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You turn into a cartoon dog. I'm sorry. Next time we hang out, I'm giving you a mint just to see what happens.
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Bob
Web like Wade has foot chafing, loves.
Mark
To bonk and pease himself.
Bob
Moleskin Mark gives Hades a Handy Blood's.
Mark
A pet and wastes Wade's grasp on grammar. From living apart to living on Luna.
Bob
Yes.
Mark
It'S time for three sentence horror stories.
Bob
Now sit back and prepare to be distracted and enjoy the show. Hello, and welcome back to another episode of Markiplier's favorite podcast. Eh, can't confirm. Is it is.
Mark
Yeah, it is. Besides, of course, the Edge of Sleep.
Bob
Out now, Season one. Go. Just like it has been for three years. It's out now.
Mark
I'm not lying.
Bob
True, it's out now. But anyway, Mark Plier's second favorite podcast. We'll take it. I feel like we deserve the top spot, but what could I do about it? Anyway, I'm your host, Bob. I'm hosting because I won. Which. Winning that episode where we just sat on the couch and talked about whatever for like two hours is an accomplishment in a way. But. But also. That was fun. I wish that we could just do that more. That was nice.
Wade
Yeah, I want that one.
Mark
We'd have to be in the same place all the time, which is impossible.
Bob
Two of us are.
Wade
It's almost always been true too.
Bob
That's not. That's very untrue, actually. Yeah, I guess. Unless you're saying that we lived. Mark and I lived in the same state, but we lived pretty far away from each other in the same state.
Wade
How big can one state be?
Bob
Pretty big.
Mark
Pretty big. Okay, pretty big.
Bob
Anyway, if you've never seen the show before, I'm the host because I won the last one. These two guys are going to compete. They get points for me, the hosts, and then whoever wins host the next one. It's a very strict competition. Points are awarded. Points are awarded very carefully and thoughtfully, and not all in a haphazard and bullshit manner. And we always follow all of the rules. We have a very carefully planned out constitution, which we never forget parts and we always enforce consistently and fairly. So it's a really structured, really strict show that we run here, so hopefully that's what you signed up for. It's been a while since I hosted one, so maybe I'm misremembering, but I'm pretty sure that's accurate. I do have a episode prepared for today and I'm pretty excited about it. It might be a little revisit to an episode that we did about a year ago. It might be kind of fun.
Wade
Two sentence horror stories. Woohoo.
Bob
Well, we'll get to it when we get to it, but we always start with small talk and it's been like an actual well, like a week since couch episode, right? Oh, wait, that's not the last episode. Yeah, fuck no. Cut all that up. Why didn't you say anything?
Wade
I did. I said I won that one.
Mark
I was waiting for you to finish.
Bob
You said you won that one. Yeah, whatever. Fuck. It wasn't the couch. I liked the couch episode. The last one. Whoever hosted that piece of shit barely counts. Who was. Who was it? Clearly I remember couch one. No, the one between this and the couch one.
Mark
Oh, okay. All right. It was Wade.
Wade
It was Wade. It was Wade. Oh, man. You remember my Would you rather episode? It was really cool.
Bob
Oh, it was. I thought it was Mark. Okay, well, sorry, Wade.
Wade
Oh man. It's cool.
Bob
How you doing, man? You wanna. How's your. Got small talk. You want to go first?
Wade
Me? Oh, me little. Yeah, I'm doing okay. I'm pretty good. We finally don't have people in our house and I don't know what to do about it. It's like, can I sit in some peace and quiet for a second? I don't know.
Bob
I come over if you want bring James.
Wade
Yeah, sure. I like James and James really likes Molly, so that's fine.
Bob
Yeah, he loves Molly. And whoever Molly's husband is, that's pretty.
Wade
Much the other dude. Listen, he's gonna be a. He's gonna be a problem. He is a ladies man and he can. I wouldn't say. He could barely walk cuz he's like running now.
Mark
Yeah, that's true.
Wade
He did full out loops around me.
Bob
Yeah, no, he's got blue eyes, blonde hair, he's a big flirt. He's always flirting with girls that are older than him at the playground. His instinct, if he sees any, it's any kids. But he gravitates towards the girls, but especially if they're like five to 10 years older than him. He immediately just walks up and it's like, hi, I'm James. You want to hold hands?
Wade
He's going to be like 8 years old, trying to go to Prague.
Bob
Well, I think he had the day of his life. One time we're at a park. It was mostly a little kids park, but there was a group of high school girls that were just hanging out off to the side, just sitting, talking in a circle and he was doing swings and whatever and he saw them and ran right over and sat down in the circle and didn't even introduce himself, just sat down and they were all kind of like. And just kept going and like included him because he was just a cute little kid. And he just sat there and was like, it's working. My dreams are coming true.
Wade
And that's pretty much it for me.
Mark
I me, I have a game that I'm actually playing and I'm super excited about it. So my brother famously can't get me gifts because I usually buy the cool things for myself right away. But one thing I have not gotten is a switch 2. Because, you know, I'm not gonna go on ebay and get that. Even though I go on ebay for deals, not for me being stealed.
Wade
They're accessible now. I don't think you have to. You can just get them.
Mark
Are they? Well, I have one already.
Bob
Yeah, you could, you could just go get one.
Mark
Well, don't diminish my brother's gift to me.
Bob
Your brother did a great job.
Mark
Thank you, Bob.
Wade
Maybe he got it before they were easily accessible.
