What's up, everyone? Welcome to season two, episode
eight of the Mark Mo Show. My name is Mark Maloney.
I'm your host, along with AK219. Aidan Spelled
The Right Way. Aidan Maloney, how are you, man?
Pretty fantastic. Glad it's the weekend. Oh,
for sure. Feeling a little sus yesterday, but
you know what? A lot of things have been sus
recently. Oh, there's no question. Well, foreshadowing.
I know, right? We'll definitely get to that.
But yeah, I went out Friday night. And normal
Friday, no excessive partying, drinking, anything
like that, just the usual kind of stuff, I thought.
Got home fine, went to bed, got up, felt like
ass. I mean, just terrible. And I was like, what
the? So it could have been a migraine, because
I know migraines and all the things that accompany
it. So it could have been I haven't had a migraine
in a while, so I was probably do yeah, however
I usually stick to beer especially if I'm driving,
but I had a few would you call Red Bull and vodkas
because number one they're yummy and Number two
it has that caffeine so if I'm like already a
little bit tired I'm like maybe I'll do a vodka
Red Bull will pick me up. It will pick me up,
right? So maybe it was the Red Bull, I don't
know, but man, it was a headache. And then I
vomed once and I was just like, what the hell?
And I couldn't figure it out. I just, I couldn't
figure it out for the life of me. And I was like
down, like I didn't, I wasn't functioning until
like 3 p .m. And like I had plumbers in and out
because they had to deal with some. Stuff in
my place and and I'm just sitting there on the
couch feeling like death. I'm like, this is awful
And I think they came in and out once and I think
the dude was like, oh, yeah, you were sleeping.
Oh Well, I hope he didn't steal too much. He's
like, oh no worries. I'm like, I know I don't
have jack shit, but Yeah, I was crazy. That's
nuts. Yeah, and that's always a bad feeling I
know I don't know if I've mentioned it on the
show before but I know I've mentioned it to you
is like whether it comes to colds and flus or
aches and pains, nothing bothers me that bad
typically unless it's stomach related. Anything
stomach related, especially since I went to the
ER that one time when I was like 17 for my stomach,
anything stomach relating is just debilitating
to me. So I don't know if that's a genetic thing
and we just got bad. We got the leftover parts.
I was the last of five and then you guys were
the the the offspring of the last of five right
sounds like a son of a son Exactly so, you know,
we got the leftover parts the eyes and the sinuses
and the I mean your your your grandfather my
dad he had Stomach issues. So he always always
taken Either Alka -Seltzer or Tums or whatever,
and he had an ulcer. Oh boy. Go Malone's. Yay,
we've done it. Oh god. Proud of the name. Not
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Think by definition. I absolutely am okay, okay?
That's good the one thing I always say to my
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And it actually did. I'm like, oh my god. My
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you're right. They're the same people say Aluminium
Aluminium but to be fair to them and usually
I'm not fair to them, but I'll give them this
one Yeah, it is spelled with the extra I It is
I believe they do actually so they just pronounce
it Yeah, they pronounce it as it's spelled and
I think it's spelled stupid, but I think their
pronunciation makes sense Yeah, definitely. It's
as fair as I'll be with that type Say less, Dave.
Say less. All right. Well, you know, there's
been quite a bit of news and this stuff in social
media over the past couple of months about...
ice and no i'm not talking about the stuff you
put in your drink or you know you add cream you
got ice cream i'm not talking about that i'm
talking about immigration and customs enforcement
uh they've been scouring major cities and even
rural communities and they camp out in front
of courts and homes and places of work harassing
anyone with oh i don't know tannish skin brown
skin um or at least ethnic names. And you know
this. I, since about 2015, 2016, I've been making
comps that this rise of Trump and MAGA and all
this other kind of stuff was very similar to
the rise of the Nazi party in the 1930s. And
of course, when you make those comps, be like,
Nazis, blah, blah, blah. It's like, all right,
first off. read a book. Right. Secondly, I'm
making comparisons to one rise to another based
on historical events and things that happen.
Right. It's a fair comparison, 100 % fair comparison.
I stood by it then. I stand by it today, even
more so today. Right. And I look at ICE and how
this administration or dare I say A dictator?
Right. Utilizes them. It's very similar to how
Hitler utilized the Gestapo, secret police. So
it's kind of like it's our own little American
Gestapo. Right. If you will. There's no due process.
They swarm communities, grab as many as they
can, whisk them away. I've heard they've got
like a bonus, like a per head bonus. That's messed
up. Yeah. Many times learning that people are
picked up were naturalized. work visas, they're
born here, right? They're citizens, right. They're
citizens. And they actually sent, I can't remember
that one guy's name, but they sent an American
away to Central America for being nothing but
Hispanic. Right. That's fucked up. And I, we're
gonna try not to get off track, because it gets,
as we say in our family, it gets our Irish up,
so to speak. Right. But the people are rising
up. And the No Kings protest is considered one
of the largest peaceful protests in world history.
And not only have people made their feelings
known, they're actually stepping up to ICE in
many cases. Most recently at Dodger Stadium,
when a caravan of ICE vehicles tried to enter
and, hey, we're going to set up operations and
blah, blah, blah. The Dodgers told them to fuck
right off. A bunch of protesters are out there.
And the cops escorted their ass off the property.
The cops escorted ICE off the property. Yes,
they did. Yes, they did. And I thought that that's
how it should work. That's exactly how this needs
to work. And I think police are starting to get
it. Because a lot of times, it's like, oh, there's
people and there's 10 ,000 people protesting.
So police are like, well, we got to be prepared
and whatever. And I get that. However, especially.
These days the police should know Yep, you need
to be standing with them on this and I think
some of them are getting that so For our lovely
local law enforcement. Welcome to the party We
appreciate you. We need you with these crazy
people. So That would be nice if That were to
happen like it did in this case with the Dodgers.
I think in Dallas there was a protest and there
were like eight or nine cops and they got in
the middle of the street and they all melt down.
And I was like, holy shit, what world are we
living in right now? I was just like, it's not
bad, it's a good thing, but I'm just like, we
need more of that than, you know. that one reporter
from Australia got shot a rubber bullet. Right.
You know, we don't. And I know, I know just like
it is for protesters, you get a few dozen people
out of thousands that the rocks through windows
or set something on fire. And then that's all
people talk about when it's like, OK, that was
like a group of people, like a small portion
of this this movement. Right. And that's what
you're going to be. Oh, look at them. It's like,
no, it's the same thing for the cops. It's like
they're out there. and they're doing their job,
but you get a moron that shoots a bullet into
some lady's leg, that's what we look at. And
we're just like, nah, that's not okay. So hopefully,
and I'm being hopeful because in this movement
against the feds and against ICE and against
what the hell is happening in Washington, the
people are going to need local law enforcement.
They were gonna need... them to stand with us.
To serve and protect, I believe. As they should.
As they're supposed to. As they're supposed to.
You know, we're not telling you to throw rocks
through windows. Just stand with us. Stand with
the people that you're sworn to serve and protect.
