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Narrator
Good evening Gentle listeners or watchers. And welcome to Distractable. This episode, Wangling Wade calls for more FNAF plugs Piaget then institutes relay yarn spinning. Bilbo Bob does burlesque bowling, gets hexed, commits to comedy and smokes a brisket mercantile. Mark gets his dungeon on delays. His multilingual God board describes PCP werebears and rubs gin. Asshole. From xylophone confinement to spectral sexual attentions, it's time for fortunately. Unfortunately. Now sit back and prepare to be distracted and enjoy the.
Bob
Hello, everybody.
Wade
Welcome back to another episode of Distractable. I'm today's host, Quaid. I'm joined by Mark and our friend in witness protection, Bob.
Bob
Hello. He might be in jail.
Markiplier
Let me out. Let me out.
Wade
Good thing they put him in that xylophone.
Bob
Yeah.
Markiplier
Guys, I'm trapped under a musical instrument. Help.
Bob
Oh, no.
Wade
If you never joined the show, you're not missing much. Except for everything. Go back and watch every episode at least three times. Then you'll know what we're about. One of us hosts, the other two compete for points. Whoever has the most gets to host the next episode. I won the last one, so here we are. Yeah.
Markiplier
We didn't choose this. It's not our fault Wade's hosting.
Wade
You gotta say, normally in our small talk, we just allow whoever's got whatever to jump in. And that's how it's gonna be this time, too. What's new?
Bob
Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.
Markiplier
Let's go for a walk, boys. Oh, man.
Bob
I went early. He's gonna know how to. He's gonna know how to beat this. Yeah.
Markiplier
Look, look. Here's my hobbit hole.
Wade
Keep it up, Mark. He'll eventually play.
Markiplier
Hang on, I'll catch on. Hang on.
Bob
Wait.
Wade
Do it again.
Markiplier
Do it again.
Wade
Wait.
Bob
You don't get to see what I got. I already. I already rolled.
Wade
Oh. He played eeny, meeny, miny, mo. But with rock, paper and scissors.
Markiplier
It looks like track this, Editors. Peace me out.
Bob
There's paper. You win.
Wade
I thought he was creatively putting paper on a rock so he had both.
Markiplier
You can do your small talk while I'm walking around this bowling alley that I'm in.
Wade
Why are you in a bowling alley?
Markiplier
Hi. We're recording the podcast right now. There's people over here.
Bob
Who? Strangers.
Markiplier
Mandy.
Bob
Strangers.
Markiplier
Random. Yeah.
Wade
Strangers.
Markiplier
Yeah.
Wade
Strangers. Strangers.
Bob
Yeah.
Markiplier
This, this. And there's balls.
Wade
Crucial to any bowling endeavor.
Markiplier
It's a bowling alley.
Wade
The evidence does point toward it being a bowling alley.
Bob
I kind of agree. It might be A bowling alley.
Markiplier
I like the lighting out here. Maybe I'll just sit on the bowling lane. Is that allowed?
Bob
I don't know if anyone's gonna stop you.
Markiplier
Hi. This is my. This is my position. How do you like the angle?
Wade
You look like you're on a stage at a strip club with the flashing lights.
Bob
Yeah.
Wade
Colors behind you.
Bob
It' good stuff. I've kind of got a 144p view of everything, so it's just a big, colorful schmear.
Markiplier
Anyway, that's what we got going on.
Wade
What a what? A camera pickup. Right between the legs, straight up.
Bob
Hey, I'm not complaining. No one's complaining.
Markiplier
Seriously, though, we're in a house in Florida, in Orlando, and there's just bowling alley on the second floor of the house.
Bob
It reminds me of the who Killed Markiplier Castle that we rented. Just, like, with the most random rooms in it. This is a great place.
Markiplier
Also, all the rooms are themed, and the room that I'm recording from is the Hobbit. So, like, literally, it's a bedroom.
Wade
I remember when Bilbo and Gandalf shared a bunk bed during their college years.
Markiplier
There's also a hot tub here. I considered doing the episode from the hot tub, but it turns out everyone else who's staying at this house also wants to use the hot tub. And they were like, don't do that. We're using the hot tub. Don't do that. I was like, fine, bitches.
Wade
You should have had a coin flip for it.
Markiplier
Turns out outside of our show, people are not into that.
Bob
Oh, I wonder why. That doesn't make any sense.
Markiplier
It's really. That's really an us thing. Couldn't tell you.
Bob
Ridiculous.
Markiplier
Anyway, that's my whole small talk. We're going to Disney. We're going to Disney. I watched super bowl, and we're going to Disney.
Wade
I mean, I feel like after the result, I am, too, because I've got friends that are Patriots fans, and I'm so glad I don't have to live with that for eight months.
Markiplier
Like Tyler, notorious Patriots fan and Tom Brady aficionado Tyler.
Wade
Yeah.
Bob
He is devastated.
Wade
Tyler's favorite number 12. Brady's number 12. I mean, evidence is right there. There's infinite numbers that they both could have chosen, and they chose the same one.
Bob
That's true. Weirdly enough, a lot of people have picked infinity as their favorite number. And so statistically that should be impossible, but statistics can go fuck themselves.
Wade
See, people thought that about me, but I just picked an 8. That was napping got him.
Bob
Oh, I get it. All right, enough silliness. It's my turn for small talk. I love Dungeon Crawler. Carl, what book are you on? I'm on book five.
Markiplier
Jesus fuck. God. That was not that long ago.
Bob
I know. One weekend. See, the thing is, now that I'm not working on the movie, I have a lot of time on my hands. So I get to read a book, which is so. So I actually read five books. Well, four books. I've just started five. So I'm not. I'm not very far into it.
