And for some reason, when he watched them, they really clicked. So he came to the office next day and said, I want to play a game. Everyone's like, okay, what do you want to play? And that okay was all he needed to begin his rampage of terror. Okay.

You know how that needle ended up in that man's penis? Because he was dropped into a vat of needles, pantsless, having to find a key to get the handcuffs off of himself. Yeah, I don't know. This guy was only appointed chief of police at this place in February of 2024. It doesn't sound like he should still be police chief. I think they did a wheel spin to figure out who should be police chief and the people on the wheel weren't even actually police officers based on his actions. Anyway, that's what's happening in New Jersey.

That defines you, New Jersey. How do New Jerseyans sound? What's their stereotypical... Wade, find someone in the field from New Jersey. Excuse me, Mr. What's your name? You simply said forget about it. Can I get a couple words from you? No, forget about it. New Jersey, number one.

You kind of sound like Brooklyn and Barney had a baby. That's us here in New Jersey. Thank you for your time. That's all I could get out of him. I'm sorry. Uh-huh. Great. Thank you. Hey, you asked him to do that. I did, you know. I didn't know what to expect.

I wasn't either. I found the first person I could and that's all I got out of them. The mic broke at his first word. The mic didn't pick up him saying, forget about it. And then it started working. Oh, I'm sorry. This thing might, it's a little bit, a little bit crazy down here. Someone was throwing cups of shit around. One of them hit my mic. I had to get a new one from the local radio shack. Oh, I miss radio shack.

All right, I only got a few more, so we're drying up here. But this one might be, it's about to say relevant. I don't think it's relevant at all, but here we go. Far-right influencers are hosting a $10,000 per person matchmaking weekend to repopulate the earth.

I'm not comfortable making jokes on this one. Like I have. Wait. So this is going to be a bunch of dudes who all pay $10,000 because they think they're going to go find someone who will be willing to have sex with them. But it's just going to be a bunch of dudes who are in fact not willing to have sex with them. Probably. Here's the craziest part of it. I,

And probably that's probably true. The NATO conference, which costs up to $10,000 to attend, features multiple matchmaking strategy sessions and on-site ministers so attendees can get married. Mark, I've been out here in the field.

Trying to find some people to interview. Excuse me, miss. What's your name? Sarah. Sarah, can you tell me what you're doing down there? Yeah, we were told to bury ourselves face down so they can plant the seeds. All right. You heard it here first. The natal conference. Can I remove a point from my sentence? I'll do it for you. Thanks, man. It's sold out. Whoa. According to the website, the sold out natal conference

Taking place March 28th to 29th, so it already happened, at a hotel operated by the University of Texas at Austin. Has, quote, no political or ideological goal other than a world in which our children can have grandchildren. I mean, that just sounds like a lie, but okay.

Even if I ignore my knee-jerk political response to this, how I feel about this and who I think might be attending it, ignore the fact that the headline itself said right-wing influencers, does this just sound like the saddest convention you could imagine? People who are so desperate that they're like, $10,000? Well, that's a bargain. It sounds so sad.

There's no part, like there's a lot of other things I think and feel about this, but the overwhelming one is sad. They have the little stickers on their shirts. Like, hi, I'm DTF. And then the other one's like, hi, I'm dad. But their shirt says, or soon will be. That's the outfit requirement for attending the convention. People like Richard Pritchard are there working 12 hours a day to make sure that babies are being pumped out at a needed rate. Is that a person? No,

No, I just like the name Dick Pritchard. That happened apparently. So I'm, I'm assuming. I can't believe we missed it. You know, like, isn't resources a thing that we're like, man, how are we going to continue to get resources like fossil fuels and food and all this and that? Why do we need more people? You're missing out on, are you telling me you're missing out on the joy of understanding the, the people who believe in like the great replacement theory and people like a fearless leader, Ellen Musk.

Who are huge proponents of making as many babies as physically possible so that we don't run out of people to earn him money. You mean the guy who's all like, good musk. No, I don't think even he has done that. He has people do it for him, like his WoW account.

The same guy actually plays Bath of Exile and pats him on the head and says good musk to him. So I'm expecting in nine months there's going to be a population explosion. Baby boomers 2.0. That's what I'm expecting. There'll be a convention 20 years. So then it's like that where you can see that hotel in Austin. Me too! Brother? Sister? Brother? Brother?