Mark
He did actually, because he did. He pulled a weight. He bought it like six months ago and then it was sitting in his closet ever since.
Bob
So.
Mark
But it's only because he wasn't playing it, because he didn't have a game to play. But then when he heard I didn't have one and wanted one, he handed it to me and the first thing I got was Hades 2, which I didn't even realize had come out.
Wade
You're great things.
Mark
Oh my God, what a fun fucking game. What a fun fucking game. Am I right? What a fun game.
Bob
Fun. That's not what I thought that was about.
Mark
Okay, yeah, no, a lot, A lot of that. Yeah. You know, who knie pop? But basically that. But with the Greek gods.
Bob
Yeah, sure, sure.
Wade
Aphrodite.
Mark
Oh, wait, killing. Sorry, did I say same difference? One gives life, one takes it away.
Bob
Oh, Ness.
Mark
It'S so. I loved Hades 1. I played the crap out of it. I love Hades 2. I love all the characters. It's just. Is so well polished. It's. The gameplay is so tight, the story is so interwoven into it and. Oh, it's just so fun. It's so fun. It's like the same recipe that they had before. It's very little has changed from one to another. I'd have to do apple sale, apples comparison, know exactly what changes. But it feels really, really, really good. Oh, it's super fun.
Wade
It's a roguelike game, right?
Mark
Yeah, rogue, like road, roguelite, whatever the terminology is.
Bob
I don't know if any rogue game is technically roguelike anymore because there's so many like spin off sub types and.
Mark
I have no idea. I think this one would have to be called Rogue Lite, because Rogue, like, would be like the original Rogue, which you really didn't have upgrades coming out of there.
Wade
Oh, okay. So this is the one where you get some upgrades over time.
Bob
It's like you actually. Rogue, like, is you literally start from scratch every single time, right?
Mark
Yeah. Whereas this one is. Is starting over as part of the story, and it is part of the progression, and it's actually the iterativeness is part of it. And they've so integrated that into the gameplay and the rest of it that it's just super fun.
Bob
Oh, man.
Mark
I'm only a few hours into it, but, oh, it's so good. It's so goddamn good. What a great game.
Bob
I love that feeling. It's been a good stretch of games for me lately. I have not actually played Hades 2. I did like the first one, but I've also had a few games come out that are, like, not Triple A titles, but still pretty big games. Dead Zone, Rogue, Jump Space, Abyssus. These are all specific games where they're like, first person.
Wade
I'm playing Jump Space in a couple of days. I'm not played it yet.
Bob
Yeah, it's so fun. Oh, my God. But I get that feeling where you just play it and you're like, oh, this is exactly what I hoped it would be. God, yes. It's been a good stretch of that. And I know they're like a sponsor or whatever this is. This is not sponsored. I'm just excited Battlefield is coming. I'm excited for that. Based on the experience in the beta.
Wade
Oh, we've not got to play with Mark, but Bob and I played a bunch of it.
Bob
A serious stretch of fun stuff.
Wade
And we laughed our asses off with some of the shenanigans we did. Combat Medic. No notes.
Bob
No. It's going to be beautiful. But yeah, I'm excited to play Hades 2 also, because I do. I like. I like the first one. I like games like that. I just. I didn't realize it was on Switch, too. I might do that.
Wade
I've heard Mega Bonk is good, too.
Mark
Mega Bonk.
Wade
I think that's what it's called. Mega Bonk.
Mark
Mega Bonk. Haven't heard of it.
Wade
I've had a lot of. Some people tell me that megabunk's a lot of fun, too. I don't know much about it. It's just another game I've heard people talking about recently.
Mark
Oh, it's got an interesting style I'm interested in just for the aesthetics. Right. Now it looks like runescape, but I think it plays like way more enemies.
Wade
I think it plays like Vampire Survivor type thing.
Mark
Oh, yeah, yeah. It's like those old arcade top down kind of adventure crawlers.
Bob
I just see a skeleton wearing sunglasses doing a kickflip, so that's pretty much all I need to hear about.
Wade
I see a guy who looks kind of like Wolverine, just flexing while rockets come out of his head.
Mark
Yep.
Wade
Apparently a lot of good games right now.
Bob
Yeah, it's been quite, quite the stretch.
Mark
Yeah, it's good time for games, which is, I imagine this might be the last era of good games before the AI takes over and makes us all play terrible AI games for the rest of forever.
Wade
I just hope Blueprints gets a sequel before then. Or a dlc.
Mark
The boring, stupid game that nobody likes.
Wade
Look, man, some of us played the game and some of us went to miss Paint and zoomed in for three hours.
Mark
Look.
Bob
Hey, I solved it, didn't I?
Mark
I solved the puzzle.
Bob
I did.
Mark
Eventually.
Wade
You could have solved it in three minutes by like looking around.
Mark
No, no looking around. More like cheating. I don't do that.
Wade
Yeah, yeah, that was. Watching me play games is painful. Watching that was. It was something else.
Mark
So fun, right? The opposite.
Bob
Watching that was the best experience of my life.
Wade
Oh, you just had to find a magnifying glass, dude, that's it.
Mark
I remember the first time I fell in love. Paled in comparison to my video of blueprints.
Wade
One magnifying glass would have saved you all that pain.
Mark
Who has a magnifying? Do you have a magnifying glass?
Bob
No, he does not.
Wade
In at least 30% of my runs, probably.
Bob
Oh, is that a thing in the game? Yeah. I haven't actually played that game, so I think it's fair for me not to know that. Didn't you play it? Shouldn't you know that, Mark? Why would I know that?