Wade
How many are out right now?
Bob
7, 8. I don't know, something like that.
Markiplier
78 comes out in a couple months.
Bob
Or two or something. I read books like I chew packs of gum. All of it at once, and then I. I don't make it last at all.
Markiplier
I'm sure we've talked about that, but the way Mark chews, chews gum is very disconcerting.
Wade
Isn't there like an offensive or defensive coordinator in the NFL that like, just has, like a huge wad of gum in their mouth?
Bob
That's how you get the most flavor.
Markiplier
Offensive coordinator Mark.
Bob
You know, it's funny, Bob, you said that a certain party would get slow and you just have to slog through it. I never felt that at all. Maybe because I was just going so fast. I just didn't get to the slow part. But I enjoyed it all.
Markiplier
Yeah, well, if you ever take a break from reading them, it might feel that way. But if you read them straight through, you know, it doesn't even happen. Impossible.
Bob
I loved all. I love reading the spell and the ability descriptions. Like I could. If the whole book was basically just reading what they did and what the AI was saying is just like. And basically that is the whole book. But it's like that's. That's some of my favorite part. I don't know why, but it's just. I like it a lot.
Markiplier
If you really like the AI, 6 and 7 are going to knock your socks off.
Bob
He said it.
Wade
He said the thing.
Markiplier
What? Do I say that a lot? Oh, I said six and seven. Isn't it just six, seven.
Bob
Oh, you said it again.
Markiplier
You got me.
Bob
I didn't do it. It wasn't me, I swear. Also, to deal with the crushing boredom of not making things, I'm just about to any day now. I'm going to start working out again any minute now. I'm really feeling.
Wade
Yeah, me too. Man.
Bob
I realized how pathetic that sounded as it was coming out. But no, I feel like Man, I really got to get in shape, you know, I have to look, you know when you're not doing anything that consumes your life and you just stare in the mirror at yourself or you're like, oh my God.
Markiplier
My entire life.
Wade
Yeah, I was gonna say, man. Yeah, I don't know any different.
Bob
Oh, yeah. And so you just gotta. You gotta look at your fleshy body and be like, I guess I should do something about this. So, yeah, I've been doing that. I want to learn Korean, I want to learn Spanish. I want to do all these things.
Markiplier
Thinking about working out.
Wade
What are.
Markiplier
What, what of that have you been doing if you haven't actually been working out?
Bob
I've been doing the thinking about it. I've been doing the thing.
Markiplier
Okay, good.
Bob
That's what I mean. Been doing a lot of the staring in the mirror, thinking about all the shortcomings I have.
Wade
Well, if that counts. Yeah. I mean, I've been exercising for 20 years straight.
Bob
Look, I'm confessing my own shortcomings here. I'm just saying. Well, I don't know what I'm saying. I'm saying that I'm not doing those things, but I'm really about to. I'm on the precipice.
Wade
Yeah, me too.
Markiplier
Those are good things to do. But you do know you're allowed to make stuff, Mark. That's not a thing that consumes your entire being for three to five years at a time. You could do a thing where it's like for. For one day or even like a couple solid days. You're like, oh, it's consuming me. And then you finish it and you're like, oh, I made that. And it's a thing that you made?
Bob
I don't think so.
Markiplier
Your next project is going to be a 10 year long, three movie trilogy that you film at it and release all in one big. You only know how to escalate, huh?
Bob
Yeah, I don't know what you're talking about.
Wade
I'm excited for the let's replay FNAF 202020202020 modes.
Bob
I have thought about that too, because I got called out for cheating at FNAF2's 2020 mode. Did you?
Wade
Yeah.
Bob
Yeah, totally. I can't remember. I can't remember it at all, what the circumstances are, but I looked, there was a video that someone did a whole essay on. I didn't watch it, but I was like, yeah, it sounds like that sounds right. I'm pretty sure I did that. And I think Scott covered for me. I Know he did, because I believe he patched in something in the game to, like, add a star where there wasn't a star when he win. When I first did it and he patched it in or something like that. Again, I can't remember. I'd have to watch the video, but it's just. I can't remember why or how or when, but. But yeah, I did that. The other ones were real, though, Wink.
Markiplier
I'm sure Mark's in a big hurry to get back to that right after he finishes Ben at Foddy again.
Bob
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, actually, I. I've played that casually on my own, and I have beaten it since. Since I played it. It's.
Markiplier
Did you throw any more chairs or was it fun?
Bob
It was weirdly fun the second time around because I. I understood the mechanics a bit better. It's like what speedrunners, you know, they get addicted to the actual cycle, and I didn't want to speedrun it, but I was just like, casually. I fired it up and I was playing it a bit.
Markiplier
It was.
Bob
It wasn't bad. I liked it.
Wade
But as with the record, to show, I gave you a lie point for lying about FNAF2.
Bob
Thank you.
Wade
But the. The. The wheel that may or may not exist could make that absolutely okay.
Bob
All right. No FNAF Ultimate Custom Night. I do think I want to try to beat that as, like, either I have to do a stream where I stream FNAF2 and then beat the 20 mode, which would be hilarious because my. I don't remember how to do any of that. All my gamer instincts are so atrophied. And didn't the first 20.
Wade
20. 20 mode take you, like, 20 hours or something?
Bob
No, it took me like seven or eight. I forget what it was.
Wade
I thought. Okay, I thought the first one was crazy long.
Markiplier
Yeah.
