Fortunately, Unfortunately (Part 2)

25 May 2026 · 1 h 4 min · 25 chapters

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In short

Distractable’s “Fortunately, Unfortunately (Part 2)” improv game, plus off-topic banter. The hosts and guests riff on medieval “serfs and fiefs,” Cannes Film Festival travel, gardening failures/successes, GoPro sponsorship talk, and then run multiple “fortunately/ unfortunately” story rounds (doctor-on-a-dare, world leader in the Himalayas, cannoli/taco confusion, D&D-style wizard fight, comedy-night-to-Dayton volunteering scam, and a zoo “Harambe” purge scenario).

Guests (hosts/participants)

Bill Simmons (podcast host voice for ad reads, not a game player), Markiplier (Mark), Bob (Bob), and Wade (Wade). They are YouTube creators who frequently appear on panels and improv-style podcasts; Mark mentions being at Cannes and working on a YouTube-released movie.

Key claims

Markiplier says he became an overnight doctor via a dare and later “took over the hospital” while praising the Lord; Bob claims he invented the internet and leads a missile-avoidance plan from the Himalayas; Mark claims cannolis are tacos (and Wade is confused/blinded by a shiny head); Bob claims he can speak “pachyderm” and uses lockpicking knowledge to reach the pachyderm house.

Notable examples

“LeBron James” blocks a dunk during the funeral; “Decraprio” joke; “Dayton, Ohio” volunteering loophole leading to unpaid “charitable purchases”; zoo purge with elephants guarding a limestone pachyderm house; lockpicking lawyer references (Diet Coke/can trick).

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Theme Exploration: Serfs and Fiefs

2:13 to 3:40

The hosts humorously discuss the concept of serfs and fiefs.

“Now sit back and prepare to be distracted and enjoy the show.”

Beanstalk Adventures and Jokes

3:40 to 5:30

A playful exchange about Jack and the Beanstalk and related jokes.

“I'm pretty sure I had the editors scrub that one out.”

Mark's Cannes Experience

5:30 to 7:40

Mark shares his experiences at the Cannes Film Festival.

“Can you milk pretty much anything with nipples?”

Panel Discussions and Industry Insights

7:40 to 9:24

The hosts discuss the dynamics of panel discussions in the industry.

“What kind of panel are you only conscious for for a little bit of it?”

Gardening Adventures with James

9:24 to 11:30

Mark talks about gardening with James, sharing planting experiences.

“Well, Mark went to France, which is fine, but I played God this weekend.”

Plant Care Troubles and Humor

11:30 to 13:46

A humorous discussion on the challenges of caring for plants.

“I got a gift for a rosemary in a jar home growing kit.”

The Oddities of Homegrown Produce

14:23 to 19:03

Discussion about the strange feelings of growing and eating homegrown vegetables.

“I know that's the stupidest thing I could ever say.”

Conversations About Dreams and Confusion

19:03 to 22:35

Sharing a dream involving Bob and a baby, leading to humorous confusions.

“Plus, I could let Mark borrow it, and so he'll probably get off your case.”

Playing Fortunately, Unfortunately

22:35 to 28:00

The hosts play a game where they alternate between unfortunate and fortunate scenarios.

“I just remember Fortunately, Unfortunately.”

The Leader of the World Emerges

28:00 to 28:38

A whimsical story about unexpectedly becoming the leader of the world.

“They took it as straight gospel and it sent them straight to the hospital.”
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Challenges of Leadership in the Himalayas

28:38 to 30:04

Exploring the absurd challenges of being a world leader in a remote location.

“Against all odds, I became the leader of the entire planet.”

Escaping a Missile Crisis

30:04 to 32:30

A comedic escape from missiles through creative strategies in the mountains.

“Unfortunately, my army of phone holders all seem to be triangulating my position.”

Reflexes Save the Day

32:30 to 34:35

A dramatic turn as the character shifts from a perilous dream back to reality.

“Fortunately You stay out of this, Wade Okay, I'm sorry I'm sorry, were you trying to end it?”

Conversations and Misunderstandings

34:35 to 35:38

A humorous exchange about a cannoli and a misunderstanding during a conversation.

“level back into the 15 passenger van that we were all actually sitting in, falling off of the bridge.”

The Aftermath of a Blinding Incident

35:38 to 38:14

Revisiting the humorous consequences of an accidental injury during a casual chat.

“I don't know you know you need confidence man confident.”

The League of Ordinary Podcasters

38:14 to 39:33

Discussing the challenges of maintaining a podcast with unique character requirements.

“So me and the other host, whatever his name is, just went on and started doing our own thing, coming up with our own bits, not really paying attention to any of the rules that he inevitably tried to force on us.”

A Daring Fantasy Scenario

39:33 to 42:00

Engaging in a fantasy scenario filled with magic and levitation mishaps.

“Oh, I thought you were applauding how good this was.”

Ventriloquism in a Bind

42:00 to 43:56

A humorous recount of attempting ventriloquism while trapped.

“Fortunately, one of my favorite hobbies is my, uh, what are those puppets called?”

Night Out in Dayton

43:56 to 46:07

A night out leads to unexpected volunteering and community efforts.

“Yeah, I'm never gonna turn away a pity laugh.”

Charity Turned Chaotic

46:07 to 47:13

A new legislation on volunteer work spirals into confusion and chaos.

“Fortunately, in all of my meeting people and my fun night on the town, I happened to meet the CEO of every business that worked and headquartered in Dayton, Ohio, of which there are many and very prestigious.”

Zoo Adventure Gone Wrong

47:13 to 52:16

A comedic twist as a family visits the zoo during a chaotic event.

“I was just going to say, fortunately, Dayton's the Goshen of Cincinnati.”

Points and Rules

52:51 to 56:00

Discussion about the points scored during the episode and the rules governing them.

“So Bob is ahead by two going into the wheels and feel like I was going to be ahead, but I'll take it.”

Discussion on Wheel Rules and Congressional Panel

56:00 to 1:00:06

Learn about the humorous and chaotic process of deciding what stays on the podcast wheel.

“We could start removing stuff if we wanted to No if it came up and we didn't know what it did We can remove it, that was the official ruling I thought we could remove too in general Look here, how about this?”

Loser and Winner Speeches

1:00:06 to 1:02:34

Experience the comedic speeches from the winner and loser of the episode, filled with humor and reflections.

“I feel that there are many things in life that will come at you hard and fast, and so I say avoid those things.”

Loser and Winner Speeches

1:03:10 to 1:03:36

Experience the comedic speeches from the winner and loser of the episode, filled with humor and reflections.