That's all we're saying. And it shouldn't matter
what color their skin is by the way. Because
to some apparently that's that too. But anyway,
everything that's going on. with ICE and the
feds and things that are coming out of Washington
is just unacceptable and un -American, without
question. We all have grandparents and great
-grandparents, maybe great -great -grandparents
that all made that trip across the Atlantic Ocean
for a better opportunity. My grandfather on my
dad's side, he came across from Ballyhannis,
Ireland, and we had relatives come across from
Germany as well. Many made that crossing with
sacks of clothes on their back and a few bucks
in their pocket. And they came through Ellis
Island, they're greeted by Lady Liberty, and
the words of poet Emma Lazarus. And it kind of
goes like this. Not like the brazen giant of
Greek fame, with conquering limbs astride from
land to land, here at our sea -washed sunset
gates shall stand a mighty woman with a torch
whose flame is the imprisoned lightning and her
name, mother of exiles. From her beacon hand
glows worldwide welcome, her mild eyes command
the air, a bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
Keep ancient lands your storied pomp. Cries she
with silent lips give me your tired your poor
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore send
these the homeless Tempted tempest tossed to
me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door golden
door Yeah, today that door leads to a masked
goon squad ready to ship you back where you came
from and it's pretty damn embarrassing. This
nation, a nation first off of Native American
tribes tossed aside by European invaders, was
developed on the backs of the Irish, Italians.
Polish, the railroad system couldn't have been
built without the Chinese, Japanese and Korean
immigrants. American agriculture in the West
and Southwest would crumble without the contributions
of Hispanic immigrants. And don't even get me
started on the slave trade and the contributions
of hardworking black men and women. Many of us
appreciate their contributions and embrace America
as a great cultural melting pot. It is what makes
America great. However, there are those that
are perhaps ignorant at best and racist at worst,
they don't give a shit. They don't understand
or care about those words posted by Lady Liberty.
Well, to those individuals, I can quote a modern,
a more modern poet, musician, Jack White, of
the White Stripes, go to the Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame, congratulations. White Americans what
nothing better to do. Why don't you kick yourselves
out? You're an immigrant to who's using who what
should we do? Well, you can't be a pimp and a
prostitute to True words never been spoken. Hell.
Yeah, so Now that now that my TED talk is finished
now that I'm off my soapbox I know Aidan also
has a lot to say right I was looking at this
or I have been looking at this from a legal standpoint
kind of since this ICE takeover started. And
it's worrisome from that legal standpoint that
first of all, the Constitution seems to be thrown
out the window. Just, yeah. Absolutely thrown
out the window. Just useless. Federal laws aren't
being followed because what jurisdiction does
ICE have going into these communities and doing
all this? They don't. Correct. Then you have
like you were saying state and local law enforcement
that have a decision to make do you want to become
a target of the Trump administration by Doing
your job serving and protecting the communities
that oh, I don't know fucking pay your paycheck.
There you go Or are you gonna fold and you're
gonna side with the feds to avoid a potential
retaliation, right? That's that's another issue
and that's another question that We're still
kind of early into this. Yeah ordeal of of a
supposed four -year tenure and It's alarming
and another alarming part is how? Defended legally
these ice Gestapo officers are yeah, because
They don't have to identify themselves. They
go out wearing masks carrying lethal weapons
No badge all you see is masked white men with
guns and you're just supposed to follow every
order. I'll get in the back of this van. Really?
That's what federal agents are doing now. That's
it, yeah. Disturbing because, hey, for all you
Second Amendment folks out there, especially
in states like Indiana where we are, where you
have, you know, castle doctrine, stay in your
ground laws, if someone like that or a group
of people like that roll up onto my property,
I'm within my legal right to kill them. Sure.
Federal agents. Because guess what? You didn't
identify yourself. Yep. You're not holding a
badge. You are masked people in a van or box
truck with guns. It is a matter of time before
there will be firefights on the streets. Correct.
You are right. And that's just gonna become more
ammunition for these fear -mongering shitlords,
cough -cough right -wing media. to defend actions
like, for say, martial law in the future. Sure.
Or a complete federal takeover of state and local
governments where, you know, there is no states
right. Oh hey, that's a call out for the 2A people
and states right people. Oh wow, it's been awfully
silent. Yeah, oh yeah. But it's really concerning
from a legal point. And... That's kind of where
my brain went when you kind of tossed up this
idea of like, hey, I've got an idea for this
opening dialogue. And I've been wanting to talk
about this for a while, too, is like, I don't
know what the future looks like realistically
with these type of actions, because it's legal
for me to take action to defend myself, whoever's
on my property, my property itself. And it's
illegal. what ICE is doing, and yet there's no
one enforcing them. In fact, they're being told
to go out and do what they're doing. So, it's
this weird cross, and also, God forbid you do
get in a firefight with these people, and you're
legally in the right, and some Trump judge is
like, oh well, laws don't matter, well clearly
they don't, but laws don't matter, so you're
going to... fucking El Salvador or whatever.
And even most judges have been against what the
Trump administration is doing. They're just ignoring
them. Right. Who's going to enforce it? Who's
going to enforce it? Law enforcement. Whose side
are they on? Hey, there you go. You know, nobody's
going to go in there. The FBI is run by God what's
that guy's name. He's a clown. Yeah. And they're
not they're not going to do it. No. The AG is
not going to do anything. The head of the FBI
is not going to do anything. So if you already
know that, you just do whatever you want. Right.
Right. You do whatever you want. And it's scary
and it's embarrassing. Yeah. Yeah. And embarrassment
is an understatement. Yeah, I would agree. And
as you say, if they're going to come to your
home, go on your property, and as you say, not...
Have a warrant show ID any of that sort of stuff
You're well within your right to protect yourself,
right? 100 % and that's Those are their words,
right? Those are the Second Amendment people
those are those are their words and loans there's
how many Ranchers in Oregon that one time were
just like packed They packed and locked, loaded
everything. And they were just telling federal
law enforcement, get the hell out of here. And
I thought, wow, how crazy of them. And then when
you think back on it, I'm like, maybe not as
crazy as we thought. Maybe not as crazy as we
thought. So yeah, you have a right to protect
yourself and a right to protect your family and
your property. You should do so. I think the
biggest disadvantage to part of his plan, whatever
his plan is, and It always amazes me. Everything
is two weeks for this clown. You know, it's,
ah, in two weeks, in two weeks, in two weeks.
Well, Jesus. It makes you wonder who's actually
driving the ship. But the one thing they can't
count on is the thing that they stand behind,
which is the Second Amendment. Because you have
more guns in circulation in the United States
than actual people in the United States. So that
potentially could work against them. Oh, I agree.
And should. Yep. That's... That's the whole...
It wasn't, I should have a gun because I can
have a gun. No. You have a gun in case your tyrannical
government steps up and you can fight and take
it back. Right. That was the whole point of that.
That's the point of the law. That's the point
of it. And so we might be moving more towards
that. That's, yeah, that's kind of what I've
been hinting at whenever we whenever we take
angles like this of like... I don't want there
to be a violent revolution, but every day that
passes, it seems like that's going to be the
inevitable outcome. Right. Yep. And it's unfortunate,
but you have to defend yourself and your family
and your property. Yeah. For life, liberty, and
pursuit of happiness. Isn't that what it freaking
says? It's supposed to be. At least it's promising
that we outnumber these fucking fools like 330
million to What a couple thousand couple tens
of thousand. Yeah. Yeah, it's about right Just
takes that whole well -regulated part of the
militia. Oh, yeah that that amendment talks about
takes a little community Organization now see
that's the funny thing about Constitution people
They're very similar to the Bible people and
that old cherry picking my favorite cherry pickers
They're both cherry pickers. They just sit there
and logo boop boop boop and I'll use those is
it and won't know It's in all you can eat. It's
a buffet. It's all out there. And you have to
stand by all of it, including the Old Testament,
including the fire and brimstone crazy ass God.