Bob
No, if I remember correctly, the second one, I was doing it for like something like 12 hours or something. And I think the situation was like, the next day I had to leave town or something. So if I waited, I wouldn't get the 20 mode or something, and then I would be. I'd be a fraud or something. I don't know.
Markiplier
You'd be a loser.
Wade
Good thing you're not.
Bob
Good thing I'm not. Unless I lose this episode, and then I will be a loser.
Wade
Well, you're off to a start.
Bob
All right, that's all I hope for.
Wade
Now that Bob's out of town. I gotta tell you, Bob, I don't know if this is true or not. Because I've not gotten to step outside as per typical on Tuesdays. But my computer tells me it's 61 degrees outside today, and it's been like 20 for the last month and a half. So I think maybe all of our snow is melting and Bob left town to go to Florida, and all of a sudden we have the most beautiful weather we've had probably ever.
Markiplier
My phone thinks it's 60 degrees at our house.
Wade
Yeah, 61. 60. Yeah, I thought it was only supposed to be 47 today, but it says 60.
Bob
So is Bob cursed? Is Bob cursed? Or is he an omen of cold or something like that?
Wade
He's the Cold Miser. Remember the. I'm Mr. Cold miser.
Bob
I don't think it was Mr. Cold miser.
Wade
You should, because I'm the host. Host's always right.
Bob
Well, it.
Markiplier
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Bob
That's not how it goes. Well, how it goes is the host can say whatever they want and attribute points accordingly. That doesn't make it truth. I say Bob'.
Markiplier
Oh, I'm in this room.
Bob
So what's happening to him?
Wade
He's cursed. You cursed him.
Bob
No, he was cursed. I didn't curse him. I wasn't the curser.
Wade
I think we all just watched you curse him.
Bob
No, he's the cursee.
Markiplier
I have to do the rest of this episode in this cla. Oh, this broken closet. All right, this is my curse. Bye.
Bob
No, no, no, no. People in the closet aren't cursed. That's not how that works. Well, I'm gone.
Wade
I'm a ghost.
Bob
Oh, my God. He's actually gone. Wait, no, hold on.
Wade
Actually, I don't have object permanence, so I'm scared.
Bob
Oh, that gave me.
Markiplier
What? Really?
Bob
I was like. Where did you go?
Wade
What the.
Bob
Is that Mark?
Markiplier
I need to borrow your tape.
Bob
No. Oh, my God. You can have it.
Wade
Jesus Christ.
Bob
Where'd he go? It was a ghost.
Markiplier
It was a ghost hand.
Bob
This is why we're the top fif. In the top 50 of best podcasts in the world. This right here is why Are we still there?
Wade
Are we still top 50?
Bob
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
Markiplier
Oh, yeah.
Wade
Specifically comedy, though, right?
Markiplier
No, no, we're like. We're, like, 32 overall, and we're in, like, the top 15 of comedy.
Bob
We're 29.
Wade
Oh, thank God. There was that plug for Distractible and Iron Lung that really boosted our numbers.
Markiplier
Speaking of stuff that surprised me, did you guys see that we're nominated for the iHeartMusic Podcast Awards.
Bob
For what?
Markiplier
What do we do for best comedy podcast and best ad reads, which is just hilarious.
Wade
Oh.
Bob
That was two years ago, man.
Narrator
Everyone.
Markiplier
Everyone's still living on the old mug root beer read.
Wade
I hope we win.
Markiplier
I'm sure I'll find out. The same way I found out we were nominated from a Reddit post from a thing that was unrelated to us. I just happened to see distractible in it.
Wade
That's cool, though. I mean, I'll take it.
Bob
Yeah, I'm done with my small talk.
Markiplier
If there's voting, hey, vote for us.
Wade
Do the thing if there is a thing. Otherwise, don't do it.
Markiplier
Santa Claus likes when you vote for distractable.
Wade
You want to be on the nice list. Or if you prefer the naughty, he'll put you there, too. I've got no other small talk other than, yep, super bowl happened. Did you guys know the wedding during the halftime show is real?
Bob
Yes, I heard about that. Yeah.
Wade
Watching it, I was like, I don't know why there's a wedding. And then I thought it was like, oh, that's a real wedding. That's one of the coolest things ever. Imagine getting married during a halftime show.
Markiplier
It's a wedding because they got married, Wade. That's what happens.
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Bob
It's ever what?
Wade
Huh? You guys are never. You guys aren't permanently assigned to one side of the coin, right?
Bob
You flip a coin, there's a mysterious third option that pops up.
Markiplier
What?
Bob
What do you say?
Wade
Well, I feel like I'm assigned heads like when Bob flips a coin. Maybe when you flip a coin, but when I flip one, I don't have you two assigned to a heads or a tail.
Bob
Well, which one do I look like?
Wade
Tail.
Bob
Come on, man.
Markiplier
Hooray. Hey.
Bob
Okay, so I'm. You're gonna say the sentence, and then I start with either fortunately or unfortunately, or do I have to start with one?
Wade
I had it assigned, but if you want to change it up, I guess you could.
Bob
No, no. Do with what you assigned first.
Wade
Okay, I have you going unfortunately first. So again, the way this works, I'll give a sentence, mark to start since unfortunately. Bob, you'll respond with fortunately, and Mark will go back to unfortunately, and you guys will keep going until we get to some conclusion to the story.
Markiplier
This is not a game where we have to, like, keep restating the whole thing, right? We just. We're just building.
Wade
You're just telling a story. You don't have to repeat, repeat, or anything. Keep it easy, keep it fun, relaxed. Mark, your prompt is Simple. I decided to go for a walk.