Mark
I didn't get everything I got, barely. I got to the first puzzle and.
Bob
Then I had to open Ms.
Mark
Paint. You heard this guy, dude, he went.
Wade
Into like four rooms. So puzzled, he's like, what if I take this to Photoshop?
Mark
I did. I did my due diligence.
Bob
That's fair.
Mark
Just because my diligence is more due than yours doesn't mean that I'm any.
Wade
You had more dedication to solving that puzzle the hardest way possible that anyone I've ever met.
Mark
Looking closely at it and tracing the letters. I think there were harder ways and I was about to find them. But then I solved it. Well, I Didn't solve it, but yeah.
Bob
Pretty fooled to claim that that's the hardest way you could possibly solve that puzzle. He didn't even get Barely started in that video.
Wade
Man, it might have been easier to brute force the letters and just guess the password. I don't know. That was.
Mark
There was a punishment for brute force. Wasn't there a punishment for not getting it right? There was a punishment you couldn't do. Unlimited, right? I had a self imposed punishment for doing it. My. My testicular torture device was set to maximum every time I got it wrong. You guys don't have that?
Wade
No, man.
Bob
I keep mine on low.
Mark
Oh, man, what a wuss.
Wade
Low.
Bob
I'm not a real gamer. I keep my ball zapper on low. Any other small talk? Anything else going on? Those were really. Those were good ones. Even yours, Wade.
Wade
Thanks. I just stole James stories and made it my small talk.
Bob
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Mark
Three dudes hanging out on a rooftop installing solar panels to provide us with stuff. Sustainable future.
Bob
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Mark
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Wade
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Mark
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Bob
Keep it in.
Mark
Keep that in.
Bob
I'm excited for this today because we are going to be revisiting a video or an idea that I hosted about a year ago. And Wade, you had a guess as to what it might be and you were close. Okay, but I'm gonna give you the segue point. And by you were close, I mean you were pretty much right because we're doing three sentence horror. Stor three. Yeah. Look, I know two was a lot to ask, and I know some of us had a hard time with some of that.
Wade
O.
Bob
So I was like, well, how can I. How can we do this again? Because it is the scary season. It's that month when it's. Everything can be scary. What if I give you extra sentence to work with? So I'm still going to give you one sentence and then you get two whole sentences to make it a scary story. Oh, don't look like that. This is for. This is for you. No, this is me.
Mark
No, this is my excited face. I'm excited.
Bob
You look excited.
Wade
He's only excited because he's playing Hades 2 right now.
Bob
Yeah. No mark staring down at the Switch 2. Like, need more Hades. Oh, no.
Mark
I've got VFX questions.
Bob
Oh, that's just as fun.
Mark
Oh, it's so thrilling. Guys, don't worry. It's. It's really good. We're. We need more Houdini licenses. Hope you know.
Bob
Sounds fun. Sounds like a great pastime.
Mark
It is. Oh, man, it is.
Bob
All right, well, since I was going to flip a coin, but since Mark is busy, Wade, you get to go first.
Wade
Yay.
Bob
All right, three sentence horror stories. I'm going to give you the first sentence and you're going to give me two follow up sentences to turn it into a horror story.
Wade
I somehow feel like I'm going to be worse at this one than I was last time.
Bob
Yeah, well, the expectation is that you're going to crush it, so.
Wade
Yeah, but I feel like the one sentence I had the two sentence down, adding an extra layer is like. Okay, need a filler sentence.
Bob
All right, Wade, start us off strong. I believe in you. As we entered the laboratory, I knew immediately that something was different.
Wade
The smell in the air was off. The feeling of the ground under my feet was off. Something was seriously wrong.
Mark
Wasn't that too. Those Are commas. These are commas.
Wade
These are commas.
Bob
They're semicolons at best. Calm down here.
Wade
They're commas.
Mark
Unless he's doing. Unless he's doing the full Oxford comma. And he goes, comma.
Wade
And smell in the air was off, comma. The feel of the ground under my feet was off, comma.
Bob
Those are just separate phrases. I would argue, though, those need to be separate sentences, sir. But.
Wade
Okay, no, no, definitely, comma, and then.
Mark
And it would be the feeling under my toes.
Bob
Feet.
Wade
Lines, commas, with an and. With an and. Now I'm off my game. What was my punchline? Guys, Third sentence.
Bob
Start again. You can do it.
Wade
Read. Read me in. Read me in.
Bob
As we entered the laboratory, I knew immediately that something was different.
Wade
Smell in the air, comma, the feeling of the ground under my feet, comma, and what I saw before me. It was all wrong. And that's when they appeared. Who?
Bob
He's not. A sentence we don't get to know.
Wade
I guess that's not our sentences. Yeah, comma. Two sentences in a row. I'm not a psychopath.
Bob
That must be what's scary. It's they. They're scary.
Mark
That would have been the moment for a semicolon. And that's when they appeared. Semicolon. The Bulbanites.
Bob
I don't know what Bulba Knights are, but I don't like the look of it.
Wade
No, trust me. It really adds a lot whenever you give it another nonsensical work.
Mark
I gotta save my. I gotta save my goodness for. My turn. Guys, hold on. Don't give him my points.
Wade
Yeah, I can't wait for yours, man.
Bob
All right. Do you need a second or are you.
Mark
I'm good. Hold on.
Wade
I'm good. Hold on.
Mark
Go ahead. I'm ready.
Wade
I'm good. Karma. Hold on, comma.
