Distractible Podcast

Distractible Podcast is a pre-recorded weekly podcast hosted by Mark Fischbach, Bob Muyskens, and Wade Barnes, serving as a spiritual successor to 3 Peens in a Podcast. The trio's topics are mainly comedy-oriented, ranging from interesting occurrences and everyday events, to exaggerated and unconventional scenarios. The series launched simultaneously on Apple Podcasts and Spotify on May 17, 2021, and has since expanded to other platforms, such as Deezer, Stitcher, YouTube, and Google Podcasts. On May 19, 2021, the podcast peaked at number-one on Apple Podcasts and Spotify's charts, beating out the likes of The Joe Rogan Experience— one of the world's most popular podcasts at the time—which was considered to be an impressive margin by Mark's representatives, given that about 58% of his general audience at the time used Spotify. It is produced by Wood Elf, a podcast label under QCODE, which also produced Mark's scripted podcast, The Edge of Sleep.https://www.woodelfmedia.com/distractiblehttps://variety.com/2021/digital/news/markiplier-podcast-distractible-top-charts-1234978606/ The podcast's artwork is commissioned by Ryan Smallman,https://twitter.com/markiplier/status/1395092072168890369 while the intro narrations are done by Baldermort.https://twitter.com/markiplier/status/1395073350515499010
According to Mark, by picking "hair" as the talking point for the first segment, they wanted to show to their audience that the discussion is what drives their engagement and not the subject itself. Each week, the trio would compete against one another while using arbitrary systems to determine the winner, with the victor being declared as the following week's main host.
Following its debut, Mark hosted a forty-five-minute long YouTube livestream, where he promoted Distractible to his audience in an exaggerated, playful manner, and has regularly advertised the podcast in his subsequent Let's Plays.
On December 3, 2021, Mark, Bob, and Wade launched an online merchandise store themed around Distractible's various topics. The store—powered by Shopify—features clothing items, posters, and accessories.https://twitter.com/LordMinion777/status/1466819790341816320https://twitter.com/markiplier/status/1468280114836238337 The podcast's merchandise is designed, manufactured, and shipped by Second City Prints.https://store.distractiblepodcast.com/
On March 8, 2023, the Distractible Podcast signed a deal with Spotify’s Stream, the deal also has video versions of his podcasts Distractible.Spotify doubles up on video podcasts with Markiplier, Drew Afualo deals (Exclusive)Spotify Bolsters Video Podcasts With Markiplier Deal
==Format==
The basic concept of the show begins with one of the trio acting as host, while the other two discuss a subject of his choosing to win that week's episode. The winner subsequently hosts the next week's episode. However, given the nature of the show, discussions are prone to falling off tangents, with points given arbitrarily by the host for any given reason with little guidelines on how they are given on any week. On occasion, episodes have deviated entirely from the core structure, for example in the episode "Bob's Fridge".
==Reception==
The show has been received positively by fans, with the first episode "Hair" topping the podcast chart on Spotify within a week of launching.Markiplier Talks About His New Podcast ‘Distractible,’ Which Shot to No. 1 on the Charts to Top Joe Rogan on Spotify
==Gallery==
Distractible Spotify Icon.jpeg|Distractible's Spotify icon
Distractible's YouTube banner.jpeg|Distractible's YouTube banner
Table talk animation from Distractible's YouTube channel.jpeg|Table talk animation from Distractible's YouTube channel (from left to right: Wade, Mark, and Bob)
==References==
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