The maids walking into the hotel after the session, they're just like, "Aaah! Aaaaah! Aaaaah!"

This just in, there are a thousand new jobs at a small hotel in Austin after all of the cleaning employees mysteriously left in the same day. It's like the fucking Ghostbusters after the Marshmallow Man explodes. I can't... So the headline was right-wing influencers are going to this or promoting it. If there are influencers going to this, presumably this is known information because they're sharing it to their followers or whatever. Is it better or worse if they go...

and they marry someone they just met on the spot just to start making babies, or they go to a paid marriage sex convention and can't even get someone to be with them at that convention. I feel like it'd be really embarrassing to go and then come home empty-handed, but I have to imagine that's happening.

I have no clue. There's no information from people that actually went in this article as far as I can see. Did they have a hashtag or something we can look at? No one came home empty handed because they all came at the hotel.

I'm not gonna write anything down for that. Compared to lots of other stuff he said today, that was pretty good. I'm using my Gatling gun approach to comedy today where I'm just gonna keep firing and see what lands. Dude, the points column between the two of you is outrageous just in terms of how much I have written in your column, Wade. But I'm gonna tell ya, it's not looking good for you in terms of points.

I'm okay with that. Man, you got hope for the wheel on this one. This is not looking good for you. All right. Anyway, there's only one more left, but I doubt that we have much to say about this one, but I'll read it anyway. Idaho governor signs bill criminalizing public breast exposure and truck nuts. Ooh. When they came for our breasts, I said nothing. And

And when they came for our truck nuts, because I've only had a truck for a little bit now, but I'm assuming I will get that in the mail at some point. They'll send me my truck nuts. Yeah, definitely. What a combo of things. Definitely. The guys who have truck nuts on their trucks are also opposed to trucks.

boobs being out in public because they can't possibly stand to exist near that. That's a weird overlap. I think that's fascinating. I don't know also if this means that you can have your real nuts out. No, maybe that's it. You're supposed to have your real nuts out and your fake boobs out. I have an interview here with one of the local Idaho residents.

No.

uh you heard it here first they've had to keep their eyes peeled to make sure that their little spuds aren't seeing the terrible things going on in idaho back to you in the studio thank you um for those who are just listening they didn't see wade's waddle out i'm a master of impressions i i see where you went with idaho and potatoes

Huh? What a weird coincidence. I'm glad you mentioned that. I would have thought of it otherwise.

Anyway, breastfeeding is exempt, though. Do they have a lot of problems with women flashing their boobs in Idaho? Those aren't things I would connect. If that happened in, like, Louisiana? Or Udaho. Wow. Yikes. Calm down. That'd be a little bit more of like a, yeah, no, well, you know, Mardi Gras. I don't really see that happening in Idaho, in my mind. I have no idea.

I'm pro truck nut ban though, not gonna lie. They're gross. They're too saggy. Can we get some younger truck nuts if we're gonna have that in public? They're always like way saggy. I don't like that at all. That truck looks like a 75-year-old man at the gym who is not worried about whether or not his...

his bits are hanging in people's faces. God, they got the gray hairs, the varicose veins, they're the worst truck nuts. This is the worst episode. I want to delete it right now. I'm just saying, there should be an age restriction. If you're going to have fake nuts anyway, they can look however you want them to. Alright, okay, I'm wrapping this one up. We're out of here. We're done.

Hot balls of Idaho, we're talking to you. All right, that closes up Broken News. Thank you for attending this news hour. It's been quite an eventful day. I'll start with me. I lost a point for not being prepared. I'm having my pen. That's fair. Bob, you got a good weather point. You also got a point for except for tornado. Subtracted a good boy point. It's not little, it's huge. Snail, I think that was. Snail, yeah.

They call me St. Nicholas. Trolls movie. And then can we get some younger truck nuts? That's immortalized now. I'm starting to see why Mark feels bad about this episode. Wade, oh, just you wait, Wade. You lost a point for good boy. You lost another point for good boy. Brad, Brad, Wade.