Mark
I can have two conversations at the same time. I do it all the time.
Bob
All right, Mark, maybe what you need is a good distraction because that'll free your mind for this to just be flow of consciousness. It's going to be great. As we entered the laboratory, I knew immediately that something was different.
Mark
Oh, my God. Do I get the same one that he does?
Bob
Yeah, it's a face to face.
Mark
Is that how that worked last time? I don't remember.
Bob
Yeah, no. I picked whose I liked more on each one, I believe. Maybe that's not what I did. That's what I'm doing now. Okay.
Mark
All right. I'm so ready. Give it to me.
Bob
Yeah, you're okay. Gotcha. Gotcha Gotcha. As we entered the laboratory, I knew immediately that something was different.
Mark
There was blood on the ceiling, comma, the floor, comma, the walls, comma, the desks, comma, and even my favorite Chia Pet.
Bob
Oh, no.
Mark
It was loose.
Bob
Oh.
Wade
Man. You know, I was going to protest that mine was better, but then he put blood on the Chia Pet, and I don't know if I can top that.
Mark
My favorite Chia Pet.
Bob
Not his favorite. The Abraham Lincoln Chia Pet.
Wade
You're right. If you don't feed him and clean up his poop, he'll die. Wait, those were Tom Ogot. That was. Nevermind. That was a different thing. Chia Pet's like the plan.
Mark
The Abraham Lincoln one will die as well, and it will be very tragic. You'll know when the play starts.
Wade
Chia Pet's the one where that grass grows out and gives it hair, right?
Mark
Yeah. The grass, not the Chia.
Bob
Yes.
Wade
I didn't know Chia was a type of grass. I just thought it was the brand.
Bob
She is a thing you can eat. Chia seeds are commonly put into, like, overnight oats and things of that nature. You can eat it.
Wade
Listen, as a child, it was grass. And you grew grass out of.
Mark
Literally named the thing that grows on it.
Wade
Well, I didn't know that.
Bob
Wade didn't have Chia Pet money. Wade grew up with grass pets.
Wade
I had the little keychain of the frog that poops and you have to feed it for it.
Bob
I thought that was more expensive.
Wade
Well, that's what I had. Man. We were rich, poor.
Bob
Wade didn't have to settle for plants.
Wade
We were on the richer end of poor, so I got that.
Mark
I know. Never had a chipette, so I guess I can't really say, but.
Bob
All right, Mark, are you ready?
Mark
Yeah. Huh?
Bob
I had never been to IKEA before, but this is not what I expected. Oh. Oh.
Mark
These are in Swedish.
Bob
Is that a comma or a period between.
Mark
That was a, uh.
Wade
Oh, actually. Exclamation. These are in Swedish.
Bob
All right, Wade, if you want to just concede this.
Mark
I'm crushing it this time. I'm crushing it.
Wade
How could I follow that up?
Bob
If you want to just concede this point, I'll allow that. But it is your turn to try and compete. I knew, too. I knew an extra sentence was all Mark needed to really get there.
Wade
I feel like I have to try. It makes him look even better.
Bob
All right, wait. Here we go. I had never been to IKEA before, but this was not what I expected.
Wade
The long hallways Were mazes. Mazes I couldn't find the end of. And the people were definitely dead.
Mark
These hallways were mazes. Comma.
Wade
Like my sentence structure.
Mark
I just don't think that that's. I think that that's two sentences.
Bob
I'm sorry, man. If. If you use commas in that way, I will allow it.
Wade
I do.
Bob
I'm not going to comment on whether I think that's correct or not grammatically because it's pretty subjective what is or is not correct. But I would ask how I would write it. But I will allow it. Doesn't really matter, because I think Mark takes that one. No, no, that's pretty much open and shut case.
Wade
How can I beat this sentence?
Mark
Oh, it's really hard in a horror movie. You hear, oh, that's bad news, guys.
Wade
And then Swedish. I mean, man, hearing Ethan go, the berg again, truly terrifying.
Bob
Are sweet. Ish.
Mark
That was not Sweden, man.
Wade
Sweet had good food.
Bob
Yeah, they did.
Wade
I do actually remember eating there.
Bob
Never eaten so many meatballs. All right, Wade, are you ready?
Wade
Sorry.
Bob
Go ahead. My little dog Biscuit, had always been so affectionate.
Wade
But something was different today. This was no longer my dog.
Bob
I could see that getting kind of scary, kind of horror y. I'm just.
Wade
Shooting for average, you know, just going for hours. You guys have me afraid of commas now, so we're just going in with a short sweet.
Mark
This is the psychological warfare I've put out on my opponent. It's working. It's working. I've got this.
Wade
It's working. It's working.
Bob
I'm Warfared Smart's episode. All right, Mark, I'll read you in.
Mark
I'm ready.
Bob
My little dog Biscuit, had always been.
Mark
So affectionate until our cat Gravy came along. Now they too busy loving each other instead of me.
Wade
Yeah, Biscuits and gravy.
Mark
You know, biscuits.
Wade
It's a great pun.
Mark
Yeah, I love it.
Bob
I threw the name in there to. To sort of vamp on. I can. I could see that. Yeah, no, that's good.
Mark
Sorry, I didn't mean to make everyone cry.
Wade
I was gonna say, man, it was so scary, it brought tears to my eyes.
Mark
That's why I should have run to the cry toilet instead of the pooping toilet.
Bob
Yeah.
Wade
No, the thought of your pets liking each other is terrifying.
