Cloth Off The Bone

Distractible

The hosts of Distractible engage in a variety of personal anecdotes and a competitive guessing game. After an initial discussion regarding c

Key takeaways

• Wade shares that his wife Molly is undergoing a preventative partial hysterectomy due to BRCA gene testing.
• Bob discusses recovering from a foot injury involving a complicated healing process and multiple wounds in his cast.

Main topics

• Quince advertisement
• Personal health and family updates

Notable quotes

I like the most restrictive clothing possible, which is why I'm wearing a back brace.

Conclusion

A high-energy episode that balances heavy personal news with lighthear

Transcript preview

Speaker 4 (0:00) This episode of Distractable is brought to you by Quince. Speaker 2 (0:02) You know those pieces in your closet that you literally can't stop wearing? The sweater that you can't take off? Perfect pair of pants? T-shirt that's the one that you just reach for every time it's there? Those are the pieces that make getting dressed easy. And those are the pieces that Quince makes. Ha! Not Speaker 3 (0:19) me! I like the most restrictive clothing possible, which is why I'm wearing a back brace. Because I don't like having any mobility at all. I like constant chafing. I'm a cool person and you should follow in my footsteps. Speaker 2 (0:31) Wade, how do you like what you're wearing? And please say it's quince. Speaker 4 (0:35) I told you guys before we even started doing this, this is probably the nicest shirt that I own. Like, actually, I am a person who's always lived in like cheap t-shirts. I still wear shirts from high school and college. I'm like, they were oversized then, they fit perfect now. Now I understand when people say something is breathable. I was like, I don't know what that, what does that mean? I put this on, it's like, oh man, it feels so nice and breathable. That's a good word. I get it now. I never understood because I own cheap stuff other than quits. This is so Speaker 2 (1:05) nice. The first breathable piece of clothing you've ever had on your body. Speaker 3 (1:09) What an upgrade. Wade, right now you're literally the normal person at the Olympics running alongside. the athletes and you're just like, oh, they're really fast. Speaker 4 (1:21) I never understood what a 4-2-4 was until now. Speaker 3 (1:24) I thought a 6-5 was pretty quick. Well, okay. Well, that all sounds nice, but what about these, which this is not helping my masochist thing, by the way. Anyway, you Speaker 2 (1:35) can wear those as long as you can take it, Mark. I'll allow it. You Speaker 3 (1:38) can make it even more restrictive by taking the elastic bands and tightening them. God, this is bad for me. Speaker 2 (1:44) I shouldn't, I shouldn't. This is great, man. This is so comfortable. We're not telling everyone that they have to wear quints. We're just saying that if you want the most comfortable shirt Wade's ever worn, possibly that you've ever worn, quints makes that. Also, I will say I'm wearing the underwear. I'm a bigger guy. I have trouble sometimes with underwear not fitting my legs or being kind of bunchy. This is among the toppest tier underwear I've ever worn. And it's definitely not as expensive as the most expensive underwear I've ever tried. Because I'm not saying I did that once, but it was not worth it. I would much rather have these. They're very comfortable. And breathable, yeah. I would say breathable. Speaker 3 (2:20) I can't breathe right now. And that just goes to show you don't need to have breathable clothing to get by. I think Speaker 2 (2:27) you can't breathe because your lungs are being crushed, which I think is a whole other issue from a shirt being... Are you okay? Speaker 4 (2:34) No. This, I will wear this shirt in a lot of distractible episodes moving forward. This is the fanciest I have ever felt with clothing, and that includes like wearing suits and ties. You Speaker 1 (2:44) can, you can, you can wrap it up. Speaker 2 (2:47) Quince makes lots of stuff, not even just clothing. They make hotel quality bedding, bath kitchen essentials. Thoughtfully designed furniture. They make lots of things. Even pants, like Wade was saying. Find your next fall favorites at Quince. Download the Quince app for app-exclusive offers or go to quince.com slash distractible. Get free shipping on your order and 365-day returns now available in Canada and the UK, too. That's Q-U-I-N-C-E dot com slash D-I-S-T-R-A-C-T-I-B-L-E. Quince.com Speaker 4 (3:15) slash distractible. Speaker 1 (3:17) Good evening, gentle listeners or watchers, and welcome to Destructible. This episode, Bombastic Bob and Tom leaks lymph, heals his soul, then gets the guys to gaze into their crystal balls. When avoiding Wade shares deeply, becomes Bruce Wayne, gives applause, and gets a handy. Magisterial Mark dodges duty, loves GP, braces for impact. discusses dumping and gets horny. From blood splatters to apocalypse survival. Speaker 3 (3:52) Yes! It's Speaker 1 (3:55) time for... cloth off the bone. Now sit back and prepare to be distracted and enjoy the show. Speaker 2 (4:08) Hello and welcome back to yet another episode of the show that just won't die no matter how many times we try to kill it. I'm your