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1:57and surfs a storm from modern feudalism to weeping baldies. Yes, it's time for Fortunately, Unfortunately, Part 2. Now sit back and prepare to be distracted and enjoy the show.

2:21Wade:Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of Distractable. I'm your host because the last episode didn't count except for in all the important ways that it did that we remember Yeah, just because he has the host powers doesn't man. He just invalidated the entirety of the last episode I don't think I don't think he can I don't think unilaterally I'm pretty sure Unless we did make it so the host can remove one rule or something per host I don't remember if we get a wheel spin and we can't remember what it does. It can be deleted It's i'm sure we'll remember all the rules we came up with. It'll be fine And these serfs and fifes vying for my title of king today, competing with one another.

2:57Wade:Mark and Bob. Hi. Hello. Serfs and fifes, eh? Isn't that a fief, like a, isn't that a land? I thought fief was the thing you say before you say fiefo. Um, fuck. Give him a point. Fiefo fuck. I feel like I've actually got a point for saying that exact phrase before. That's, that's the porno remake. 100%, yeah, definitely. Jack and the Giant Beanstalk wink. No, it's just Jack and the Giant Beanstalk. Jack grabs his arms and slides down, scurries up and slides down. And then he climbs back up and then he slides down. Yep. Yeah. And then what happens? The beanstalk gets bigger. An orgasm. Oh. I see two paths.

3:48not once you're covered in beanstalk cum uh there's not enough pornographic choose your own adventures out there you know you could really set the scene mark

4:00Wade:un unhollowed ground that's not the word what's that desecrated ground you could desecrate you could desecrate all over if you wanted to there's a lot of words you could do to taint it bro you desecrate so good i don't want this i don't want any of this i don't know why it just occurred to me for the first time in my life that that means that you rubbed taint on it and thus it is forever tainted how do you taint things i guess it makes sense that's why it's bad it gets tainted and they're like yeah you can trust him he knows what he's talking about yeah i know about taints okay i didn't know he had an expert he's the the nice one i'm the nice one come it's implicit in that It's a heavy knowledge of taints.

4:40What did you say last episode, Wade? Come amateurs. I don't think I said that. Yeah, you did. I think you did. I think I remember that. Yeah, we all remember it.

4:51Wade:I'm pretty sure I had the editors scrub that one out. You don't talk to the editors. We all remember. Yeah, but I sent a note to the person who talks to the editors. No, you didn't. You didn't send Mark a note. You're right. Oh, yeah. This is officially the beginning of Small Talk, so keep it up. This is the new intro, scripted intro for season five, too. So it's going to be like this every time now. Give me a lot of beanstalk pornography. That's the theme for this year. It's going to be a good season. It's a growing season. It's on the vision board. I don't know if we could make it three episodes with a theme, much less a whole season, especially if it's beanstalk porn.

5:32Wade:I don't know. There's a lot of jokes there. We could milk it. Do you want to share all the jokes? Can you milk beans? Can you milk pretty much anything with nipples? Do beans have nipples? I'm a bean, Greg. Why don't you milk me? I don't even know where that reference from. You see they're making a new Meet the Fockers movie? Oh, is that what that's from? That's a Meet the... Where Ben Stiller's talking about milking the cats. Robert Fennaro's like, I have nipples, Greg. Why don't you milk me? Is this just the same movie? Just they're older now? Honestly, I don't even remember. I just saw that's in the works and I was like, man, we didn't need that.

6:09Just leave that one in the past. Write a new one, guys. No, they can't. They cannot do that. I had all the Fockers I needed all encompassed in the first three. I was in France for such a short amount of time. I was in Cannes, the Cannes Film Festival. Still not sure what the right pronunciation is. I think it's pronounced Marseille. give him a point who himself me no no no i guess i don't know whoever just made the funny you know i was conscious in cans for about a fourth of the time that i was in the air flying back and forth to cans film festival it was beautiful like it was tremendous i can't wait to go if ever i get invited back again um and i was there speaking on behalf of you know the movie and it's released on YouTube coming up.

7:04May 31st. It'll be exciting times. And so it was very nice, but man, I've never had a back and forth like that. And I hope to never, ever do that ever again because, oh my God.

7:19Wade:Oh my God, that was a lot to do. Oh, the back and forth meaning the travel. I thought you meant like a conversation where they were just like, so Mark. Yes. We have questions. Okay. It's not if we asked you questions. No, no, it was it was no no I can't I see I can't no no not like that It was just a panel I was there for a panel and then I did like one interview afterwards But it was it was nice It was just a panel with a couple other youtubers that have had like What kind of panel are you only conscious for for a little bit of it? What did they do to you? I mean all the panels that I've done so far I've very rarely done a panel where I wasn't conscious for it I guess I wouldn't remember if I hadn't But it was just it was a panel and it was just because it was at cans and because there's prestige around it But you, all of us here have been on many a panel and it's like, there's things in the industry that have a different perspective than like us who have done panels for fans and things like that.

8:09Whereas like, this is an industry panel with like industry people there. And it's really important that everyone hear these words. And I'm like, but I say these words online all the time. They could go to a video and I could just, it's not more true because it happens at cans. I was like but it is weird how the industry can work like that and there's so much that I could be like it could be a little jade be like well we do so on the internet but also it's like I get that if the entire world is all about who you know you know and not you know what your actual experience or expertise is I guess when you go to cans that's where all the fancy movie people are that are making fancy movie decisions or influencing those that are talking about fancy booths so he was good to go and it was like it was because you know i'm sometimes stubborn as a mule sometimes and youtube has to drag me along like it'll be good for you come on come on it'll be good for everybody if you just say the words you always say we know you can say them just we're gonna get you on stage on a good stage at the most prestigious film festival in the world you can just talk and i'm just like that's me i'll complain while they fly me business class all the way there in my big my big apartment on the plane just i can't believe i have to do this so i do recognize it like it's very it's very cool opportunity i just was like oh that was a quick turnaround oh that was quick yeah so i'm very tired it's pretty cool though it was pretty cool i do want to go back kansas was not like any other convention you or i have ever been to where it's not like in a big giant building it's on the beach like my my panel was literally on the beach they put up a big like cabana very fancy very fancy it was super cool yeah and i get why all the rich people went there it's like yes we will show films here on this beautiful beach and i'm like they're right they're right about that you know they they they got the spot right this is nice i always assume it's because where they invented film i guess i was wrong on that one i don't is it is

10:06Wade:it where they invented that's why they call them film cans or canisters oh i would believe that I don't know. Yeah. Do they call them that? I canister. Sure. I believe film comes in canisters. I think that's accurate. Honey, pop in the canister. It's time to watch Twister. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Interesting. Interesting. Well, Mark went to France, which is fine, but I played God this weekend. Holy shit. I created life. You've already done that. Yeah. Different life. No, we planted stuff. I just try and make it sound fun. We're gardening with James this weekend. One of the activities was we got some planters and we planted cherry tomatoes and basil and rosemary and some lavender and strawberries, which I'm really not thinking they're going to produce a lot of strawberries, but we'll see.