Bob
Unfortunately, there was a pack of rabid bears in the area.
Markiplier
Fortunately, I had remembered to bring my bear spray.
Bob
Unfortunately, my bear spray was empty.
Markiplier
Fortunately, it was a great distraction to throw it while I ran away.
Bob
Unfortunately, all the bears were hopped up on PCP and they were 10 times faster than a human male.
Markiplier
Fortunately, the closer they came to catching me, the more of a contact high I gained from them. So it was like a speed boost while I made my escape.
Bob
Unfortunately, we just so happened to run through the police officer convention and we were clearly high on pcp.
Markiplier
Fortunately, as the Chief of Police, everybody already knew how I was, so they were like, hey, don't stop running, the bears are coming.
Bob
Unfortunately, I had misdiagnosed the PCP bears as not just PCP bears, but PCP werebears. They bit all the other police officers and turned into were bears and also got the contact eye.
Markiplier
Fortunately, I'm a great comedian, so when they turned into werebears, I turned and stopped and was like, wait, wait, wait, werebears. And they said, yes, werebears. And I said, they're bears. And they said, we bears. I said, yeah, but where bears? And we did that for 40 minutes till the PCP wore off.
Bob
Unfortunately, I had booked for a 60 minute show, so I had 20 minutes left and these guys were crashing hard. They were not happy. My comedian score on the comedian scoring website is toast.
Markiplier
Oh, all right. Well, yeah, what's the. What ends this?
Wade
Whenever we feel like it's a. Whenever we feel like it's a good stop. There's not really a we'll lean on.
Bob
You to say scene.
Wade
That feels like a good one. Yeah.
Bob
All right. Okay.
Wade
Trying to figure out how to assign points for that one, but I'm working on it.
Markiplier
Hey, it's your game, man. We're just playing.
Bob
Yeah, yeah, we're just. We're goofing.
Wade
The next one starts with fortunately, but then it'll rotate. So I know you just did these, but it'll. You'll see, it'll flip the next round. So you'll be doing unfortunately twice in a row. Mark and Bob, you'll be doing fortunately twice in a row, then we'll flip.
Bob
Whatever you say, man.
Wade
In my brain, when I wrote these out, I was like, ah. I'll start a prompt with unfortunately, then fortunately, then unfortunately, then fortunately. But I forgot that you guys also flip flops and you just stay the same.
Bob
It's all good, man.
Wade
Bob, another simple prompt for you. This feels right up your alley. Actually, yeah, this one worked out really well for you. I think working on cars is a passion of mine. Unfortunately, it's where you'll start.
Markiplier
Fortunately, I already own my dream car, so I get to live my passion every day.
Bob
Unfortunately, having achieved my dream so early in life, I have no hills to climb. And now there's a noose that's staring at me from the garage ceiling.
Markiplier
Fortunately, I'm not very good at tying knots, so the knot I tied wouldn't tighten and I just keep falling out of it. So I guess I'll live.
Bob
Unfortunately, my wife storms in and is upset about spend all our life savings on a stupid car.
Markiplier
Fortunately, I found this necklace outside on the street. It must have slipped right off your neck, sweetheart. Distract her.
Bob
Wait, hold on, let me back up. Is the necklace a necklace or did you grab the noose?
Markiplier
No, no, it's a necklace.
Wade
It's a. I also thought it was the noose.
Bob
I thought it was the noose.
Markiplier
I'm stealing this bit from Catch Me if youf Can. It's a one to one joke ripoff. Don't worry. Plus, the knot wasn't right, so it wouldn't work anyway.
Bob
Unfortunately, my wife came back with logic and said either I spent more money and we're now in debt or I stole it from someone and now I'm on the lamb. I don't even like lamb.
Markiplier
Fortunately, I had a side of beef in the freezer, so I offered to smoke my wife some brisket as an apology dinner. Cause nobody likes lamb.
Bob
Unfortunately, she all her response was just, are you serious right now? As if beef wouldn't solve all of our problems. Which she said it wouldn't. So I guess I'm not welcome in my home anymore.
Markiplier
Fortunately, as it turns out, you can live in cars and I love those. And I have one, so I'm living in my car now.
Bob
I mean, that seems like a happy ending.
Wade
Yeah. Fortunately, you're in your car. What way to bring it back? I don't know where we're gonna go. Starting off with a nice noose and then the necklace gift. I really thought that was going.
Markiplier
It's messed up, man. Who would do that?
Wade
All right, Mark, this time you start with fortunately.
Bob
Okay.
Wade
One day I woke up to find myself shackled in a jail cell.
Bob
Fortunately, as the world's greatest magician, slappist slash escape artist, I knew exactly how to get out predicament and have been training for it all my life.
Markiplier
Unfortunately, my jailer appeared at the door just at that moment. And it was my Arch nemesis and slightly better magician and escape artist, Entrapo.
Bob
Fortunately, I knew Entrapo's greatest weakness. He couldn't resist the perfect crime with which I had the plans in my pocket and pretend I threw it behind him to make him go after it, giving me a chance to escape.
Markiplier
Unfortunately, Entrapo was so enthralled by my greatest, perfectest crime plans that he excitedly wheeled around to try and catch the plans that I tossed. And he smacked his head on the wall of the jail and collapsed into a heap. And then if in the background you hear Etrefo. Locked down the whole jail.
Bob
To clarify, when you say wheeled around, he's not in a wheelchair, is he?
Markiplier
No, no. He. That's a phrase. No, no, he was like that. It means to turn around quickly, isn't it?
Bob
I just pictured in Trevo just for some reason. Wheelchair. That's not funny, by the way.