Bob
What's that warning you always throw out there, Mark?
Wade
You're.
Bob
You're gonna.
Mark
You're gonna.
Bob
You should. You should have warned us.
Mark
You gotta listen to this episode in the bathroom. Have you guys ever shot yourself in fear?
Wade
No.
Bob
In Fear? No. Does it count if I was afraid? I was gonna myself, and then I myself.
Mark
No. No, that's not.
Bob
Because that might help.
Mark
No, because it's like in media, you see characters piss themselves all the time in fear, shit themselves all the time. You hear about that. I've never come close to peeing my pants in fear or pooping my pants in fear. And I played a lot of horror games. Maybe that's just because I haven't been in a real situation or my life has been threatened, but I just feel. Is that exaggeration?
Wade
I've had friends piss themselves from laughing.
Bob
But never fear because of how my brain works. I have actually thought about this exact question a lot, Mark. And I've arrived at the conclusion that it must be that. I don't know. I don't know if people just live at a higher, like, level. When my tanks get any amount full, like a perceivable amount full pee or poo, I'm just like, I'll hit the bathroom. And I keep. I keep it on E. I'm that person when I play a survival game. I keep my food and water up, and I keep my sleep up, and I keep everything else empty. And I'm, like, obsessive about it. People must live like, they're like, I should probably eat the bathroom soup. Oh, I kind of got a pee. And then, like, suddenly you're in the middle of a horror scenario or something, and it like, you get so scared. You just happens.
Wade
I was recently. We hung out in person. We recorded that podcast episode, then we went to grab food. So as we were leaving the house, I was like, I should probably hit the bathroom before we go. But everyone's ready to go. I'll just go when we get to the restaurant. Completely forgot to go. We went to the restaurant. I got halfway home from there, and it hit, and it was like, oh, gas station. Just 15 more minutes. I can make it 15 more minutes, dude. I.
Bob
It was.
Wade
It was close.
Mark
He ruined his new car. Thankfully, it had already been waterlogged, so any additional liquid damage didn't do anything.
Wade
Yeah, thank God it was just the rental. Yeah.
Mark
Everybody home? I saw Wade's car.
Bob
It's sad. He keeps going to the rental place and renting the exact same one. It's like, please, my friends have to believe me. Can I have that one back, please? What do you mean? It's in Florida.
Mark
You must stop pissing in it, sir. You must.
Wade
Please. I thought it was piss to own.
Bob
Once I rent it, it's mine. I'LL do what I want. Aren't you guys supposed to clean it?
Mark
Pissed to own. I thought that was funny. Thanks.
Wade
Scrub it. Clean it.
Mark
Oh, I thought you meant to the editor.
Wade
Scrub that joke out.
Bob
Scrub it.
Mark
I was like, I thought that was funny. Thanks, editors. Kill it. Mark laughs.
Wade
I don't want it in there. That would have been funnier.
Bob
We got to keep this beef fresh, huh? All right, Mark, you ready?
Mark
Oh, God. Oh, yeah, yeah.
Bob
No, this one's a good setup. I think you're gonna kill this one.
Wade
Mm.
Bob
Drake, you came all the way from Pennsylvania. You don't. You don't remember who. Who this is? I remember this, but how am I.
Mark
Gonna play off of Wade's bit there? And when he's right.
Bob
Standing right there, show him up.
Wade
Can I. Can I help him? Here's what you do, Mark. You give two sentences. Okay?
Bob
All right. Yeah. Okay.
Mark
Yeah.
Bob
Okay.
Mark
Give me a name again.
Bob
Drake. You came all the way from Pennsylvania.
Mark
Yes, I did. To kill you, said the Pennsylvania Stabber. You didn't know there were parentheticals there?
Bob
Yeah, no, you could use your two sentences in however you choose.
Mark
It's like that, the Tick Tock Channel. What do you call it? Page Thing account that does the. The horror stories. Sure hope somebody doesn't stab me in my sleep. The butt stabber laughed under my bed. Yeah, okay. Yeah, I did a piss porch. Man. This is why I shouldn't do this shit.
Bob
Don't mess with my gang, or you'll have to meet Jerry. I actually really like those as a subgenre of. They're pretty funny, Wade. Try and beat that.
Mark
Yeah.
Bob
Idiot. Sorry.
Mark
I'm sorry I called you an idiot.
Wade
All right, lead me in.
Bob
Drake, you came all the way from Pennsylvania.
Wade
I came all this way just to see you. But the name is Drag.
Bob
Oh. If you don't know that one, then you're not a real listener.
Wade
Go to the subreddit, ask, and someone will point you in the right direction. Because I don't know what the right direction is.
Bob
That's true. It's not like I could tell you what episode that's actually from, so.
Mark
It's fine.
Bob
Wade, this. This next one, the sentence is slightly different for each of you because you're gonna say each other's names, okay? Okay.
Wade
Got it.
Bob
Well, I'm gonna say, but it said it, so. Wade, you go first. Yours is. I looked at the ice pick in my hand, then back up at Mark.
Wade
There was already blood all over it. Why was Mark smiling?
Bob
Because you can torture him as much as he wants.
Mark
Yeah, I was thoroughly enjoying it.
Wade
No, I was implying he'd already used it on me. Oh, okay.
Bob
All right.
Mark
I got an even better one. Hit me.
Bob
All right, I'll read you in. I looked at the ice pick in my hand, then back up at Wade.
Mark
Man, I only got one sentence, though.