11:00It's fun. I don't think I've ever planted stuff before, which makes me sound like a sheltered loser, I guess. But it was nice. You just dig a hole and just cover the hole.

11:12Wade:Did you put like topsoil and fertilizer and stuff? No, we did. We did. We got topsoil. So it is like it's fertilized and we're watering them. And the stuff we got is supposed to be very resilient and it's supposed to like a lot of sunlight, which it's going to get. But yeah, we'll see, you know, but it was fun. James liked it. Now all he wants to do is go look at his plants constantly. So he's into it. I got a gift for a rosemary in a jar home growing kit. Like, it's super simple. It's got these rocks in it. It's like, do this. And I follow the instruction and I put it in a window and da-da-da.

11:45And it started growing. And it like, I noticed it was like going for the window. I was like, oh, it must want more sunlight. So I cracked open the window so it could like have a direct beam of dead. Like the next day. Oh, no. It's too much. How do I get the balance? I'll put it I'll put it outside But in the shade at a place that always gets shade And then just like fucking Like brown and flopped everywhere immediately. Oh my god, it's California The thing's supposed to grow here. Oh god

12:19Wade:Maybe the original placement was the best when it was growing and thriving. I don't know. I think yeah, it was I Assumed it was like oh, it's thirsty. Oh, it wants to go outside. Oh, it's reaching towards the window. Oh, man Mark's out here torturing herbs. What the fuck? I thought I was playing God. I was trying to help. I just love the idea of you set it up and the rose bear is like, Ah, the sun. Oh god. And then you walk up and you're like, Oh, you want more sun, huh? And then it was immediately just like, The death ray! Fuck! It's like the scene from Sunshine where they're in the sun room and they're like, Turn it up.

12:58Wade:maybe that's what happened whenever the earth got floated in the bible maybe god was like they're building two-story houses they're trying to get closer to the sun oh water that'll elevate them i'll give them some water that'll lift them up and we're all look at those idiots drowning yeah the most successful thing i've ever grown was as a joke oh it's a baby i was like hey you think this cut in half onion will grow if i plant it in that pot we have outside with nothing in it the fucking biggest onion like it was a it was it was like three feet tall the grass chute that came out of it holy shit and when i pulled that thing because it was not a big onion it was like a little small onion when i pulled that out of the ground the bulb was like this fucking big it was it was mass because i forgot about it for a year did you eat it was it good no i didn't want to risk it this episode is brought to you by chat gpt Hey, it's Bill Simmons from the Bill Simmons Podcast.

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14:22I mean, fair enough, I guess. Fair enough. I know that's the stupidest thing I could ever say. When I just grew, like, the greatest onion I'll ever... It probably would have been fine, but, you know. No, I get that, right? It was in the ground. It was in the dirt. Ew. As a person who doesn't grow things, who's amazed that I planted some plants that I bought from a store, like, I understand in principle, but it's weird to me to be like, oh, look, a thing in the dirt. This is food now. like i understand that's how it works and i understand food at the grocery store can be much nastier right because they like they pick stuff it goes into a container it goes on a train it's fucking people walk on it like who knows what happens and then i buy it at the store and i'm like this is clean food okay and it's stupid but it is just weird when you're not used to it to just be like this onion i pulled out of the pot in front of my house let's eat it let's make

15:13Wade:fajitas even like apples and like fruits and trees i'm like nah these are these are wild fruits They could have worms and stuff in them. I can't trust that. Dude, they could. I had a berry bush in front of my house growing up that we knew what kind of berries it was. And it was always the same. And every year they would start fruiting. And my dad would go out and be like, try one. They're good. And I'd be like, what if they went bad over the winter? Like, what if they're not good now? Right? Because that last year they were fine. But what if they evolved? And now it's going to kill me. because I've been eating their babies.

15:50Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway. Sick onion, though. Thank you. I'm excited to throw away a bunch of cherry tomatoes and basil later this summer.

15:58Wade:Well, Bob, I had a thing for you. So you said you'd become God. You created life. I swear to you, I got this text from Molly today. I had a dream last night. Mandy had a baby girl and wanted us to watch her for a while. And everyone gave us a strange look like, why do you have their baby? So when you said you played God and created life, I was like, my wife is a prophet. but only of Bob's life. Molly and I are actually just colluding to really confuse you. It was, it was good. It was well played. Cause I was like, that's so random. And then you're like, I played God. I created life. And I swear I, my brain, I was like, wait, something, something, and it's not right in the universe.

16:35Wade:I'm having a call of a recollection of something that I had disregarded. Hey, that's my, that's my update. My life's a secret. I've got nothing to share with you now. All right. But next episode, maybe. Okay. Any more, any more updates before I get us into the game. I got teased by GoPro. I think that they're doing it on purpose. They show you just a little skin or something? No, no, it's funny. It goes back to like a week ago where I'm like, Hey, after NAB, you know, I got back from, you know, my honeymoon. I was like, Hey, you know, if there was any way that I could get in touch, you know, with GoPro.

17:08And then it's like, Oh yeah, here's three emails of people at GoPro that like they've, they've respond to send an email to all of them being like hey what's up it's me mark blyers my channel nothing no response and i'm like okay all right that's fine then a little bit later i get on a youtube call we're talking about the movie release and i'm like hey youtube i don't know if you have a contact to go bro and they're like yeah of course we do we work with them all the time oh great can you you send in the good word for me and so i get a message back this was like six days ago now The guy who I had met at NAB that was like, yeah, yeah, well look at he's like, hey, what's up, Mark?

17:48So good to hear from you. Listen, I'm in London inner like the the service is real spotty here But I'll send you a block of times that we can talk in the email I'm driving through a tunnel while I type this I said it back. Oh, man. It's so good to hear from you. Look, I think yeah, we met at NAB. I believe And I hope I didn't remind him that we did because He's like, you know, and don't he's like don't worry if you want a camera We can send you one of our new mission one bros. We'll get you to you It'll be great. And so I responded back five days ago. Sounds good to me. Can't wait to see it. Yeah Let's chat whatever you have time four days ago checking in on this feel free to send me over your times Cans are free to talk.

