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Join Master of Menacery Mark Maloney and the

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OG Guy being Dude Aidan Maloney as they explore

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movies, music, food, and nightlife on the Mark

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Mo Show. With segments like You Just Made the

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List, Carpe DM's, and The 15, each episode is

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loaded with shenanigans, tomfoolery, and chaos.

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We hope you enjoy the show. What's up, everyone?

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Welcome to episode seven in our first season

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of the Mark Mo Show. I'm your host, Mark Maloney,

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along with co -host Aidan Maloney, also hosting

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his own show, AK219. Aidan, how are you doing?

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You're alive, that's good. I am alive. I've felt

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better. I typically don't get ill super often.

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It's usually just like little colds, but sometimes

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when the flu hits me, it hits me kind of hard.

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And it picked the wrong fucking weekend to do

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that. Indeed it did. Indeed it did. But I'm very

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angry at that virus or whatever it is. Yeah,

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whatever. Bacteria, virus, could have eaten it.

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Ebola, I don't know. Could have accidentally

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eaten the other food I brought up today, but

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we'll get there. You'll have to hear about that.

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Oh yeah, definitely want to. Anyway, um... We

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produce new content weekly on all podcast platforms

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on YouTube. We also have some one -off interviews

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coming your way. We had one with the YMCA. We

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got a few more coming up in the near future.

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And if you like the Mark Mo Show, check out my

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Celtic punk and alt rock every Tuesday night

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at 9 p .m. Central Standard Time and Friday at

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4 p .m. Central Standard Time. You should also

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check out the Guys Being Dudes AK219 podcast

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with Aidan Maloney and Kevin Boland. You got

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some new content out there, Aidan? Yeah, we do.

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We had a video kind of pop off recently. We played

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this game called Dream Daddy, a dad dating simulator.

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Oh, okay. Okay, Daddy. Kevin's kind of the lead

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character. He plays our dad. Oh. We, of course,

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go out and meet and date other dads. So that

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video kind of... popped off in a good way. We

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got back to golf with your friends recently as

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well, which was super fun. People seem to like

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that one. Yeah, I agree. So it's been good. It's

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been really fun. We missed last week, which is

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unfortunate. But I mean, hey, between my illness

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and Kevin's Kevining, we do what we can with

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what we have. But if anyone's missing AK219 this

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week, you know, always check out my channel,

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Aiden Spell the Right Way. I got some fun stuff

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over there, too. And all of it is for free! And

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it's free. I mean, that's free, it's for me.

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And on AK219 or Aidan's personal page or the

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Mark Mo Show, like and subscribe. That'd be fantastic

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and we appreciate each and every one of you listening

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into our content every week. And this particular

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show, we try to keep it light. Now the last couple

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of episodes... hasn't been so light at the beginning,

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but we at least tried to make it kind of funny.

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That's true. It's a skill. It's a skill to be

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able to take some more serious content that you're

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amped up about, and kind of lighten that up a

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shade, if you can. And we've tried to do that.

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It's kind of why we call it the opening dialogue,

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because it's kind of in line with that late night

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host opening monologue, always having a political

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tinge to it, and finding the comedy. dog shit

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country we're in. Oh man, no doubt about it.

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I mean, what happened? We went from the shining

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city on the hill, or whatever the hell Reagan

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said years ago, to like... We're next to the

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trailer park boys. I mean, it's not. We are the

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trailer park. We are the trailer park. Amongst

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our neighbors. Yeah, we really are. So it's a

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thing now. It is definitely a thing. But hey,

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what's the crack, Aiden? One of the biggest party

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weekends is here. Not quite over yet. We got

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another day of partying. And by the time all

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you wonderful, beautiful people listen to this,

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St. Patty's a day, week, or weekend will be in

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the books. Or, you're listening on St. Patty's

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Day, in which case, go ham. Tuesday's still several

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hours away. That's right, it really is, and so

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hopefully you'll have a pint in your hand and

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all the finest meats and cheeses and potatoes

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you can eat and just enjoy the day. That's kind

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of the point. As the good Lord St. Patrick would

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have wanted. Indeed, indeed. So hopefully everybody

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has a St. Patty's Day. I, like a lot of other

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Irish Americans, We are incredibly inclusive.

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I don't care if you're Irish or not, man. Come

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party with us. Uh, it's just about having a good

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time. It's a celebration, baby. It's a celebration.

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No one's excluded. No, not at all. And uh, and

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it's Paddy, by the way, it's Paddy's Day. So

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it's Paddy, P -A -D -D -Y, and Paddy is short

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for Padraig, which is Gaelic for Patrick. You

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may have heard that name just a moment ago. I

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think you did. And was that my name on my fake

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ID that I may or may not have had for most of

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college? The answer is yes. And if you're out

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there, Padraig McQuillen, thank you. Thank you

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for many years of bar going. Doing the Lord's

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work, brother. He really was. He really, really

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was. You know, did he have brown curly hair and

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dark eyes and he was 5 '5"? And I'm none of those?

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And it worked? Yes. It's all about the attitude.

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It's all about the attitude. The guy had a certain

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look on his face on the ID. Yeah. So I tried

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to mimic that when I got to the door, because

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he just had kind of this unimpressed look on

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his face. So I'm like, I'll have to get that

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looked out. So every time it went up, I was like,

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hmm, just had this look on my face, and just

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handed the ID, and it worked like a charm every

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time. It was unbelievable. That's beautiful.

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It was unreal. So yeah, so it's P -A -D -D -Y.

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Get it right. Pati, P -A -T -T -Y. You put on

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a burger bun, or it's sure for Patricia. So get

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it right, you fuck in facts. A fair point. A

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beautiful point to make. That's all I'm saying.

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Every time I see an ad for Pat -to -ee, I'm like

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dudes. Dudes. You're either making a clever pun

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and selling me a burger. True. Or you are sorely

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mistaken and you got it wrong. And hey, some

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people need a learning experience that we're

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here for, right? That's right. We are your teachers

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today. Indy, we will teach you, we will instruct

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you. And if you get it wrong after this, that's

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when the discipline comes in. Yes, that is when

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the discipline comes in. Kevin Boland is very

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familiar with that form of discipline. He's got

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like three or four spankings at the ready. Oh,

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for sure. Already queued up. Already queued up,

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ready to roll. But Aidan and I love the high

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holidays because of our Irish heritage. We have

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family mostly from County Cork and County Mayo.

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My grandfather Thomas immigrated from a tiny

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town called Ballyhannis. My father, when he was

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a young boy, he used to do the Irish jig on top

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of bars. So his father then could earn the money

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the people would throw in the hat that they were

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actually giving to my dad, because he was the

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one doing the dancing of the Irish jig to the

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music, but the bar would actually go to Thomas's

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beer tab. That's awesome So yeah, that's Ireland

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baby. That's it's Ireland and Chicago In a nutshell

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perfectly combined Growing up on the south side

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so when I grew up on the south side It was a

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little bit different where heritage was still

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important to us But I didn't have to shake my

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ass on any bar right for my old man. So that

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was probably a good thing but there are many

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Americans out there who are proud of their family

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and where it's from, and AirFlex kind of how

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we live our lives, and all of that. America is

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really interesting that way, obviously. Culturally,

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sure. Culturally. And it's not one of those things

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that, oh, it's so divided because there's a Puerto

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Rican neighborhood here and a Mexican neighborhood

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there and an Irish neighborhood here. I think

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it's great because you're saying you're American,

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but you're still appreciating where your family

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came from and adopting some of those traditions.

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And I think it's great because then if I go to

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that Puerto Rican neighborhood or I go to the

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Mexican neighborhood, I'm going to listen to

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the music and I'm going to have the food and

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I'm just going to soak up their culture and learn

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more about that. So I think it's extraordinary.

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I think so too. And I think that's kind of the

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original idea of the melting pot of America,

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how it was supposed to be the sharing and appreciation

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of different cultures. And it's unfortunate to

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see that there are different groups that may

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try and gatekeep or bogart certain things, but

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I think it's best to focus on the positives and

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realize that like, hey, whether it's a cultural

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holiday like St. Patrick's Day, or even Cinco

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de Mayo, which is in our near future as well,

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I mean, It's meant to be fun. Everyone should

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be sharing and sharing their culture and history

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and enjoying each other's company. And I think

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that's what's important. It is what's important.

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And those are great points. And I love sharing

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my cultural heritage with others. I haven't been

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drinking today, well, very much. Which is a damn

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shame, very un -Irish. I know, I gotta get on

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it, but I was like, well... Well... I'm doing

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a podcast I should probably not... Keep it for

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the latter segments. We'll keep it for the latter

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segments, because towards the end of the show

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we're gonna... We're going to review a beer.

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We've got a beer review. We've got a beer review.

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So we're going to slam that. I mean, we're going

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to drink those. Appreciate them. Anyway. Anyway.

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But yeah, we enjoy sharing our heritage and our

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culture with others. And we love when people

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do that with us. It's awesome. I love it. So,

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you know, I kind of pointed out like growing

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up, like today I thought a lot about my mom and

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dad, his grandma and grandpa. And because they

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were so They were so important in that upbringing

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in this Irish -American household. And so on

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a day like this, they're missed because that

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was such a huge part of that day. The South Side

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Irish Parade in Chicago literally runs through

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our backyard. And so it is so important. And

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not just in terms of the Irish heritage in that

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particular community or on the South Side of

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Chicago. but also just our family. And it was

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so important because, you know, we would all

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come together and we would all go to their house

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and hang out and have corned beef and just, like,

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do the whole thing, right? Yeah. And it was always

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great. I agree. It was the equivalent of Thanksgiving

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that, of course, most Americans know. It was

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that, but in March, you know? Yep. Yep. Very

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much so. I would agree with that. And so I'm

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curious, like, if you share with the audience

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here some of your impressions. growing up because

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it might be a little different the minor it'd

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be different than it was for your grandfather

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yeah for sure and i think i can split this up

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into two different eras of my life because we

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had the pre -drinking area and we had the post

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-drinking age era so the pre -drinking age era

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was baloney bowl you know going out to the south

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side playing You know playing an hour or two

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of football before the parade starts or soccer.

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We did soccer one year and that was true That

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soccer was super fun. So blarney bowl was always

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a great time and then You know going out seeing

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the south side parade Hanging out with family

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fox's pizza Shout out not sponsored but definite

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shout out on that that fox's pizza coming back

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home Having that mashed potatoes that coal cannon

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coal can corned beef watching the quiet man At

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least getting a smell of what Guinness was what

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was to be in my life And then the post -drinking

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age You know going out to Kitty O'Shea's on the

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Chicago Parade and then of course the Sunday

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South Side Parade All the same except now I drink

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Guinness at Fox's Pizza, which is a bonus. Yes

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And it's just been wonderful kind of how these

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traditions live on and even evolve in certain

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ways. It's just really a good time. And the point

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we were bringing up earlier about the whole idea

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of the culture and watching these classic Irish

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movies, drinking these Irish beers, enjoying

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this traditional Irish food. I may not have known

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my great grandfather or much of that extended

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family because I didn't exist yet. But, you know,

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being able to partake in enjoying that culture

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is really, really fun. Yeah, it really is. And

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there's a lot of history. There's a lot of history

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there, too. Not all of it's good. And I think

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that goes for a lot of cultures. You know, the

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good stuff and the bad stuff. But it's all part

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of the history. And you have to, you know, you

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have to take that in. We'll talk a little bit

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about that when I do an interesting twist on

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our review preview this week where I talk about

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some Irish movies and not all of them are gonna

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be a glow up, you know, they're not just gonna

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make you all shiny happy people and smiling and

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all that sort of stuff. Sure, yeah. Yeah, some

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of it's some pretty serious stuff and can even

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make you kind of angry. Right. Oh, I know. Oh,

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I know. But that being said, It's all part of

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it, and it's an important history. It's something

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that you should learn, and whatever culture you

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are, and I know we have a lot of international

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listeners out there, so I'm sure it maybe is

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a little bit different in your country, but I

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imagine, for example, like in Germany, There's

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probably maybe pockets of Irish that live in

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Germany or in France, something along those lines,

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maybe like in the Philippines. Sure. Hello to

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our fans in the Philippines. You know, maybe

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there's pockets of Americans that live there

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and maybe there's this American culture that

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I don't often see here. Sure. But maybe overseas

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because of people in the military or people that

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just work internationally or whatever the case

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is Maybe there's something there or perhaps because

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we're so used to this immersive International

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culture coming into this country. Maybe when

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we go other places we're like, oh, we're just

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gonna jump right into this right, right? It's

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not so much like oh, I need to bring all of my

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Merica with me, right? Instead, it's like, oh,

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I'm in the Philippines. I'm in Japan. Let's see

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what this is all about. Right. And I think that's

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probably more the case, if I had to guess. Sure.

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And I love that for the majority of us, but I

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have heard there are some nightmare tourists

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out there who just... just shit on wherever they

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go and it's... Don't be that person. No, don't.

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Don't be that person. If you're going somewhere,

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enjoy the culture, appreciate it. Don't try and

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bend it to your will. You're there to... not

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assimilate, but to appreciate where you are and

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its history and culture. So just go out there

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and have fun. If there's any lovely listeners

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out there who maybe aren't as familiar with St.

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Patrick's Day, but you have your own national

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holiday or cultural holidays you would like to

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share, hit us up on the socials. That would be

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really cool to hear. Most definitely. We would

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love to hear it. And wherever you are, because

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I know St. Patty's Day is so unique. Right. Because

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it's like st. Patrick and st. Patrick. He was

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like Italian and then he lived in England and

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it's an Irish thing There's like a whole thing

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right and trying to figure out who this dude

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was and and and Why it's an Irish thing and like

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he did the thing with the snakes, huh? But he

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did the thing with the snakes is the Pied Piper

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He's out there Then here come all the snakes

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like yo a Leon a check this guy out Hey, this

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guy's not walking here. We need to follow this

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guy. I don't know why, so just follow him. Hear

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him out, man. And boom, all the snakes are gone.

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And one would say, wow, how many snakes does

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Ireland have? Well. Well, you're welcome. Yeah.

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You're welcome. That's why we celebrate. That's

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exactly why we celebrate it. But I love the fact

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that even though it's this Catholic day. You

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know because there's st. Brigid's day and st.

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Anthony and all these other various things all

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these other saints It's it's not so much about

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it being catholic Anymore, it's it's more of

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an irish heritage day. Sure, uh and just the

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whole irish lore and and the irish have always

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been Kind of adored and appreciated throughout

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the globe because when they go places, they're

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just like wow They're so super nice and it is

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they're kind of like Canadians. Right, right.

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They're just nice and they love life and people

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love when they come to their country and and

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so I think that's largely why you can go to France

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or you can go to Germany you can go to Japan

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and like there's St. Patty's Day celebrations.

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Right, right. I love that. Yeah. I think it's

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great. It's also a fair point why the Irish passport

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is so powerful. It is. Yeah, Irish, yeah, we

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trust you. Yeah, like all the passport, yeah,

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all the people checking the passports and, you

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know, they're just like, you know, going through,

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going through, and then they get to the Irish

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one, they're like, oh, how are you today? Aren't

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you a nice Irish lad? Don't bring it down in.

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Do you have any Guinness? Would you like some?

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Yeah, I mean, it's just it's crazy. It's crazy,

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but I love it and hopefully one day we'll have

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an Irish passport Hopefully in the coming years

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working on that that would be fantastic That's

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that's gonna be a goal for sure. But at any rate,

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Happy St. Patty's Day to each and every one of

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you and We are gonna take a quick break and we

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return Carpe Diem here in the Mark Mo show All

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right, we are back everybody. This is the Mark

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Mo Show and it is time for CarPay DM. You find

00:19:51.980 --> 00:19:55.519
beautiful folks, send us your DMs, can send them

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to our socials. The Mark Mo Show, Mark Maloney,

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that's my page all over socials. And it's at

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what, Instagram and Twitter and Facebook and

00:20:07.319 --> 00:20:10.150
all sorts of things. Send your DMs to us. With

00:20:10.150 --> 00:20:12.369
Aidan, you can do it to AK219. You can do it

00:20:12.369 --> 00:20:13.930
to Aidan Maloney. Whatever you want to do, send

00:20:13.930 --> 00:20:16.670
us your DMs and we will read them on the air.

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And if it's a question, we'll answer it. Maybe.

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Within reason. Within reason. We're not legally

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obligated to, but we'll do it for you. We might.

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We might do it, for sure. I have a few this week.

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Oh, okay. And the first one I have is from At

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Kiss My Blarney Stone. Beautiful name. Oh, it's

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beautiful. Did I see the leader of Ireland went

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to visit Trump? Oh, no. Right, exactly. At the

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White House, before Patty's day, I sure hope

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he told him to fuck right off. Oh, man. You and

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me both, brother. You and me both. I mean...

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I'm not sure he did. There's only so many choice

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words we have for people like that. Right. You

00:21:02.769 --> 00:21:08.119
know, 34 times felons. General I was disappointed.

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I was disappointed. He went right like he'd like

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if you would have been invited I'd have been

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like well Let me check your calendar and I would

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have ghosted him out and never got back to him

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and then I would have like Talked to the mayor

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of Boston or New York or Chicago or something

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like yeah, man. I'll come to your place Yeah,

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and just done it that way pull a Philadelphia

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Eagles and be like nah Just like thank you. Yeah,

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I I couldn't I couldn't do that and then Trump

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insulted him anyway Yeah, it's like what did

00:21:34.759 --> 00:21:37.809
you expect like no shit? Have you not seen the

00:21:37.809 --> 00:21:40.670
other interviews with this piece of human dog

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shit? Right. Just don't go. Just don't go. It's

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like seeing traffic in the street and going,

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well, all right then. Maybe I'll step out there

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and just see if it hurts. It's so stupid. It's

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so stupid. And I don't know. Hopefully the rest

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of the world seems to be on to this. There's

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about 30 % Americans that aren't. And do you

00:22:02.369 --> 00:22:04.910
find, folks? I'd say you're not fine, folks,

00:22:05.170 --> 00:22:08.089
and you got a problem. And you need to wake up

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and figure some shit out, because this dude is

00:22:11.430 --> 00:22:15.049
a piece of garbage. All right. Am I good? Yeah,

00:22:15.190 --> 00:22:17.049
absolutely. Yeah, my face didn't flush. I am

00:22:17.049 --> 00:22:20.750
with you on all points. I feel warm. Anyway,

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the next one, at shamrockandroll, love your show.

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Do you prefer Irish folk music or Irish rock

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music? Oh, no. Great question. Fuck you. Yeah,

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right. How dare you pit two bad bitches against

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each other? How dare you? Shame on thee. I am

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a huge fan of both. Yeah. And I would say, I

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know this is a corny half answer, but I would

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say it depends on the mood. Because if I'm feeling

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hyped up and maybe slightly enraged, Irish rock

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music all the way, 100%. But if I'm feeling more

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You know st. Patty's day without the rage then

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it's got to be the folk music sure I would lean

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towards Irish rock though Yeah, I would agree.