Wade
All right, put Mark in Guam.
Bob
Put me in Guam. Fortunately, I knew of one power that could get me out of this situation. I raised one finger. First this finger, and then I raise the other to the security camera and I say, editors, put me in Guam. The teleporter activates and I zip out of there.
Markiplier
Unfortunately, Guam is located at the deepest depths of the Marianas Trench, as far as I know. So I found myself trapped in the depths of the ocean.
Bob
Fortunately, I was a live streamer who had a 24.7stream going on, and my views were jumping like you wouldn't believe. All I had to do was escape Mariana's Trench and I would be cemented as better than Entrapo.
Markiplier
Unfortunately, due to some past misjudgments and misdates on my part, the only platform I was still allowed to stream on.
Bob
Was X. Fortunately, after I failed my escape attempt and died, Grock will be able to keep me alive in people's memories, escaping random bullshit nonsense forever. Thanks, AI.
Wade
Editor's note Grock did not actually help Mark in Guam.
Markiplier
Little do you know, he didn't help him in Guam. He just recreated his likeness so that he could live on forever.
Wade
I feel like Grock's the no butt of improv, isn't it?
Bob
In a way. In a way. In a way. Everyone needs that. Bob.
Wade
You are unfortunately again on this one and you will lead us off. Searching through an old attic, I came across what looked like a magic lamp.
Markiplier
Unfortunately, it looked like it done already had been rubbed.
Bob
Fortunately, there was another lamp right next to it. What are the odds?
Markiplier
Unfortunately, when I went to rub that second new lamp, I actually rubbed the first one and nothing happened. Didn't see that coming, did you?
Wade
What a twist.
Bob
Fortunately, outside of the now two lamps, I looked to the other side of me and there was a third lamp there my eyes went.
Markiplier
Unfortunately, once I got my eyes back in their sockets and I successfully rubbed the third lamp, the genie that came out was a real a hole.
Bob
Fortunately, I know how to deal with a holes. I turned around. Oh, another lamp. Don't need you anymore, jackass. It might have. It might be that second lamp. I can't remember.
Markiplier
Unfortunately, I once again tried to rub this new and or second lamp and missed completely, falling down and getting a wicked splinter right on my finger.
Bob
Fortunately, I don't need one finger to rub things. I've got nine more. So I just started rubbing all around everything and eventually my finger touched one of the lamps. Maybe a new one.
Markiplier
Unfortunately, after summoning darn near 30 plus genies, I had the world at my fingertips, splintered though they may be. And I couldn't think of one thing that I would want and that was better than what I already had.
Bob
Fortunately. I remember what my mama always told me. Some, some, some, some, some nonsense, yada yada, the friends along the way. And now I had a room full of friends. What more could I possibly wish for?
Markiplier
Unfortunately, genies are really meant to be solitary creatures and they did not get along. Turns out there are rules about the genie hurting the person who rubs the lamp, but there's basically no rules about genies hurting other genies. By the time the massacre was over, I had one genie and three wishes left.
Wade
Look how these sentences are becoming their own little mini stories.
Markiplier
It's almost one sentence. There was a cause, a comma and a semicolon is one sentence, comma clause.
Wade
I can't argue the comma clause.
Bob
Fortunately, that asshole genie died in the massacre, and I was well left with someone who was really out of breath, but probably not an asshole. So I asked for my first wish, which was more friends and or lamps.
Wade
I. Good. I don't know if I can go through the loop of you guys rubbing the wrong lips again. All right, here we go. Mark, you are unfortunately this time.
Bob
Okay?
Wade
It's weird the way that this worked out because I swear I didn't set it up this way, but I decided to make my own movie.
Bob
I decided to make my own movie. Unfortunately, man, nothing went wrong. You know, how could I even. Unfortunately, unfortunately, the journey would be much longer than I anticipated and have far more obstacles than I could have ever planned for.
Markiplier
Fortunately, no matter how long and torturous. The journey. It starts with one step, which I.
Bob
Took, unfortunately, the subject matter of my movie, Landmines Incorporated. I decided to go as practical and possible. And that first step had me directly on top of the first landmine of many.
Markiplier
Fortunately, I've never quit anything in my entire life. So no matter how many landmines I walked across, I just kept a going.
Bob
Unfortunately, there was some kind of a of a propulsion factor to this. So as I started going across the landmines, it would explode me into the next one and I would accelerate the explosions. Why did I put them all in one line?
Markiplier
Fortunately, sometime as I approached the speed of sound, I realized exactly what this film needed. Eureka. I'm not gonna give you everything.
Wade
Oh.
Bob
Unfortunately, just about as I was hitting Mach 2, I I realized I forgot to hit record on the camera all the way back at the beginning.
Markiplier
This is a complete aside. I just love the visual of Mark with the iron lung set. Just like everything set and like. All right, scene dude, whatever. Take three. Oh, I gotta roll the second camera. It's just you by yourself in a huge studio.
Bob
Like, look, it's not too far off. Some of those pickup nights, it's not too far off.
Markiplier
Fortunately, as I blew past Mach 5, really started to wonder if I was gonna survive, I realized that my chest mounted GoPro was rolling. So I'd have one hell of a POV shot.
Bob
Unfortunately, in an opposite fashion from the Red Bull guy who dropped from space, once you hit a certain speed, you gain lift no matter how aerodynamic you are. And I realized this chain of explosions was only gonna make me reach escape velocity on the last possible bounce. And I had just so happened to space them perfectly that I could see the last mine that would bounce me out of the stratosphere. Approaching.
Wade
Man, I love the kava clause.