18:38I'm headed to Cans this weekend, but we'll try to look into it. 23 minutes ago, I sent another email right as we got started. Just got back from Cans yesterday. Let me know if there's any time to chat this week.

18:51Wade:Dude, you're about to get the it's not you, it's me message. Damn. I feel like I shouldn't have mentioned that we met at NAB. I feel like I'm just reminding him who I truly was. He's watching right now, and he's like, I blocked that email, and he's still talking about it. three follow-up emails i get it's a little pathetic or it's very business i think it might be businessy it might be it's very businessy that's super business yeah so i said i had that crush on that girl in high school and i kept messaging her i was like ah this is pure business please get back to me could make love just saying anyway so don't worry guys i'll get one of the new gopros when it releases in stores well i thought you prompted me i found a new thing i'm getting ready for the bounties i'm not gonna lie i thought that was the new gopro and i was dude i wish i was so hard that this is the new gopro you have no fucking idea no i just i was so hype about this i love my gopro and i have the i have the media cage for it right because as the mic and stuff it's such a pain in the dick on this model because you have to unscrew it fold the legs out slide it out of the media kit to change the sd or to change the battery i found this on the internet it's a quick release for gopro it's the fucking best it's a flood you you take off the original feet and you screw this in but it still has feety mcgitties but then literally you could just like oh i slam that bitch on there and it's a it's the best thing ever oh and the new one they've moved it they moved it over to the side but yeah it's got all the quick release stuff yeah the new one's gonna have that don't even worry about it anyway that is really funny but you just made me i've been literally playing with my gopro just because i'm like god look it's on it's off it's on it's god i love this yeah but they're gonna reach if they're gonna fucking reach out to you Listen Whoever works GoPro people Listen I have nothing valuable To offer you I'm not The director of the most popular Movie in the world or anything like that But it would be such a good Bit guys If I know anything About GoPro it's that they Appreciate a really good Bit Bob and I are ready I have no connection to you whatsoever.

21:13Wade:I own a GoPro. Plus, I could let Mark borrow it, and so he'll probably get off your case. But we won't, because we know that'll be in the terms and conditions of the sponsor. Here's a review unit. The one stipulation is don't let Markiplier touch it. Say whatever you want. Don't even shout us out. But don't let Mark touch it. That'd be so funny. God, man. And if I was not me that wants it right now, I would be like, that would be such a funny bit. The agony of Mark, this all happens three weeks from now, I'm holding it on camera. And Mark is like, that's really funny, man. You're right. You're right.

21:56It's funny. God. Yeah. Because it's like they're releasing the one like in, I don't know, a week and a half or something. But the ILS, the interchangeable lens one is the one I really want. And that doesn't come out till later this year. so there's plenty of time for them to fuck me over. We're just, we're sitting at Olive Branch right now. Bob and I are here. Good thing. They don't listen to this podcast. There's no way. Unless, yeah, you're right. That's it. That's all I got.

22:23Wade:So I was looking in a lot of my episodes recently. I'm like, man, I didn't get to as many prompts as I thought I was going to do. So I've got a part two ready here since I post so infrequently these days. We're going to go back to Fortunately, Unfortunately. I just remember Fortunately, Unfortunately. Have no idea people watching or listening liked it, but I did so I'm going back anyway We don't care what they think. Let's be honest agreed. We decided that the council probably I care I Care they don't have go pros to give you I care. I care Thank you Fuck man, what the fuck guys?

23:02Wade:Just felt like the right moment I ain't marking that camera. That's like business class of cans. What, were you bitter about a thing you didn't want to go to? Yeah. I know you didn't want to go to that. I didn't at all. Man, I'm bitter about it, probably. Weird choice. To tell people who are watching this episode and didn't see the first one. The way this game works is I have a simple scenario. And one of you will lead off. And with either fortunately or unfortunately, I'll tell you which one to go with. And you'll say something like, I decided to go for a walk. Unfortunately, I broke my leg halfway through Fortunately, then the other person will go and start with a sentence with the opposite So fortunately, and you guys go back and forth through the scenario One of you trying to make it more unfortunate, the other trying to make it more fortunate And then we'll finish that scenario, you two will flip your positions and we'll do another one Hopefully that explained it well, if not, well you'll get it by listening So just pay attention and get off my back Pretty sure you covered it, that's good enough Uh, I guess to decide who goes first, I'll flip a coin Bob, heads or tails, which one do you want?

24:02Wade:Heads All right

24:09It's tails, okay, I don't trust that flip at all but that's fine. What was wrong with that? I think it was all good the old catch it off screen fumble with it then show it on get now I know what we're doing here. All right when you put it like that You can challenge it if you want there are there are methods. No, no, no, no, no. Oh No, I'm not doing that was a trap

24:27Wade:Unfortunately is what you were gonna say Did we not change that rule? It wasn't one of our objectives to change how that works Or is it? I don't think we changed it at all Oops That's one of my favorite things on the separate Is everyone was like at the beginning of the episode It's time to trim some fat Add some of the most complicated bullshit We've ever added to the show For the rest of the entire episode Yeah yeah yeah We really suck at making things easier for ourselves Fortunately Oh no it's mine I go first That is true and it is a fortunately All right, Mark, your scenario here. On a dare, I became an overnight doctor, and you're fortunately.

25:07Fortunately, I was almost a biomedical engineer, so I had some experience in the matter. Unfortunately, the dare came from a young man who was suffering from incurable cancer and thought that maybe I could save him. Fortunately, I know what cancer is. So I started Googling and let me tell you, I got a lot of results. Unfortunately, the AI summary told me that all I needed was tea tree oil and some incense to treat what I thought was a case of fungalitis. Fortunately, incense also is used in funerals. So when he passed, I was ready. Unfortunately, I was asked to be a pallbearer. And I overestimated how heavy the casket would be.

25:56So when we lifted it up, my side went, Woo! Wait. Because it was a much lighter weight than I thought it would be. Fortunately, it was one of those African funerals where they do the dances and things like that. So everyone else just got into it and we just started going and twirling and flipping it around. And everyone was really having a good time. Unfortunately when we got to the hole that had been prepared for the casket LeBron James decided to play defense for the first time in his entire career And when we went for the dunk he blocked our shot I don't know anything about basketball I'm reaching here He's good I assume he's good so he doesn't play defense Is that a stereotype I don't know Yeah yeah I think this is probably it's as accurate as I know for my entire time Learning from Tyler how sports works Yeah, Mark's on a sports podcast.