That's all part of it. Right. That's all part
of it. That's your guy. So you got to stand.
Can't play revisionist history on this one. No,
you really can't. And it's the same thing with
the Constitution. I'm like, read it. Yeah. Read
it. And amendment people just, I mean, It just
cracks me up. It's called an amendment. To amend
means to be able to change. Right. You know,
when these old school farmers and shopkeepers
and stuff would relay, we got to put a nation
together. These guys got together and did it.
They were smart guys. They knew what they wanted
to do, but they also wanted to set it up so that
as time moves forward, that you had the ability
to change it with the times and conditions. And
I thought that is in itself, that's what makes
the Constitution brilliant. And people look at
an amendment like it's a commandment. No, it's
not. It's, for example, Used to be cool to have
slaves, right? They change that shit. Yeah, and
and it's in there Same thing with prohibition.
Oh my god. Yes alcohol is gonna be the downfall
of America And then it was like now it's probably
bigger fish to fry. That's these people need
something to do Yeah, and then change that shit.
That's what it's about. Okay, so Even even those
that love their guns. That's an amendment. That
is an amendment and you know how quickly if Trump
or anybody after him who's you know kind of in
this Dictator phase and then right direction
they're trying to move How easily they could
be like ha now guess what I'm gonna do to them,
right? I'm gonna take their guns Which is the
thing they worried the other party was gonna
write right and they better wake the fuck up
Yeah, that's all I'm saying. It's it's pretty
obvious to me. What's going on, but my favorite
quote with this type of individual, whether it's
Hitler wannabe or some evangelistic fanatic for
said Hitler wannabe, every accusation is a confession.
What they are fear -mongering to you that all
the scary blue party's gonna do, they've been
thinking about. Oh, sure. They've been thinking
about doing in order to take control. 100%. That's
my point. No, and and that's that's a great point
and this is kind of how we're living in this
whole thing with with ice and Basically a judicial
that it means nothing right now, right? Cuz who's
gonna enforce it who's gonna enforce it? Right?
So it's just kind of scary the direction that
they're moving. But the funny thing is, is they
told you exactly what they were going to do and
you still voted them in. Well, maybe. I don't
know. This might have to be something we talk
about next week or the week after. But perhaps
this will be a little foreshadowing. There was
a district in New York, 80 percent Democrats,
so heavy blue district in New York. And down
ballot, they were blue across everything. Kamala
didn't get one vote. Didn't get one! Out of a
heavy blue district. Right. I don't know how
the hell that wasn't an alarm. Right. The night
of the election, how those numbers didn't come
in and someone go, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. That
doesn't look right. Now, I'm not saying I'm all
knowing, although for Star Trek fans, you can
call me Q if you want. But all I'm going to say
is the night of the election, as the numbers
were coming in, I immediately said to... Aidan,
I said, these numbers don't look right. Right.
Immediately, I said, these numbers don't look
right. I said, how is it that Trump, overall,
can get less votes than he did in 2020 and win
this thing? How did she, what is this, 64 million?
I forget what her number was. Right. But they
were saying earlier in the day what an amazing
turnout it was. Yet it was so much less than
the Biden election. And she's sitting at like
64 and he was at what 86 or whatever. Mike, where'd
all those votes go? Right. They didn't go to
Trump because he's got less. Where did they go?
Right. And then you have all the correspondence
between him and Elon Musk and all the private
vote counting companies of like, oh, well, I'm
sure we're going to win Pennsylvania. We had
some we had some help over there. Oh, what was
that then? What was that then? Right, because
during the entire election process, and this
is a completely different thing, we'll get more
into this maybe in the coming weeks, but during
the whole process, even though it was relatively
close, three, four, five points, never was Pennsylvania
in the red. No. In any polling, never, and then
that night they went red, and it was like, wait
a minute. Right, right. So I just think they
found a way to nickel and dime across a lot of
these districts to get the numbers that they
write right and To bring it back to a point.
I made not five minutes ago every accusation
being a confession Yes, what type of fucking
moron cries cries foul? Oh election fraud election
interference for four years from then when from
2020 to 2024 and then wins that election interference.
Very interesting. Yeah. So anyway, that's a little
foreshadowing. We'll get into that down the road.
But it was worth bringing up the ICE thing, or
as I call them, the American Gestapo. I know
if I saw them in the streets of Valpo, I got
a bat in my car. I got a pocket knife. I'll stand
in the street. They can go fuck themselves. And
if they don't have a warrant and there's no due
process, they can get the hell off our streets.
Right. That's the way. Oh, I agree. I agree.
Anyway, now that we're all wound up, we're going
to. We're going to check out here and after a
quick break, we're going to get to Carpe Diem.
All right, we are back from the break and it's
time for Carpe Diem. That is a little segment
we have where you find folks send us your DMs
and we read them on air. And it could be anything.
It could be a statement. It could be a question.
We'll answer that question, well, if we want
to answer. We may. We may. Yeah. As we always
say, we're not obligated. Right. We may gift
you an answer. Gifting, yeah. Yeah. That's really
more what it is. We're like Santa Claus. Indeed
we are. Indeed we are. Ho, ho, ho. All right,
Aidan, what do you got on your DMs this week?
The DMs I got this week. This person decided
to stay anonymous, just calling themselves concerned
fellow. Asking, with the seemingly dangerous
world of social media, how do you think it should
be regulated when it comes to minors? They add
a side note, France is floating the idea of banning
it for those under 15 years. I didn't know about
that France thing until recently. Yeah, but I
did hear that Yeah, the French government's floating
the idea of banning social media for those under
15 I don't really know how to feel about that.
I think Having access to social media is one
of those personal liberty things where yeah,
you know typically it should be dealt with through
parents or teachers or principals, you know,
whoever nannies, you know I think should have
the control. I don't think it's really an issue
for the government to deal with. I do think what
could be regulated is like the difference between
YouTube and YouTube Kids. You know, it's like
YouTube created a platform with safe content
for children to view. There could be a s - Instagram
equivalent or a Facebook equivalent a tik -tok
equivalent of that YouTube kids formula Yeah,
I don't know how you would mandate it or regulate
that to be a norm But I do kind of understand
what this with it this concern fellows Getting
at yeah because of all of the studies that show
You know the links between depression and anxiety
to social media and how social media can worsen
them So I get it. I just don't I don't know how
you would implement it besides just whoever the
guardian is of Of that child just making sure
like hey, you know Don't spend too much time
on Facebook and tik -tok and everything right?
Yeah, that's true and Here's here's the way I
look at it too. I understand the need to Kind
of have their own space and I think that's important.
But here's the thing a couple things that that
they're not really looking at. And number one,
if they're under 18, it's the parent's responsibility
to parent the damn kid. Right. So if they're
on and they're always on their phone, I'm guessing
the parent's probably paying for the damn phone.
You have every right to say, hand over your phone.
I want to see what you're doing. Every right.
Every right in the world to do that. Right. So
parent to parent is all I'm saying. I don't want
the government parenting my kids. I will parent
my kids. I agree. Yeah. And if I raise them properly,
they're going to do what's right anyway. Look,
I was a kid. We didn't have social media then.