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You know because you're talking like tossers

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dropkick Murphy's flogging Molly's all you know

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all of that and I like all of that. I play a

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lot of that on my radio show after hours WVLP

00:23:23.880 --> 00:23:28.099
org check that out ABC always be plug -in always

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be plug -in all the time so While I love that

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I I do also like I grew up on the folk music,

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right? I would agree and That's what really hits

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home for me because I could sit there and I can

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listen to The Dubliners I can listen to the Chieftains

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Pogues the Pogues any of that and just really

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appreciate the hell out of it, you know and and

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so that boy what a question That's like that's

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like a tie right? Yeah because it's like i know

00:24:02.269 --> 00:24:04.750
it's easy way out but yeah well i was kind of

00:24:04.750 --> 00:24:07.730
in the same boat but it's more so like nostalgia

00:24:07.730 --> 00:24:12.009
versus mood you know at that point so that's

00:24:12.009 --> 00:24:15.569
that's a tight race i gotta say for sure um i've

00:24:15.569 --> 00:24:19.650
got one from at irish eyes 324 i will give you

00:24:19.650 --> 00:24:25.150
ten thousand dollars cash and a tiny whoop where's

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it at a tiny what tiny what What are you giving

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me? $10 ,000 cash in a tiny Irish cottage with

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lots of land in a poor rural part of Ireland,

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or $25 ,000 cash in a condo on South Beach? Take

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me to Ireland. I didn't even need the extra 10k.

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That's just the cherry on top. Get me the hell

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out of here. I will take the 10k, move to rural

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Ireland every day of the week. Every day of the

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week. I'm sure I could drive a tractor trailer

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out in Ireland. Oh, yeah, they drive trucks.

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You just gotta go on the other side. Eh, I think

00:25:01.859 --> 00:25:04.640
I'd be fine. If I can parallel park on the correct

00:25:04.640 --> 00:25:07.059
side of the road, I figure I could drive normally

00:25:07.059 --> 00:25:08.619
on the other side of the road. I think that's

00:25:08.619 --> 00:25:11.359
fair. Yeah. That's a fair comment. The last one

00:25:11.359 --> 00:25:13.140
I've got for you. Oh, by the way, I suppose I

00:25:13.140 --> 00:25:14.500
should get my answer. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah,

00:25:14.500 --> 00:25:17.099
I'm going to Ireland. Yeah, for sure. So, and

00:25:17.099 --> 00:25:20.660
I love South Beach, so that says a lot. At Stoner

00:25:20.660 --> 00:25:24.420
Stanley. Oh, my man. 420 Argyle. Living the high

00:25:24.420 --> 00:25:30.519
holidays. Indeed he is. Hey Alan and Momo. Jesus

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God. God bless you Alan. I have a new product

00:25:35.119 --> 00:25:40.359
called Irish I was high. Must be that new strain

00:25:40.359 --> 00:25:43.200
they're talking about. Packs a great buzz my

00:25:43.200 --> 00:25:49.359
guys. Oh yeah okay. Then he says Kevin go bye

00:25:49.359 --> 00:25:55.579
bye. Oh no. He's a gimp in my basement with Marcella

00:25:55.579 --> 00:26:03.400
Walle. Bye. Stanley, you are a very unique person

00:26:03.400 --> 00:26:07.440
to hear from every week. I think he met Marcellus

00:26:07.440 --> 00:26:10.470
Wallace. That's what I figured as well. He kind

00:26:10.470 --> 00:26:12.930
of messes names a little bit. Yeah, that happens.

00:26:12.930 --> 00:26:15.930
It's close usually. A whole Momo thing. Yeah.

00:26:16.490 --> 00:26:19.410
It just happens with him. I will not partake

00:26:19.410 --> 00:26:22.230
in that brand new strain because I cannot with

00:26:22.230 --> 00:26:24.529
my current profession. But for anyone out there

00:26:24.529 --> 00:26:26.990
who does partake, I give it a shot, I guess.

00:26:27.009 --> 00:26:29.890
Let us know. Yeah. Let us know how that buzz

00:26:29.890 --> 00:26:33.569
gets on for you. For sure. No doubt. But yeah,

00:26:33.569 --> 00:26:36.650
kind of worried since Kevin and I, of course,

00:26:36.750 --> 00:26:41.200
missed this week. Last week, rather. I, uh, Kev

00:26:41.200 --> 00:26:45.539
Go Bye Bye maybe played a part. Maybe. I'm not

00:26:45.539 --> 00:26:48.240
sure how that panned out. Not sure how that panned

00:26:48.240 --> 00:26:52.640
out with him being in a rubber suit in Stanley's

00:26:52.640 --> 00:26:56.099
basement with Marcello Walli. Marcello Walli.

00:26:57.920 --> 00:27:00.579
I almost said Martellus Bennett. Oh, no. I was

00:27:00.579 --> 00:27:03.539
like, oh, man. Now we're going to get DMs from

00:27:03.539 --> 00:27:05.759
Mike. Like, man, what are you talking about?

00:27:06.279 --> 00:27:09.759
I'm not down there. Oh, jeez. Well, yeah, those

00:27:09.759 --> 00:27:12.619
are my DMs for the week. All righty. I got some

00:27:12.619 --> 00:27:16.160
DMs myself here. We got one here from our boy

00:27:16.160 --> 00:27:20.640
Gumbo Gregory. Ah, Gumbo. They ask, five items

00:27:20.640 --> 00:27:24.819
only, what's your last meal? Five items only,

00:27:24.920 --> 00:27:28.940
what's my last meal? Five items only. OK. It's

00:27:28.940 --> 00:27:31.339
a tough question. You got to limit it, right?

00:27:32.220 --> 00:27:38.960
Yep. I'm going to say. Rico Bene's breaded steak

00:27:38.960 --> 00:27:43.559
sandwich. Good choice. A Chicago -style thin

00:27:43.559 --> 00:27:48.200
crust tavern style pizza. Preferably Fox's, but

00:27:48.200 --> 00:27:52.420
most tavern style pizzas will do. Good point.

00:27:54.599 --> 00:27:59.779
Al's Italian beef. Gets me to three. I would

00:27:59.779 --> 00:28:05.259
say fried chicken, although I'm not sure where

00:28:05.259 --> 00:28:08.210
I would get it from. Maybe White Fence Farm,

00:28:08.329 --> 00:28:10.309
which is a place in the Chicago area. They have

00:28:10.309 --> 00:28:13.150
really good chicken. But just a good fried chicken

00:28:13.150 --> 00:28:17.329
will be on there. That leaves me with one. Hmm.

00:28:18.029 --> 00:28:20.250
It's a lot out there. It's a lot out there. And

00:28:20.250 --> 00:28:28.109
I know I missed some of it. So. Oh boy. Boy oh

00:28:28.109 --> 00:28:31.009
boy. Yeah, that's a that's a challenging one.

00:28:31.170 --> 00:28:36.349
Right. For the last part. I'm going to go dessert

00:28:36.349 --> 00:28:41.069
and I'm going to say a key lime pie from Key

00:28:41.069 --> 00:28:43.769
West floor. Oh, now that's the idea right there.

00:28:44.049 --> 00:28:47.930
I like that. So there you go. That's solid. That's

00:28:47.930 --> 00:28:51.289
real solid. And yours, sir? I think I would start

00:28:51.289 --> 00:28:54.630
off with a country fried steak. That's good.

00:28:54.670 --> 00:28:56.769
With that white pepper gravy on top. Oh, hell

00:28:56.769 --> 00:29:00.789
yeah. I think biscuits and gravy with that same

00:29:00.789 --> 00:29:03.660
aforementioned white pepper gravy. Because I

00:29:03.660 --> 00:29:07.640
love breakfast. So those two for sure. Bona beef,

00:29:08.380 --> 00:29:11.200
that cheddar cheesy beef. It's good. It's good

00:29:11.200 --> 00:29:15.900
stuff. I would say I also want a Chicago tavern

00:29:15.900 --> 00:29:19.539
style pizza. Like a large pepperoni sausage.

00:29:19.680 --> 00:29:25.380
There you go. And I'm gonna go and throw in a

00:29:25.380 --> 00:29:29.920
handle of Irish gunpowder gin. There's a... That's

00:29:29.920 --> 00:29:33.349
good stuff. Yeah, isn't there a... I'm trying

00:29:33.349 --> 00:29:36.490
to think of the product. Isn't there like a gunpowder

00:29:36.490 --> 00:29:38.569
gin, like isn't that like a brand or something?

00:29:38.730 --> 00:29:41.609
I think you got that for me. A couple birthdays

00:29:41.609 --> 00:29:43.630
or Christmases ago. I'm certain I did. It's that

00:29:43.630 --> 00:29:47.109
Irish gunpowder gin, yeah. Yep, I'm sure I did.

00:29:47.670 --> 00:29:49.609
I'm sure I got that from Ken and Laker, not sponsored.

00:29:51.029 --> 00:29:53.990
Yeah. Yeah, that was great stuff. Yeah, for sure.

00:29:54.130 --> 00:29:57.630
So that's my five right there. We've got... The

00:29:57.630 --> 00:30:00.809
official Gordon Ramsay checking in. Oh. Asking,

00:30:00.950 --> 00:30:03.549
what are your favorite creative insults? Or sorry,

00:30:03.990 --> 00:30:08.269
what are your favorite creative insults? Creative

00:30:08.269 --> 00:30:12.750
insults. I'm not, I don't know if I've used any.

00:30:13.430 --> 00:30:16.289
I love Idiot Sandwich. And I love the fact he

00:30:16.289 --> 00:30:19.009
actually brought out two pieces of bread when

00:30:19.009 --> 00:30:21.809
he did that bit. Smushed them around the face,

00:30:21.970 --> 00:30:25.069
said, you are an idiot sandwich. I love that

00:30:25.069 --> 00:30:29.079
bit. No. Oh yeah, he did that. Oh my. There was

00:30:29.079 --> 00:30:33.220
one too, where someone said like, oh yeah, I'd

00:30:33.220 --> 00:30:35.640
microwave a salad or something like that. And

00:30:35.640 --> 00:30:37.819
he looked at him, he's like, you fucking darn

00:30:37.819 --> 00:30:41.420
it, you don't microwave a salad. Oh no. Calling

00:30:41.420 --> 00:30:44.220
someone a donut is kind of a fun one. That is

00:30:44.220 --> 00:30:47.680
fun. I love food related insults, like calling

00:30:47.680 --> 00:30:51.200
someone a soggy loaf, because it makes them then

00:30:51.200 --> 00:30:54.200
think what that means. And it throws them off

00:30:54.200 --> 00:30:56.700
their game. They can't immediately respond because

00:30:56.700 --> 00:30:59.079
they're stuck thinking, holy shit, what is a

00:30:59.079 --> 00:31:02.500
soggy loaf? What does that mean about me? Exactly.

00:31:03.799 --> 00:31:06.140
You have to start looking in the mirror and thinking

00:31:06.140 --> 00:31:09.019
about life. Right. Somebody's referring to you

00:31:09.019 --> 00:31:13.599
as a soggy loaf. Jesus. Food -related insults,

00:31:13.599 --> 00:31:15.680
I think, are the most creative ones that I really

00:31:15.680 --> 00:31:20.039
enjoy. Yep. Yep, that's great. Final question

00:31:20.039 --> 00:31:22.779
I received comes from our boy creepy grew correct.

00:31:23.000 --> 00:31:25.819
What is the importance of networking and how

00:31:25.819 --> 00:31:29.519
does it play into? podcasting oh That's really

00:31:29.519 --> 00:31:34.680
interesting It's a good question And I'm not

00:31:34.680 --> 00:31:38.640
I'm not much of a net worker. I Just kind of

00:31:38.640 --> 00:31:42.240
fly by the seed and just figure out what works

00:31:42.240 --> 00:31:44.720
I don't have much of a social media presence,

00:31:44.720 --> 00:31:48.359
which it's my fault, but I also don't I don't

00:31:48.359 --> 00:31:50.759
spend a lot of time on social media. I don't

00:31:50.759 --> 00:31:55.720
enjoy it. I think I used to be in some serious

00:31:55.720 --> 00:31:58.519
habits of doom scrolling and sure never being

00:31:58.519 --> 00:32:02.240
off my phone, which thank God I stopped. But

00:32:02.240 --> 00:32:04.299
yeah, that's that's kind of my downfall is I

00:32:04.299 --> 00:32:07.920
just don't use social media or use it to promote

00:32:07.920 --> 00:32:10.819
things that well. So I think you you would have

00:32:10.819 --> 00:32:14.259
a much better this side of the story when it

00:32:14.259 --> 00:32:17.900
comes to networking and promotion. Yeah, for

00:32:17.900 --> 00:32:20.039
sure. I mean, I've done it in a corporate sense

00:32:20.039 --> 00:32:27.779
for a long time. But in this world of, this multimedia

00:32:27.779 --> 00:32:32.299
world, whether it's radio, my writing, or whether

00:32:32.299 --> 00:32:35.960
it's now podcasting, it's a little bit different.

00:32:37.599 --> 00:32:41.480
There's a lot of ways you can generate likes

00:32:41.480 --> 00:32:47.380
and follows and network in a sense. Where it's

00:32:47.380 --> 00:32:51.359
not outright like oh, let's collab Because you

00:32:51.359 --> 00:32:53.579
just don't say that off -jump you have to start

00:32:53.579 --> 00:32:56.539
liking their stuff You have to start paying attention

00:32:56.539 --> 00:33:00.980
if you think that there is someone on YouTube

00:33:00.980 --> 00:33:03.319
or a podcast or whatever the case is and you

00:33:03.319 --> 00:33:06.819
find their stuff interesting Then it's not just

00:33:06.819 --> 00:33:10.519
like likes its engagement. So you have to get

00:33:10.519 --> 00:33:13.809
on there and not just like something, but just

00:33:13.809 --> 00:33:16.069
say, oh, that was awesome, you know, blah, blah,

00:33:16.069 --> 00:33:17.809
and then just kind of maybe how that directly

00:33:17.809 --> 00:33:22.049
relates to you and get them to eventually engage

00:33:22.049 --> 00:33:23.990
with you. And this is not going to happen off

00:33:23.990 --> 00:33:25.809
the top of your head. With some it will happen,

00:33:25.990 --> 00:33:29.109
but it takes a little bit of work. It takes a

00:33:29.109 --> 00:33:31.789
little bit of work to do that. And it's completely

00:33:31.789 --> 00:33:36.910
different than local. I get marketing, I guess.

00:33:36.910 --> 00:33:40.569
I was kind of searching for the word or networking.

00:33:41.740 --> 00:33:45.140
So, like when you're doing something more local,

00:33:46.039 --> 00:33:48.420
it's more face to face. You're going to events,

00:33:48.599 --> 00:33:49.940
you're going to different things, you're out

00:33:49.940 --> 00:33:52.259
at a bar, you're out at a restaurant, and you're

00:33:52.259 --> 00:33:54.839
seeing different and important people. And you

00:33:54.839 --> 00:33:58.440
take the time to strike up that conversation

00:33:58.440 --> 00:34:01.319
and say, hey, I find your product really interesting.

00:34:01.380 --> 00:34:03.900
I find your service really interesting. Oh man,

00:34:04.000 --> 00:34:05.660
that event you have coming up, let's talk about

00:34:05.660 --> 00:34:09.409
it. And then... develop that relationship where

00:34:09.409 --> 00:34:12.849
you can then say hey I'm doing interviews with

00:34:12.849 --> 00:34:16.090
my podcasting you you want to you know come to

00:34:16.090 --> 00:34:17.929
the studio and let's get in there and do something

00:34:17.929 --> 00:34:21.889
so it you know local stuff versus social media

00:34:21.889 --> 00:34:23.869
it's a little bit different but on the social

00:34:23.869 --> 00:34:26.829
media side of things it takes time it takes likes

00:34:26.829 --> 00:34:30.989
it takes engagement it's not overnight there

00:34:30.989 --> 00:34:35.190
are a lot of cheap ways you can go about Getting

00:34:35.190 --> 00:34:40.030
likes and follows and all of that I don't like

00:34:40.030 --> 00:34:42.210
marketing that way because I think it's cheap

00:34:42.210 --> 00:34:44.809
There's like people that like create pages and

00:34:44.809 --> 00:34:47.090
sub pages and pages and pages And then they like

00:34:47.090 --> 00:34:51.070
and it's very incestuous on how right right that

00:34:51.070 --> 00:34:53.929
whole network of pages works And I don't I don't

00:34:53.929 --> 00:34:56.369
like that I actually find that much of a bother

00:34:56.369 --> 00:34:58.889
sure to be completely honest I would just rather

00:34:58.889 --> 00:35:03.150
have my page if I think that we do something

00:35:03.150 --> 00:35:06.969
meaningful together, or maybe I have just an

00:35:06.969 --> 00:35:08.809
awesome interview queued up or whatever the case

00:35:08.809 --> 00:35:13.789
might be, I'll pay the extra bucks to get Instagram

00:35:13.789 --> 00:35:15.869
or Facebook, maybe push that out a little bit.

00:35:16.309 --> 00:35:18.849
Otherwise, I'm just, I'm going for viral. I'm

00:35:18.849 --> 00:35:20.750
just, you know, it's gonna be natural and it's

00:35:20.750 --> 00:35:23.170
gonna be kind of its own thing. And I'm willing

00:35:23.170 --> 00:35:24.809
to do it that way. Maybe that's not the right

00:35:24.809 --> 00:35:28.760
way. But I think it is from the standpoint that

00:35:28.760 --> 00:35:32.300
the numbers I'm looking at, all the various stats

00:35:32.300 --> 00:35:34.860
that come from doing the podcasting and YouTube

00:35:34.860 --> 00:35:38.860
and other stuff, it's all genuine. Like we didn't

00:35:38.860 --> 00:35:41.119
do anything in terms of financial investment.

00:35:41.119 --> 00:35:44.460
Right. To pull those people into my page, they

00:35:44.460 --> 00:35:48.119
stumbled across our podcast and went, huh, that's

00:35:48.119 --> 00:35:50.260
cool. Right. Yeah. So I would rather have it

00:35:50.260 --> 00:35:53.260
that way. I completely agree. Yeah. That's really

00:35:53.260 --> 00:35:58.400
good. So, is that it for you? That was my final

00:35:58.400 --> 00:36:00.019
question. That was your final one, alright. Well,

00:36:00.019 --> 00:36:01.519
that was a good one. That was definitely a good

00:36:01.519 --> 00:36:05.679
one to end. And before we go to our next break,

00:36:05.840 --> 00:36:09.380
we have a little other foods queued up with Aidan.

00:36:09.579 --> 00:36:12.360
Now, for all of you folks that... other foods,

00:36:12.380 --> 00:36:16.719
what's that? Well, it's food. Yep. At the very

00:36:16.719 --> 00:36:19.239
minimum, it's food. It's food. But it's other

00:36:19.239 --> 00:36:21.519
food. It's not a burger, it's not a hot dog,

00:36:21.820 --> 00:36:25.619
it's not pasta. Your typical stuff. Aiden finds

00:36:25.619 --> 00:36:27.619
things that would make a billy goat puke. Sure.