Markiplier
Fortunately, just as I bounced off that last mine, I had the clarity of focus to make my last act as a living person of Earth. To rip the chest mounted camera off and spike it down as I flew off into space so that someday someone would discover my brilliant movie.
Bob
Don't ask. What just happened to my headphones? They are askew.
Wade
I really want to know, but I guess you told me not to ask, so I can't.
Markiplier
He said not to ask.
Bob
Unfortunately, no movie studio wanted to pick up my movie and it would be nigh impossible to self distribute given that I am currently on the way to Mars.
Markiplier
Oh well, fortunately I've always wanted to be one of the first humans to colonize Mars. And I'm not saying there's a good chance, but I am saying there's a chance that my new dream will come true.
Bob
Unfortunately, the extra velocity I gained by throwing my GoPro downwards towards Earth caused me to miss Mars by thaaat much. And then I skipped off of Phobos, which had a landmine just so happened to be on it. I'm on the way to the outer rim. Also, I died from not being able to breathe long ago.
Wade
I don't know how you top that one, Bob. I think he buttoned it off with his sixth comma.
Markiplier
Fortunately, as I looked down from heaven at my long dead corpse on its endless journey through the through the universe, I realized that all of life is just one big joke anyway and none of it mattered to begin with. Yeah, that's a happy end, right?
Wade
All right. Yeah. I thought we had buttons like six times you guys kept going. I. That just started with I wanted to make a movie.
Bob
Unfortunately, you enter heaven with the momentum you carried from your doom and you go to the heaven of your last act. So I went to land mine heaven. Oh no.
Markiplier
Fortunately, all the different heavens are separated by gates. And I was going so fast I just kept smashing through gate after gate knowing that eventually I'd burn off all my momentum and land in some kind of heaven.
Bob
Hopefully a soft one.
Wade
I'm just letting you guys go. Why? I write down points.
Bob
No, no, no. We're gonna.
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Markiplier
Fortunately, it was very fun. I love haunted houses.
Bob
Unfortunately, when I arrived there, my rival ghost hunter Hunto was already on the scene, and he'd gotten all the good ghosts.
Markiplier
Fortunately, Hunto's name was so goofy that all the ghosts he'd already introduced himself to wanted to come talk shit to me about how. How silly his crazy ass name was.
Bob
Unfortunately, after the laughing subsided, Hunto told us all that it was a very culturally relevant name that honored his ancestors and that we were all jerks for laughing at it. And I felt really bad. And all the. Well, the ghost didn't feel too bad, but I felt really bad.
Markiplier
Fortunately, I'm a big enough person to be able to admit when I'm wrong. And even though Hunto is my biggest rival, I sincerely apologize to because it's really not that hard to admit when you've been wrong about something. And I acknowledge that I should have known better. And when you know better, you do better.
Bob
Unfortunately, I realized that this would be a long road to earning that apology, and I had many, many, many acts of service to. To give him for all of the harm that I had caused, which, to be honest, compounding with the ghosts was pretty severe.
Markiplier
Fortunately, it was immediately clear what my first act of service would be as I scooped up all of Hunto's gear and offered to carry it down to his sketchy van for him.
Bob
Unfortunately, right at that moment, my dead racist Uncle.
Markiplier
Bob.
Bob
Bob's the only name that comes up.
Markiplier
Interesting. Go on.
Bob
Came out of the woodwork literally, and was like, what are you doing with one of them hunt heads? And I said, oh, no, Uncle Bob. No. He made it worse.
Wade
Oh, my God. Was that the colon clause?
Bob
That was a parenthetical. That was a parenthetic. He made it worse.
Markiplier
Fortunately, I was able to grovel and sufficiently kiss Hunto's ass quite literally so that ol. Uncle Bob's transgression could be overlooked.
Bob
Unfortunately, Hunto was recording the whole thing, and now viral clips of me literally kissing his ass are all over the Internet. And a super smash cut of all of Uncle Bob's most racist things, of which he was saying without stopping.
Markiplier
Fortunately, all of the clips of me groveling and crying and kissing Hunto's ass attract a very specific type of sexual attention. And as it turns out, I'm into that.
Wade
I put you guys in a haunted house. What happened?
Markiplier
You heard what happened?
Bob
Yeah, you heard it?
Markiplier
You mean what happened? You've been here the whole time. Is that the button? The sexual attraction?
Wade
I think it's a Button.
Markiplier
Yeah.
Bob
Doesn't get any worse than that.
Wade
Oh, man. I was going to do. I'm going to save it. We can do a part two at some point. Some of these take a while, so. Well, we'll. We'll button the buttons there. I hope you guys had fun with that. That was really funny. I enjoyed that.
Bob
Yeah. It's a big old improv exercise.
Wade
Some of these did not go anywhere where I even imagined they could, especially that one. Let me go through the points here. I don't like how close the score is. I know I might need to fudge this a little bit. Not that I would mark. You got a lie point for lying about beating FNAF2?
Markiplier
No. So I saw this. The subreddit pointed out once again that we are stupid. Lie points are supposed to count. The thing about lie points is that they're susceptible to lie modifications from the wheel, but they are. The subreddit would say they're just regular points that have the lie status, and that status is only triggered by wheel things.
Wade
But we have the thing that makes them absolute, which makes them count. I thought so. I thought they didn't count before.
Bob
No, you can apply a negative lie point.
Markiplier
No, you can get negative lie points. Points. But then if the absolute value is applied, then it switches that to.
Wade
Okay, well, I did write a negative one because I thought lie points were always negative. So this one is negative. But I. But part of that's because I thought they were by default.