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26:50I trust Mark. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Fortunately, I was on a sports podcast, so I knew who he was, and I was able to interpret his movements as basketball moves. And so I then resumed my expertise as doing commentary on the sideline, and I started a podcast there on the spot, and I got so many views. Unfortunately, I kept getting feedback from listeners that they were running out of money and thus unable to continue supporting the sports betting platforms that were making me so wealthy. Fortunately, there's always more suckers out there that are willing to listen whatever slop I give them. So I just started getting all these guests who say they've been shunned or canceled for one reason or another.

27:35And I say, a name's a name, get them on my podcast. I'll give them a platform. So I got all the audience I needed. Unfortunately, my audience listened to me and did exactly what I said. No matter what it was, no matter who I had on the show, they took it as gospel. Hospital. That's what I'll call my new straight to the gospel. They took it as straight gospel and it sent them straight to the hospital. Fortunately, I've lived this lie of being a doctor for so long. I just took over the hospital and started praising the Lord on the way to health. And honestly, business has never been better.

28:20Wade:Can I end it now? Or do you want to, Bob, you want to dig some more? You're the OC. No, you got to stop. You have to kill this. I think I shall. Um, I like it when the rounds end with a gunshot. Uh, Bob, we'll start with fortunately again, because otherwise you're just the same role as you were last time. Yeah, I don't want to be a bummer. Come on. Against all odds, I became the leader of the entire planet. You became the leader of the entire planet. Fortunately, I had been assuming that would happen at some point in my life, so I was completely prepared. Unfortunately, to be leader of the entire world, we had to pick a location and it was up to popular vote and they picked the middle of the Himalayan mountain chain.

29:01Fortunately, there's good air up high So even though it's remote, I'm living pretty good up here in the Himalayas Unfortunately, every time a diplomat tries to visit my office, half of them end up falling to their calamitous demise Fortunately, I invented the internet You may have thought it was invented previously, but I invented it for realsies And now everyone just emails me another invention of mine Unfortunately, they might be good air up high, but there's poor reception I am trying to get emails and I keep wandering around the mountain like this with my phone Hoping to get a connection When are they going to get those damn fiber lines up here?

29:46Fortunately, as the leader of the no longer free world I can recruit as many phone wanderers as I need So I have a whole army of idiots holding my clones of my exact phone around wandering the himalayas and there's basically statues to my need for cellular reception just scattered around the vicinity they all just go hello they slowly freeze to death yeah yeah they don't get jackets no unfortunately while i was hoping for signal i missed some important messages about some war or some people rebelling against me not making the world free anymore or something like that anyway some rockets are now mid-air or something fortunately i am in the mountains which is it's really difficult for missiles to find their way into the mountains the tall rocky peaks screw up their gps signals and they get lost like that Uber Eats driver with your burrito.

30:52So I'm probably fine. Unfortunately, my army of phone holders all seem to be triangulating my position. Pretty much every GPS satellite is focused on this mountain peak at this exact juncture, and I can see the missiles on the horizon. Fortunately, several of my phone wanderers froze in comedic falling down positions and are vaguely in the shape of a toboggan. So I lashed several of them together and ride my phone wanderer toboggan down the mountain to the Valley of Safety. Unfortunately, their phones did freeze into their toboggan final form and the missiles are seeking out the signal. And so I am simply leading the missiles down the slope.

31:44Fortunately, I have the snowball making and throwing prowess of Buddy the Elf after years of living in the Himalayas. So while we're careening down the slopes on my toboggan, I'm firing a literal gatling gun of snowballs into the herd of missiles that are following us and causing them to slightly deviate from their course and crash into each other and some of them are exploding. Unfortunately, while I did manage to Like disperse most of the missiles Their chain of explosions Some nuclear, very impressively Have caused an avalanche And in fact, the entire top half of Mount Everest Is sliding down towards me at high speed Alright Fortunately You stay out of this, Wade Okay, I'm sorry

32:35Wade:I'm sorry, were you trying to end it? If you got one, you could go But I was gonna, I was like, okay Passively end it by sheepishly interrupting me. Oh, I want to see where this goes. All right, well, give me a moment to see if you had something, but if you didn't... Oh, we got something. We got something. Also, toboggan is a sled, but there's also a toboggan hat. It's a term used in the American South, apparently. I think a toboggan is much more broadly and commonly a sled. Not in my stupid brain. You're not from the American South. Ohio is in the North. We border the South. What? What? Kentucky?

33:11Wade:Was the South? I mean Civil War lines May I remind you? Sure North v. South, where was that line? The Ohio River Sure, sure, do they call them that in Kentucky? Is the hat a toboggan in Kentucky? Clearly it must be Exhibit A, I thought a toboggan was a hat I'm engrossed in this story I want to see the leader of the non-free world get out of this It's such a daring situation. I want to know. Sorry, Bob. Back to you. There's an avalanche. Fortunately, I know how to surf. And an avalanche is basically a snow wave. And a toboggan is basically a snow surfboard. So I hop up like a cool guy on my surf toboggan and surf the avalanche down the remainder of the mountain to go even faster to safety.

34:06Unfortunately, while this did work in every way that I just described The bottom is not covered in snow So I am hurtling towards the ground at double the speed of sound And triple the speed of those nuclear explosions, which are remarkably slow And I will inevitably crash and explode into giblets of blood and gore as I hit the bottom of the valley Fortunately, at the moment when I was about to smash into the ground and be turned into a fine pink mist, my reflexes kicked in and I was pulled out of that layer of the dream up one level back into the 15 passenger van that we were all actually sitting in, falling off of the bridge.

34:58And I looked at Leonardo DiCaprio and he said, we gotta go! No! Craprio? Craprio! It's legally distinct from any real people who might exist and have very similar names or roles on their IMDB webpages. Unfortunately, while I did wake up from there, while I was bored on my mountaintop in the eternity of time I spent as leader of the non-free world, I accidentally started spinning one of those little top swallows up there, and I didn't stick around long enough to see if it stopped. So in my subconscious mind, I still think I'm in the dream world and that will inevitably lead me to Take my own life Hi game is that it?

35:39Wade:Who's the host here? I don't know you know you need confidence man confident. I've not get the host in a while I've forgotten how to be forceful guys. Come on. Give me a break I haven't done improv in a minute, but I'm pretty sure what we clapped and the scene we don't go well Everybody? No Okay he's going Alright alright fine you guys are going to decraprio All over my hosting it's cool We wouldn't have gotten decraprio if you'd have stopped it so soon Yeah you were going to cut off decraprio I'm glad I didn't See this is why I was such a good passive host You could cut that off You could talk to the editors man Editors make me look like a better host Wow thanks Alright Mark you're leading this one Okay Somebody asked me if a taco was a cannoli Fortunately, I'm an expert on the subject, and I told him the exact definition of a cannoli in exacting detail so that there was no question or possible doubt as to what that answer would be.