Bob
Maybe there's bonus if you could do it in one sentence. Maybe that's bonus.
Mark
No, I could do it in one. How was he still standing after all those ice pick impacts on his skull?
Bob
No, you know what? I like that. It's like you're like an anime character. Like, you know, it's always. It's always very precisely explained.
Mark
Yes, exactly. You gotta fill a time slot.
Bob
You don't want to leave the details. You want to make sure you work all those words in there.
Mark
Oh, man. Making myself cry. I'm so funny.
Wade
No, you really brought it home there at the end.
Mark
I mean, scary, scary.
Bob
I'm so scary. I knew this was the one for you, Mark. Speaking of the one for you. Here you go, buddy. I had always enjoyed how calm riding a train made me feel.
Mark
Unfortunately, today I picked the scary train.
Bob
Oh, man.
Mark
Yep, it's easy. Platforms are right next to each other. You really don't want to get the one that all black coal spillowing.
Bob
Yeah, that's just. It's such a simple mistake. But it really. It's important.
Wade
Oh, man. My options were wary train, scary train, and hairy train. Damn it.
Mark
Actually, the hairy train would be very, very scary.
Bob
Well, good luck, Wade.
Wade
Thanks.
Bob
You wanna reach in? Yeah.
Wade
Yeah.
Bob
I had always enjoyed how calm riding.
Wade
A train made me feel on this particular day. The ride had been butt call and the track had ended miles ago.
Bob
Well, that was a period that time. Okay. I was just. I was just thinking, like, comma, oh.
Mark
That and was a period.
Wade
Oh, you'll know when it's a comma.
Bob
All right, Wade, that's me. It was my turn, and I hesitantly reached down and spun the bottle one more time.
Wade
It spun, comma, and spun, comma, and spun, period. By the time it ended, I looked up, comma, and what I saw, no human eye should ever have to see.
Bob
There's no comma in that second sentence. It's just one sentence.
Mark
I don't even think the first one needed commas.
Wade
But I didn't say, comma.
Bob
You did say comma.
Wade
I said comma. The first sentence, comma, comma, comma.
Bob
You said a comma in the second sentence. You said that. By the time I looked up, comma, my eyes saw Comma what? Human, comma, eyes, comma, should never see.
Wade
Comma, comma, comma, comma, comma, comedy, basically.
Bob
Look, I'm gonna overlook the punctuation. But wait. I am gonna request that if you. You specify if it's a comma or a period for the remainder of the episode so that we can avoid these sorts of disputes. Fine.
Wade
Exclamation point.
Bob
All right, Mark, it was my turn, so I hesitantly reached down and spun the bottle one more time.
Mark
After kissing Grandma, I thought it couldn't get any worse, but this family reunion was about to take a real dark turn. Oh, that was. But period. But put a dot, dot, dot, anywhere.
Wade
In there after kissing. Ellipses.
Bob
Grandma. Ellipses.
Mark
I thought it couldn't get anywhere.
Bob
Man, this is an absolute slobber knocker. You guys are killing it.
Mark
I'm having a great time. You guys always shit on, you know, your own episodes.
Bob
You seem like you're having more fun this time than last time. Last time, there was a lot of this time. You're. You're in it. And this next one is for you, Mark.
Mark
Okay. All right.
Bob
I put this in for four. You. And you get to go first on this one.
Mark
Yeah. Also, side note, a slobber knocker refers to a hard fought match or aggressive encounter.
Wade
When did that come up? Question mark?
Bob
Because I said, this is a real slobber knocker. It's a word I said out loud in the previous thing I said, O, comma, right?
Wade
Period.
Mark
Do you think I just define random words? I guess I do.
Wade
I have no idea.
Bob
Interesting fact. The grundle is defined as the space between the back of your balls and your butthole.
Mark
I thought that was the taint.
Bob
It's also called the grundle. Oh, Mark, this one's for you. Are you ready?
Mark
Yes.
Bob
I didn't realize until I was all the way home that I accidentally bought the scary tape.
Wade
Man.
Mark
Done. What do I need to add? What do I need?
Wade
That's it.
Bob
That's the whole story.
Mark
All right. Okay, wait, no. Give it to him again.
Bob
I didn't realize until I was all the way home that I accidentally bought the scary tape.
Mark
Oh.
Bob
Oopsie poopsie. Is that.
Mark
Is that a comma or oh, oopsie poopsie lipsies?
Wade
That's. That's what I got.
Bob
Man.
Wade
How could I follow this up?
Bob
Are you ready, Wade?
Wade
Yeah, yeah, man. I just. I'll just take the l here.
Bob
But, yeah, I didn't realize until I was all the way home that I accidentally bought the scary Tape.
Wade
I wrapped it around my broken cane, but then I realized it was wrapping around me, period. For the second time. The first period was implied.
Bob
Man, I knew I put that one in there for Mark. I just.
Wade
Yeah, I can't.
Bob
How do I be.
Wade
Oopsie Poopsie.
Mark
Don't forget the oh, the oh in there.
Wade
Oh, I didn't forget the oh.
Bob
It's the setup. And the Oopsie poopsie really hit it out of the park, Wade.
Wade
Yeah, man, I forgot.
Bob
These could increasingly unhinge the further doubt I wrote them. So these are starting to get. Okay, wait. Here you go.
Wade
I'm ready for this Slobber knocker.
Bob
I stared at my phone screen as Mecca Hitler reassured me that I had always been his favorite.
Wade
Okay, sorry. I need a moment for that one. I wasn't ready.