00:36:27.880 --> 00:36:31.579
Yeah. And he does a lot of research. And a lot

00:36:31.579 --> 00:36:35.219
of puking. Just for fun at that point. Just for

00:36:35.219 --> 00:36:36.940
fun at that point. So it's like, oh, look at

00:36:36.940 --> 00:36:41.699
my finger. Oh, you're going there. Anyway, what

00:36:41.699 --> 00:36:44.039
do you have for us, Aiden? Today I found this

00:36:44.039 --> 00:36:49.300
interesting little tidbit called toriyashi. Or

00:36:49.300 --> 00:36:56.409
tori -sashi. Torisashi. Yes. Okay. a Japanese

00:36:56.409 --> 00:37:02.449
dish of thinly sliced raw chicken. The chicken

00:37:02.449 --> 00:37:08.610
may be lightly seared, though originally it's

00:37:08.610 --> 00:37:11.989
referred to as Torisashi eaten with wasabi, so

00:37:11.989 --> 00:37:15.130
they go by different names. Could be quickly

00:37:15.130 --> 00:37:17.760
dipped in boiling water, which... of course does

00:37:17.760 --> 00:37:20.880
nothing to the inside pathogens, but it's commonly

00:37:20.880 --> 00:37:23.159
eaten with soy sauce and wasabi just like other

00:37:23.159 --> 00:37:28.480
sashimi dishes, which usually sashimi is made

00:37:28.480 --> 00:37:31.840
with raw fish incorporated with sushi, that whole

00:37:31.840 --> 00:37:36.559
sushi realm, which is less dangerous than eating

00:37:36.559 --> 00:37:40.519
something like raw chicken, because raw chicken

00:37:40.519 --> 00:37:43.869
contains things like salmonella, could contain

00:37:43.869 --> 00:37:46.369
E. coli, several other different pathogens and

00:37:46.369 --> 00:37:49.230
bacteria, which can cause this little thing called

00:37:49.230 --> 00:37:53.289
food poisoning. And I've had it. Yeah. From undercooked

00:37:53.289 --> 00:37:56.829
chicken at a barbecue one time, I was sick for

00:37:56.829 --> 00:38:00.969
a week. Yeah. Like, could not get out of the

00:38:00.969 --> 00:38:03.449
bathroom for several days, which is crazy. Yeah.

00:38:03.570 --> 00:38:07.969
Yeah. The common symptoms of food poisoning.

00:38:07.989 --> 00:38:11.639
Here we go. Diarrhea, potentially bloody. Vomiting,

00:38:12.000 --> 00:38:16.480
stomach cramps, fever, headache, tiredness. All

00:38:16.480 --> 00:38:21.219
of that. Yeah. So, I don't know how much you

00:38:21.219 --> 00:38:26.760
really like thinly sliced raw chicken, but sometimes

00:38:26.760 --> 00:38:29.619
you have to ask yourself, is this worth it? Correct.

00:38:29.639 --> 00:38:33.239
Is this food dish and its potential, even though

00:38:33.239 --> 00:38:35.980
I might disagree, its potential to taste good.

00:38:36.579 --> 00:38:40.030
Is it worth it? Yeah, and I think no. I think

00:38:40.030 --> 00:38:43.630
it's a no from me. It's a no from me. There's

00:38:43.630 --> 00:38:46.610
no like... What's the draw? There's no draw.

00:38:46.849 --> 00:38:48.409
Right, that's the word I was looking for. There's

00:38:48.409 --> 00:38:51.510
no draw to try that. Is this kind of like somebody

00:38:51.510 --> 00:38:53.710
being like, oh, hey, so want to eat this puffer

00:38:53.710 --> 00:38:57.530
fish? No, thank you. No, that's the thing that

00:38:57.530 --> 00:39:01.059
like... Like there's like what, like a dozen

00:39:01.059 --> 00:39:04.519
chefs in the world that are qualified to cut

00:39:04.519 --> 00:39:07.659
up a puffer fish. It's so toxic. For consumption

00:39:07.659 --> 00:39:10.539
because if they fuck it up... People will die.

00:39:10.719 --> 00:39:13.940
People die. Yeah. So let's not do that. Right.

00:39:14.239 --> 00:39:16.579
And let's not eat the raw chicken. Let's not

00:39:16.579 --> 00:39:19.780
eat raw chicken. I've had cooked chicken and

00:39:19.780 --> 00:39:23.559
it has tasted phenomenal. Why would I stray from

00:39:23.559 --> 00:39:27.920
that whilst risking food poisoning? Yeah. Don't

00:39:27.920 --> 00:39:30.820
do that. Yeah, cooked chicken's great. I'll stick

00:39:30.820 --> 00:39:34.159
with it, thank you. Anyone out there that's tried

00:39:34.159 --> 00:39:38.199
raw chicken, let us know. Are we missing out?

00:39:38.280 --> 00:39:41.280
Because I am going to make the choice to continue

00:39:41.280 --> 00:39:44.380
missing out, but I'd love to know. Yes, we would

00:39:44.380 --> 00:39:47.460
all love to know. We're all curious. Indeed,

00:39:47.599 --> 00:39:50.500
if you have eaten the raw chicken and you are

00:39:50.500 --> 00:39:53.260
alive to tell the tale. How'd you do it? How'd

00:39:53.260 --> 00:39:56.780
you do it? Tell the tale. please speak your truth

00:39:56.780 --> 00:39:59.780
speak your truth all right uh we're gonna take

00:39:59.780 --> 00:40:02.239
a quick break here and then we're on to our feature

00:40:02.239 --> 00:40:04.679
segment you just made the list here on the mark

00:40:04.679 --> 00:40:21.610
mo show All right, everybody. We are back here

00:40:21.610 --> 00:40:23.909
on the Mark Mo Show with our feature segment.

00:40:24.250 --> 00:40:28.869
You just made the list. And we did. We made a

00:40:28.869 --> 00:40:32.239
list. You're welcome. See you next week. Bye.

00:40:32.380 --> 00:40:34.559
Nah, nah, nah, we playing, we playing, it's all

00:40:34.559 --> 00:40:37.539
good. We're just joshing you. Ha ha, how funny.

00:40:37.760 --> 00:40:41.659
Tee hee hee. Anyway, now see, alright, you're

00:40:41.659 --> 00:40:44.760
catching us midway, a little bit midway through

00:40:44.760 --> 00:40:48.480
the shenanigans and tomfoolery of a St. Patty's

00:40:48.480 --> 00:40:52.000
weekend in Chicago. The romping and raving. The

00:40:52.000 --> 00:40:54.739
romping and raving. The goofing and gaffing.

00:40:55.179 --> 00:40:59.969
Mass consumption of... various liquids. Certainly.

00:41:00.630 --> 00:41:05.210
And so you're catching us in that moment. Yeah,

00:41:05.469 --> 00:41:10.409
for sure. So we're trying. We're trying. For

00:41:10.409 --> 00:41:15.809
you. Lovely listeners. I've pulled four 3 a .m.

00:41:15.829 --> 00:41:20.449
days in a row. That catches up. Yeah, especially

00:41:20.449 --> 00:41:22.570
when it's like oh, there's other events. You

00:41:22.570 --> 00:41:25.070
got to be up and out by 10 a .m. It's like wait

00:41:25.070 --> 00:41:29.130
wait right that that's I got home at 3 that Sleep

00:41:29.130 --> 00:41:31.449
debtor comes knocking at your door eventually

00:41:31.449 --> 00:41:33.269
it really does like you do in a couple of days

00:41:33.269 --> 00:41:35.309
You're like us isn't so bad than like third fourth

00:41:35.309 --> 00:41:38.750
day. It's like right row Wow, why do I feel like

00:41:38.750 --> 00:41:42.309
I need help walking? Yeah, yeah, my body's like

00:41:42.309 --> 00:41:47.650
no moss No, moss is time to sleep But we're not

00:41:47.650 --> 00:41:49.659
sleeping. We're here with you And we are here

00:41:49.659 --> 00:41:53.820
to talk about our list. And this list, top 10

00:41:53.820 --> 00:41:56.519
Irish Americans. Now, if that's not a broad enough

00:41:56.519 --> 00:41:58.260
term for you, I don't know what is. It's a pretty

00:41:58.260 --> 00:41:59.719
broad term. It's a pretty broad term. It could

00:41:59.719 --> 00:42:03.659
have been a top 100 list. But it's only 10. And

00:42:03.659 --> 00:42:07.079
we have to follow the rules. Wait, what? Rules?

00:42:07.260 --> 00:42:09.699
Do I hear that word, rules? There's a judge.

00:42:09.760 --> 00:42:12.480
What's the rules? There's one rule. There's one

00:42:12.480 --> 00:42:14.780
rule, technically. OK. And that is that there

00:42:14.780 --> 00:42:17.780
are no rules. Oh, I like that rule. Yeah, so.

00:42:18.519 --> 00:42:20.739
Paradoxical doesn't matter. It doesn't matter

00:42:20.739 --> 00:42:22.800
because paradoxical where we're from is not a

00:42:22.800 --> 00:42:24.559
rule. It's not a rule. I watch Doctor Who. I

00:42:24.559 --> 00:42:26.639
know how that works. That's true. I am an expert

00:42:26.639 --> 00:42:29.440
by now. And there's no rules. And there's no

00:42:29.440 --> 00:42:32.440
rules. That much we know. Which is the overarching

00:42:32.440 --> 00:42:35.440
term. That is the overarching term. Oh, help

00:42:35.440 --> 00:42:40.039
us. This one's for you, Philippines. Absolutely

00:42:40.039 --> 00:42:43.280
it is. Absolutely it is. All right, so top 10

00:42:43.280 --> 00:42:47.719
Irish. Here we go. I have ten. I stuck to ten.

00:42:48.079 --> 00:42:51.219
I stuck to ten too. Which was hard. Yes. Number

00:42:51.219 --> 00:42:54.860
ten, Kurt Cobain. Very good. Lead singer of Nirvana.

00:42:55.519 --> 00:42:57.880
Number nine, Lewis Sullivan. He was an architect.

00:42:58.619 --> 00:43:01.639
A lot of designs. He did a lot of things with

00:43:01.639 --> 00:43:04.760
Frank Lloyd Wright in the Chicago area. So he

00:43:04.760 --> 00:43:07.039
was a G. It's a classic right there. No doubt.

00:43:07.559 --> 00:43:10.480
Number eight, Jim Morrison. Lead singer of the

00:43:10.480 --> 00:43:13.760
Doors. Ah, nice pick. Was brilliant. It's a good

00:43:13.760 --> 00:43:17.210
pick. Life cut short can't imagine all that stuff

00:43:17.210 --> 00:43:21.190
left on the table, but right He was amazing this

00:43:21.190 --> 00:43:26.409
one this one Aidan might not like but you can't

00:43:26.409 --> 00:43:30.869
deny the achievements I Have to go with Tom Brady

00:43:30.869 --> 00:43:35.269
at numbers man. I know I know you gotta do it

00:43:35.269 --> 00:43:38.429
though Tom Brady's deflated balls on this list

00:43:38.429 --> 00:43:42.110
deflated balls So they're an awesome set of deflated

00:43:42.110 --> 00:43:45.389
balls From what I hear. From what I hear. I don't

00:43:45.389 --> 00:43:48.309
know my experience, but there's this guy. Well,

00:43:48.309 --> 00:43:52.369
anyway, number six. It's kind of a surprise because

00:43:52.369 --> 00:43:56.650
the name isn't necessarily Irishy, but his Irishness

00:43:56.650 --> 00:43:59.309
must come from his mother's side. Quentin Tarantino.

00:43:59.690 --> 00:44:03.090
Yeah, he almost made my list. I was thinking

00:44:03.090 --> 00:44:09.190
about Quentin. Yeah, he directs so many movies

00:44:09.190 --> 00:44:15.280
that are in my top hundred. Yeah. and He's just

00:44:15.280 --> 00:44:17.300
great. Yeah, one of the great directors of the

00:44:17.300 --> 00:44:20.460
last several decades number five great writer

00:44:20.460 --> 00:44:22.639
And a lot of his books have become movies Tom

00:44:22.639 --> 00:44:26.539
Clancy. Oh my man the Jack Ryan stuff Yeah, three

00:44:26.539 --> 00:44:29.119
games and all that like that's all that's all

00:44:29.119 --> 00:44:32.639
him and games movies and games. Yes. Yeah exact

00:44:32.639 --> 00:44:35.139
games, right? Yeah, exactly. I'm trying to think

00:44:35.139 --> 00:44:39.219
of that one Game something six rainbow six rainbow

00:44:39.219 --> 00:44:42.360
six. Yeah, I hear great things. Yes, very popular

00:44:43.500 --> 00:44:47.019
Want to then number four Robert Kennedy. Nope.

00:44:47.179 --> 00:44:49.199
I'm not not talking about the fuck. I'm not talking

00:44:49.199 --> 00:44:53.460
about the guy that sounds like rar rar rar I've

00:44:53.460 --> 00:44:56.360
been smoking eight packs of cigarettes a day

00:44:56.360 --> 00:44:58.780
or rotten I'm not talking about that the bringer

00:44:58.780 --> 00:45:02.480
of measles the bringer the bringer of measles

00:45:02.480 --> 00:45:05.559
Hey, maybe we should use some facts a rar. No

00:45:05.559 --> 00:45:09.489
don't do that just Drank buttermilk. I mean,

00:45:09.670 --> 00:45:13.530
whatever, dude. Raw buttermilk. Raw buttermilk.

00:45:13.530 --> 00:45:16.110
Let your children die from measles and raw milk.

00:45:16.110 --> 00:45:19.969
Raw milk. Thank you. So not that guy, but his

00:45:19.969 --> 00:45:24.309
dad was a G. Senior. Senior was a G. And so Robert

00:45:24.309 --> 00:45:29.030
Kennedy, number four. George Carlin. Oh, my man.

00:45:29.070 --> 00:45:32.369
Not just a brilliant comedian, but a voice of

00:45:32.369 --> 00:45:37.099
a generation. Carlin was the best. Oh, by the

00:45:37.099 --> 00:45:38.860
way, we do ten through two and then our big number

00:45:38.860 --> 00:45:40.760
one reveal. Right. Didn't say that at the beginning.

00:45:41.199 --> 00:45:45.179
So this is my number two, Barack Obama. Now,

00:45:45.300 --> 00:45:49.860
let me be clear. You know, I may be a bit Irish

00:45:49.860 --> 00:45:53.199
on my mother's side. Never told Michelle and

00:45:53.199 --> 00:45:56.719
the kids, but I got that Guinness in me today.

00:45:57.599 --> 00:46:00.380
I love it. I love it. So that's my number two.

00:46:00.699 --> 00:46:03.880
Beautiful. Wonderful list. Couple on there I

00:46:03.880 --> 00:46:05.900
wish I had. I should have put George Carlin.

00:46:06.079 --> 00:46:09.699
I was thinking about Tarantino. But I went a

00:46:09.699 --> 00:46:11.320
slightly different route on some of them. Number

00:46:11.320 --> 00:46:15.000
10 on my list is comedian Jimmy Fallon. Yeah.

00:46:15.199 --> 00:46:18.440
Funny guy. Always breaks. It's like the one thing

00:46:18.440 --> 00:46:20.159
people know about Jimmy Fallon. He can't keep

00:46:20.159 --> 00:46:23.019
a goddamn bit because he always breaks. But he's

00:46:23.019 --> 00:46:26.880
funny, you know? I mean, really, SNL should have

00:46:26.880 --> 00:46:29.719
never said, OK, we've got this idea for a skit.

00:46:30.139 --> 00:46:33.619
We're going to put Farrell. With Fallon. Why

00:46:33.619 --> 00:46:36.539
would you do that? Because he's doomed. He's

00:46:36.539 --> 00:46:40.420
doomed. He's gonna die. Number nine. Wonderful

00:46:40.420 --> 00:46:43.159
painter, George O 'Keefe. Oh, that's excellent.

00:46:43.300 --> 00:46:46.639
Phenomenally talented. Number eight. This is

00:46:46.639 --> 00:46:52.019
a pair. Twins, Scott and Mark Kelly. Astronauts,

00:46:52.159 --> 00:46:57.179
commanders. Big into that NASA culture. I believe

00:46:57.179 --> 00:47:01.050
the first twins to go into space together. Number

00:47:01.050 --> 00:47:04.929
seven on my list, Maureen O 'Hara, actor. Oh,

00:47:05.150 --> 00:47:08.070
I have regrets. A legend. I have regurts. Someone

00:47:08.070 --> 00:47:10.909
said Rutrow. Oh, no. That's number seven. Number

00:47:10.909 --> 00:47:14.570
six, Kurt Cobain, singer. Mm -hmm. Wonderfully

00:47:14.570 --> 00:47:18.469
talented guy. Number five, the old prez, Barack

00:47:18.469 --> 00:47:23.449
Obama. You see, Michelle, I made two lists, Michelle.

00:47:24.250 --> 00:47:27.250
Did you see that? I made both of them. I made

00:47:27.250 --> 00:47:31.619
both of them. Was in the top five, even. Wanted

00:47:31.619 --> 00:47:34.980
a Reuben, got that roast beef. Michelle looked

00:47:34.980 --> 00:47:39.619
at me funny. I said, why? Not the only roast

00:47:39.619 --> 00:47:44.820
beef I'm eating today. Number four. I'm so sorry.

00:47:45.199 --> 00:47:48.800
Number four, Eileen Collins, astronaut commander,

00:47:49.480 --> 00:47:54.219
wildly brilliant NASA engineer. It's amazing

00:47:54.219 --> 00:47:56.940
how many Irish Americans are involved in the

00:47:56.940 --> 00:47:59.599
space program, whether they're astronauts or

00:47:59.599 --> 00:48:01.559
whether they're scientists or whatever the case

00:48:01.559 --> 00:48:05.539
might be. And Ireland is sitting over there like,

00:48:05.780 --> 00:48:08.619
hey, we're not going to space anytime soon. What

00:48:08.619 --> 00:48:10.039
the hell are they doing over there in America?

00:48:10.639 --> 00:48:13.260
I don't know. Let's sit back and drink some Guinness,

00:48:13.260 --> 00:48:15.199
I guess. Right. I honestly can't blame them.

00:48:15.659 --> 00:48:19.260
No, no, no. They have no desire. Right. Number

00:48:19.260 --> 00:48:23.679
three on my list, comedian best. Talk show host

00:48:23.679 --> 00:48:27.460
of all time Conan. Oh F my life. Yes, someone

00:48:27.460 --> 00:48:31.199
forgot Conan O 'Brien I love Conan O 'Brien Conan

00:48:31.199 --> 00:48:35.380
O 'Brien is the best in the business best talk

00:48:35.380 --> 00:48:40.460
show host period end of effing sentence and Not

00:48:40.460 --> 00:48:43.920
just that But he produced a lot of online content

00:48:43.920 --> 00:48:46.440
now, which is hilarious. His podcasts are fantastic.