But I would lie if we didn't say, a friend would
come up, hey, man, so we're going over to Billy's
later. We're going to hang out at his fort. He's
got one of his dad's playboys. And then you'd
all go over and be like, ooh, you know? And you'd
sit there and do it. So any quote unquote questionable
content has always been available. Sure. kids
of any age. And I still believe if parents do
a good enough job in raising your kids to have
something in between their ears and to look at
things the right way, you'll be fine. You'll
be fine. Number two, bullying takes many forms.
I didn't have social media. I got bullied. And
there are some kids that don't handle that well,
whether it is face to face, which is what I used
to deal with, or if it is now online bullying,
because people can hide behind their computers,
maybe even under a fake alias, and just bully
the shit out of someone to the point where they
go, well, fuck this, and they go hang themselves,
they shoot themselves, or OD or whatever. When
I was a kid, we had kids that killed themselves.
And they blamed it on metal music and they blamed
it on this and blamed it on that instead of blaming
it on bullies and the failure of schools and
parents to deal with it. Right. That's what I
dealt with. My father taught me to box and to
use it for defense only because parenting. Right.
And what did I do? Somebody bullied me. I punched
them in the face. And it's amazing how effective
that can work. Now, you run the risk of some
school official running out, being like, I'm
alone, you're scrapping again, and then you're
suspended and whatever. But in the scraps I did
have, did I ever get suspended from grade school
to high school? I did not, because you have to
be smart about what you do. There was this kid,
Alan, high school, and he bullied me and bullied
me, and the whole time I'm just like, if I ignore
him, this fat fuck's just gonna go away. And
he didn't and he didn't, and then one time we
were out by the wrestling room, I had an injury
and couldn't partake in gym for a couple weeks,
and I think he just couldn't because he was fat.
And stupid but I mean that's just whatever obviously
he was stupid and I literally jacked his ass
up We're in the hallway outside the wrestling
room and they're wrestling in there. I hit this
kid so hard He was gasping for air and he's on
the ground the wrestling coach comes out of the
room and he looks me He's like Maloney and I
looked dead at him pan -faced and said asshole
had it coming Coach was like fair enough He's
like, you're in detention and points to the kid
gasping for air on the ground because he knew
better. Right. But sadly, that isn't what happens
most times. Right. But from the social media
side, once again, you just got a parent and you
got to deal with it. I think as a parent today,
it was different even when I raised you guys,
because it wasn't as prevalent. It was just becoming
prevalent. Right. Right. My space and whatever
else was going on. It was harmless relatively.
And. I think today, like literally, I'd be like,
you can have a phone, you can have it for X amount
of time a day, you can have it when you go to
school in case of emergencies, but you're not
to be on it, like for other shit, you know, just
like, oh, school shooting, grab your phone, whatever,
that's why you have it. And if you're home and
your schoolwork's done or whatever, want to get
out there, play games, you know, whatever, I'm
fine with it, but I think you just got a parent.
You've got to parent and teach your kids the
right stuff, and I think you're fine. Yeah. And
it's one of those things where you have to walk
the fine line of providing that guidance and
oversight while also allowing their own privacy.
Yeah. Oh, yeah. You know? Yep. So it is just
one of those fine line things. But then, of course,
you've got little tools, especially in Apple.
I'm pretty sure Samsung has the same thing, where
you can just set time limits. Like, OK, you only
get two hours of TikTok a day, whatever. A day.
That's it. Yeah. So, concerned fellow, there's
your answer from people from two different generations.
That's right. You're welcome. Time Peasant asks,
I'm no time lord, but I can offer this. You can
either pause time for 10 seconds a day at your
will or pause time for 10 minutes, but just once
a week. That's interesting. Yeah, I'm trying
to think of the utility of doing such a thing.
I think... Is it in the aggregate to, sorry to
interrupt, is it in the aggregate to maybe add
more time to your life? You could do it like
that. My first thought was crime. My first thought
was crime is like, okay, so I'll do like the
10 minutes a week thing, and then I'll find some
multinational bank I hate looking at you, Wells
Fargo. And then like, allegedly in this hypothetical
world, I would just take 10 minutes, steal what
I can because they're all paused. I'm not. And
then I could just like, you know, get my fingers
dirty, get some money. They would never know.
Okay. So I'm leaning towards the 10 minutes a
week in this hypothetical world. But my first
thought was absolutely crime. Okay, Mark Mo Show
fans, I feel you judging me because I literally
just got done saying about raising your children
the right way. And now my son is pausing time
to knock off a bank. So, hey, what happens after
they turn 18? I can't... That's what we call
a parenting win. A parenting win. It's because
your child has the ingenuity to do that. That's
fair. That is a fair question. And I don't...
I do not at all disagree with your point. Sure.
A view on that. I'm like the Robin Hood, but
I would only give a little bit to other people.
I would mainly like make sure I'm set. But of
course I would... I'm a charitable person, okay?
Yeah. Well, here's what I'm thinking. So, you
know, you go into Wells Fargo, right? You pause
time, you run in there, grab a sack, bop, bop,
bop, and you're out the door before your 10 minutes
is up. All of a sudden, Suzie's register is empty,
and now Suzie's like, yes, sir, can I help you?
Oh, sure, no problem. Click. Or nor. Now Cece's
fired. So now that is going to weigh heavy on
you because now somebody just got fired because
all the money's gone. Or they think she stole
it. Sure. And now the popo's going to come. If
she's Hispanic, ICE is going to come. Right.
This is hashtag the truth. And now that's that
problem. Now, I would consider doing the same
thing. All that being said, I would consider
doing the same thing. But then there's parts
of me that goes back to an earlier conversation
too, where... Think there's an Adam Sandler movie
where he could rewind click. Yeah, and like David
Hasselhoff was his boss and he was an ass and
then one time he like paused it He's just like
smack. Yeah smack smack smack, and then he like
unpaused it. He's like, whoa, I got a headache
So this is like I see that and I'm just like
every person that is yeah It would be so great
to just like do something Yeah in that fashion
and then parts of me would just be like You know,
jump in the ocean, pause, go right up to a shark
and be like, what you gonna do? What you gonna
do? You gonna bite me? You go, oh, smack, smack
in the nose. Oh, you gonna bite me? And then
get out of the water. Or it's unpause before
he's like, oh, this guy. So yeah, there's a lot
of, I think there's some fun things you can do.
But yeah, setting yourself up financially, why
not? Yeah, absolutely. Why not? And I think the
10 minutes a week has more applicable. Yes, I
agree. Things to do than 10 seconds a day. 10
seconds, it's just not enough. Yeah. Doesn't
even add up to the same amount. No. Last DM I
received, Hambone asks. Hambone. Besides Hambone,
what's the worst baby name you've ever heard?
I didn't expect Hambone's name to actually be
Hambone. That's new lore. I love this, by the
way. That's new lore drop right there. Well,
Hambone is kind of a rough baby name, that's
for sure. It's rough. I, my first thought always
goes to like those Ashley, but it's got like
a G -H in there. Ashley. I'm like, why can't
you just fucking spell it normal? Right. Or like
Riley, but it's like R -I -L -E -I -G -H. I'm
like, what are we doing, boys? What are we doing?