host, Bob, because I won the last one. No, that's not my name. I just said it that way because I don't speak very well. Joined today by my two competitors. And also co-hosts, technically, even though Wade hasn't hosted one of these in months. Mark and Wade, welcome, Speaker 3 (4:32) boys. Hey, I feel like he didn't catch a stray. That's what I was going to say. He caught a direct hit. It was like straight between the eyes here. It was right to him. I didn't even feel in danger, but I feel bad for him. I Speaker 2 (4:44) got to say, you could thank the subreddit for that, because the scorekeeper on subreddit, for the last time they put the score up, their literal note was... Here's the score. Man, Mark and Bob just keep handing it back and forth. I can't even remember the last time Wade won. We Speaker 4 (4:59) were all tied at four the last time I won, I think. Speaker 2 (5:02) You know what's really funny is I'm now leading episode wins and Wade, you're still leading points and Mark is leading nothing, but somehow. Everyone agrees that Wade is the biggest loser regardless. Speaker 4 (5:13) Nothing like having the most points and the least wins. It's like the Cincinnati Bengals two years ago. It was almost like the Cincinnati Speaker 2 (5:19) Bengals this past week. Speaker 4 (5:21) Yeah, don't worry. I'm going to recruit and get a defense and I'm going to keep scoring points. I'm going to hold you two off and next year's no one cares about my sports jokes. Someone will care. Someone will get that. And you, you out there, Tom, thanks for laughing. From Bob and Tom? Yeah, Bob and Tom. That's a throwback. bob and tom here and there and down along across the square that's not right that's sure yeah Speaker 2 (5:46) uh-huh uh-huh Speaker 4 (5:47) gummy bear i think it is gummy bears bob and tom this Speaker 2 (5:51) is it this is the high quality content you get here at distractible industries uh and i have a game for today just like i always do usually uh before we get into that uh who wants anyone got any small talk you want to earn some softball points i didn't go to prison Speaker 3 (6:07) For evading jury duty. Asterisk. Speaker 4 (6:10) Oh, that's why. I thought it was the other side. I didn't. Why? Speaker 3 (6:12) What were you talking about? Speaker 2 (6:13) I would have bet a lot of money that you were going to get that message like the second you had to leave for the airport. Your phone was going to be like, King, jury duty. Speaker 3 (6:21) It was scary because you get a text message also that reminds you to check to see if you are on call for jury duty or if you're going to be summoned. So it was like I saw the text and I was like, I was on the plane, on the plane wife. I was like, oh, God, oh, no. Oh, geez. I'm logging in with my jury card. Oh, shit. My number, my pin code. And it was like, oh, you don't have to show up. I Speaker 4 (6:42) was Speaker 3 (6:42) like, oh, great. Check back tomorrow. Oh, Speaker 4 (6:44) shit. Speaker 2 (6:46) It's a Speaker 4 (6:47) recurring nightmare. I had to call once a week for like a month. I think a month. God damn. It was once a week for Speaker 2 (6:55) a month. I think it's the same process when we lived in the San Francisco area. It's way different part of the state. But yeah, doing that every night for a week, checking the thing, seeing if you lost the, I mean, won the lottery. Speaker 4 (7:06) I was like every Tuesday at six o'clock call because it's only for one week. So I Speaker 2 (7:11) mean, they're completely arbitrary systems. They just need a way to get a certain number of people per day queued up. in case they need them because they only use a small percentage of people who actually have to go to jury duty anyway because then they do the jury selection it's a whole thing lucky me and i still love Speaker 3 (7:30) the gopro i'm invested but i still love it they can't take it from me wait why does that gopro have seven fingers what Speaker 4 (7:37) the fuck what Speaker 3 (7:40) if i don't win I still feel lightheaded from taking off the back brace. Nothing major, everybody at home. I'm just wearing a back brace because my back kind of hurt. Speaker 2 (7:48) Is it like the good kind of lightheaded? No. If that exists? No. Okay. Speaker 3 (7:53) I don't know. I don't know that that exists. I'm just checking. I feel like I might puke, so if I throw up here or if I run out of the room real fast, you'll know it's because I did it to myself. If Speaker 4 (8:02) you pass out, can we call Chica Speaker 3 (8:05) or Amy? If Chica has a cell phone, I'm going to be very upset because you're not allowed. But, you know, I think call Amy. Speaker 2 (8:13) Chica's laying in the other room just like... Speaker 3 (8:15) God, I love TikTok. Is that a thing? How do people wear corsets? I was talking about this as soon as I took it off after tightening it. I'm like, I bet I didn't even have it close to as tight as some people wear a corset. But it's like, how do you do that? I feel like I'm going to pass out and it's not even on anymore. Weren't those like actually physically debilitating when people wore them regularly? Speaker 4 (8:37) Yeah, I think so. I Speaker 2 (8:38) don't know about debilitating or not, but I would imagine they reshaped people's