36:38Unfortunately, the person who asked me the question originally was Wade. So after I finished a very long, detailed, accurate, and explanatory explanation of what exactly a cannoli is, and answered his question perfectly, he looked at me dazed and said, Sorry, what? I was singing Shakira in my head to myself. This is accurate, doesn't mean it doesn't hurt. Fortunately, I gave him a compliment, and that's the easiest way to pawn him off, so he still gave me points for my contribution, and the audience won't know the difference, and neither will he. Unfortunately, when he laughed at how good my compliment was, it changed the angle of his head, which just so happened to catch the bright, blasting sunlight and reflect it directly into my eyes, permanently blinding me temporarily.

37:28Fortunately, because I gave that qualifier of temporary permanent blindness, it was able to recover, but not before I played it up for points. And I really hammed up the fact that his shiny, shiny head caused me blindness, therefore getting me headline upon headline about how podcast host Markiplier was blinded by friend. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Sorry, just laughing. That was a good one. Unfortunately, we eventually circled back to the actual question that Wade had originally asked, and I had to inform him, once I made sure he was listening, that cannolis are indeed tacos, which he hates. Fortunately, he wasn't listening then either.

38:09In fact, I'm pretty sure he wasn't listening the entire episode, and possibly even now. So me and the other host, whatever his name is, just went on and started doing our own thing, coming up with our own bits, not really paying attention to any of the rules that he inevitably tried to force on us. And the episode turned out way better for it. Like the audience was all, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a better idea, yeah. Unfortunately, you can't legally call something a podcast if it doesn't have three hosts. and upon this series of events for some reason wade threatened to quit the show altogether thus ruining our podcast fortunately i know some people at the league of ordinary podcasts and they really are okay with us supplementing literally anyone else that's bald in there and people won't even know the difference because they all look the same unfortunately against all odds wade is the only bald person i know in the entire world so the league of ordinary podcast stipulation that it must be another bald person was really tricky and i wasn't sure if we could overcome it

39:32Clap!

39:34Wade:Oh, I thought you were applauding how good this was. No, I was forcefully ending the scene. The scene was so good, he was giving us raucous applause. I've even got Shia LaBeouf in an audience seat way back there who was standing up to clap, too, and I had to stop him and say, not yet, the singing portion hasn't happened. That's right, I forgot the rest of this is a musical, guys. Oh, so you have musical samples prepared. Two-sentence musical horror stories. No, you used to play music, Bob. Just play something. I don't mind hot music. I can do it. I mean, I'll do it, but when you wake up in the morning, you have to open your eyes.

40:11The hell! The hell! The hell! Now that we've been posting clips again, which, you know, we should do, because if we were good podcasters, we would do that, which we don't, but whatever. Nah, whatever. Nah, whatever. Who watches clips?

40:25Wade:This is why we only get to contact the League of Ordinary Gentlemen or pod whatever the fuck you said League of Ordinary Podcasters I guess loop League of Ordinary Podcast Bob Europe this one how could this one Possibly go off tangent you guys you guys will be focused on this This is a whole fun D &D like scenario Your gaze turned toward the wizard trying to destroy you Fortunately I already had my weapons drawn and my shield had a plus one magic defense. Unfortunately, his staff comes at a natural plus three in magic offense. So I was on the back foot. Additionally, given that he was already looking at me, I noticed his lips moving.

41:12He was midcast. I was basically screwed. Fortunately, he wasn't far enough away to avoid my heroic leap attack. So I just went for it and just... to attack him with my sword. Unfortunately, I didn't know that he was one of the most preeminent wizards of levitation spells. And he caught me midair as I was jumping and I just started going, Oh, man! And my sword fell out of my hand and I just looked really embarrassing. And I was like, Oh God, not only am I going to die, I'm going to die real ashamed. Hope no one's phoning me. Oh my god. Someone's taping me right now. Oh god. I'm being streamed. No one's phoning me.

41:57Oh man, and I said phoning wrong. It's really embarrassing. Oh god, I'm so embarrassed. Fortunately, one of my favorite hobbies is my, uh, what are those puppets called? That I know all so much about. It's ventriloquism. One of my favorite hobbies is practicing with my ventriloquist puppet. And so I start in on my routine immediately when I realize I'm trapped in midair. But I am both the human and the puppet in this scenario. Unfortunately, the wizard didn't really get what I was going for, even though I was really giving him all my ventriloquisms. And I was like, I was doing the delayed talk.

42:41I was doing the talk after I talk. You know throwing my voice over here and there and and he was just like I'm just gonna blast you anyway As if he didn't care. It's like he didn't even care. I was given the performance of my life. It's like he didn't care Fortunately, I had one move left. I Dramatically took my ventriloquy hand up in the air and then hooked it around and Reached up my own ass to make it crystal clear exactly what bit I was doing right now so that the wizard had to start laughing and appreciating my jokes. Unfortunately, while the wizard started to get it and he gave me one of those like, yeah, that just kind of felt worse.

43:25Like he, I now get that he understood what I was going for. It's just like, it was like a pity laugh. And I was just like, oh man, now my hands are all the way up here and that's all I get. And this is how I die and I'm being phoned right now. Oh man. Again, embarrassing.

43:40Wade:Well, unless you want to keep going that you said that was your last trick So I thought it was your last one Bobby good. I have lots more tricks, but you can end it if you want That's up to you. I shall take it here. Oh, man, because I mean it felt like a pretty good button Listen to someone who likes laughs you take the pity laughs even if you don't like them Yeah, I'm never gonna turn away a pity laugh. Oh, do you guys want to do one more? You guys want to stop there? Mark you start this one right? Yep. Yep a night on the town is exactly what I needed Fortunately, it's exactly what I needed and I feel very rested.

44:11I feel restored going to that comedy night Hitting the bars with my friends. I had a great dinner. I even got some girl's phone number. It's great. Life's great I won't call cuz I'm married of course, but you know Mark you dog

44:30What a dog he's got that dog in him we talked about what the

44:34Wade:I don't know if we did or not, but probably. Yeah, we did. I'm sure. I'm sure. Yeah. I'm sure we talked about that. Who needs context? Unfortunately, while the comedy club was fine, the town I went out on was Dayton, Ohio, which if you don't know about Dayton, Ohio, it's not a great town. Fortunately, while I was there, I picked up a few pamphlets about how to improve my local community. And even though it may not have been my local community, I can always lend a helping hand. And so for the next few weekends, I volunteered again and again at various places to help the town with all of its needs.