00:48:46.519 --> 00:48:50.539
They're great. Yeah, and the stuff that he did

00:48:50.840 --> 00:48:53.480
With Kevin Hart and Ice Cube, the first time

00:48:53.480 --> 00:48:56.639
I watched it, I literally cried laughing. It

00:48:56.639 --> 00:49:00.119
was hilarious. Oh, yeah. Yeah, oh, that's a good

00:49:00.119 --> 00:49:02.599
one. Well done. Yes, for sure. Number two on

00:49:02.599 --> 00:49:07.400
my list, Mary Jones, labor activist in the 18

00:49:07.400 --> 00:49:11.340
and 1900s, securing contracts for coal miners,

00:49:11.460 --> 00:49:14.579
being right in the middle of that period of American

00:49:14.579 --> 00:49:17.599
history when the government was killing protesters.

00:49:18.559 --> 00:49:22.510
Yeah. and labor activists so that's it's a dangerous

00:49:22.510 --> 00:49:26.210
place to be it is indeed and you know i i always

00:49:26.210 --> 00:49:28.889
support labor movements and her being at the

00:49:28.889 --> 00:49:31.130
front of them was pretty fantastic no doubt that

00:49:31.130 --> 00:49:34.010
was that was excellent that's a good one my number

00:49:34.010 --> 00:49:36.349
one and seeing as i haven't heard you say his

00:49:36.349 --> 00:49:38.949
name i have a strange feeling i'm going to assume

00:49:38.949 --> 00:49:43.090
that he's probably yours too right my number

00:49:43.090 --> 00:49:47.309
one is president john f kennedy good old jay

00:49:47.309 --> 00:49:52.360
fits jerald kennedy There's so many homes on

00:49:52.360 --> 00:49:56.179
the south side of Chicago, especially Irish Catholic

00:49:56.179 --> 00:49:59.420
homes. You always had two things hanging on your

00:49:59.420 --> 00:50:03.460
wall. Somewhere in your home, there was a hanging

00:50:03.460 --> 00:50:06.590
of Jesus, right? Yep. Jesus Christos, he's up

00:50:06.590 --> 00:50:09.969
there somewhere in your home. We had a portrait

00:50:09.969 --> 00:50:12.409
of him in my mother's sewing room. And then,

00:50:12.409 --> 00:50:13.949
of course, there was a crucifix in some other

00:50:13.949 --> 00:50:15.989
room. Not because my dad played with dark magic.

00:50:16.050 --> 00:50:18.050
That's a different story altogether. She was

00:50:18.050 --> 00:50:19.610
kind of doubling down, like, all right, if he's

00:50:19.610 --> 00:50:21.670
playing with that, I better, you know, lean into

00:50:21.670 --> 00:50:24.250
Jesus a little bit. Triple this crucifix. To

00:50:24.250 --> 00:50:26.190
balance it out. Right. You know, life's about

00:50:26.190 --> 00:50:28.800
balance. But there was always that hanging on

00:50:28.800 --> 00:50:31.400
the wall. And then of course JFK was always hanging

00:50:31.400 --> 00:50:35.199
somewhere So many South Side households, but

00:50:35.199 --> 00:50:37.199
I imagine in Massachusetts and New York and other

00:50:37.199 --> 00:50:39.940
places. There's probably Probably the same thing,

00:50:40.179 --> 00:50:44.260
right? Let's be honest. I mean you can sit there

00:50:44.260 --> 00:50:47.039
and think Lee Harvey Oswald killed him It's probably

00:50:47.039 --> 00:50:48.420
the same people have over Trump. But I mean,

00:50:48.480 --> 00:50:50.599
I'm just saying you know, you you can believe

00:50:50.599 --> 00:50:54.119
that if you want I think He was killed because

00:50:54.119 --> 00:50:57.480
he was trying to make change for the better No

00:50:57.480 --> 00:50:59.679
different than Martin Luther King and others

00:50:59.679 --> 00:51:01.599
that were trying to implement change at a time

00:51:01.599 --> 00:51:05.639
when change was needed, right and You know, he

00:51:05.639 --> 00:51:08.440
was a great man now. Was he a perfect man? No

00:51:08.440 --> 00:51:13.199
We we know about all of his various Affairs and

00:51:13.199 --> 00:51:16.079
extracurricular activities. Yes. Thank you. So

00:51:16.079 --> 00:51:18.179
he was not perfect by any stretch I'm guessing

00:51:18.179 --> 00:51:22.260
most presidents and kind of had those sure Setups

00:51:22.260 --> 00:51:24.480
or arrangements not that it makes it right. It's

00:51:24.480 --> 00:51:26.639
just couldn't be me Michelle can be couldn't

00:51:26.639 --> 00:51:30.900
be me. I'm I'm a good man Chicago good stock

00:51:30.900 --> 00:51:33.579
too busy with this Monte Cristo in front of me

00:51:33.579 --> 00:51:36.760
That's that's right and being did I mention top

00:51:36.760 --> 00:51:39.739
five on both lists Michelle pay attention just

00:51:39.739 --> 00:51:43.880
open up this can of Smith wicks in front of me

00:51:43.880 --> 00:51:47.360
Heard people tell me that's not how you say that

00:51:47.360 --> 00:51:51.409
Barack I say I was the president. Fuck you. I

00:51:51.409 --> 00:51:55.250
know what I'm talking about. So yeah, yeah, so

00:51:55.250 --> 00:51:58.389
John F. Kennedy, for me, it's easy. I got him

00:51:58.389 --> 00:52:01.050
hanging up on my walls, for sure, and he just,

00:52:01.269 --> 00:52:02.489
he tried to make a lot of change. He was able

00:52:02.489 --> 00:52:06.269
to do some. And LBJ was able to continue a couple

00:52:06.269 --> 00:52:09.429
of his programs, which was good, but one thing

00:52:09.429 --> 00:52:11.030
he was trying to do was keep us out of Vietnam.

00:52:12.019 --> 00:52:14.840
That didn't happen. Yeah, as we know. The old

00:52:14.840 --> 00:52:16.900
three -letter American agencies didn't like that

00:52:16.900 --> 00:52:19.739
too much. No, they did not. Yeah, they did not.

00:52:20.179 --> 00:52:22.719
Curious how that works. Yeah, my number one was

00:52:22.719 --> 00:52:25.920
your number one. Good ol' JFK. Good ol' John

00:52:25.920 --> 00:52:29.679
Fitzgerald. Yeah. It's a good list. It is a good

00:52:29.679 --> 00:52:32.639
list. And I'm sure there's some we missed. And

00:52:32.639 --> 00:52:34.960
if you people are like, hey, idiots, you missed

00:52:34.960 --> 00:52:38.400
blah, blah, blah, let us know. Very true. Yeah.

00:52:38.639 --> 00:52:41.760
Let us know. If I don't make your... Top five.

00:52:42.800 --> 00:52:45.599
What's the problem? Have to send the Secret Service

00:52:45.599 --> 00:52:48.659
to your house. Or perhaps you go, whoa, where

00:52:48.659 --> 00:52:53.900
did this iron ass product come from? Be smart

00:52:53.900 --> 00:52:56.639
about it. Be smart about it, people. They ain't

00:52:56.639 --> 00:52:58.420
know how to get you. They ain't know how to get

00:52:58.420 --> 00:53:03.250
you for sure. My man. My man. My man Barry. That's

00:53:03.250 --> 00:53:06.389
our top 10 list. We hope you enjoyed it and we

00:53:06.389 --> 00:53:08.510
kind of slide right about now into review preview

00:53:08.510 --> 00:53:11.050
I review a movie preview movie. Here's the thing.

00:53:11.050 --> 00:53:15.630
I don't often See a movie sometimes I do sometimes

00:53:15.630 --> 00:53:18.969
I'll do a couple in a week But if nothing is

00:53:18.969 --> 00:53:22.309
tickling my fancy so to speak I'm not I'm not

00:53:22.309 --> 00:53:25.329
going not gonna pick some piece of garbage, right?

00:53:25.329 --> 00:53:29.000
Yeah waste my time and money on that. So when

00:53:29.000 --> 00:53:30.699
that happens, I try to get creative with the

00:53:30.699 --> 00:53:34.960
segment. So based on just kind of the overall

00:53:34.960 --> 00:53:39.219
arc of this show and topic, very topical as it

00:53:39.219 --> 00:53:43.280
were, it's my Irish movie edition. And these

00:53:43.280 --> 00:53:46.480
are five Irish movies that I like that I try

00:53:46.480 --> 00:53:50.659
to watch every year around the holiday. The first

00:53:50.659 --> 00:53:53.559
one I'm going to mention is The Quiet Man, directed

00:53:53.559 --> 00:53:55.340
by John Ford. He could have been on the list.

00:53:55.400 --> 00:53:59.980
Sure. Directed this romantic comedy drama featuring

00:53:59.980 --> 00:54:03.579
Winston, I'm sorry, Wittenhock's stunning images

00:54:03.579 --> 00:54:06.800
of the Irish countryside. Both men won Oscars

00:54:06.800 --> 00:54:11.119
for their work, which stars John Wayne and Maureen

00:54:11.119 --> 00:54:16.780
O 'Hara as a lass who falls in love with the

00:54:16.780 --> 00:54:19.989
Irish American boxer. They moved back to Ireland.

00:54:21.130 --> 00:54:23.730
And those two, Ford, the director Ford and Wayne,

00:54:23.769 --> 00:54:25.829
they were known for their work on Westerns together.

00:54:25.869 --> 00:54:29.030
So doing this kind of made a lot of sense for

00:54:29.030 --> 00:54:32.989
them to come together and do that. And the story

00:54:32.989 --> 00:54:37.869
is good. It's funny. It's lighthearted. More

00:54:37.869 --> 00:54:41.030
than anything, it is a love letter to Ireland.

00:54:41.110 --> 00:54:44.409
Right. Without a doubt and just, it is free.

00:54:44.989 --> 00:54:52.360
It is free. Bar towel And who almost gets into

00:54:52.360 --> 00:54:56.599
a fight at the train station? Mr. Maloney, of

00:54:56.599 --> 00:54:59.320
course, of course Go figure. I'm like, oh, yeah,

00:54:59.400 --> 00:55:00.980
dude. Maloney's getting a fight at the train

00:55:00.980 --> 00:55:04.079
station. That kind of checks out. Great movie,

00:55:04.320 --> 00:55:08.840
though. Bloody Sunday. I watched this yesterday

00:55:08.840 --> 00:55:11.320
after Quiet Man. Probably should have done it

00:55:11.320 --> 00:55:14.760
the other way around. Oh, sure. But Paul Greengrass

00:55:14.760 --> 00:55:17.320
wrote and directed this historical drama. based

00:55:17.320 --> 00:55:19.860
on the 1972 Bloody Sunday Massacre in Derry,

00:55:20.079 --> 00:55:22.739
Northern Ireland. That was the subject of U2's

00:55:22.739 --> 00:55:25.619
early classic, Sunday Bloody Sunday, starring

00:55:25.619 --> 00:55:29.320
James Nesbit and Tim Piggott -Smith. The film

00:55:29.320 --> 00:55:31.320
won several honors, including the Audience Award

00:55:31.320 --> 00:55:34.880
at Sundance and Golden Bear at the Berlin International

00:55:34.880 --> 00:55:38.320
Film Festival. There's a lot I could say about

00:55:38.320 --> 00:55:43.519
this movie. Can I do it and not get angry? No,

00:55:43.880 --> 00:55:48.059
I cannot. Or so to speak, get your Irish up.

00:55:48.599 --> 00:55:50.300
Oh, it'll definitely get your Irish up. Yeah.

00:55:51.059 --> 00:55:55.820
But the fact that it was so premeditated on the

00:55:55.820 --> 00:56:00.440
side of the British. Those cunts. And literally

00:56:00.440 --> 00:56:03.920
like young girls would be on the ground and the

00:56:03.920 --> 00:56:05.900
soldiers just walk up and shoot them in the back.

00:56:06.039 --> 00:56:10.840
Right. Like that. Like when I see all of those

00:56:10.840 --> 00:56:12.800
Irishmen running around and they're so angry

00:56:12.800 --> 00:56:15.519
and they're throwing rocks and stones, I would

00:56:15.519 --> 00:56:19.420
definitely be one of them. 100 % would be one

00:56:19.420 --> 00:56:24.400
of them and would try to hit any of those Brits

00:56:24.400 --> 00:56:27.760
in the temple with a stone if I can. Maybe multiple

00:56:27.760 --> 00:56:30.659
times. Maybe multiple times. Like what happened

00:56:30.659 --> 00:56:34.139
was just despicable. Here's the thing, it's like...

00:56:33.960 --> 00:56:36.599
Am I anti -Brit for the sake of being anti -Brit?

00:56:36.599 --> 00:56:40.780
No, I'm not. I love Doctor Who. I love parts

00:56:40.780 --> 00:56:44.480
of their culture. Iron Maiden. I love all of

00:56:44.480 --> 00:56:49.360
that. So it's more, I suppose, the crown and

00:56:49.360 --> 00:56:52.900
the government. Sure. The military. All of that.

00:56:53.559 --> 00:56:55.579
The same way you can appreciate American pop

00:56:55.579 --> 00:56:59.179
culture while also understanding that American

00:56:59.179 --> 00:57:01.480
politics fuck a lot of people in this world.

00:57:01.619 --> 00:57:05.500
And we know that. Yeah. And world out there,

00:57:05.579 --> 00:57:07.699
trust me when I say, there are a lot of us here

00:57:07.699 --> 00:57:10.800
in the country that know that we've shot on you

00:57:10.800 --> 00:57:14.420
a time or two in the past. So we are fully understanding

00:57:14.420 --> 00:57:18.960
of that. And that's kind of my take on that,

00:57:19.420 --> 00:57:21.579
is that I understand it's just, it's politics,

00:57:22.500 --> 00:57:30.139
it's religion. And it's a great movie, but it

00:57:30.139 --> 00:57:32.679
will make you angry. For sure. It will really

00:57:32.679 --> 00:57:35.420
make you angry. In the Name of the Father, very

00:57:35.420 --> 00:57:37.860
similar kind of deal. Daniel Day -Lewis, who's

00:57:37.860 --> 00:57:41.519
amazing, who is of Irish descent on his father's

00:57:41.519 --> 00:57:44.760
side, played by Gerard Patrick. Patrick Jerry

00:57:44.760 --> 00:57:49.480
Conlon, a man mistaken for an IRA sniper in the

00:57:49.480 --> 00:57:52.460
biological crime drama based on a story of the

00:57:52.460 --> 00:57:54.980
Guilford Four, four people wrongly accused of

00:57:54.980 --> 00:57:58.480
a pub bombing that killed a civilian and four

00:57:58.480 --> 00:58:00.760
off -duty British soldiers. The film was nominated

00:58:00.760 --> 00:58:03.139
for seven Oscars, including Best Picture and

00:58:03.139 --> 00:58:06.340
Best Actor for Daniel Day -Lewis. Really great

00:58:06.340 --> 00:58:09.559
movie. Really great movie. But once again, makes

00:58:09.559 --> 00:58:13.590
you mad. Right. Makes you mad. This one definitely

00:58:13.590 --> 00:58:15.190
more of the light -hearted nature. It's called

00:58:15.190 --> 00:58:20.889
Brooklyn. So American -born Irish actress Saoirse

00:58:20.889 --> 00:58:24.110
Ronan. Love her. She's great. She's amazing.

00:58:24.710 --> 00:58:26.769
Plays a young woman who immigrates from Ireland

00:58:26.769 --> 00:58:29.570
to Brooklyn in the 1950s to seek better employment.

00:58:30.170 --> 00:58:32.949
The romantic drama directed by John Crowley and

00:58:32.949 --> 00:58:36.880
based on the 2009 novel of the same name by Colm

00:58:36.880 --> 00:58:39.800
Tolbin was nominated for Best Picture, Best Adapted

00:58:39.800 --> 00:58:42.280
Screenplay, and Best Actress for Ronan at the

00:58:42.280 --> 00:58:45.900
2016 Academy Awards. It's a rare immigrant story

00:58:45.900 --> 00:58:49.039
with a female lead and one of the better films

00:58:49.039 --> 00:58:52.639
about the immigrant experience. 100 % agree.

00:58:53.119 --> 00:58:55.500
I think this is kind of one of those under -the

00:58:55.500 --> 00:59:00.019
-radar type movies. And it was so great. The

00:59:00.019 --> 00:59:02.940
first time I saw this, I'm like, why? I haven't

00:59:02.940 --> 00:59:05.679
more people see right? Yeah, this is such a good

00:59:05.679 --> 00:59:09.000
movie You know and she meets an Italian guy and

00:59:09.000 --> 00:59:13.000
that that is so genuinely American Because like

00:59:13.000 --> 00:59:15.500
there are a lot of truly Irish families in the

00:59:15.500 --> 00:59:18.440
United States But we happen to be Irish German

00:59:18.440 --> 00:59:22.159
and I know Irish Italian families and I know

00:59:22.159 --> 00:59:24.800
Families that are Irish and Spanish or Irish

00:59:24.800 --> 00:59:27.239
and Mexican and so many other things and that

00:59:27.239 --> 00:59:30.360
is so genuinely American, right? Once again,

00:59:30.360 --> 00:59:32.539
cultures coming together. The melting pot we've

00:59:32.539 --> 00:59:33.960
been talking about. The melting pot we've been

00:59:33.960 --> 00:59:36.639
talking about, and that's like, you know, like

00:59:36.639 --> 00:59:38.480
I said, America's got a lot of problems, a lot

00:59:38.480 --> 00:59:40.159
of things we've done wrong. But I think one of

00:59:40.159 --> 00:59:44.380
those things that is right about it is that ability

00:59:44.380 --> 00:59:47.460
to take the rest of the world, bring it in here.

00:59:47.840 --> 00:59:49.300
It's like, all right, we're going to do kind

00:59:49.300 --> 00:59:51.760
of our own take on this and immerse ourselves

00:59:51.760 --> 00:59:53.920
into all these other cultures. Right. And I think

00:59:53.920 --> 00:59:56.880
it's pretty cool when that happens. The last

00:59:56.880 --> 01:00:01.559
one. that I put out here, Michael Collins. He

01:00:01.559 --> 01:00:04.059
was an Irish revolutionary and politician at

01:00:04.059 --> 01:00:05.820
the forefront of Ireland's struggle for independence

01:00:05.820 --> 01:00:08.800
from Britain in the early 20th century. Director

01:00:08.800 --> 01:00:11.900
Neil Jordan, Liam Neeson plays the freedom fighter

01:00:11.900 --> 01:00:16.860
along, co -stars Aidan Quinn, Stephen Ray, Alan

01:00:16.860 --> 01:00:19.400
Rickman, Alan Rickman. What a G, rest in peace.

01:00:19.699 --> 01:00:22.679
And Julia Roberts. She was a weird addition,

01:00:22.840 --> 01:00:25.820
but whatever. Although generally praised and

01:00:25.820 --> 01:00:27.860
nominated for two Academy Awards, the movie was

01:00:27.860 --> 01:00:30.099
criticized for some historical inaccuracies.