Bob
Process. Yeah, surprise, Mecca.
Wade
You know, now, I had on my bingo card for. For this. Okay, sorry. Can you leave me one more time?
Bob
I stared at my phone screen as Mecca Hitler reassured me that I had always been his favorite.
Wade
I touched the screen, comma, Spider man holding or no, Wolverine holding the picture frame style. And then I turned around to see him standing there. We could just say I lose. Okay, man, we don't have to.
Bob
It's okay. You never know. Mark might lose his touch. You never know. It might fall off.
Wade
I feel like I've lost my. I can't do three sentences for some reason. This is so much harder than two.
Bob
Mark, are you ready?
Mark
I don't think so, because, you know, I don't think I'm gonna do any better.
Bob
Lead him in.
Mark
Oh, yeah.
Bob
Well, just you wait.
Mark
It's just because I'm. I'm in pain. And all the genius that's being channeled through my neurons right now.
Wade
Oh, man.
Mark
To bear the intensity of these amazing thoughts. I am merely a conduit to the genius of my subconscious. I said to Mecca Hitler.
Bob
Ah, shit. All right, how about we do one more and Mark gets to go first? And this one's for you again, buddy. You ready, Mark? No. Okay, good. I shot awake at 4am moon time to the sound of children laughing.
Mark
What's moon time?
Bob
It's implying that this person lives on the moon. Oh, I would not have gotten that. Wait.
Wade
Okay.
Bob
All right, all right. Let me edit it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I shot awake in my moon house at 4am moon time to the sound of children laughing on the moon.
Mark
I checked my moon clock to confirm my horrors. Oh, no. I said, comma, I'm on the moon.
Bob
Yeah, see?
Mark
Wait. If you want to win this, you got to put a lot of oh nos, a lot of ohs, a lot of oopsies.
Wade
Yeah, I'm starting to see the strategies.
Bob
You gotta have more exclamations, man.
Wade
I'm not going to follow that at all, though. I'm not going to follow that at all.
Bob
All right, wait. Are you ready?
Wade
Lead me in.
Bob
I shot awake in my moon house at 4am moon time to the sound of children laughing on the moon.
Wade
Their laughing turned to screaming and crying, period. There's not supposed to be anyone else on the moon. Oh.
Bob
Oh. He did it. Damn it.
Mark
Damn it. Why did I give him my strategy?
Bob
He worked it in.
Wade
Oh me, oh my.
Bob
Well, happy Halloween, everybody. I hope you don't have too much shit in your pants after all of those horror stories that we just regaled you with. I hope you heeded Mark's warning. And watch this one on the pooper. Because there's basically no chance you held it all inside.
Wade
No oopsie poopsies out there for you.
Bob
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Wade
You want that, Max Cooper loves that shoe too.
Bob
Oh, now he's into Cooper's food. Wow, he is loving it. What do you feed Cooper?
Wade
Blue Buffalo Life protection Formula.
Bob
He never leaves a crumb.
Mark
I love it because it's made with.
Bob
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Wade
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Bob
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Wade
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Bob
Mark, you got points for Edge of Sleep. Moleskin. Thanking Bob. Good games. The Bulbonites. It was loose. These are in Swedish. Ice pick Impacts Kissing Grandma Ellipses. Oopsie, poopsie. And I said to Mecca Hitler.
Wade
I must have gotten zero points. You know what? I concede.
Bob
Wait, you got points for. I'm sorry I insulted you so much at the beginning. I really didn't. I wasn't trying to. Felt like I was setting that up and I just really dug into you and like I.
Wade
You wrote all that down.
Bob
Basically. You got point for being Molly's husband. You got a point for Mega Bonk. Some of us played the game. You got the segue. Point you got point for. Those are commas. Not my dog. It's Pisschohn. The name is Drac. You'll know commas when you see him. And your implied periods. Yes, I was desperately hunting for things to give you points for. Anyway, somehow you both ended up with 11 points. What a slobber knocker. Two.
Wade
Two.
Bob
How many bonus points shall it.
Wade
Bob's hosting a one man show soon, probably.
Bob
Do we have one? That's like the scariest story. I don't think we have that.
Wade
Not that I know of. No. You could just say, mark, point man. I can't top anything he's ever said.
Bob
Scariest contribution. Shuffle, shuffle, shuffle, shuffle, shuffle, shuffle.
Wade
Oh, no. I'm on the moon.
Bob
Two spins. Here we go.
Mark
Like it sticks in your mind. My story is like Stephen King.
Bob
It does stick in your mind. It really gets in there. Oh, fuck.
Wade
Sudden death. It's a tie. What a crazy result.
Bob
Does that mean it's over and we have to just go to the other wheel? Is that what that means?
Mark
The original rules are that. That it's over. No more spins? You do that in the past we spun after it. But I think the original intentional rules was. That's it. We go onto the bonus wheel.
Bob
Well, it's reset because we haven't spun it before yet. So what does it start at? It starts at like 8% or something, right?
Mark
6. I think it's. Yeah, it's 6. 6%. Yeah.
Bob
Look at where it was. 6. Jesus Christ. All right, so what is. I have to do math crap?
Mark
Okay, it's 360, so that should divide evenly. That's why we did six.
Bob
But what is this? So it's 0.06 times 360. 21.6. We usually round up the rest of the time. So I'll Just set it at 21. There's no way, no shot that this is gonna land on the one man show.
Wade
I don't know how we write another one man show after, like, three episodes.