bodies, right? Like body shape training is a thing where you just wear tighter and tighter corsets to like get a smaller waist. And it, I assume, reshapes your organs. I Speaker 3 (8:54) don't know. With Sandy, she had this thing that we didn't even know about where a lot of her lower organs were. actually after her accident, it was unknown to everybody, was pushed up into her chest cavity through a hernia, like her diaphragm. And so we had to give corrective surgery, and now they were able to pull it all back down. But even when they pulled it back down, they couldn't fit all of it, so they had to get rid of her spleen just to be able to fit it all back down. And I'm just like, holy shit. So how is everyone getting reshaped? That's got to cause some debilitating problems. Speaker 2 (9:23) Look, I have to imagine that's why they weren't terribly popular. I think some people will go through a lot to look however they want to look, to look what they think is attractive or hot or beautiful or whatever. But I don't think corsets were ever broadly popular. I think they were just broadly mandated. Speaker 4 (9:40) Johnny Bravo only lasted four seasons, and we Speaker 2 (9:42) all know he was wearing one. Yeah, he's got a hip to hip to chest ratio that is crazy. Maybe he just skips every muscle other than like packs and delts. His Speaker 4 (9:52) body shape is tornado on top of a staple. Like, there is nothing natural about that. Plus, he calls me Speaker 2 (9:57) Mama when he shows up. Wait, I thought he just called me Mama. Oh, that's my special nickname with him. I thought that was my special nickname. Speaker 4 (10:04) He looks at me and just goes, ooh. And then he looks away. Speaker 2 (10:12) No respect. I turned into Rodney Speaker 3 (10:13) Dangerfield. Now that's funny. That's funny. Speaker 2 (10:17) Mark's alive. Not in prison. Didn't pass out. Speaker 4 (10:19) Hasn't thrown up yet. Wade, what's new with you? Well, as you all know, we were in Minnesota and we got back from Minnesota. We had less than a week and then we hosted my family. My family came into town the weekend after Labor Day, whenever that is or was. And we went to a family reunion in Indiana, which was cool. So that's been a lot of fun family time. Catch up because I've not gotten to see everybody because we've had kind of a crazy year. And this is less fun, but upcoming. I don't know exactly when this episode airs versus when this is happening, but Molly is having a big surgery. It's fun. We've. been telling, I guess, people now. So she's having a partial hysterectomy. You guys know that. So we've been going to different appointments and she's been doing some extra stuff she has to do to get ready for that. Not a fun process, but ultimately it's preventative, which is good. So if you guys don't know what all is going on, basically she tested positive for a gene that makes it to where she's some high percentage more likely to have ovarian cancer along with other few couple forms of cancer. So we're having, she's, she's elected to have surgery. I have no input on she's asked me my opinion, but we mean we comrade well, we're married so we but it's her decisions I've given input but ultimately I've agreed all the inclinations she's had but she's having some surgery to Hopefully prevent having to deal with that in the future and you know fuck cancer as we all say and feel Her mom had been going through it Which is why she got tested in the first place and it's been a long year of health things Which is what led to my heart palpitations and not my knee. My knee was just me being an idiot, but we just had a lot of weird health things going on this year. But the most pervasive one has been her mom's battle with cancer and then her with the BRCA trying to figure out what we're going to do about that. So a lot of my time has been spent house cleaning and going to doctor's appointments and just mentally being drained, I guess. So that's our very fun September plans, what we've been doing and will be doing. So if all of my updates have been kind of like, oh, wait, it doesn't really do anything. Well. I wish I could be out doing more. We wanted to be doing more traveling and hosting of friends and stuff this year, but life has just had a way of preventing that. Sounds great. Speaker 2 (12:20) It's good Speaker 4 (12:21) to have the knowledge and be preventative. I think we'd rather be doing this than dealing with cancer, but it's a lot of fun. Not a fun time. Well, Speaker 2 (12:28) hopefully that, I mean, we'll talk before then, but for all of you watching and listening, hopefully that goes well. I'm sure everyone feels the same way. Good luck, Molly. Speaker 4 (12:37) Yeah, well, appreciate it. And I didn't mean to bring the mood down, but it's just one of those things. I was trying so hard to make a joke, and I couldn't Speaker 2 (12:45) find anything that I felt comfortable saying out loud. It's a Speaker 3 (12:47) good thing we only give out points for funny things here. Otherwise, you get a lot of pity points there. Yeah, so no sad points for you. Wade is already winning, Speaker 4 (12:55) though, Speaker 3 (12:55) so Speaker 2 (12:55) he didn't need any more points. Brought the mood down with his stupid surgery of his family. Hey,