Yeah. Or like those, it's usually people in the
south. I don't mean to generalize, but it's usually
people in the south that'll just name their kid
like Rifle. Yeah, it's like what why I? That's
it's another kind of a south and western thing
to to name your kid after a state or a city It's
my son Dallas The Cowboys play on him what what
what what what say this Dakota Dakota and Dallas,
okay? Your big geography fan clearly Yeah. So
yeah, I'm right there. I'm right there. If your
name's Dakota and Dallas, you'll listen to the
show. I love you. It's more of calling out your
parents. It's calling out your parents. It's
their damn fault. It should be Larry and Bob.
At any rate, yeah, that's one thing. And this
is my daughter, New Hampshire. Oh, god. Until
she ages and then she's old Hampshire. But I've
OK. This is a true story. I knew someone growing
up that worked in a hospital in South Side, Chicago,
and she came back. She always have stories like
people that work in hospitals and police officers
have the best stories because they just chaos
is their business. And so she came back one day,
blah, blah. This woman and she's like she went
from zero to 60 like that. She was like came
in. Yep. Contractions, blah, blah. Oh, shit.
It's coming. It was like, whoa. OK. And so she
was in the bathroom. When she went in there and
they delivered the baby in the bathroom, they
had no time to get this woman to where she needed
to be. The kid's name, swear to God, Toiletta.
Oh my God. T -O -Y -L -E -T -T -A. And Toiletta,
if they're out there, I love you. But I'm mom.
How horrible. Yeah. Toiletta. Oh my God. Yeah,
because you were born on the shitter. Yeah. That's
terrible. Isn't that bad? I mean, what do you
even go by? Letta? Toy, maybe? Even that's weird.
Even that's weird. I'm a toy. Yeah, none of that
works. None of that works. Terrible. Wow. Yeah.
I never forgot that. I heard that in high school.
Toy Letta. What? No, you're lying. Nope. That's
true. I'm like, damn. All right. Well, I've got
a few as well at weird Larry. Hi guys Do you
think the United States is changing and will
it never be the same again weird Larry my man
great username? Yeah, it's been changing and
no it will never be the same and never be the
same It'll never be the same. And not to say
it'll never be the same as in like America in
the 50s, which was racist and crazy. And then
before that was like the Industrial Revolution.
And before that, it was what we did to the Native
Americans. And before that, before that. So not
that any particular time in America was perfect.
There was always bad shit. But this is like bad
shit and it's it's becoming permanent. Right.
To me, and that's a problem. On a global stage,
America will never be viewed the same again.
Yeah, I agree. You'll like this one. At best
feet pics. Oh no. I sell feet pics on the internet.
Makes sense. I make 100k per year. My family
makes me feel like shit for what I do. but they
work shitty jobs for shitty money and live in
a shitty home in a shitty neighborhood. I have
a condo downtown and a 2024 Ford Bronco that's
paid for. They can suck it. Oh my God. That might
be one of the best ones I ever got. Well, at
best feet pics. Good on you. More power to you.
You know, don't let them feel bad for you making
racks, dog. I mean, you know, maybe they're just
jealous. perhaps they're just jealous and you
know I would say be the bigger person don't rub
it in their face but fuck rub it in their face
you know if they're being assholes yeah you don't
always have to be the bigger person no you can
you can make the decision of like you know what
I'm gonna be an asshole today I'm gonna be an
asshole back today oh yeah for sure so best of
luck best feet pics yeah no doubt Your career
doesn't interest me unless you could find a way
for my feet to be profitable and then cut me
in. Yeah, I get a cut. Then we can talk. For
sure. Good on you. Anytime you could find a way
to make money. In this fucking world? In this
world, take it. Take the money. I don't judge
anybody for what they do. Especially if you enjoy
what you're doing. Who am I to judge you? Yeah.
You know, if you're doing it and you're having
a blast and you're making that cash, you know,
you're the one that's going to be retired by
the time you're 40. Right. And they're still
going to have those shitty jobs and the shitty
house and all that. Shitty neighborhood. And
the shitty money. I love that. I love that so
much. At White Sox, Jerry. Oh, my man. They are
giving me hope. I mean, they suck, but some of
these players are good. Should I let them get
my hopes up? Good days, bad days. Like life,
I suppose. Very poetic, Jerry. I think he's come
around. He's emotionally matured since last season.
He's searching hard for that silver lining. No,
I agree. I don't know if it's... I'm not going
to give you the silver lining. I would advise
you not to let them give you the silver lining.
Because the one thing we have in common, White
Sox Jerry, it's not baseball. It's football.
Right. You're still a Chicago guy, which means
we're both Bears fans, Jerry. And how many times
have we allowed the Chicago Bears to get our
hopes up? Many, many times. Just for them to
crush it. So I would say take that advice. Yeah.
How you treat the Bears is how you should treat
the Sox. Agreed. Yeah. I agree with that. Last
one I've got here for this week, at Stoner Stanley
420. Ah, brother. Hello, Momo and Alan. Watch
for yourself. Oh no. There is some man's selling
ice, and if you don't buy it, they will take
you. My friend Diego is gone. Oh my god. He should
have bought the ice, I guess. I would recommend,
especially to those in Stoner Stanley Circle,
don't buy ice. Don't buy the ice. Don't search
for ice, because you may receive a product you
didn't intend to smoke, if you will. Right. But
yeah, I think we're I think He and we are talking
about the same ice. I don't know if he's getting
it though No, I think he's confused on the the
ice. That's really not good for you versus the
ice that's really not good for you. Versus the
ice that makes a clink when it hits your glass.
You know. Exactly. Right, exactly. I'm just thinking
of the bags of like that Best City ice that's
like $2 you get 7 pounds of ice. Yeah. So now
we're thinking of three different types of ice.
Right. None of which I think Stoner Stanley has
correct. Now he's very confused but obviously...
He's had a life. Yeah. He's been kind. He's had
a life. He's definitely had a life. And before
we get to this next segment, I just want to,
based on ice talk today, I had someone who shared
a comment on social media. This is the good part
of social media, right? You know, people that
like share funny shit. This one girl I know,
she's Hispanic, and she said, yo, I drink my
horchata warm. Fuck ice. And I was like, that's
amazing. I'm like, that is amazing. That's great.
I love that. Now, before we get to our next break,
we have the other foods with Aiden. He takes
that deep dive into foods. People are consuming
this stuff, but most of us will look at it and
go, oh my god, that looks revolting. And I bet
it smells equally revolting. Yes. But every week,
Aiden finds them. And so I'm very interested
to see what we got this week. This week, I found
a little something that sounds as dangerous and
gross, I believe as it actually is. And, you
know, there's a whole thing in 2020, lots of
rumors and misinformation about this animal relating
to food and things like that. Well, this is an
actual food with this actual animal. Fruit, bat,
soup. Oh, God. Yeah. Now, I'm... I got nothing
against bats. They eat mosquitoes and stuff.
That's all fantastic But they shouldn't go near
my mouth or being agreed fruit bat soup out of
Guam though This article of course from disgusting
food museum because their their research is fantastic.
Uh -huh Quote during cooking the bats smell strongly
of urine However, the meat is described as sweet
and similar to chicken. The soup was so popular
that the Guam fruit bat was hunted to extinction.