01:00:30.920 --> 01:00:34.280
It happens. It's Hollywood takes their... That

01:00:34.280 --> 01:00:39.320
is why the name of the award given out is Adapted

01:00:39.320 --> 01:00:43.900
Screenplay. Right. You're taking your creative

01:00:43.900 --> 01:00:46.039
liberties and you're turning it into a story

01:00:46.039 --> 01:00:48.639
you want to see on the big screen. Correct. It

01:00:48.639 --> 01:00:51.250
doesn't have to be one for one. Right, exactly.

01:00:51.570 --> 01:00:53.369
Necessarily. Yeah, and so that wouldn't be the

01:00:53.369 --> 01:00:56.690
first movie with history that kind of plays with

01:00:56.690 --> 01:01:01.489
it a little bit. But basically the overall way

01:01:01.489 --> 01:01:03.670
that this movie worked out I thought was very

01:01:03.670 --> 01:01:06.690
good and Liam Neeson's spectacular anyway. Yeah,

01:01:06.690 --> 01:01:10.889
that's very true. We are almost ready for our

01:01:10.889 --> 01:01:14.150
next break, but there's a segment that Aidan

01:01:14.150 --> 01:01:17.809
does while you were sleeping, so it's more of

01:01:17.809 --> 01:01:22.340
a multi... Media type segment where Aiden will

01:01:22.340 --> 01:01:25.840
explore gaming and TVs and and youtubers and

01:01:25.840 --> 01:01:30.059
other things and Say hey guys, I think you might

01:01:30.059 --> 01:01:33.139
have missed this one check it out So Aiden takes

01:01:33.139 --> 01:01:34.840
these deep dives and find some really cool stuff.

01:01:34.900 --> 01:01:37.000
What do you got this week this week? I I wish

01:01:37.000 --> 01:01:40.780
I had gone in and gone with something Irish for

01:01:40.780 --> 01:01:43.860
the holiday, but Unfortunately, I did not there's

01:01:43.860 --> 01:01:48.690
this game called Cuphead this game was pretty

01:01:48.690 --> 01:01:52.769
big in the late 2010s so you might be thinking

01:01:52.769 --> 01:01:54.929
well how does that fitting do well you're sleeping

01:01:54.929 --> 01:01:56.989
and I would tell you to shut up because it's

01:01:56.989 --> 01:02:03.530
my segment you showed damn damn I would say he's

01:02:03.530 --> 01:02:08.559
sick I'm tired just yeah I would say it slept

01:02:08.559 --> 01:02:12.420
on in its not only its replayability which is

01:02:12.420 --> 01:02:14.400
important for games because you know you put

01:02:14.400 --> 01:02:15.940
the money in you want to get the entertainment

01:02:15.940 --> 01:02:21.420
out but they had a dlc in the last couple years

01:02:21.420 --> 01:02:26.360
which is essentially an entirely new game built

01:02:26.360 --> 01:02:31.079
into the game and it's it's phenomenal it is

01:02:31.079 --> 01:02:33.739
one of the tougher games i recently started playing

01:02:34.300 --> 01:02:37.739
for the first time. It is a remarkably difficult

01:02:37.739 --> 01:02:43.440
game, but Cuphead, a 2017 run -and -gun platformer

01:02:43.440 --> 01:02:47.039
shooter style game developed and published by

01:02:47.039 --> 01:02:52.460
Canadians, good on ya Canada, by Studio MDHR,

01:02:52.980 --> 01:02:56.739
the game follows, quote, the game follows its

01:02:56.739 --> 01:03:00.139
titular teacup -headed character and his brother

01:03:00.139 --> 01:03:03.429
Mugman as they make a deal with the devil. to

01:03:03.429 --> 01:03:07.670
pay casino losses by repossessing the souls of

01:03:07.670 --> 01:03:15.210
runaway debtors. So these two jovial lost little

01:03:15.210 --> 01:03:21.610
cups have to go on this devil's quest to collect

01:03:21.610 --> 01:03:25.409
the soul contracts of the devil's runaway debtors

01:03:25.409 --> 01:03:27.849
because they themselves got themselves into that

01:03:27.849 --> 01:03:30.389
situation and instead of taking the L they decided

01:03:30.389 --> 01:03:33.389
to cut a deal. That's kind of the plot of the

01:03:33.389 --> 01:03:37.409
game. You're going through this treacherous mini

01:03:37.409 --> 01:03:41.829
boss hell bullet hell style levels as a little

01:03:41.829 --> 01:03:47.730
cup with magical abilities oh No, it is and it's

01:03:47.730 --> 01:03:53.989
in the style of Like the early 1900s Disney or

01:03:53.989 --> 01:03:59.250
Warner Bros animation every frame was drawn by

01:03:59.250 --> 01:04:02.840
hand No way. Every frame was drawn by hand. One

01:04:02.840 --> 01:04:04.880
of the only games I've ever heard of that does

01:04:04.880 --> 01:04:08.619
that, especially in recent years. Hand -drawn

01:04:08.619 --> 01:04:13.900
animations, just clean gameplay. I would say

01:04:13.900 --> 01:04:16.239
it's unfair and it's difficulty, but that's only

01:04:16.239 --> 01:04:18.079
because I'm not good at it. That's just a skill

01:04:18.079 --> 01:04:23.760
issue. It is very well -tuned. And the music,

01:04:23.900 --> 01:04:27.920
all original music, jazz, soundtracks, 1930s,

01:04:27.920 --> 01:04:32.519
40s -esque jazz. Phenomenal soundtrack and gameplay.

01:04:33.579 --> 01:04:36.500
And I don't believe the DLC is that expensive.

01:04:36.559 --> 01:04:38.739
The game itself isn't that expensive either.

01:04:38.920 --> 01:04:41.320
It's not like a AAA game you're paying 70 or

01:04:41.320 --> 01:04:45.679
80 dollars for. It is really, really fun. And

01:04:45.679 --> 01:04:48.039
you could easily dump several dozens of hours

01:04:48.039 --> 01:04:50.760
into it and with the DLC a couple dozen more.

01:04:51.260 --> 01:04:55.719
So, highly, highly recommend. And you can play

01:04:55.719 --> 01:05:03.579
that on PC, Switch, PS5, PS4, 360, One, Series

01:05:03.579 --> 01:05:07.059
S. It's kind of everywhere. But yeah, highly

01:05:07.059 --> 01:05:09.539
recommend. Not sponsored, but highly recommend.

01:05:10.320 --> 01:05:13.059
It has been slept on recently because it came

01:05:13.059 --> 01:05:18.059
out just shy of a decade ago. But yeah, its original

01:05:18.059 --> 01:05:20.199
game is worth replaying if you've already played

01:05:20.199 --> 01:05:23.000
it, and its DLC is definitely worth the price.

01:05:23.679 --> 01:05:28.460
Yeah, that sounds amazing. Just, it's so stylish.

01:05:29.480 --> 01:05:34.460
It's so 1930s, 40s, with the music and the animations.

01:05:34.900 --> 01:05:37.360
There was so much heart poured into it, and with

01:05:37.360 --> 01:05:42.400
how much AI slopped dogshit, and half -baked

01:05:42.400 --> 01:05:48.190
AAA game studios. It's just a gem, you know?

01:05:48.349 --> 01:05:51.110
Yeah. It's just a gem, and I recommend it. Well,

01:05:51.190 --> 01:05:54.469
I appreciate that, and that is definitely something

01:05:54.469 --> 01:05:58.130
you should all check out, for sure. And like

01:05:58.130 --> 01:06:02.869
I always say, reach out to us, YouTube, any...

01:06:03.349 --> 01:06:05.670
DMs, any way you want to do it, reach out to

01:06:05.670 --> 01:06:07.789
us. And especially if you play it and you like

01:06:07.789 --> 01:06:10.130
it, let us know. That'd be really cool. It's

01:06:10.130 --> 01:06:11.889
fun to other people to play that. Very true.

01:06:12.230 --> 01:06:13.570
But at any rate, we're going to take a quick

01:06:13.570 --> 01:06:17.949
break. And then we're going to drink for you.

01:06:18.449 --> 01:06:20.510
You've earned it. You've earned it. We love you.

01:06:20.570 --> 01:06:22.150
We're going to drink for you. We got a beer of

01:06:22.150 --> 01:06:25.010
the week. And then we are going to finish up

01:06:25.010 --> 01:06:27.409
with some tier listing here on the Mark Mo Show.

01:06:51.760 --> 01:06:53.840
All right, we are in the home stretch here, ladies

01:06:53.840 --> 01:06:57.739
and gentlemen, the Mark Mo Show. I'm Mark Maloney,

01:06:57.920 --> 01:06:59.659
your host, along with co -host Aidan Maloney.

01:07:00.239 --> 01:07:04.320
And we are now on to the beer of the week. The

01:07:04.320 --> 01:07:09.880
official beer review. And I'm excited. I'm excited

01:07:09.880 --> 01:07:12.719
by this. I, too, am excited by this. I've seen

01:07:12.719 --> 01:07:16.739
this in liquor stores for a while now, and I

01:07:16.739 --> 01:07:18.199
haven't had the opportunity. It's been a while.

01:07:18.719 --> 01:07:22.130
It's been a while. Since I've had founders all

01:07:22.130 --> 01:07:25.449
day IPA. That didn't work. Anyway. It just doesn't

01:07:25.449 --> 01:07:27.969
fit the scheme. It doesn't fit the beats. It

01:07:27.969 --> 01:07:30.550
really didn't. You know, you start the song and

01:07:30.550 --> 01:07:33.269
the lyrics sometimes don't fit. It's just the

01:07:33.269 --> 01:07:36.110
way, just the way it works. But today we have

01:07:36.110 --> 01:07:42.409
founders all day IPA. Flavorful and easy drinking.

01:07:42.849 --> 01:07:46.570
It's what they claim. What they claim 4 .7 %

01:07:46.570 --> 01:07:52.159
ABV is a session IPA. supposedly citrus crisp

01:07:52.159 --> 01:07:54.860
and refreshing. Now session IPAs, from what I've

01:07:54.860 --> 01:07:59.639
heard, are IPAs with the specific ABV below five.

01:08:00.500 --> 01:08:03.300
I believe the history of session IPAs is people

01:08:03.300 --> 01:08:07.820
made them to bring to work with them back in

01:08:07.820 --> 01:08:10.500
the day when you had a beer at work because they

01:08:10.500 --> 01:08:15.380
are below 5 % and they would not disrupt your

01:08:15.380 --> 01:08:18.590
productivity as much. I believe is the history

01:08:18.590 --> 01:08:21.649
of Session IPA, so it is a low ABV, but it's

01:08:21.649 --> 01:08:24.550
meant to be citrusy and lovely 42 IBU, so there

01:08:24.550 --> 01:08:26.569
could be a little hop going on, if you know what

01:08:26.569 --> 01:08:29.529
I mean. A little bit. I found it interesting.

01:08:29.710 --> 01:08:32.229
Brewed and packaged. Founders Brewing Company,

01:08:32.689 --> 01:08:34.529
Grand Rapids, Michigan, and then it says Puerto

01:08:34.529 --> 01:08:44.229
Rico. Oh. Uh, so... Right. Grand Rapids, Michigan

01:08:44.229 --> 01:08:47.689
is not in Puerto Rico. That is a good point.

01:08:49.090 --> 01:08:51.149
They do want to protect the environment and says

01:08:51.149 --> 01:08:53.149
don't let her. I do respect that. It's a fair

01:08:53.149 --> 01:08:56.550
point. It's a good point to make. But Michigan

01:08:56.550 --> 01:09:00.130
is not close to Puerto Rico. No, no. But if you

01:09:00.130 --> 01:09:03.739
are a Puerto Rican in Michigan Hit us up. Hit

01:09:03.739 --> 01:09:05.260
us up. Let us know. By all means, hopefully you're

01:09:05.260 --> 01:09:07.539
enjoying the show. My guess is they were making

01:09:07.539 --> 01:09:09.819
this beer and they were sampling and then they

01:09:09.819 --> 01:09:11.119
were doing more sampling and they were doing

01:09:11.119 --> 01:09:12.479
more sampling. A little too much sampling. And

01:09:12.479 --> 01:09:15.399
then they started ordering some empanadas. Right.

01:09:15.420 --> 01:09:17.159
Which are fantastic. Oh, beautiful. And now all

01:09:17.159 --> 01:09:19.140
of a sudden Michigan is in Puerto Rico. That's

01:09:19.140 --> 01:09:20.880
what I'm guessing happened. And I can't blame

01:09:20.880 --> 01:09:23.640
you. I can't blame you. Hey, you know this beer?

01:09:24.340 --> 01:09:28.100
I swear. You know Senegura Bear was this beer?

01:09:29.529 --> 01:09:33.829
ABM empanadas would be really fucking good with

01:09:33.829 --> 01:09:38.409
this on -day MPA. So let's not wanna do it. And

01:09:38.409 --> 01:09:41.149
so that's how I think Puerto Rico got on the

01:09:41.149 --> 01:09:43.630
can. I'm guessing that's what happened. I was

01:09:43.630 --> 01:09:46.409
talking to Michelle. Thinking about making Puerto

01:09:46.409 --> 01:09:49.689
Rico a part of Michigan. I think that's an important

01:09:49.689 --> 01:09:53.390
thing to do. Because when you have all day IPA,

01:09:54.329 --> 01:09:56.390
you want an empanada. Let me tell you. That's

01:09:56.390 --> 01:09:58.729
what I hear. American people. American people.

01:10:00.310 --> 01:10:03.510
So crack one open at home. We're not sponsored

01:10:03.510 --> 01:10:06.970
by this brand, but we are sampling it for you.

01:10:07.250 --> 01:10:13.310
Indeed. Here we go. Slantcha. Slantcha. Oh, yeah.

01:10:13.770 --> 01:10:17.670
Hoppy. Hoppy piney. Bit of pine in there. A little

01:10:17.670 --> 01:10:20.670
bit. Trying to get the citrus. I didn't get that

01:10:20.670 --> 01:10:24.390
too much on the first sip. I think because pine...

01:10:24.929 --> 01:10:29.550
and lime are so similar on the palate. I can

01:10:29.550 --> 01:10:32.409
understand the idea of citrus, but it is more

01:10:32.409 --> 01:10:36.609
pine than it is lime or lime juice. Sure. So,

01:10:37.050 --> 01:10:39.449
yeah, I can test that point, but it is refreshing.

01:10:39.569 --> 01:10:43.489
I'll give them refreshing. Quite light. You know,

01:10:43.510 --> 01:10:45.949
it doesn't... And it does not have... See, here's

01:10:45.949 --> 01:10:48.670
the thing. I'm getting the citrusy notes now.

01:10:49.090 --> 01:10:51.210
Sure. That it sat on my palate for a hot second.

01:10:51.850 --> 01:10:56.640
And I think that... that helps with, sometimes

01:10:56.640 --> 01:10:59.420
if you have an IPA, it'll leave a little bit

01:10:59.420 --> 01:11:02.079
on your palate, a little bit of an aftertaste.

01:11:02.340 --> 01:11:06.000
I think that citrus helps out with that. Because

01:11:06.000 --> 01:11:08.140
I didn't really get that with this. Instead of

01:11:08.140 --> 01:11:10.479
a bitter, hoppy aftertaste, you're left with

01:11:10.479 --> 01:11:14.739
this lemon -lime mixture that just kind of sits

01:11:14.739 --> 01:11:17.439
on your tongue, and it's very pleasant. I would

01:11:17.439 --> 01:11:22.060
completely agree with that. I'll give this a

01:11:22.060 --> 01:11:28.199
three. 7 .5 out of 5. Absolutely. Usually session

01:11:28.199 --> 01:11:33.260
IPAs are not my favorite, as I like a more hazy

01:11:33.260 --> 01:11:37.119
imperial type, but this is very enjoyable. I

01:11:37.119 --> 01:11:42.439
enjoy it. That's fantastic. And Founders All

01:11:42.439 --> 01:11:47.699
Day IPA was fantastic. Not sponsored. But I do

01:11:47.699 --> 01:11:51.760
give it praise. I do give it praise. I too, because

01:11:51.760 --> 01:11:54.539
we use the app where we grade these drinks and

01:11:54.539 --> 01:11:58.100
we do them. Untapped. Untapped. And I think I

01:11:58.100 --> 01:12:00.119
would give it a solid four out of five. Yeah.

01:12:00.119 --> 01:12:02.399
And I'm not a big IPA guy, but I think this is

01:12:02.399 --> 01:12:05.899
very enjoyable. I completely agree. That is high

01:12:05.899 --> 01:12:10.760
props coming from a non -IPA fellow. No doubt.

01:12:11.960 --> 01:12:17.659
So, okay. We are now on to... the final segment.

01:12:19.020 --> 01:12:21.680
We swap things in and out a little bit on the

01:12:21.680 --> 01:12:24.180
back end of our show, keep things lively, keep

01:12:24.180 --> 01:12:26.699
things a little different. Sometimes we do the

01:12:26.699 --> 01:12:31.579
world of weird news. And sometimes we do the

01:12:31.579 --> 01:12:35.979
15th. Sometimes we'll do a rapid fire. We haven't

01:12:35.979 --> 01:12:40.319
done that in a hot minute. And tier listing,

01:12:40.500 --> 01:12:44.939
which is actually from 8 Show. An AK -219 classic.

01:12:45.100 --> 01:12:48.420
Indeed. So we did a part one of a tier list and

01:12:48.420 --> 01:12:50.520
I thought, well, heck, we might as well strike

01:12:50.520 --> 01:12:52.520
while the iron is hot and do the second part.

01:12:52.859 --> 01:12:56.539
Absolutely. And it is a good tier list. We're

01:12:56.539 --> 01:13:02.539
tier listing fast food and pizzerias. And in

01:13:02.539 --> 01:13:05.260
alphabetical order, these are, I don't want to

01:13:05.260 --> 01:13:07.220
say they're regional, but they are kind of specific

01:13:07.220 --> 01:13:11.960
to the United States. So if there's fast food,

01:13:12.300 --> 01:13:15.039
or pizzerias, where you are, you're not in the

01:13:15.039 --> 01:13:17.720
US, you may not hear too many familiar names,

01:13:17.760 --> 01:13:19.739
and for that I apologize, but this is just what

01:13:19.739 --> 01:13:23.180
we know, and it's what we're able to tier list

01:13:23.180 --> 01:13:27.800
accurately. So, alphabetically, we started with

01:13:27.800 --> 01:13:30.640
Arby's last week, went down the list, we finished

01:13:30.640 --> 01:13:34.500
with Five Guys. We did. So, we went from A through

01:13:34.500 --> 01:13:39.300
F, we are starting with K in this part of the

01:13:39.300 --> 01:13:43.680
tier list, tier listing. KFC, Kentucky Fried

01:13:43.680 --> 01:13:48.619
Chicken, is first up tier listed for this week.