45:12Unfortunately, I didn't realize until the end of the first month of all of my volunteer hours that what volunteer means is not paid labor. I assumed I would be earning a paycheck for all of that hard work I put in. And let me tell you, I gave them quite the earful about that. When they told me I would in fact not be getting paid. Fortunately, they listened to my earfuls and they changed the town's policy so that all rendered services for charitable purposes must be paid. That's what they're going to call it now, charitable purchases. Because, you know, all labor must be compensated. And I think that's going to do wonderful things for the community.

45:54Unfortunately, business leaders immediately saw the flaw with this new legislation. and moved on from tricking people into working for them with charitable contributions to the next level of quasi-charitable non-contributory labor. It's as confusing as it sounds. Fortunately, in all of my meeting people and my fun night on the town, I happened to meet the CEO of every business that worked and headquartered in Dayton, Ohio, of which there are many and very prestigious. And I got lucrative deals in all of this charitable, non-volunteer, volunteer work. And I got a cut of everything as the person that introduced the legislation and the person on the board of all the companies that found a way to find every loophole in it.

46:45I am loaded with money. Unfortunately, the money stopped coming in once we realized that we duped every loser in Dayton into working, not working for us for unpaid paid labor. And I couldn't convince anyone that it was worth going to Dayton, Ohio just to earn some money.

47:06Wade:Dean. Take that, Dayton. I don't know if Dayton's in any better shape than we started, but, you know. I was just going to say, fortunately, Dayton's the Goshen of Cincinnati. And that means that there's a vestigial body. There are four people who get that joke And three of them are in this call I don't even know if Bob gets that joke You get that joke, you get that joke What, the Goshen joke? Yeah, I get that Okay, I don't know if you know Goshen Yeah, you get that joke, everybody gets that joke They got a pay lake and a LaRoses Pay lake? What the hell They got a pay lake They go fishing over there, you gotta pay to fish Is that a good thing or a sad thing that they have a pay lake I don't know, man, I'm just saying They got a pay lake, they got some They got a LaRoses I don't, you know, take it for what it is.

47:49Wade:Nobody has the roses. The Holtzman's Donuts over there. Shout out to Holtzman's Donuts. I gotta save that in my book for bits to you. They got a pay lake. They got a pay lake? They got a pay lake. They do. That's such a redneck thing to say, too. It's great. It's like a toboggan hat, you know? They got a pay lake and a Coors Light vending machine. I go there on my honeymoon. All right, Bob, you lead this one off. The family and I arrived at the zoo as planned. Unfortunately, after all these years, I was expecting to walk in and find my favorite animal at the zoo Harambe, living it up and in his enclosure just like he always did That was fortunately Oh wait, am I fortunately?

48:32You're fortunately, yeah You sure were Fortunately? That was just a joke Fortunately, it was a beautiful day and the weather was perfect Great for zoo stuff Great for seeing my favorite gorilla, Harampe. Unfortunately, the rogue hit squad that is the zookeepers of Cincinnati Zoo were feeling extra itchy today, and they were out on patrol with their rifles looking for something or someone to shoot, and they spotted me walking down.

49:08Wade:This episode's being called Unfortunately There's a Sequel. That's what the name of this is. I've decided. Fortunately, I had chosen not to wear my favorite Harambe costume that day, so they didn't mistake me for a zoo animal that they needed to take out. Unfortunately, all the TV screens around me suddenly slipped over to an announcement saying, The zoo purge will begin in five minutes. All animals will be released to purge their sins. like find seek shelter or good luck oh no it was animal purge and i was in the middle of it fortunately i had had this dream many nights leading up to this day and i knew that where we really needed to go was the pachyderm house like a fortress built out of limestone i knew that if we could get into the pachyderm house we would be safe unfortunately the pachyderms which are elephants, if people didn't know, are the richest of all the animals.

50:15And so they were preparing themselves to expunge all of their own frustrations and also guarding their house with extreme high cost security measures. I was walking into the most dangerous place I possibly could, but maybe there was a chance. Fortunately, I got my wife and kids to go in front of me because I was like, ah, they're chasing us. I'll keep you safe from behind. So they walked into the pachyderm's defenses first. Fortunately. For me? What are we talking about here? That is fortunate. That is fortunate. Unfortunately, despite my family's noble sacrifice, and yes, they did absorb all of the bullets that they had in their sentry guns, There was a locked door at the end of the hallway.

51:11What was I gonna do? Probably can't get anything right. Fortunately, I happen to subscribe to the lockpicking lawyer on YouTube. And I've seen him pick hundreds of locks. Some of them with a simple can of Diet Coke. Some of them are as easy as just whacking it on the ground at the right angle. So despite having no actual experience or tools in my possession, I knew if I could find a bobby pin and something else, I could get right through that locked door. Unfortunately, as I opened the door, I suddenly realized why the defenses were active and the door was locked as I came eye to eye with the family of pachyderms that was there sheltering for safety.

51:56And they all looked at me. Fortunately, in this universe, finding Nemo rules apply. and I realized I could probably speak pachyderm. So I put my hands up as a sign of pacifism and I said... This episode is brought to you by ChatGPT. Hey, it's Bill Simmons from the Bill Simmons Podcast. Have you guys heard about ChatGPT work? It's the new way to use ChatGPT for bigger multi-step projects. And when you need more than just answers, Give ChatGPT work access to your apps and files, and it can create real work documents like spreadsheets, slides, and structured reports. Get started at ChatGPT.com by selecting work mode available on Plus and Pro Plans.

52:51And they believed me? You're using too many fortunately. Yeah, well unfortunately I said that last part as a question and the answer was no

53:11Wade:Well done guys this was this was an episode uh you guys had some no but moments you had some yes ands it was a good no I was very very particular about not no butting I was accepting all of it in i may have know about it a few times that's all right therefore we know about it a few times but it was good it was dead we comrade all right let me go through the points here bob you got points a pull uh points for give them a point green thumb decraprio uh leader description of me i don't know what i was starting to write here but all i wrote was men Men Just men I got the men point I'll take it Oh mean I think it's supposed to be the word mean You were both being mean You just got mean points Those are very different words Plus one magic defense My favorite hobby That thing with puppets Yeah I got there I got there Puppeting yourself with your own hand You got the night on the town point Fortunately A joke Fortunately a joke Oh yeah because you started off with like the unfortunately on the last scenario you're like unfortunately that was a joke oh right packaderm uh hut i think i don't know packaderm something house house that's the word i wrote and your elephant noises mark you got points for i see two paths callback you were in cans you wasted in all caps like gta style and onion gopro or like go no because you're not get one oh come on man league of ordinary podcasts you are mean phoning me he's when he was getting recorded he was like they're phoning me oh no oh oh yeah they're phoning me you were trying to fix dayton with charity work uh-huh yeah then you got a charity point zoo purge was really funny uh and zoonarios i don't know you got another zoo point right now that brings the total i probably I should have been counting 13 points for Bob, 11 points for Mark right now.