Bob
Literally, the last thing in my book still is the one man show and then this one. All right, well, it's not gonna happen, so I'm not gonna worry about it. Here we go. Who wins? It's definitely gonna be marker Wade, and not the other thing that it could be.
Wade
It did not look like it was slowing down in time.
Mark
I think Bob's got the fix button on there because that was, like, plenty of momentum going towards Ty and then back to me, but I'll take it. You know what?
Bob
I didn't buy the pro version of this software just to let it screw me over again. Okay. Okay, well.
Wade
Oh, man. This was a poopy pants episode.
Bob
Wade, give us a loser speech, you big loser.
Wade
I'm a guy who pays attention the best I can, which isn't very good. Two sentence horror stories. The maximum I can follow. Three sentences. It's just too complex. I didn't have a chance. It was rigged against me from. From the start. In fact, everything was against me at the start. I was even given credit for the last episode I hosted.
Bob
It's true.
Wade
But we are where we are, and the wheel has spoken. Who am I to disagree?
Bob
Nobody. Mark, winner speech.
Mark
Hey. I am so glad I've been practicing my horror stories just in case it would come up. The three sentences, that was a curveball. But as we all know, three is only one more than two at one sentence horror stories I was already good at. So one plus two that I practiced equals three that I was going to be good at. It was a shoe in for me. And also, I bribed Bob.
Bob
That's why the wheel spin was so fixed. Wasn't my fault. It was Mark's fault. It was fixed. Well, congratulations, Mark. Despite me scrambling desperately to keep weight in this one, he really just never stood a chance. Make sure you check out the merch, because there's definitely some there. Unless it's sold out again.
Mark
Actually, by the time this episode comes out, it won't.
Wade
It.
Bob
It won't be.
Mark
But it will be by the time the episode after this one comes out.
Bob
And also, based on last time, there's a decent chance it's gonna sell out pretty quickly. So good luck if you really, really want some, like, bookmark the page or whatever kids do these days. And good luck. Sorry, but yeah. And then check out Mark and Wade and myself at our social medias Markplyr, Lordmain 777 or my skirmish. Make sure you follow the podcast and that way you'll always know that our episodes pretty much always come out on the same days. Just ignore this past week. Looking forward to Mark's episode. I'm sure. I'm 100% confident because I know how much free time you have these days. It's gonna be the perfect crime. Oh, it won't.
Mark
But I have a different idea.
Wade
The worstest crime.
Bob
I feel like I already committed that. That's the end of the episode. Thanks so much for watching and listening. We're out of here. See you on the Next one Podcast out Watch new episodes on Spotify. Your teen adjective used to describe an individual whose spirit is unyielding, unconstrained, one who navigates life on their own terms, effortlessly. They do not always show up on time, but when they arrive, you notice an individual confident in their contradictions. They know the rules, but behave as if they do not exist. The new fragrance by Miu Miu, defined by you.
Date: October 10, 2025
Hosts: Mark Fischbach, Wade Barnes, Bob Muyskens
In this spine-tingling and side-splitting episode, the Distractible trio—Mark, Wade, and Bob—revisit one of their favorite creative challenges: crafting ultra-short horror stories. With Halloween on the horizon, Bob leads them through a game where he states the opening line, and the contestants must complete it with two more sentences—the catch being those sentences must induce dread, dismay, or, at the very least, laughter.
Beyond the challenge, the episode is filled with their usual banter: gaming talk, personal antics, and debates about grammar, all while Mark and Wade compete in a desperate (and increasingly unhinged) battle for victory.
“He did full out loops around me.” – Wade (06:44)
“What a fun fucking game. What a fun fucking game. Am I right?” – Mark (08:46)
Laboratory Horror (19:12)
“It was loose.” – Mark (22:14)
The IKEA Nightmare (23:30)
Bob loses it: “If you want to just concede this point, I’ll allow that.” (24:04)
Dog Biscuit Story (25:32)
Potty Humor:
“Maybe that’s just because I haven’t been in a real situation where my life has been threatened, but I just feel… is that an exaggeration?” – Mark (27:26)
Scary Tape Story (36:11)
Unhinged Prompts:
Mark’s Winning Formula:
“If you want to win this, you gotta put a lot of ‘oh no’s, a lot of ‘oopsies.’” – Mark (40:18)
Point Tally: Bob lists the wild reasons each contestant gets points for, such as “Edge of Sleep,” “the Bulbonites,” “Oopsie Poopsie,” and “implied periods.” (42:58)
Declared Tie: Points are spun on a virtual wheel; it looks briefly like a tie, but Mark is ultimately declared the winner after some “fixed” wheel conspiracy humor.
“I think Bob’s got the fix button on there…” – Mark (46:19)
Wade’s Loser Speech:
“Two sentence horror stories—the maximum I can follow. Three sentences… it’s just too complex. I didn’t have a chance.” – Wade (46:45)
Mark’s Winner Speech:
“As we all know, three is only one more than two, and one sentence horror stories I was already good at. So, one plus two that I practiced equals three that I was going to be good at.” – Mark (47:15)
This episode gives listeners a chaotic, hilarious, and occasionally unsettling dose of Halloween spirit, Distractible style. Whether you love horror, word games, or just hearing three friends try to out-do each other's stupidity, this episode is quintessential Distractible—and a perfect showcase for Mark’s particular brand of spooky nonsense.
Recommendation: Listen on the toilet, as Mark warns—there’s a high risk of “oopsie poopsie.”