01:13:49.819 --> 01:13:54.420
I will say that most of the ones in Northwest

01:13:54.420 --> 01:13:57.079
Indiana are closed. They're no longer open. Yeah,

01:13:57.279 --> 01:14:01.560
they killed them. That is telling. I mean, it's

01:14:01.560 --> 01:14:04.300
poor business practice period, but. Sure. Still

01:14:04.300 --> 01:14:07.279
kind of telling. And it's part of that young

01:14:07.279 --> 01:14:11.000
brands umbrella because a lot of the pizza huts

01:14:11.000 --> 01:14:13.760
nearby closed as well. So it's part of that same

01:14:13.760 --> 01:14:18.039
umbrella. So was it a matter of time thing or

01:14:18.039 --> 01:14:21.359
maybe they were killed off by other chicken joints?

01:14:21.460 --> 01:14:26.520
Who's to say? What I do know is that it's not

01:14:26.520 --> 01:14:30.760
my first go -to for chicken. Sure. I do like

01:14:30.760 --> 01:14:33.439
the bowls that they have. I think those are really

01:14:33.439 --> 01:14:35.960
good. So that's why they take the chicken and

01:14:35.960 --> 01:14:37.600
vegetables and potatoes and gravy and you put

01:14:37.600 --> 01:14:39.239
it all together and a little cheese and it's

01:14:39.239 --> 01:14:43.079
really good. I do like that. They also came out

01:14:43.079 --> 01:14:44.460
with some new fries that were actually pretty

01:14:44.460 --> 01:14:47.060
decent. Yeah. So they have some good things,

01:14:47.140 --> 01:14:50.720
but the chicken itself is just okay. It's okay.

01:14:50.840 --> 01:14:54.159
I would agree. It's just okay. Yeah. Based on

01:14:54.159 --> 01:14:57.460
that, I'd probably just have to give it a solid

01:14:57.460 --> 01:15:02.399
C. I'm kind of in the same boat, and one thing

01:15:02.399 --> 01:15:04.680
that always pissed me off is a family -sized

01:15:04.680 --> 01:15:08.250
bucket. with a couple sides is like $37 .00.

01:15:08.529 --> 01:15:10.010
It's stupid. It's stupid expensive. That's fucking

01:15:10.010 --> 01:15:12.689
absurd in my eyes. As far as fast food goes,

01:15:12.789 --> 01:15:15.109
you could go to a sit -down restaurant, you know,

01:15:15.210 --> 01:15:18.250
spend nine bucks a head and come out with a better

01:15:18.250 --> 01:15:21.689
outcome than that. So, in that aspect, I don't

01:15:21.689 --> 01:15:23.109
like it, but like you were saying, the bowls

01:15:23.109 --> 01:15:26.109
are great. I enjoy the wraps. They came out with

01:15:26.109 --> 01:15:27.810
the new fries, which I never got to try, but

01:15:27.810 --> 01:15:30.189
I heard great things. Yep. I'd have given it

01:15:30.189 --> 01:15:34.279
a C+. Okay, I can live with that. Compromise

01:15:34.279 --> 01:15:36.420
on a c -plus. I think we can I can I can deal

01:15:36.420 --> 01:15:40.720
with a c -plus c -plus brings us to one of the

01:15:40.720 --> 01:15:45.100
more controversial ones in In as far as food

01:15:45.100 --> 01:15:47.619
taste goes it's not really a controversial company

01:15:47.619 --> 01:15:54.380
as far as I know Little Caesars pizza now I When

01:15:54.380 --> 01:15:57.680
I was a wee lad up until the age of about 20.

01:15:58.279 --> 01:16:01.430
I was not a huge Little Caesars guy I didn't

01:16:01.430 --> 01:16:04.789
really like the sauce that much. I thought the

01:16:04.789 --> 01:16:08.970
topping to cheese to crust ratio was not good.

01:16:09.829 --> 01:16:12.770
And yet, in the last couple years of my life,

01:16:13.409 --> 01:16:17.430
I have come full circle. I think their Detroit

01:16:17.430 --> 01:16:20.069
-style pizza, which is kind of a rip on Jets

01:16:20.069 --> 01:16:24.409
to be completely honest, is really good. And

01:16:24.409 --> 01:16:27.399
you could spend six bones, get a... Detroit style

01:16:27.399 --> 01:16:29.899
pizza and a drink, that's not a bad price for

01:16:29.899 --> 01:16:33.800
lunch. And even though they no longer do the

01:16:33.800 --> 01:16:36.739
five dollar hot and reddies, you know, their

01:16:36.739 --> 01:16:38.979
cheap pizzas are still seven bones, which as

01:16:38.979 --> 01:16:41.619
far as the crazy price increases we've seen recently

01:16:41.619 --> 01:16:46.579
is not that bad. I kinda like Little Caesar's.

01:16:46.920 --> 01:16:50.000
I honestly would give them a B plus, maybe A

01:16:50.000 --> 01:16:54.399
minus territory. The guy that owns Little Caesar's

01:16:54.399 --> 01:16:56.939
also owns the Tigers. So when me and my friend

01:16:56.939 --> 01:17:01.060
Steve went to check out a Tigers game, they had

01:17:01.060 --> 01:17:04.500
a package that we got. So we got our ticket and

01:17:04.500 --> 01:17:06.520
we got a slice of pizza and a pop. It was like

01:17:06.520 --> 01:17:10.239
20 bucks. Now that's a steal. So that was pretty

01:17:10.239 --> 01:17:12.619
good. That's like White Sox level cheap. It really

01:17:12.619 --> 01:17:17.619
is for a team that isn't ass. Right. So yeah,

01:17:17.619 --> 01:17:22.859
I really enjoyed that. The pizza itself and what

01:17:22.859 --> 01:17:27.279
I try to do in my head on these things is where

01:17:27.279 --> 01:17:32.140
do I put it in relation to like restaurant? Yeah,

01:17:32.260 --> 01:17:34.960
you wouldn't compare it to a Giordano's or a

01:17:34.960 --> 01:17:37.920
Fox's. No, because that's not fair. Or a home

01:17:37.920 --> 01:17:41.800
run in. It's not fair. No. So I look at it in

01:17:41.800 --> 01:17:46.199
terms of Domino's or, well, we used to have Papa

01:17:46.199 --> 01:17:49.039
Murphy's. We don't anymore. Rest in peace. RIP

01:17:49.039 --> 01:17:53.819
Papa Murphy's. I'd have to put it once again

01:17:53.819 --> 01:17:59.720
at a solid C. Because while when you're talking

01:17:59.720 --> 01:18:03.359
about affordability, and it's the end of a pay

01:18:03.359 --> 01:18:05.819
period, you're waiting for your next check, you

01:18:05.819 --> 01:18:09.000
got 10 bucks in your wallet, hey, that pizza

01:18:09.000 --> 01:18:11.239
can feed me and my significant other or me and

01:18:11.239 --> 01:18:12.899
a couple of my kids or whatever the case is,

01:18:13.579 --> 01:18:18.659
that is appealing. The fact that it's the quality

01:18:18.659 --> 01:18:21.960
is very mid Some of the sauces are kind of good

01:18:21.960 --> 01:18:26.159
and it says a lot about a pizza company When

01:18:26.159 --> 01:18:28.899
they're trying to sell you sauces to go with

01:18:28.899 --> 01:18:31.560
their pizza because they know their pizza itself

01:18:31.560 --> 01:18:33.640
doesn't have much flavor That's an interesting

01:18:33.640 --> 01:18:36.420
point to make I can get behind that so I just

01:18:36.420 --> 01:18:39.920
I consider it just like I consider see it's kind

01:18:39.920 --> 01:18:43.250
of that perfect pizza for a school outing Like

01:18:43.250 --> 01:18:45.630
a work thing, you know, because you can walk

01:18:45.630 --> 01:18:47.569
in there with 20 or 30 bucks, come out with a

01:18:47.569 --> 01:18:50.510
bunch of pizzas or whatever. Yeah. So like that,

01:18:50.670 --> 01:18:54.069
it's good. But I don't know. Taste -wise, it's

01:18:54.069 --> 01:18:57.069
just kind of meh. Middle of the road. Yep. Sure.

01:18:57.569 --> 01:19:00.369
I can get behind that. So would you comp it like

01:19:00.369 --> 01:19:04.829
a B minus maybe? Maybe a C plus? I think it has

01:19:04.829 --> 01:19:07.550
to be in the Cs. I think I would do C plus. C

01:19:07.550 --> 01:19:11.500
plus. I can get behind that. Like I said, I do

01:19:11.500 --> 01:19:14.239
appreciate their prices and I think what brought

01:19:14.239 --> 01:19:17.720
me around to almost recommending an A - was that

01:19:17.720 --> 01:19:22.500
Detroit style pizza. Right. Because it is, I

01:19:22.500 --> 01:19:24.520
don't want to say it's as good as Jet's, but

01:19:24.520 --> 01:19:28.359
it's pretty dang close. Yeah. And that's what

01:19:28.359 --> 01:19:30.439
kind of swayed me. But C +, I can get behind

01:19:30.439 --> 01:19:33.619
for Little Caesars. Next one up is another one

01:19:33.619 --> 01:19:36.960
that's kind of dying in our local area, Long

01:19:36.960 --> 01:19:41.220
John Silver's. Yeah. Fish and chicken and hushpuppies

01:19:41.220 --> 01:19:44.880
and all of them, in my opinion, lack flavor.

01:19:45.399 --> 01:19:49.380
The fish filets without tartar sauce are nothing.

01:19:50.380 --> 01:19:53.159
The chicken just tastes like the oil it was fried

01:19:53.159 --> 01:19:55.859
in. Which usually tastes like fish. Which usually

01:19:55.859 --> 01:19:58.779
tastes like fish. And the hushpuppies themselves

01:19:58.779 --> 01:20:02.819
have no flavor. And granted, we have been pampered.

01:20:02.880 --> 01:20:06.100
There's a local joint around here. Louie's. Called

01:20:06.100 --> 01:20:09.560
Louie's Wings and Catfish. And they, in my opinion,

01:20:09.739 --> 01:20:13.699
have some of the best chicken, hush puppies,

01:20:14.279 --> 01:20:18.060
po' boys. I have had the pleasure of tasting,

01:20:18.199 --> 01:20:19.640
and they didn't make the list because they're

01:20:19.640 --> 01:20:21.600
not a fast food joint, they're a local joint.

01:20:22.539 --> 01:20:25.560
Long John Silver's, in my opinion, gets, they

01:20:25.560 --> 01:20:29.199
get a D. I mean, straight down the middle they

01:20:29.199 --> 01:20:34.699
get a D, because it's not horrible. But I never,

01:20:35.079 --> 01:20:40.539
ever choose to go there. So that's a D, purely

01:20:40.539 --> 01:20:45.659
and simply. I always found it amazing that at

01:20:45.659 --> 01:20:48.439
Long John Silver's, there was never a car in

01:20:48.439 --> 01:20:51.479
there, ever. Never a car in the lot? Never a

01:20:51.479 --> 01:20:54.319
car in the drive -through? No cars. I always

01:20:54.319 --> 01:20:55.840
found that really amazing and the fact that it

01:20:55.840 --> 01:20:57.600
was year after year after year, I'm like, oh,

01:20:57.600 --> 01:20:59.760
it's gotta be a drug front. That's what I was

01:20:59.760 --> 01:21:03.800
thinking too. I don't understand how this business

01:21:03.800 --> 01:21:06.399
is even open Because here's the thing like I

01:21:06.399 --> 01:21:07.939
went in and someone had recommended they're like,

01:21:07.960 --> 01:21:10.939
oh my god I know that a fish guy, but their their

01:21:10.939 --> 01:21:14.380
chicken is really good Now what I got from it

01:21:14.380 --> 01:21:17.979
like the breading on it. Yes, it's almost akin

01:21:17.979 --> 01:21:22.119
to beer batter Right exactly. And so it was I

01:21:22.119 --> 01:21:24.420
was really excited and the consistency of the

01:21:24.420 --> 01:21:26.920
chicken and it was really good Sure the fries

01:21:27.740 --> 01:21:30.659
A little bit better than mid, mid plus. Yeah,

01:21:30.720 --> 01:21:34.239
right, right. C plus. C plus. But, like, I was

01:21:34.239 --> 01:21:36.340
really excited about that and I loved it until,

01:21:36.479 --> 01:21:38.500
like, you've been into it and you took a couple

01:21:38.500 --> 01:21:41.199
bites and you got a fishy taste. Right. I was

01:21:41.199 --> 01:21:43.640
like, God damn it. You couldn't separate the

01:21:43.640 --> 01:21:45.479
fryers? You couldn't just have one for the chicken?

01:21:45.819 --> 01:21:47.699
Everything in your restaurant is fried. You don't

01:21:47.699 --> 01:21:50.000
have enough fryers to maybe separate them? You

01:21:50.000 --> 01:21:54.699
should. Definitely should. Yeah. I, I... I concur.

01:21:55.060 --> 01:21:58.859
I will be kind and give it a D. Right. D right

01:21:58.859 --> 01:22:01.319
down the middle. Makes sense why they're closing.

01:22:02.000 --> 01:22:08.560
Next one up, the magnate. The multinational McDonald's.

01:22:08.899 --> 01:22:12.920
Oh yeah. Here's the thing. In terms of Aidan

01:22:12.920 --> 01:22:16.939
and myself and how we have this disdain for big

01:22:16.939 --> 01:22:18.760
corporate America and things like that. Right.

01:22:20.000 --> 01:22:23.510
I do have... A love. A little soft spot. A little

01:22:23.510 --> 01:22:28.850
soft spot in my heart for one McDonald's. And

01:22:28.850 --> 01:22:31.090
I think it's, number one, I think it starts at

01:22:31.090 --> 01:22:32.630
breakfast. I think they have the best fast food

01:22:32.630 --> 01:22:35.930
breakfast, bar none. The bagels are good. When

01:22:35.930 --> 01:22:38.630
they cook them, like when they put them in the

01:22:38.630 --> 01:22:40.250
toaster and they're crispy, they're great. Yes,

01:22:40.270 --> 01:22:42.689
I can get behind that. A lot of times you get

01:22:42.689 --> 01:22:44.149
it and it's like, did they just pull this out

01:22:44.149 --> 01:22:46.250
of the bag? I think sometimes they do. I think

01:22:46.250 --> 01:22:47.930
sometimes they do. When they get busy, they don't

01:22:47.930 --> 01:22:49.289
even do it, they just pull it out of the bag.

01:22:49.289 --> 01:22:52.960
Yeah. And I should be better about being a consumer.

01:22:52.960 --> 01:22:55.899
And when that happens, to stop and go back in

01:22:55.899 --> 01:22:58.300
and be like, hi, you just pulled this bagel out

01:22:58.300 --> 01:23:00.840
of a bag. You want to toast it for me? Right.

01:23:02.199 --> 01:23:04.359
But that being said, nine times out of 10, that

01:23:04.359 --> 01:23:12.800
bagel is fine. I enjoy the egg and bacon biscuit

01:23:12.800 --> 01:23:16.439
thing. Oh, sure. Yeah. That's really good. The

01:23:16.439 --> 01:23:18.539
breakfast is good. Even the McGriddles are fire,

01:23:18.779 --> 01:23:20.760
too. They're just pricey. The McGriddles are

01:23:20.760 --> 01:23:23.600
pricey. They are pricey for what you get. But

01:23:23.600 --> 01:23:25.800
I think their breakfast is really good. In terms

01:23:25.800 --> 01:23:27.680
of the other stuff, the menu has not changed

01:23:27.680 --> 01:23:30.329
a whole heck of a lot. in does it need to but

01:23:30.329 --> 01:23:32.449
it doesn't need to yeah it's like if people want

01:23:32.449 --> 01:23:34.010
the two cheeseburger meal they're gonna get the

01:23:34.010 --> 01:23:35.369
two cheeseburger meal because they've had it

01:23:35.369 --> 01:23:38.369
for the last 25 years maybe that royale with

01:23:38.369 --> 01:23:40.350
cheese the royale with cheese you know they're

01:23:40.350 --> 01:23:41.949
gonna go ahead and go with that or you go you're

01:23:41.949 --> 01:23:45.609
mcnuggies and you're you're gonna get those uh

01:23:45.609 --> 01:23:49.489
and the fries the fries are some of the most

01:23:49.489 --> 01:23:52.670
tried and true in the fast food world wendy's

01:23:52.670 --> 01:23:55.109
has changed them 10 times over the last five

01:23:55.109 --> 01:23:58.210
years yes I mean, Chick -fil -A changed them

01:23:58.210 --> 01:24:01.989
for the worse recently. Buffalo Wild Wings actually

01:24:01.989 --> 01:24:04.729
changed them for the better recently, but McDonald's

01:24:04.729 --> 01:24:07.250
is always tried and true with the fries. Tried

01:24:07.250 --> 01:24:09.909
and true. They have, like, why? If it ain't broke,

01:24:09.930 --> 01:24:13.149
don't fix it. Right. And they have, when those

01:24:13.149 --> 01:24:15.449
things are hot and you, like, open your bag and

01:24:15.449 --> 01:24:17.250
you notice how hot those fries are, it's like,

01:24:17.409 --> 01:24:19.029
oh, I'm gonna, I'm just gonna pound these right

01:24:19.029 --> 01:24:20.670
now. Oh, yeah. Because hot McDonald's fries are

01:24:20.670 --> 01:24:22.949
the best. And if they're salted perfectly. Perfectly

01:24:22.949 --> 01:24:25.500
every time. You don't need to add anything. Nope,

01:24:25.840 --> 01:24:27.340
there's a lot of places where you get it and

01:24:27.340 --> 01:24:29.560
you'll just be like, oh man, and then you forgot

01:24:29.560 --> 01:24:32.159
you didn't ask for salt. Right, just tastes like

01:24:32.159 --> 01:24:35.079
potato. Right, and I got choked down this flavorless

01:24:35.079 --> 01:24:43.279
potato. But yeah, they do a great job. I don't

01:24:43.279 --> 01:24:45.439
know if I can put them in superior, although

01:24:45.439 --> 01:24:48.399
it's pretty damn close. I would agree. I think

01:24:48.399 --> 01:24:51.500
I gotta go A+. I was thinking A. I was thinking

01:24:51.500 --> 01:24:54.420
A as well. I think we can throw McDonald's in

01:24:54.420 --> 01:24:58.739
the A plus territory. Solid, yeah. Solid, absolutely.

01:24:59.739 --> 01:25:02.960
I have nothing besides them underpaying their

01:25:02.960 --> 01:25:05.600
staff, which almost every fast food joint does.

01:25:06.359 --> 01:25:09.140
The food itself, you can't... And the Diet Coke.

01:25:09.979 --> 01:25:11.939
They do it different. I don't know what crack

01:25:11.939 --> 01:25:14.119
they put in the Diet Coke, but it's so good.

01:25:14.119 --> 01:25:17.000
I have heard their contract with Coca -Cola.