You gained a point for bad boy. You lost a point for LaRoses. You gained a point for bad me. You got a point for...

Bill? Yeah, Bill. It was the first guy we interviewed. You know, Bill. You got a point for McDonald's. You got a point. I gave you a point for Drake Ulysses Law. I gave you a point for that. You should feel really special. I gave you a point for hard shit real. You lost a point for so they could plant the seed. That was a bad one. You lost a point for Tracy. I think it was her name was under the dirt.

You lost a point for good musk. You gained a point for Mr. Head. You lost a point for bad, bad Wade. And yes, I wrote that one down as I was reading the points. I can't even tell where we stand right now. I don't think I broke even. I think I might be the negative.

I'll give alright so I'm gonna add to the wheel there's a similar one on there which was like lowest points I'm gonna put one on there for lost to the most points during the episode cause that's gotta be a this has gotta be a record you lost that's an easy one cause either someone lost points or they didn't so we'll know whether to respin or not very easily on that I'm not even gonna say cause I think these I think this is gonna be great guys

Let me roll my dice. I might have peaked at Drake Ulysses. I don't know that I could ever make a joke funnier than that to me. Mark threw his headphones and ran away. That was unbelievable. I had to try to maintain composure watching you two fucking lose your shit. Rolled three on the dice. Pin number one.

Oh no. I swear to God. Point for viewers. Oh, it's right in the world. Viewers get a point. Viewers are on the board. Wade might come in third. Oh,

point for listeners okay we need a new wheel this is messed up something is wrong they can't possibly win this time mark actually did lose a point so mark is at negative one points it's possible wade could come in fifth

If he lost a net of more than two points, if you're negative two or lower, you could come in fifth out of three. That would be impressive. At least I'd be looking at the podium. All right. Third spin.

Sometimes you just need a new perspective on life. God, the biggest laugh. I think it depends how you define it, but yeah. Oh, that's true. I think it's probably the Dracula joke. I don't know that Mark actually laughed, but... I have to give that. I'm trying to think if I don't have to give that.

I mean, you laughed pretty good at it's not small, it's actually enormous for the snail, but I think we both laughed just harder than anything else, not even close at the Drake-Ulysses love. I at least earned a positive point today. You did. Well, you earned many. All right, let's total it up. So...

I have minus one. The viewers have one. The listeners have one. Bob, you have one, two, minus one. So one, two, three, four, five total points. All right. It's going to be a close one. Wade, you have negative one, negative two, negative one, negative two, negative one, zero, one, two, three, two, one, two.

Two. One. Plus laugh. You got two points. You almost tied for fourth. You got two points. The wheel has put me on the podium. This is totally the meme where I'm like biting on my metal, popping off the champagne. Yeah.

I mean, my God, Wade, just comparatively of how much I wrote just for you is astonishing. Congratulations, Bob. You did it. How do you feel? My face hurts, and it's partially from smiling, but it's also partially from the amount of eyebrow raising and disbelief I got, I think, during this episode. But...

I have to say, Wade's lows were much lower than mine, but Wade's highs were much higher than mine. So I feel like I earned a win, but I don't know that I deserve a win. So I'm going to take it and hold my head up high, but good episode today, Wade, I think. Or terrible episode. It could go either way, but good, good, awful episode.

And me, very medium. Very medium. Which is all you need to do to win. Well said. Wade, what do you have to say for yourself? And don't interview anyone. Sorry, boys. Next time.

Bob, you were the constant today that we needed. As you said, you were right on the whole time. You were focused. Meanwhile, much like the news, my performance was very up and down, very reflective of a certain hotel in Austin, Texas. I did all I could. I tried to plant some seeds early, and I'll see how many of them are bloomed that I'm paying child support for in a few years.

All right. There you have it. Thank you, everybody, for listening and or watching to arguably the worst or the best, by sheer average, the most average episode you've ever seen. We done broke the news. It's middle of the road, but the road is curvy as hell. Thank you for listening and or watching. Remember to follow these guys at their respective channels, MyScream and LordMinion777. There is rumblings happening in the merch world, but you know it's just a tough... It's a tough...

Not to crack. And we'll crack it soon. But truck nuts were banned, so... Distractive truck nuts are not coming. Unless... Podcast out.