Holy shit. Because humans always find a way to
fucking do that. Yes, we do. The bats and Guam
eat large amounts of CECAD seeds, accumulate
large amounts of toxins, that when the bats are
then consumed by humans, cause disease, like
neurodegenerative diseases. similar to like ALS
and Parkinson's and things like that, simply
because of the toxins in the bats. It was first
reported in 1904. Oh, damn. This food has been
around a while and included paralysis in the
death certificates. Oh, no way. Just because
people were out there like, oh, quite, I think
I'll try the fruit bat soup today. It was the...
In Guam, in this... Oh yeah, we're looking at
pictures of it. Holy God! It's nasty. That's
vile. Yeah. In this certain part of Guam, it
was the leading cause of death between 1945 and
56. The cycad seeds build up large amounts of
toxins in the fatty tissue specifically of the
bat causing this disease in humans that eat the...
flesh of the bats. The bats are eaten in the
Pacific Rim and Asia, including Thailand, Indonesia,
Vietnam, and of course Guam. Fruit bats are a
commonly eaten bat, eating only fruit and their
taste is described similar to chicken, of course.
In Guam, the flying fox bat is also a common
dish, and of course was eaten so much it became
endangered. Bats can be barbecued, their quote,
not mine. Bats can be barbecued, grilled, or
deep -fried. Making it possible. We were just
looking at an image of this. Yeah, making it
possible to eat the whole bat. Nope Mm -hmm the
whole bat baby. No, no way. No not now not never
Oh, not a big fruit bat soup guy. No No, I saw
the movie Contagion fuck those bats. I ain't
eating them again anywhere near them I found
it hilarious too of seeing the stats of like
once 2020 and COVID happened, the quantity of
people rewatching the movie Contagion exploded.
Oh, I'm sure it did. I'm like, oh my god, it's
like watching documentaries of like plane crashes
while you're flying somewhere. Yep. Oh, yeah.
It's like, y 'all are crazy, bro. Yeah, it's
bad. It's totally bad. All right. We are going
to take on that note. Go get yourself some fruit
bad soup. And we'll be right back for our feature
segment. You just made the list. are back and
it is time for you just made the list and this
week it's a fun one we're two big music guys
here we love music and this week we are doing
the greatest of the guitarists as we see it Which
I guess is subjective, but all the matters. That's
well, that's very true. Yeah, but we do offer
if you make a list at home send it to us Yeah,
oh, yeah, we're we're all about that get us on
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Maloney's all over the place Maloney media all
that stuff on all the different socials So reach
out share any of that stuff with us. We we love
engagement for sure. So this week, greatest guitarists.
Nice. That is broad as hell because of, well,
music. Right. So I'm going to start out. I got
some honorable mentions. Alex Skolnick of Testament
is amazing. And I had to pick these three together
because I had to. Yeah. So Dave Murray, Yannick
Gares, Adrian Smith, all of Iron Maiden. All
of them just a little bit different, but together.
Ah, Cuff's Kiss. Right, right. K .K. Downing,
formerly of Judas Priest. He's retired, but was
great. And then Frank Hannon with Tesla. Excellent
guitarist and they just played they played in
New Buffalo, Michigan last night So I wish I
would have yeah, sometimes these things pop up
out of nowhere But at any rate, we're gonna get
to my top 10 number 10 Tom Morello my man. Yep
F -U, I won't do what you tell me. Why'd I say
F -U? We've been saying fuck off show. Yeah,
I know, right? I mean, if we haven't insulted
people already, I mean, you know, whatever. Although
that's a funny story because I played this on,
I was on Terrestrial Radio, which my after -hour
show is, but I used to have this show in a different
iteration on regular radio where we have to be
inherent to the FCC rules and regulations and
all that. So I do this show, and this was after
the things that happened up in Minnesota where
they knelt down the guy and the cops killed him
and whatever. So I did this show that was kind
of a revolutionary show, but it was just kind
of supporting the black community. So this was
one of my songs. And so I put the whole show
together, I recorded it for my home studio and
I sent it to the radio station. Now 10 minutes
go by and I'm like, oh shit. I got the wrong
version of Killing in the Name. Yeah, I got the
wrong version of Killing in the Name. I got a
hold of the station manager. I'm like, hey, I'm
going to send you another file. I had to radio
edit this song and play the second one. Sure,
sure, I got it. Well, I'm listening to the live
record. I'm sending it home one day. The guy
had the news on or a ball game. I forget what
I had on. But I'm just chilling at home. And
then kind of in the background, I had the show
on. And this song comes up. Fuck you. I won't
do it. I'm like, oh, no. I'm like, oh, no. No,
no, no. And I literally texted him. I said, dude.
You played the wrong version. I said, right now,
fuck you is all over the airwaves. And he was
just kind of like, nah, all right, I'll switch
it out for Friday. Oh my god. He's a guy like,
that damage is done. If FCC's listed, we're going
to get a ding. For sure. But yeah, that's, I
love you, Tom Morello. Number nine, Prince. Vastly
underrated in the world of guitar playing. He
did that one Rock and Roll Hall of Fame thing.
My guitar gently weeps. And he's on stage with
some of the best players as well. And he just.
brought the house down. Absolutely amazing. And
him playing the half time of the Super Bowl.
And it was a bear Super Bowl, mind you. Blew
my frickin' mind. I'm like, this guy's a god.
He's just an absolute god. What a G. Not the
god. A god. But he could be the god, I don't
know. Well. Well. Well. Well. If only he was
around to ask him. God, I wish. Yeah. I always
lose the good ones. Number eight, Stevie Ray
Vaughn. Very bluesy, great player. Number seven,
Tony Iommi. Nice. Black Sabbath. Fantastic. Some
of his riffs just unbelievable. Just fantastic.
Number six, Pete Townshend of The Who. That dude,
I mean, he was deaf at such a young age because
he just played so loud and stood right in front
of that amp and didn't give two shits. And just
twirled the guitar and just like everything he
did, just amazing. Number five, Steve Vai. He's
done a lot of solo stuff. He's played with David
Lee Roth. He's played with Whitesnake. He's just
amazing. He's just an incredible player. Number
four, Eric Clapton. They call him slow hand.
Hopefully that had to do with guitar playing
But yeah, he's one of the all -time greats for
sure number three Eddie Van Halen With his tap
style that was he was kind of he learned he didn't
have formal training He literally picked up a
guitar in a garage one day and just learned and
played right and I love that and he had this
tapping that he does with the guitar and Videos
were very big at the time and David Lee Roth
is like look when you're playing and we're doing
these videos and all this other stuff, don't
do close -ups of what you do with your hands,
because he's thinking like a businessman, which
is, to be fair to David Lee Roth, that's what
he was. He was really more of a businessman than
a music guy. Sammy Hagar, of course, more of
a musician. But he was just like, look, dude,
what you do, nobody else does, so don't show
them what you do. And I totally got that. Yeah.
But yeah, so Eddie was amazing. And number two,
Jimi Hendrix. Where G dudes playing shit with
and it's actually on fire. I mean, yeah, the
guy was just incredible And some of my favorite
tunes. I think he was just way ahead of his time.
Yeah in terms of his guitar playing and the music
so Yeah, that's it. That's good. Leave my number
one. It's good I have a top 11 list. Oh, shit.
OK. Well, wait a minute. Just like all amps,
they have to be turned up to 11. I love that.
But wait, we have to consult the rules first.