Bob
Damn.
Wade
So you had a negative one lie point, I guess for lying about beating FNAF2. You got points for rock, paper, eeny, meeny, miny, moe. Bob left you hanging for a while.
Bob
Say, look who's using the parentheticals now.
Wade
I'm the host. I have privileges. You've been reading Dungeon Crawler Carl at a crazy pace. You have free time now. I gave you a point for being a FNAF cheat, even though I also took you one for the FNAF2 specifically, because, listen, FNAF2, I didn't like it, but in general. Yeah, I'm on. I'm on board with you. I have walk as a point. You got a walk point. I don't know why, but congrats. PCP bears something. It looks like it says hump. I don't think that's what it says. Guam Jail cell. Missed. Mars racist, Uncle Bob something. Landmines Incorporated. I really wish I knew what that hump one was supposed to say. Oh, walk was for the walk prompt. You won the walk prompt for a total of 11, mark, 11 minus one. So I guess 10. You have a total of 10 points. Okay, Bob, you got points for bowling. Post always right point. Because you agreed that I was right about something I said earlier. You gave us a house tour. You said the 67 meme. Your magic trick in the closet was amazing. Mark and I were both fascinated.
Bob
It was. Yeah, it was quite good.
Wade
Living in your car, distractible. Getting an Iheart award. You brought that up. Movie Heaven, Entrap, O Genies. The sincere apology to Hunto. And then Hunted. Sexual Attraction for a total of 12. So right now the score is 12 to Bob, 11 minus 1, giving 10 to Mark.
Bob
Oh, yeah. Wait a minute. We don't have the wheel.
Markiplier
Yeah. Guys, I don't know if I'm gonna be able to find the wheel.
Bob
I gotta be honest.
Wade
We could pretend we can picture it spinning.
Markiplier
There's an image from three months ago. Can we. Can we spin an outdated wheel?
Wade
The rules don't say we can't.
Bob
Yeah, there's nothing in the rules about that. Just says a wheel. Doesn't say what wheel.
Wade
So are you just gonna rotate it, or how are we gonna spin this image of a wheel?
Markiplier
I got a plan. I got a plan. I got a plan. I got a plan. Don't worry about it. I got a plan.
Bob
Holy shit. There's a wheel.
Markiplier
Do you see my mouse upon the wheel?
Bob
Yes. Yes, yes, yes.
Markiplier
I'm gonna look away and just move my mouse in a circle, and that'll be the spins.
Bob
I love it. I love it.
Markiplier
Wade, we have to decide how many spins we're gonna do. You have a coin?
Wade
I do. How do I get three out of this?
Bob
Oh, I see. I get it. I get it.
Markiplier
You're gonna flip the coin three times. Heads is a yes. Spin, and tails is not a spin. So flip. Flip. And then we get the number of spins that we're gonna do.
Wade
So we can have anywhere from zero to three. Technically with this.
Bob
Technically, yes.
Markiplier
Zero is not really usually an option, is there?
Wade
No, but it's fine. This. This is an exception.
Markiplier
There's no way we're gonna get zero.
Bob
There's no way.
Markiplier
No way we're gonna get zero.
Wade
You got our coins.
Bob
I apparently have a coin. So you're gonna. You're gonna flip. Flip.
Wade
I'll flip twice. I'll flip twice.
Markiplier
I'll flip my phone. I'll flip my phone. Screen his heads. I'll flip. I'll flip. I got stuff.
Wade
Screen is heads.
Markiplier
Screen his heads. Oh, God. Doesn't mean much. But I did get heads.
Bob
That's three spins. I'm still in the running.
Markiplier
All right, three spins. This cannot possibly be more fair than. Oh, what does that say?
Bob
Was that free parking?
Markiplier
Did you get free parking? Yeah, man.
Bob
Okay, now there's. We have to remember to put one point on free parking. We have to remember to retroactively.
Markiplier
Yeah, now we have to put a.
Bob
Point in free parking.
Markiplier
God damn it.
Bob
I'll Write it down. S1. Fucking hell. There's so much work.
Wade
Spin number two. I don't know why I started to close my eyes. Half point for Wade, I think.
Bob
Oh, off. God damn it. It was half point to Wade.
Markiplier
That's right.
Bob
It's either that or minus one to current loser. God damn it.
Wade
I mean, none of those are good for Mark. No point. Fuck you. Half point for Wade or minus one to current loser.
Bob
All right. I still got a chance, I think. Unless we haven't put those game break ones on here yet.
Wade
Well, we'll find out now.
Markiplier
We'll see, won't we?
Wade
I thought I was going. What, you.
Bob
Off with your free parking. Off with you.
Markiplier
No, I know that's a respin. That's. That's supposed to be disabled. That's supposed to be disabled. That's supposed to be disabled.
Wade
Okay. All right.
Bob
Okay. Okay.
Wade
Two spaces to the left.
Bob
10% to one man.
Markiplier
10% chance to one man show.
Bob
All right, we gotta add 10% to the one man show. Jesus Christ.
Markiplier
Why are we getting all the weird, complicated roles? I don't know.
Bob
You're spinning. What's your hand doing?
Markiplier
I wasn't even cheating. I was sincerely closing my eyes and looking away. This just makes me think that the usual spins are bullshit. That our wheel is chock full of interesting nonsense and we only ever get silly ones.
Wade
Well, to be fair, even when you did it, we got a dupe.
Markiplier
That's true.
Wade
All right, so free parking needs a point added right now. It says zero there. So no points added for that. Even if it does, do we know who it goes to if free parking gets points?