55:18Wade:So Bob is ahead by two going into the wheels and feel like I was going to be ahead, but I'll take it. Did I get a cans point? You did. You did. Cause I remember thinking, Oh no, somebody let him out. Anyway, we'll spin, huh? How many spins will we spin? Please be over. One. Damn.

55:40Well, Either I'm gonna win or something really

55:43Wade:Bad is gonna happen Alright so the list I'm gonna listen to my nephews My mom, my in-laws And remove the last time we had sex From the wheel No you can't just remove, you gotta remove What were the rules to remove? We literally said that in the council episode We could start removing stuff if we wanted to No if it came up and we didn't know what it did We can remove it, that was the official ruling I thought we could remove too in general Look here, how about this? How about this? Your motion is on the table. We'll put it to the subreddit congressional panel. If that is the thing we decided, they will correct us and this will be retroactively removed.

56:23For now, we're going to leave it, but we'll say if it comes up today, maybe we don't remember what that means. We'll all pretend like we don't know what that means. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The most unambiguous winner wheel thing in our history. and I don't know what that means. It could mean anything. And you guys can lie if you want this particular one removed. You know, I think when it was proposed, the rule was actually who got laid most recently, and that could have multiple definitions, and I think someone wrote it in as sex. I think you put it on the wheel, didn't you?

56:57Wade:I'm the only one who has ever put anything on the wheel. Well, no, no, you wrote it. I think Mark proposed it is what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. That's why I think it was who got laid most recently, but you know. Well, I don't know. I'm not the one who wrote it so I couldn't tell you if it's inaccurate who got laid most recently laid off yeah that could be anything wait what are we adding let's go with uh healed the world the most since the last episode you know the right since the last episode oh that's so nice this could be like like Bob planted stuff you know he's contributing to uh creating life uh I could be doing like charity work.

57:36Wade:I definitely didn't. The amount of jet fuel that was burned on my flights to and from. It wasn't a private jet, but hey, I was sitting there in business class. You know, they have, I, you know, I never know what the difference between business and first is. I mean, business is great. I don't know what it could possibly be more because it's like you got the live flat seat and everything. But there's like four first class seats behind a partition up there. And I'm like, what could they possibly be giving them? I guess someday I'll know You gotta fly that next time and tell us It's actually just where they put the suitcases and shit And they just call it first class just to create the mystique Of like I didn't even see anyone go in there They're always sold out so you can never get one But you always want Interesting Alright Spend number the only one And I'm sure nothing bad will happen Huh?

58:28Point for Wade You know I don't remember what that means Do you remember what we meant when we wrote that down? Yeah, it's a weird one

58:37Wade:Alright, so, uh, by default Before anyone can vote on this, the winner is Bob! And subreddit, don't forget, you have You have a duty, you must review Wade's request to Remove, did we say that hosts can Remove stuff, or is it the thing that Mark and I said Where if it comes up and we don't remember, I'm pretty sure It's what Mark and I said, but I believe it's the don't remember thing, but I think we need Just need to give the subreddit more congressional power. This is a Democratic Republic podcast. Yeah, exactly. And eventually they'll need to vote for their representatives and we'll have an electoral college of the subreddit that will fairly There's too many people for a direct vote.

59:16The technology doesn't exist.

59:18Wade:This is our podcast, Democratic comrade. Yeah, exactly. Yes. Exactly. We podcast comrade. Or wait. Everything's fine. I thought I actually just shut my computer down mid recording you might have I just almost did that was almost whoopsie it's like a wizard what do you have a big button on your desk the only function of which is to turn your computer off how do you almost shut your computer off I set my point score thing on like the windows button and my mouse just happened to be hovering over where shutdown was it was a real comedy of errors that happened there that was the most sincere shock I think I've ever seen you display.

1:00:02Wade:Ooh. It was shocking. I was like, oh no, not like this. Ooh. Mark, loser speech. I feel that there are many things in life that will come at you hard and fast, and so I say avoid those things. Take the soft path. Take the road of avoidance, and though I have lost today, this has nothing to do with this speech at all. I'm using it as an opportunity to guide you towards the cushy life. I got a taste of it. It was great. I will do anything in my power to chase that high again and again and again. And so it has ruined who I am, but I am passing that ruin off to you, our lovely audience. Enjoy the ruin, audience.

1:00:47Bob, winner speech. I honestly, I'm a little surprised. I felt like I wasn't winning. And then we got to the end and I was like, oh, Mark's going to have a strong lead. and then the numbers just came. I don't know if there was cheating or if people were stuffing ballot boxes or what happened, but, you know, I'm not going to ask questions. I'm just going to take the win, smile, just assume peaceful transfer of hosting duties and it's going to be great. It'll be great for everybody.

1:01:14Wade:Well accused and said, I suppose. Accused who? Who accused? No accused. Stuffing on the ballot, I mean, the only person who's stuffing the ballot is me, so there's stuff in the ballot box. Hey, you know, you can We can insinuate corruption all you want He's not declaring it Listen, my name might be Jerry Mander But that doesn't mean I do anything illicit I don't know who that is You can just call me Mr. Mander You can follow the podcast Probably should We just celebrated five years of making episodes together So there is and or was new merch So check it out There might still be some, I doubt it But there could still be some Go follow the guys Bob at my scrum, Mark at Markiplier Me at Minion777 Or LordMinion777 What?

1:01:53Wade:It's sold out There is not merch, but there will be more merch soon Probably. Iron Lung, when is it coming out? May 31st on YouTube If you've never gone to YouTube For buying movies, you can So do, support Iron Lung Which, I mean, seriously, do It was a really good movie, I think you did a great job on it Thank you And compared to how the industry works The fact that you succeeded in not only making an amazing movie But having the success you did still blows my mind So if you guys continue to support it changing the world. It's on the wheel now. We want to change the world. So let's do it. Thank you kindly.

1:02:27Wade:That's it for me. Stay tuned for the next one. We'll Bob will host. Give us a banger and we'll keep it going. Until then, podcast out.

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