We didn't discuss the rules in what we do. We
do 10 to 2, our number one big reveal. Oh, damn
it. See, we didn't break a rule. Well, let's
see. Hang on. Oh, there's only one rule, that
there are no rules. I'll thank God. So you're
good. So turn that amp up to 11. So my bit makes
sense. Your bit makes sense now. Number 11 on
my list, Prince. What a G. Fantastic guitarist
and just a great presence in the music industry.
No doubt. Number 10, Jack White. Had to put him
up on there. Oh, that's a good call. Number nine,
I put these two together. James Hetfield and
Kirk Hammett. I think their chemistry is fantastic.
Number eight, Tony Iommi. Of course, what a G.
Number seven I threw Jeff Beck on there. Oh,
that's see I missed that one. Yeah back was good
Yeah, I thought that was pretty good this dude.
I just love his sound Carlos Santana. I have
on number six another good one Number five on
my list Tom Morello like you said number four
Jimmy Page What a legend what a G number three
I Eddie Van Halen there went back a little bit
for my number two Chuck Berry, I love that What
a G. Chuck, it's your cousin, Marvin. Marvin
Barry, you know that new sound you've been looking
for? Listen to this. Listen to this. That's awesome.
I love it. Well, you have your number one. I
do. I'm my number one. They are different this
week. Sometimes we align perfectly. I had Jimmy
Page. There you go. But then again, I just got
done watching a documentary on Led Zeppelin,
which we're going to talk about in a hot second.
But Jimmy was just an absolute musician. What
he did, just unbelievable on the guitar. And
there's really never, I don't think, going to
be anybody like that dude in terms of playing.
Like some some of their music is just so different
like some is just so heavy and bluesy And then
out of stuff is so up tempo and yeah, like he
and he just he can do it all that's true He can
absolutely do it all so Jimmy you're my dude
my man. Well your number two was my number one
I had Jimmy Hendrix. Yeah as the number one on
this one. I love that. I love that Yeah, he was
so good. Yep. He was so incredibly good gone
too soon Like a lot of musicians. Unfortunately,
no doubt. But like we said earlier, if you've
got a list, share it with us. Let us know. What
did we miss? Because we tend to miss a couple
things. Oh, for sure. Even between the both of
our brains. Yep, indeed we do. And there's so
many different genres. You could have picked...
We've got Buddy Guy and Hooker and so many of
those guys too are so influential. Once again,
we're not going to make an intercontinental title
type of list. That goes back to radio days when
we had someone list like 35 different people.
But at any rate, yeah, all their contributions
we definitely considered for sure. All right,
a quick review preview, a little bit different
because I just quickly wanted to talk about a
documentary that I recently saw. And this was
actually, this was actually. when I was like
dealing with the migraine and the sickness and
then the couch and so I pulled up Netflix on
my phone and I wanted to see this when it was
in theater, but it was kind of there and then
it was gone pretty quickly. Documentaries unfortunately
don't play super well at the theater, but I would
love to have seen this on the big screen with
the sound. It would have been amazing. Becoming
Led Zeppelin. It traces a journey of Jimmy Page,
John Paul Jones, John Bonham, and Robert Plant
through their childhoods in post -war Britain,
the music scene of the 60s, including Shirley
Bassey performing Goldfinger theme. Jimmy Page
and John Paul Jones played on that song. That's
so they were side never knew this Wow They were
session musicians and they were hired to play
gold finger It's such an epic tune and I'm like,
oh my god, I can't believe that's wild. Okay,
so I loved hearing that and then Meeting in the
summer of 68 and just this meteoric ascendancy
throughout 1969 into the 70s when they literally
in less than two years became the number one
band in the world. The stories told by the band
members with the late Bonham represented through
archival audio interviews, which was super cool.
The film features full never before seen footage
of the band's early American and British concerts
and unseen material from the band's personal
archives. Chef's kiss. 9 .5 out of 10. Wow, that's
solid. I love a good documentary. I mean, there's
some that will put you to sleep, no question.
This one was done perfectly. And I love their
first album. I think it's so raw and it's so
heavy and bluesy. Been days that go feels for
so long, it's not true. Wanted a woman never
bargain for you. Hopefully we don't get a strike
on that. Yeah, right. But at any rate, I love
that album. I love everything about that. It
was great. If you're a Led Zeppelin fan, it's
a must watch. Or a music fan. Or a music fan,
right? Because I mean, as I always say, Led Zeppelin,
The Who, and The Stones, and Sabbath to an extent,
hard rock, metal, all the different genres of
metal, it started there. Yeah. It just did. Even
cream. You could put cream on it too, I suppose.
But like that started it all. Everybody heard
that. And little Kirk Hammett and Bruce Dickinson
and they were like, All right. Yeah, I won't
do that. I'll do it a little faster. That's what
we're gonna do and You know hard rock and metal
were born. So very true props to them always
Okay before our next break While you were sleeping.
So a lot of times there's a documentary a movie
a game a show Something on YouTube whatever Aiden
finds it. It's like hey, I think a lot of us
were sleeping on that So what did we miss while
we were sleeping? Well while you were sleeping
I actually did a little twist on this segment.
You see, I am going to be previewing a game.
That's right, previewing. Oh, shit. So, you're
really the review. So, I did the review, you're
doing the preview. Yeah, while you were sleeping,
I did a little flip flop. I love that. So, I
played the demo of this game. So it's not full
released yet. I played the demo of this game.
I love this, okay. It is awesome. It's only,
I think the demo was only about 20 to 30 minutes
of gameplay, but I think when the full game's
released it's gonna be an hour or longer. But
it is another indie horror game, but I am excited
about it. It's called Fear Academy. Fear Academy,
okay. So it should be releasing in the next couple
weeks to a month or two. But Fear Academy a psychological
horror game where you play as the principal of
Hillcrest High Returning to retrieve a forgotten
item you became trapped in a nightmare as an
ancient Evil takes over the school that you are
the principal of So you have to explore solve
puzzles and survive the lurking horrors to uncover
the terrifying truth of this ancient evil and
of course in the demo they don't give away too
many of the Story points or like plot twists
or anything like that you just get get enough
of a bite to know you want more And that's how
a demo should be even though I hate it because
I just want to play the full game already Oh
sure, but it it looks incredible like my My graphics
card had trouble like rendering and playing all
of it just because it's all like high -res, you
could argue it looks like a AAA game. No, no
shit. And, like most indie horror games, it'll
probably just end up being five or ten dollars,
which I love, because it's a little more my financial
wheelhouse. Yeah, I got you. But, yeah, it looks
incredible, it has a certain liminality to how
it feels walking around this completely abandoned
school, and it's just so creepy. And the story
itself, which of course I am not privy to a lot
of just through the demo and the article about
the game is kind of all I know, but it looks
remarkable. So I'm very excited to get my first
preview of Fear Academy, an upcoming indie horror
game that I'm pretty hype about. That's awesome.