01:25:17.000 --> 01:25:19.859
I'm not sure if this is true. You are... Hearing

01:25:19.859 --> 01:25:22.600
this from a third party hearing it from a second

01:25:22.600 --> 01:25:25.479
party take this with a grain of salt, but I heard

01:25:25.479 --> 01:25:29.800
that their syrup That they get from coca -cola

01:25:29.800 --> 01:25:33.560
their coke diet coke coke zero syrup comes in

01:25:33.560 --> 01:25:37.699
refrigerated metal containers oh Whereas every

01:25:37.699 --> 01:25:40.239
other syrup you know comes in that you know the

01:25:40.239 --> 01:25:43.319
bag or whatever box with the bag inside they

01:25:43.319 --> 01:25:47.220
get it refrigerated in Like metal containers,

01:25:47.319 --> 01:25:49.319
that's really interesting And then, of course,

01:25:49.319 --> 01:25:51.819
they have that wider straw, which science says

01:25:51.819 --> 01:25:55.600
gives you more flavor and less bubbles. So I

01:25:55.600 --> 01:25:57.960
hear you there. I'm just not a big soda guy,

01:25:57.979 --> 01:26:02.560
but I do hear you there. Next on the list, Papa

01:26:02.560 --> 01:26:06.720
John's. Now, I got something to say about Papa

01:26:06.720 --> 01:26:09.119
John's. What up, A? You got something to say?

01:26:09.140 --> 01:26:11.119
I got something to say. Callback. That's a callback.

01:26:11.439 --> 01:26:16.840
That shit sucks. Papa John's is the fucking ashtray.

01:26:17.449 --> 01:26:21.909
of pizza. I mean, that shit makes Little Caesars

01:26:21.909 --> 01:26:26.970
look like Gino's. That shit makes Domino's mid

01:26:26.970 --> 01:26:30.090
-ass pizza look like Giordano's. Papa John's

01:26:30.090 --> 01:26:33.090
is so ass, they literally put garlic butter in

01:26:33.090 --> 01:26:35.329
the box because they know you hate the fucking

01:26:35.329 --> 01:26:37.430
pizza and you just want the garlic butter. You

01:26:37.430 --> 01:26:42.930
just wanna douse it. Papa John's... And on top

01:26:42.930 --> 01:26:44.789
of that, they have the fucking goal to charge

01:26:44.789 --> 01:26:50.000
you $17 for a pizza. True. Papa John's. D minus.

01:26:51.079 --> 01:26:56.000
Uh, that's fair. That's just my take. Besides

01:26:56.000 --> 01:26:57.819
the fact... Besides the fact the owner's ass.

01:26:58.140 --> 01:27:00.699
He's a cunt too, yeah. And, oh, is he going,

01:27:00.779 --> 01:27:03.420
he kills rhinos or some shit, whatever he does.

01:27:04.260 --> 01:27:08.560
Like, he's just not a good dude. Yeah, the pizza's

01:27:08.560 --> 01:27:12.600
not good. I think I've had it once ever. Ever.

01:27:12.819 --> 01:27:15.079
Right. And that was enough. Yeah. It's enough

01:27:15.079 --> 01:27:17.479
to know that it's not good. I'm like, that was

01:27:17.479 --> 01:27:22.460
wildly substandard. Right. Just not good. So,

01:27:23.460 --> 01:27:28.239
I... Boy, I would think F. You're thinking F?

01:27:28.420 --> 01:27:32.800
I'll go F with you. Because my D - was kind of

01:27:32.800 --> 01:27:36.199
a compromise in itself. Nah, we're flagging them.

01:27:36.500 --> 01:27:41.539
Yeah. Papa John's F. Next up, Pizza Hut. Pizza

01:27:41.539 --> 01:27:44.380
Hut's an interesting beast. Because half the

01:27:44.380 --> 01:27:47.560
time you get the Pizza Hut with the Wing Stop

01:27:47.560 --> 01:27:50.800
included. Yes. And Wing Stop, I believe, does

01:27:50.800 --> 01:27:53.140
wings cheaper than Pizza Hut does themselves,

01:27:53.279 --> 01:27:56.640
and they do it better somehow, too. But Pizza

01:27:56.640 --> 01:28:00.460
Hut is, like, it's fine. In my opinion, Pizza

01:28:00.460 --> 01:28:04.119
Hut is better in flavor than Little Caesar's,

01:28:04.119 --> 01:28:06.859
but you're also paying a lot more. So there's

01:28:06.859 --> 01:28:10.439
a compromise to make there. But Pizza Hut is

01:28:10.439 --> 01:28:14.130
never as good as a local chain is. So that's

01:28:14.130 --> 01:28:16.710
right. I'm kind of torn. I want to place them

01:28:16.710 --> 01:28:20.350
higher than the C plus we gave little Caesars

01:28:20.350 --> 01:28:23.970
But being in that young brands umbrella, they've

01:28:23.970 --> 01:28:25.789
closed a lot of the local joints around here.

01:28:25.789 --> 01:28:29.210
Like we were mentioning earlier. Yeah So what

01:28:29.210 --> 01:28:32.189
do I do besides say C plus again, you know, right

01:28:32.189 --> 01:28:36.609
and and the actual pizza is pretty good When

01:28:36.609 --> 01:28:41.119
I was young Pizza had a buffet Yes. Oh, I remember

01:28:41.119 --> 01:28:43.100
that. They had a buffet. They got, yeah, you

01:28:43.100 --> 01:28:44.779
were young when they got rid of it. Yeah, into

01:28:44.779 --> 01:28:46.680
my youth they had it a little bit. And you could

01:28:46.680 --> 01:28:49.340
get slices of pizza. You could get pasta salad.

01:28:49.420 --> 01:28:51.659
You could get regular salad. You could get soup.

01:28:52.239 --> 01:28:54.199
They had all sorts of shit and you paid one price.

01:28:54.399 --> 01:28:56.920
Right. And you got the goofy little red plastic

01:28:56.920 --> 01:28:59.060
cup for your beverages or whatever. It was, it

01:28:59.060 --> 01:29:01.399
was great. Yeah. It was so good. It was a steal.

01:29:01.960 --> 01:29:04.439
And like, I appreciated that. And I think back

01:29:04.439 --> 01:29:07.569
in the day, because they had that, Their restaurant

01:29:07.569 --> 01:29:09.529
was always full of people, especially at dinnertime.

01:29:10.109 --> 01:29:12.729
And it was kind of a fun place to be at. But

01:29:12.729 --> 01:29:15.329
then they got rid of it, and any time you actually

01:29:15.329 --> 01:29:17.590
physically walk into a pizza hut, there are no

01:29:17.590 --> 01:29:20.029
people inside. No, right. Because they're like,

01:29:20.069 --> 01:29:21.590
well, why do we want to be here? I'll go eat

01:29:21.590 --> 01:29:24.449
the pizza at home. Because there's no reason

01:29:24.449 --> 01:29:27.729
to be there. But if it's a buffet, yeah, I'll

01:29:27.729 --> 01:29:30.329
show up. Right, right. There's no atmosphere

01:29:30.329 --> 01:29:34.689
like there is for a Chicago pizzeria. Correct.

01:29:35.670 --> 01:29:39.020
Yeah, there's none. There's none. So, I see.

01:29:39.340 --> 01:29:42.720
Yeah. I go see. I could go see as well. So we'll

01:29:42.720 --> 01:29:47.859
go see for Pizza Hut. Next up, Popeyes. Popeyes

01:29:47.859 --> 01:29:52.340
Louisiana Kitchen. More like Louisiana chicken,

01:29:52.340 --> 01:29:55.720
let's be honest. In my personal opinion, they

01:29:55.720 --> 01:29:58.460
won the chicken sandwich war all those years

01:29:58.460 --> 01:30:01.520
ago. 100%. I completely believe that and stand

01:30:01.520 --> 01:30:04.579
by it. I would say the fact that their Cajun

01:30:04.579 --> 01:30:10.159
fries are bomb. Very good. Good biscuits. I mean,

01:30:10.260 --> 01:30:12.439
the mashed potatoes are good, too. The mac and

01:30:12.439 --> 01:30:14.340
cheese could use a little work, I'll be real.

01:30:15.140 --> 01:30:19.260
But as far as chicken... chick -chickenerias

01:30:19.260 --> 01:30:23.659
go? Chickareas go? Sure. I mean, I'm willing

01:30:23.659 --> 01:30:27.000
to give Popeyes an A. To be honest. I could even

01:30:27.000 --> 01:30:32.119
go higher than that. Aha. I... Okay. So we just

01:30:32.119 --> 01:30:35.239
had Mardi Gras not too long ago. Alright! And

01:30:35.239 --> 01:30:36.899
I went to this place called Franklin House, the

01:30:36.899 --> 01:30:39.819
local place here in Valparaiso, Indiana. And

01:30:39.819 --> 01:30:44.760
it's like the perfect vibe, right? It's not too

01:30:44.760 --> 01:30:48.720
bougie of a place, and it's not a complete ass

01:30:48.720 --> 01:30:51.899
dump. Sure, yeah. It's just that kind of perfect

01:30:51.899 --> 01:30:56.579
local place where all like real people go. Yeah.

01:30:56.779 --> 01:30:59.539
I really appreciate that. So I go in there. It's

01:30:59.539 --> 01:31:03.060
probably my regular spot now. And I go in there.

01:31:04.050 --> 01:31:06.090
During Mardi Gras, I had my beads on, showed

01:31:06.090 --> 01:31:09.189
my boobs, you know, whatever. As the Lord intended.

01:31:09.430 --> 01:31:11.270
As the Lord intended, he gave me boobs, I'm gonna

01:31:11.270 --> 01:31:16.810
show them, whatever. So I acquired my beads and

01:31:16.810 --> 01:31:20.649
they had some specific menu items. One of them

01:31:20.649 --> 01:31:23.369
was red beans and rice. Oh, that's an idea. And

01:31:23.369 --> 01:31:26.510
so I'm like, oh, I'm gonna try that. Blew my

01:31:26.510 --> 01:31:29.880
balls off. I was like, oh my God. Why have I

01:31:29.880 --> 01:31:32.279
not done this more often kind of like that whole

01:31:32.279 --> 01:31:34.159
Thanksgiving argument? We have you have Thanksgiving

01:31:34.159 --> 01:31:36.140
you love the turkey and you love this stuffing

01:31:36.140 --> 01:31:37.520
in the Nashville down and you have it one time

01:31:37.520 --> 01:31:39.399
a year once a year right once a year even though

01:31:39.399 --> 01:31:41.000
you love it and this is kind of the same thing

01:31:41.000 --> 01:31:43.100
with the red beans and rice my god damn why don't

01:31:43.100 --> 01:31:46.920
I so Fast forward to a couple weeks later, and

01:31:46.920 --> 01:31:49.779
I forgot lunch. I'm like god damn it so I'm not

01:31:49.779 --> 01:31:51.779
far from my work as a Popeye so I run into the

01:31:51.779 --> 01:31:56.000
Popeyes, and I was like I'll just have Like a

01:31:56.000 --> 01:31:57.760
cup of the mac and cheese off a cup of the red

01:31:57.760 --> 01:32:00.039
beans rice and something to drink. Okay So I

01:32:00.039 --> 01:32:01.800
grab those things I get out of there I go back

01:32:01.800 --> 01:32:03.500
to work and I mix up the red beans rice like

01:32:03.500 --> 01:32:08.100
oh my god baller So good. Oh, yeah had just the

01:32:08.100 --> 01:32:09.739
perfect amount of kick to it too. It was like

01:32:09.739 --> 01:32:13.300
us is perfect Huge Popeye's fan huge fan of their

01:32:13.300 --> 01:32:15.260
chicken. They cook it right. It's always juicy.

01:32:15.260 --> 01:32:18.720
The crust is delicious You can get it with The

01:32:18.720 --> 01:32:20.760
spicy, if you like the spicy, and the spicy is

01:32:20.760 --> 01:32:24.680
warm. You'll feel it in your head. In a wonderful

01:32:24.680 --> 01:32:26.100
way. In a wonderful way. I enjoy their spicy

01:32:26.100 --> 01:32:27.960
chicken. It's not too spicy, but it is spicy.

01:32:28.619 --> 01:32:30.899
Yeah. Everything there is great. I really have

01:32:30.899 --> 01:32:35.399
no complaints. I would probably have to go B

01:32:35.399 --> 01:32:38.779
plus on the Popeyes. B plus? Would you comp me

01:32:38.779 --> 01:32:41.970
at an A minus maybe? I'll meet you there. I'll

01:32:41.970 --> 01:32:43.510
meet you there because I love it. Yeah, absolutely

01:32:43.510 --> 01:32:46.489
meet you there at an a -minus next up the final

01:32:46.489 --> 01:32:50.069
five of tier listing for this week starting off

01:32:50.069 --> 01:32:53.050
with the raising canes another chicken joint

01:32:53.050 --> 01:32:56.689
One that we kind of only have one nearby and

01:32:56.689 --> 01:33:00.170
even that's a 20 or 30 minute drive Kind of tough

01:33:00.170 --> 01:33:02.989
to get around here, but I will say it's good

01:33:02.989 --> 01:33:05.909
But the couple times I've had it. I don't know

01:33:05.909 --> 01:33:09.659
if I'd put it higher than Popeyes right that's

01:33:09.659 --> 01:33:12.739
well that's the tricky part because i don't the

01:33:12.739 --> 01:33:15.899
chicken's good in terms of the crust in terms

01:33:15.899 --> 01:33:17.699
of like it being juicy like i think it's really

01:33:17.699 --> 01:33:21.300
good right i don't think the the proportions

01:33:21.300 --> 01:33:24.579
are large i think they're i agree i think they're

01:33:24.579 --> 01:33:28.279
very average sized but you're you're not paying

01:33:28.279 --> 01:33:30.380
for the chicken you're paying for that freaking

01:33:30.380 --> 01:33:33.380
sauce because i don't know what the hell it is

01:33:33.380 --> 01:33:38.560
cane sauce man that is so freaking good And I

01:33:38.560 --> 01:33:40.720
love it. And they give you the big piece of Texas

01:33:40.720 --> 01:33:44.680
toast with it. Right. And so like it is it's

01:33:44.680 --> 01:33:46.739
a thing. And I really do like it. As a matter

01:33:46.739 --> 01:33:48.500
of fact, I went up there and got some last week.

01:33:49.060 --> 01:33:51.060
I have a friend named Taylor, and she's a bartender

01:33:51.060 --> 01:33:53.420
up at Knuckleheads in this town that has the

01:33:53.420 --> 01:33:56.100
Canes. Right. And it was after the pub crawl

01:33:56.100 --> 01:33:59.260
I went on in Crown Point, Indiana, which is great.

01:33:59.680 --> 01:34:01.720
Good job, Crown Point. Every town seems to have

01:34:01.720 --> 01:34:03.779
an Irish celebration except Valpo anyway. Yeah.

01:34:03.779 --> 01:34:07.979
Right. So. I'm heading back and I'm like not

01:34:07.979 --> 01:34:10.060
ready to shut down for the night. Like I'm just

01:34:10.060 --> 01:34:13.119
not there So I went to a local bar just had like

01:34:13.119 --> 01:34:14.420
a beer and I'm kind of just sitting there and

01:34:14.420 --> 01:34:18.039
I'm like Nope. Nope. Uh -uh. Nope. The night's

01:34:18.039 --> 01:34:20.079
gonna go continue. What am I gonna do? What am

01:34:20.079 --> 01:34:22.979
I gonna do? I want chicken. I want chicken. Am

01:34:22.979 --> 01:34:24.659
I going to Popeye's? No, I'm not. I'm going to

01:34:24.659 --> 01:34:27.319
Cane's. So I went up to Cane's and of course

01:34:27.319 --> 01:34:28.619
while I was up there I was like, I'm gonna see

01:34:28.619 --> 01:34:30.220
if Taylor's working. She was so that was awesome.

01:34:30.220 --> 01:34:32.579
I got to hang out with her for a while But I

01:34:32.579 --> 01:34:35.140
went up to Cain's and it was everything I remembered

01:34:35.140 --> 01:34:36.840
it was because the only time we ever used to

01:34:36.840 --> 01:34:39.359
get it was when we would travel down south. Now,

01:34:39.380 --> 01:34:41.020
where do we grade it? That's the question. That

01:34:41.020 --> 01:34:43.220
is the question. Because I was thinking, I'm

01:34:43.220 --> 01:34:47.079
like Popeyes and A-, I'd have to go B then. I

01:34:47.079 --> 01:34:49.880
feel comfortable B, B +, yeah. Yeah, I think

01:34:49.880 --> 01:34:52.399
a solid B. A solid B down the middle. It needs

01:34:52.399 --> 01:34:55.140
to live, yeah. Yes. It gets that good rating

01:34:55.140 --> 01:35:00.380
from the old Mark Mo show. Next up, Subway. Subway,

01:35:00.659 --> 01:35:04.000
I have very very mixed feelings about. Agreed.

01:35:04.199 --> 01:35:07.619
Because I get it so rarely and every time I get

01:35:07.619 --> 01:35:11.560
it I'm like, oh shit, I think I like Subway a

01:35:11.560 --> 01:35:14.539
lot. And then I don't eat it for a while because

01:35:14.539 --> 01:35:17.760
my brain tells me I don't like Subway. And there's

01:35:17.760 --> 01:35:20.560
a reason for that. Because for the following

01:35:20.560 --> 01:35:25.520
40 hours after you eat Subway, every burp tastes

01:35:25.520 --> 01:35:29.180
like Subway. Yes. And it gets progressively worse.

01:35:29.899 --> 01:35:32.859
It's true. It's expensive. There's no $5 foot

01:35:32.859 --> 01:35:37.199
long you walk in there $14 for a foot long for

01:35:37.199 --> 01:35:39.239
a foot then you get a drink. You're talking 18.

01:35:39.819 --> 01:35:41.420
That's crazy. Then you get a bag of chips You're

01:35:41.420 --> 01:35:44.079
talking 20 bones for lunch. It's a freaking sandwich.

01:35:44.079 --> 01:35:47.859
It's a sandwich sandwich. It's a sandwich Stay

01:35:47.859 --> 01:35:50.579
in your lane bring back the $5 foot long fuck

01:35:50.579 --> 01:35:56.199
you subway C maybe C - yeah, that's the thing

01:35:56.199 --> 01:36:00.319
for me is that When I when I get a sandwich look

01:36:00.750 --> 01:36:03.170
The roast beef, the cheese, the vegetables, whatever

01:36:03.170 --> 01:36:06.449
you're putting on there, it's fine. The bread

01:36:06.449 --> 01:36:10.210
can make the sandwich or could destroy the sandwich.

01:36:10.210 --> 01:36:15.130
Sure. Their bread is wildly mid. Yes, I agree.

01:36:15.449 --> 01:36:17.430
I just don't think there's anything spectacular

01:36:17.430 --> 01:36:19.210
about it. But as a matter of fact, Ireland is

01:36:19.210 --> 01:36:21.130
classified, their bread is not bread. It's a

01:36:21.130 --> 01:36:23.649
pastry because of the sugar content in the bread.

01:36:24.029 --> 01:36:26.170
They need to put sugar in the bread to make it

01:36:26.170 --> 01:36:29.109
palatable because it's so fucking cheap. Correct.

01:36:29.289 --> 01:36:31.949
That is correct. So I'm not a huge fan of that.