Bob
Oh, good question. Oh, you're so right. Oh, shit. Okay, here's what we need to do. We need to make another square that says flip a coin, the person gets free point. The free parking square. But free parking only ever adds points.
Markiplier
God. You know what, guys? I started to think that maybe some of these rules need to be revised or something in some kind of boat related episode.
Wade
Okay, so half point to me.
Markiplier
Yay.
Wade
I'm on the board. Free parking got a point. And then there's a 10% chance added a one man show, which means absolutely nothing changed between you two. And Bob, you win 12 mark. You had 10 mark. But you do get to win. Going first with the loser speech.
Bob
Hey, you know what? I. Unfortunately, I lost this episode, but fortunately, I learned a lot doing it. Unfortunately, it's not about what you learn, it's about who you know. Fortunately, I know a lot of people. Unfortunately, I don't know them by name, so they couldn't help me.
Wade
Well said, man. If there were still points to be given, I would have given some. For that Bob winner speech.
Markiplier
I feel pretty fortunate, you know, it feels. It feels good to. I can't believe I won. I can't believe how many points you gave me for the terrible contributions I had for this episode. But I'm not gonna question it because I earned that. Apparently. That was a fun game, though. But I have to say that was one of those improv games where some of them it's like the whole time it's just fun and you're like, yeah. Oh, that's so fun. That was one of the ones where it's probably good because it was pushing me outside of my very narrow comfort zone. The whole time I was like, oh.
Bob
God, I'm not funny.
Markiplier
Oh, this is just making me realize how bad I am at improv stuff. Oh, no, don't fall, computer. It's fine. So it was very, very good game. Thank you. I feel very dissatisfied with myself and undeserved.
Wade
I feel like I just got hit with fortunately and unfortunately about my game multiple times in that. But I'll take it.
Markiplier
I think that means it's a good improv game. I think it just means that I like to do the stuff I'm really comfortable with. I'm unadventurous and safe.
Wade
I didn't know what it would be like going in because we've never done it. But after having watched you guys do it, it felt like one of those improv games that Rachel would have put us through when we were practicing the essay ending. But I had fun. Hopefully everyone watching had fun. Congrats, Bob on the win. Mark. Well fought lot. You guys were very funny. I was entertained. Hopefully everyone watching was entertained. You can find these guys. Mark at markiplier, Bob at my skirmoremenion777 or lordminion777. We have merch sometimes at Distractible Shop, so keep an eye on that. More stuff will be coming hopefully soon. Otherwise, follow and watch the podcast, especially right here. Where you're watching right now. Keep doing that and I guess stay tuned for the next one with Bobblehost. We'll see what he gets us into. Until then, podcast out.
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Podcast: Distractible
Episode: Fortunately, Unfortunately
Release Date: Feb 16, 2026
Hosts: Mark Fischbach (Markiplier), Wade Barnes, Bob Muyskens
This episode of Distractible is all about the classic improv game "Fortunately, Unfortunately." Host Wade leads Mark and Bob through wild, unpredictable, and hilariously winding narratives built one sentence at a time. Along the way, the trio covers everything from vacation antics and creative struggles to werebears on PCP and haunted house drama, while showcasing their knack for absurd storytelling, self-deprecating humor, and friendly banter.
Mark’s Location: Mark records from a Hobbit-themed room in a Florida house with a bowling alley. He jokes about wanting to use the hot tub but losing out in a housemate battle.
Disney Plans & Super Bowl: Mark mentions plans to go to Disney. Rivalry with friends over Super Bowl teams, especially Patriots fan Tyler, leads to some playful jabs.
Book Obsession: Bob gushes about binge-reading the Dungeon Crawler Carl series after finishing a big movie project.
Fitness & Self-Improvement (or Lack Thereof): Both Bob and Wade admit to just thinking about working out, not actually doing it.
Mark’s Projects: Gentle ribbing about Mark’s tendency to commit to massive projects.
FNAF Cheating Confession: Bob comes clean about allegedly cheating at FNAF2’s 20/20/20/20 mode. Mark and Wade tease him about potential streams or rematches.
Weather Superstitions: Wade and Mark joke about Bob being “cursed” or bringing cold weather with him.
Highlight: Mark’s brief, silly magic trick with a disappearing tape roll, mistaken for ghostly phenomena, elicits laughs.
Wade explains the rules: one person starts the story with a sentence, then Mark and Bob alternate adding to the story, prefacing each addition with “Fortunately” or “Unfortunately”.
Rabid PCP Werebears Scenario
Dream Car & Life Crisis
Escaping Jail with Entrapo
Haunted House Ghost Rivalry
Making a Movie, Exploding Across the Cosmos
Magic Lamps Multiplying
Points are Tallied: Wade humorously tracks points, including categories like “walk point,” “lie point” (for Bob’s FNAF2 “cheat”) and “living in your car.”
Wheel Segment: The crew improvises a solution when the literal "Wheel" is missing, spinning a screenshot via a random mouse gesture.
Rules Confusion: Joking confusion about "lie points," free parking, and podcast rules; an internal world of meta-gags about their own game mechanics.
Final Scores:
This episode is a shining example of Distractible’s strengths: genuine camaraderie, unpredictably funny improv, and the ability to spin nonsense into something memorable. With the “Fortunately, Unfortunately” framework, Mark, Bob, and Wade tackle everything from existential crises to outlandish comedy set pieces, making it an entertaining listen whether you’re a longtime fan or a newcomer.
Note: For full effect, this sitting-around-with-friends energy works best unabridged, but this summary covers all the chaotic highlights and running gags.