01:36:32.409 --> 01:36:35.609
They do make some. If you can find the subways

01:36:35.609 --> 01:36:36.949
that do the breakfast, because not all of them

01:36:36.949 --> 01:36:38.689
do it. Right. Right. You can find the ones that

01:36:38.689 --> 01:36:41.109
do breakfast and they got the egg and the bacon

01:36:41.109 --> 01:36:43.310
and you put some green peppers on there and do

01:36:43.310 --> 01:36:45.970
some other. There you go. And it's good. I do

01:36:45.970 --> 01:36:50.010
like that. So just like you, it's it's there's

01:36:50.010 --> 01:36:53.090
nothing spectacular about it, but it's not ass

01:36:53.090 --> 01:36:56.289
either. I'm thinking just C right down the middle.

01:36:56.350 --> 01:36:59.279
I could go C down the middle as well. We've got,

01:36:59.399 --> 01:37:03.020
and I'll let you start because I've got feelings

01:37:03.020 --> 01:37:06.880
about this place, Taco Bell. Taco Bell. Taco

01:37:06.880 --> 01:37:11.000
Bell. I frequent Taco Bell often because I'm

01:37:11.000 --> 01:37:13.260
usually up at two or two thirty in the morning.

01:37:13.260 --> 01:37:15.739
Sure. You know, doing the Lord's work. Yeah,

01:37:15.739 --> 01:37:19.260
of course. As any brother in Christ would. Yes,

01:37:19.579 --> 01:37:22.100
we do doing the doing the Lord's work on that.

01:37:22.800 --> 01:37:25.859
So I go very late at night to the Taco Bell.

01:37:27.159 --> 01:37:29.859
are certain places are open late, so that when

01:37:29.859 --> 01:37:32.079
you are out and you're having drinks, you get

01:37:32.079 --> 01:37:34.579
the food. Taco Bell happens to be one of those

01:37:34.579 --> 01:37:38.319
places, in addition to White Castle's, but ours

01:37:38.319 --> 01:37:44.859
is an open late. That's true. Jerks. So, Taco

01:37:44.859 --> 01:37:49.439
Bell has a pretty inexpensive, cheap menu for

01:37:49.439 --> 01:37:50.979
late night. The little cheese roll -ups, or the

01:37:50.979 --> 01:37:53.659
potato tacos, or things like that. So I can sit

01:37:53.659 --> 01:37:57.140
there, get like four or five or six things and

01:37:57.140 --> 01:38:00.079
spend ten bucks right and so that I like a lot

01:38:00.079 --> 01:38:02.960
do I think any of the food is like spectacular

01:38:02.960 --> 01:38:06.520
I do not there are some there are some items

01:38:06.520 --> 01:38:09.539
that I would consider low -grade dog food that's

01:38:09.539 --> 01:38:12.479
fair to say but it's it's it's hit or miss depending

01:38:12.479 --> 01:38:14.460
on what part of the menu you're at it's also

01:38:14.460 --> 01:38:17.640
depending on which Taco Bell you go to yes I

01:38:17.640 --> 01:38:20.359
feel like they vary in they do quality and taste

01:38:20.359 --> 01:38:24.420
some are good some are not and For the most part,

01:38:24.439 --> 01:38:27.920
it's fine. And interesting, my friend Anna, when

01:38:27.920 --> 01:38:30.420
she stays over, and we've been out drinking or

01:38:30.420 --> 01:38:32.800
whatever, she tells me, hey, you gotta order

01:38:32.800 --> 01:38:34.520
through the app. So she'll order through the

01:38:34.520 --> 01:38:38.920
app. And she'll, like, I get a crunch wrap and

01:38:38.920 --> 01:38:44.420
a burrito and nachos and a taco. And she gets

01:38:44.420 --> 01:38:46.199
the same thing. And she spends like 12 bucks.

01:38:46.579 --> 01:38:48.439
On the whole thing. On the whole thing. I'm like,

01:38:48.800 --> 01:38:50.500
I need to get the app. Right. I'm like, what

01:38:50.500 --> 01:38:53.920
am I doing? I'm doing something wrong. So once

01:38:53.920 --> 01:38:58.359
again, it's affordability, it's quality. Most

01:38:58.359 --> 01:39:01.000
of the time convenience. Most of the time convenience.

01:39:01.500 --> 01:39:07.060
So I would probably have to go B overall. That's

01:39:07.060 --> 01:39:11.800
fair. A year ago, I would have said S. I would

01:39:11.800 --> 01:39:17.300
have said S plus. Sure. And these days, I still

01:39:17.300 --> 01:39:20.880
think they're an A, A plus. I really, really

01:39:20.880 --> 01:39:27.500
like Taco Bell. Yep. As far as food quality and

01:39:27.500 --> 01:39:32.079
its content, it ranks near the top. And believe

01:39:32.079 --> 01:39:35.800
it or not, Taco Bell and White Castle rank near

01:39:35.800 --> 01:39:39.619
the top as far as fast foods go, as far as the

01:39:39.619 --> 01:39:43.260
quality and purity of their food. You know, no

01:39:43.260 --> 01:39:47.520
additives or limited additives. So I like that

01:39:47.520 --> 01:39:52.100
point, and I try to be food conscious, but...

01:39:51.979 --> 01:39:55.180
You know, maybe once a week I'll go out and I'll

01:39:55.180 --> 01:39:57.899
get fast food just because I want to or I'm feeling

01:39:57.899 --> 01:40:03.020
lazy. But that aside, I really like Taco Bell.

01:40:03.619 --> 01:40:07.159
I love Mexican food. This isn't really Mexican

01:40:07.159 --> 01:40:09.319
food. It's definitely Mexican American food.

01:40:10.140 --> 01:40:11.760
But there's just something about it I really

01:40:11.760 --> 01:40:15.140
like. But recently they changed, in my opinion,

01:40:15.199 --> 01:40:17.020
I don't know if it was announced or not, they

01:40:17.020 --> 01:40:19.079
changed something about the nacho fries. And

01:40:19.079 --> 01:40:21.399
the nacho fries are already up in contention

01:40:21.399 --> 01:40:24.000
because they're here one day and then they're

01:40:24.000 --> 01:40:27.659
gone for four months. But I would still give

01:40:27.659 --> 01:40:31.140
them like an AA plus. So that means we're gonna

01:40:31.140 --> 01:40:34.359
have to find a compromise between B and A plus.

01:40:35.060 --> 01:40:40.300
We could go B plus or A minus. I'm good with

01:40:40.300 --> 01:40:43.180
B plus. We'll go B plus for Taco Bell. If you're

01:40:43.180 --> 01:40:45.140
good with that. I can live with that, for sure.

01:40:45.800 --> 01:40:49.779
The last two we have today, Wendy's. Boy, that's

01:40:49.779 --> 01:40:54.619
a tough one. It's a tough one. I don't like Wendy's

01:40:54.619 --> 01:40:58.220
prices. I think they're ridiculously high. They're

01:40:58.220 --> 01:41:00.439
almost in line with Five Guys' prices and they

01:41:00.439 --> 01:41:03.819
have no right to be up there. No. But I think

01:41:03.819 --> 01:41:06.619
the food is good. That's where I'm torn. It's

01:41:06.619 --> 01:41:08.520
because they charge a shit ton, but the food

01:41:08.520 --> 01:41:11.119
is good. But your fast food, you shouldn't charge

01:41:11.119 --> 01:41:13.560
that much. You shouldn't charge that much. And

01:41:13.560 --> 01:41:16.699
also your fries are fucking crazy changing all

01:41:16.699 --> 01:41:19.880
the time, and somehow they're always mid. Right.

01:41:20.460 --> 01:41:22.739
Back? God, I don't even know how long ago this

01:41:22.739 --> 01:41:25.619
is. It's when their fry, their fry container

01:41:25.619 --> 01:41:28.060
used to be yellow, and you said the Wendy's thing,

01:41:28.100 --> 01:41:30.140
and the fries were different. The fries were

01:41:30.140 --> 01:41:32.619
good then, and I liked the fries. They almost

01:41:32.619 --> 01:41:36.529
emulated. McDonald's -esque. It was like a McDonald's

01:41:36.529 --> 01:41:38.310
fry, but a little bit thicker. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:41:38.350 --> 01:41:40.569
And I really liked that, and I loved those fries,

01:41:40.609 --> 01:41:42.449
and then they changed them and did these things

01:41:42.449 --> 01:41:44.670
with the potato skins on them, and then they

01:41:44.670 --> 01:41:46.329
did another version of that, and then another

01:41:46.329 --> 01:41:49.050
version of that, and every time they did another

01:41:49.050 --> 01:41:51.710
version, it was like, okay, you just went from

01:41:51.710 --> 01:41:55.189
an okay fry to an okay fry. Right, right. Like

01:41:55.189 --> 01:41:56.810
if I'm gonna change something, especially when

01:41:56.810 --> 01:41:58.789
you're changing across such a large corporation,

01:41:59.490 --> 01:42:01.649
Like it's gotta blow my nuts off. Yeah. I mean

01:42:01.649 --> 01:42:03.390
I'd have to like eat that fry and be like that

01:42:03.390 --> 01:42:04.829
is so much better than that fry. That is what

01:42:04.829 --> 01:42:06.810
we're going with. Right. None of those have been

01:42:06.810 --> 01:42:08.630
that much better than the other one. I agree.

01:42:09.189 --> 01:42:11.210
Except the original fry which I always thought

01:42:11.210 --> 01:42:14.890
was really good. So that was kind of a weird

01:42:14.890 --> 01:42:18.149
adjustment. Yeah. That they made. Aside from

01:42:18.149 --> 01:42:19.909
that I think the chicken sandwich is excellent.

01:42:20.609 --> 01:42:22.569
As a matter of fact I probably would have put

01:42:22.569 --> 01:42:25.590
it second to Popeyes. I can agree with that.

01:42:25.590 --> 01:42:28.979
Yeah. It's a good chicken sandwich. The burgers

01:42:28.979 --> 01:42:32.800
are good. Like they're regular burgers or whatever,

01:42:32.899 --> 01:42:35.859
I always thought were just okay. But like the

01:42:35.859 --> 01:42:39.760
Baconator, I think is top tier. It's a top tier

01:42:39.760 --> 01:42:42.720
burger. Anytime I get Wendy's, I always get the

01:42:42.720 --> 01:42:47.020
Dave's Triple. And that is a really tall, very

01:42:47.020 --> 01:42:50.880
caloric, high protein burger. And I've never

01:42:50.880 --> 01:42:54.750
not finished a Dave's Triple. in my life. Anytime

01:42:54.750 --> 01:42:57.729
I order a Dave's Triple, I finish the Dave's

01:42:57.729 --> 01:43:02.250
Triple. And it's a great burger, it's just pricey.

01:43:03.329 --> 01:43:06.229
In my eyes, besides the fries, that's the downside,

01:43:06.369 --> 01:43:08.810
the Wendy's is the price. That's it, and when

01:43:08.810 --> 01:43:11.750
you eat the Dave's Triple, you have to do one

01:43:11.750 --> 01:43:14.770
thing. You have to beat your brain. Right. So

01:43:14.770 --> 01:43:17.920
before your brain says... Dude, you're full.

01:43:18.439 --> 01:43:20.579
Eat, eat, eat, eat that sandwich and then be

01:43:20.579 --> 01:43:25.800
like, ha, I win. Got to eat. So yeah, that is

01:43:25.800 --> 01:43:29.640
good too. Boy, oh boy, that's a good question.

01:43:29.739 --> 01:43:32.420
And I think as a company or a corporation too,

01:43:32.960 --> 01:43:34.960
they're a little bit better than most from my

01:43:34.960 --> 01:43:38.819
understanding. So take all that into consideration,

01:43:38.899 --> 01:43:42.039
I support. Sure, yeah. Just fix your fries. If

01:43:42.039 --> 01:43:44.279
you fixed your fries, you'd probably be really

01:43:44.279 --> 01:43:46.220
close to an S. I'm not even going to joke about

01:43:46.220 --> 01:43:48.899
that. Oh, I could agree. I was thinking A as

01:43:48.899 --> 01:43:53.000
it stands today. I'm thinking A minus. A minus.

01:43:53.140 --> 01:43:55.319
I can live with that. For sure. That's very good.

01:43:55.739 --> 01:43:59.619
The final one we have today, the king of all

01:43:59.619 --> 01:44:05.020
kings, the White Castle. Welcome to the Castle

01:44:05.020 --> 01:44:11.140
of White. Ah, I love it. I love it. Ah, boy oh

01:44:11.140 --> 01:44:15.300
boy. What a castle. What a treat. Off jump. Yes.

01:44:16.020 --> 01:44:19.779
I want to give them an S. Here's the thing. Your

01:44:19.779 --> 01:44:22.399
mac and cheese nibblers, the mac and cheese bites,

01:44:23.100 --> 01:44:25.640
they come and go just like nacho fries. Fuck

01:44:25.640 --> 01:44:28.119
you for that, first of all. Yes, agree. Secondly,

01:44:28.779 --> 01:44:30.859
every time they come back, they're a little bit

01:44:30.859 --> 01:44:33.260
different. I don't like that. I just want them

01:44:33.260 --> 01:44:36.560
to be the good ones they were. Fuck you for that.

01:44:38.390 --> 01:44:43.369
Thirdly, there is no thirdly. I'm willing to

01:44:43.369 --> 01:44:46.989
go A, maybe A plus, but you gotta figure out

01:44:46.989 --> 01:44:49.449
that mac and cheese bite situation. Oh my god,

01:44:49.590 --> 01:44:51.569
yes. It should be a menu item just like the fries.

01:44:52.090 --> 01:44:55.170
Why not have it all the time? Is it that tough

01:44:55.170 --> 01:44:57.529
as a corporation to get mac and cheese into a

01:44:57.529 --> 01:45:02.050
bread? Should not be. Should not be. Once again,

01:45:02.310 --> 01:45:06.050
another good late night spot. Like it for like

01:45:06.050 --> 01:45:08.289
we we get it together and watch a big game or

01:45:08.289 --> 01:45:10.369
something It's always you just get a crave case,

01:45:10.449 --> 01:45:13.470
which is a case of the burgers, right? 30 burgers

01:45:13.470 --> 01:45:15.949
and what it cost 26 bones something like that

01:45:15.949 --> 01:45:17.869
Yeah, you know and you're gonna feed all you're

01:45:17.869 --> 01:45:20.880
gonna feed all the friends. Yeah, it's good I

01:45:20.880 --> 01:45:23.659
am a huge fan of most of their items. I don't

01:45:23.659 --> 01:45:25.859
think there's anything on there I dislike. Right.

01:45:25.880 --> 01:45:27.779
I'm not a fish guy so I'm not gonna judge the

01:45:27.779 --> 01:45:29.560
fish just because I don't like fish in general.

01:45:30.180 --> 01:45:32.000
Their breakfast is pretty good too. Their breakfast

01:45:32.000 --> 01:45:34.300
is good. Yeah. I do like their... Their breakfast

01:45:34.300 --> 01:45:36.279
is good from the standpoint like I can get two

01:45:36.279 --> 01:45:39.560
breakfast sliders and it satisfies me and I'm

01:45:39.560 --> 01:45:42.979
not full. Yes. Like over full, yeah. I'm not

01:45:42.979 --> 01:45:44.859
over full and I've spent like five bucks. Yeah.

01:45:45.279 --> 01:45:50.710
So I am a huge fan of all of that. I am... I

01:45:50.710 --> 01:45:52.869
feel like the only thing I really knock them

01:45:52.869 --> 01:45:56.310
for, besides the mac and cheese bite debacle,

01:45:56.909 --> 01:46:00.390
is their soft drinks and their sides cost a lot.

01:46:00.850 --> 01:46:04.810
Like a large soft drink costs you $3 .10. That's

01:46:04.810 --> 01:46:08.189
a little high. And like a large fry costs you

01:46:08.189 --> 01:46:13.270
$4, $3, $4. That's a little high. So that's one

01:46:13.270 --> 01:46:15.130
of my gripes besides the mac and cheese bite

01:46:15.130 --> 01:46:21.710
issue. But I'm still in A territory. yeah I I'm

01:46:21.710 --> 01:46:26.369
looking I'm looking hmm I think a plus I'm thinking

01:46:26.369 --> 01:46:30.869
a plus two I just really close and it's they're

01:46:30.869 --> 01:46:33.630
not far away from being in the superior level

01:46:33.630 --> 01:46:37.649
oh I agree if they were open late around me I

01:46:37.649 --> 01:46:39.710
probably would put them in their hint hit nudge

01:46:39.710 --> 01:46:42.550
nudge yeah right stay open when I'm done consuming

01:46:42.550 --> 01:46:44.470
alcoholic beverages at two three in the morning

01:46:45.000 --> 01:46:46.960
I want a couple of white castles. Right. Then

01:46:46.960 --> 01:46:49.460
we'll talk. Then we'll talk. Then I'll bump you

01:46:49.460 --> 01:46:52.140
up. Not that this is a pay to blame, but I'm

01:46:52.140 --> 01:46:54.600
just saying. Or if you want to sponsor us. Or

01:46:54.600 --> 01:46:56.539
if you want to sponsor us. Then we'll talk. Absolutely.

01:46:57.220 --> 01:47:01.079
100%. That concludes tier listing. Fast food

01:47:01.079 --> 01:47:04.800
pizzeria edition. To run you back. Run it back.

01:47:04.939 --> 01:47:08.039
The full list. We gave Arby's a C. Burger King

01:47:08.039 --> 01:47:11.340
and F +, which I think is too high. Yeah. Carl's

01:47:11.340 --> 01:47:14.699
Jr. Hardee's a B. Chick -fil -A, C +, Chipotle

01:47:14.699 --> 01:47:20.800
C-, Dairy Queen B +, Domino's B, Duncan C-, Five

01:47:20.800 --> 01:47:26.039
Guys A, KFC C +, Lil Caesar's C +, Long John

01:47:26.039 --> 01:47:30.640
Silver's D, McDonald's A +, Papa John's F, Pizza

01:47:30.640 --> 01:47:35.399
Hut C, Popeyes A -, Raising Cane's B, Subway

01:47:35.399 --> 01:47:40.260
C, Taco Bell B +, Wendy's A-, and White Castle

01:47:40.260 --> 01:47:47.319
A+. I love it. No S on the list, and only one

01:47:47.319 --> 01:47:49.960
F. No, two F's. Two F's. Sorry about that. Two

01:47:49.960 --> 01:47:54.220
F's. So... Man, and White Castle's was close.

01:47:54.439 --> 01:47:56.640
White Castle's was damn close. McDonald's was

01:47:56.640 --> 01:47:59.210
too, to be fair. Yep. Oh yeah, for sure. But

01:47:59.210 --> 01:48:01.810
that's a great list. Tier listing is a wonderful

01:48:01.810 --> 01:48:04.430
time. It is a wonderful time. I'm glad we were

01:48:04.430 --> 01:48:07.029
able to kind of go through that. I hope you guys

01:48:07.029 --> 01:48:08.770
enjoyed it. We have a lot of fun doing those

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