Fear Academy. Yes. Now I looked at a few of the
images on my phone. And so, when you made the
comment about your graphics card, it made a lot
of sense. Yes. Like, it looks really crisp. It's
crisp. Yeah. It's crisp, yeah. But at the same
time, very haunting. Yeah. Yeah, and like, you
get the liminal space vibes of it, too, where
it almost doesn't feel right being so big and
so empty, and yet there's details everywhere
of like, oh my god, no, this school was like
lived in and participated in, and it just feels
so weird. I love that, man. That's amazing. Well,
very cool We're gonna take a quick break and
come back with our final segments. We're gonna
do our beer of you and then this week We're giving
world of weird news little rest as we do from
time to time give Florida man some chances to
have And we're gonna do a fun tier list. So we'll
be right back we are back and we're on to our
final couple of segments here and towards the
end of the show we always do our very popular
beer review and lately I've been finding some
excellent beers and it's it's it's pretty excellent
this one Really more than anything the artwork
drew me to this can sure yeah, there's this like
demons skeletal Unicorn thing and it's the Imperial
blood of the unicorn so I'm like ass say last
dude I'm like I whatever is in this can I am
consuming yes So yeah, so Aidan once you tell
the folks just a little bit about it. Yeah the
Imperial blood of the unicorn is made by Pipeworks
Brewing, which is a microbrewery out of Chicago,
Illinois, so very, well, local enough. Local
enough. It is a Imperial Red India Pale Ale.
Interesting. Which is a pretty rare mix of the
two. Typically, you either get a Red Ale, usually
an Irish Red Ale, or you get an India Pale Ale.
Well, they did both, and then they made it Imperial,
so it's... It's double ABV, so it's about 9 .5%.
So it's got some pizzazz to it. And it has 1
.5 thousand rankings on the Untapped app, which
is what we use to give our rankings and flavor
notes and everything. A 3 .96 average from the
community. Okay, so almost a four. Almost a four.
Out of five. It won two awards. Untapped Community
Awards 2025 and 2024 winner. So people have really
enjoyed this, and we're going to give our thoughts
on this official beer review. Let's do it. The
Pipeworks Brewing Company Imperial Blood of the
Unicorn. Sláinte. Sláinte. And cheers to you
at home. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Wow. That is right
up my alley. I figured this one would be. Oh
yeah. For being an Imperial IPA, that is remarkably
smooth. The hops are definitely toned down. Compared
to most IPA most IPA's but that The fact that
it's a red ale technically a red IPA. I think
Maybe they put in less hops or they put in different
malt for that red ale. That's that's like it
Yeah, makes that a little more sweeter But yeah,
it's got good malt to it. It has that IPA background
where you get the flavor of the hops with a reduced
bitterness in my opinion I really like this.
I think this is fantastic. Yeah, it's good. And
the thing like most IPAs I'm not a huge fan of,
I don't like things that are overly hoppy. But
this one is not that. You get a little bit of
it, but it doesn't bother me because of of the
overall flavor. I really enjoy it. Right. Yeah,
I agree. Yeah, this is fantastic. I am. Flavor
profile. So they always suggest the top five
flavor profile notes on the app. And I usually
go through and see what I do and do not agree
with. I would give it multi. Smooth, absolutely.
I don't think I'm going to give it hoppy. Especially
for being an IPA, it's definitely not hop forward.
I think the flavor of the hops is there without
the bitterness to it. I'll give it boozy. It's
pretty heavy, full flavored. Yeah, this is fantastic.
I think I'm going I'm going up to a four point
five out of five on this one Wow, I really a
big score from you man. I really enjoy this That's
good Yeah, I went with a three point seven five
On this and that's just typically cuz I'm not
a big IPA guy that is high for an IPA for you
But for me, yeah most IPA is I'm somewhere between
if it's a good one Like a three to a three and
a quarter is about as high as I'll usually go.
Yeah, three seven five is pretty high for me.
Yes, I would agree. Yeah, no doubt. It's really
good. So blood of the unicorn imperial blood
of the unicorn. And that is a pipework pipeworks
brewing out of Chicago, out of Chicago, not sponsored,
but Definitely recommend it. Someday, maybe.
Yeah. Oh, wouldn't that be cool? It would be
amazing, actually. And I unlocked a badge, as
you do on this app. I always say, photogenic
brew level five. Nice. Takes perfect amount of
light and the right framing and touch of creative
love to get the perfect picture of your brew.
And apparently I've done that with 25 check -ins.
Beautiful. Yeah. It's what we love to see. You're
doing the Lord's work. Taking the photos. I really
am. Yeah, I really am. So at any rate, yeah,
hopefully your liquor store has it. Grocery store.
Go out and get it. Yeah. If not, reach out to
your local distributor. Yes. Definitely. Yeah.
That's my advice. I would agree. And that moves
us on to the final segment for the show tier
listing. And this week we... We're doing something
that we love. Yes. And that is pizza. Love dearly.
And that is pizza. And Aidan and I kind of go
back and forth on like putting these together.
So I'm very interested to see what he's actually
got on there. Yes. Because you could do frozen,
you could do like fast food pizza. Right. You
can do like sit down, nice pizza. I'm guessing
it's a mix. Well, you know what? You'd be mostly
correct. You'd be mostly correct. Let's go. As
the inventor of tier listing, a former AK -209
segment, I did both. So you have two tier listings
to do today. Oh, OK. Because I figured they are
distinct enough. They should be separate. They
should have the same grading scale, F being the
worst of the worst, D being bad, C being mid,
B being good, A being great, S being the best
of the best. Of the best. Of the best. You have
two tier lists to do, chain pizza and local pizza.
I love it. We'll start with the chain pizza.
I wanted them to be separate because otherwise
all the chain pizza would be like D and all the
local pizza would be like A. That's true. That's
a good point. So we'll rank them as they are.
As the chain. Starting off with chain pizza,
Domino's. I like Domino's a lot. In terms of
chain pizza. I like a lot of the other stuff
on their menu, too It wouldn't have always been
that way for me, but I figure like the last four
or five years They really upgraded ingredients
and how they do things I'd put it as an a I would
agree. I think they're I've always loved they
do good pasta dishes. Yes They have a fantastic
garlic garlic cheesy bread. Yeah, they do as
well. So I would agree with that Yeah, pizza
is very good. Next up is Papa John's. This is
tier listing for you. You are the tier list answer
giver, but I do have strong... Tier list E. I
have strong opinions about Papa John's. No, no,
that's fine. I've only had Papa John's a couple
of times and that's usually... I've never paid
for it. Let me just go on record saying that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just sometimes you're
at a party and it pops up. That's when I've had
it. And to me, it's very mid. I'm not overwhelmed
either way. I don't think it's a worst pizza
ever. I definitely do not think it's great pizza.
Right. I would probably put it in the C -minus
category if I'm being fair with it. Sure. I can
get down with that. A C -minus? Yeah, I despise
Papa John's. Well, just him in general. Papa
John himself is a shitbag, but even the pizza
like... Pizza should be good enough to eat on
its own. They have to put that little garlic
dip in there because the crust is so fucking
Untasteful. It's bad. It's like good You shouldn't
have to add accessories to make your pizza palatable,
but c -minus for Papa John's Pizza Hut next Well,
they shut all ours down in our area so we talked
about that on the show, too Yeah, legal disputes
and lawsuits. Yeah with Yum Brands. Yeah Brands
owns KFC and Pizza Hut and yeah everything but
When Pizza Hut was open I thought it was good
when I was a kid They used to have this amazing
buffet and they used to have slices of salads
and pasta salad and it was the best I feel like
Pizza 20 years ago was different than pizza today.
It used to be a dining spot. Yes. Yeah, absolutely
That being said I think their pizza is pretty
good I would probably put it as a B as a B. That's
fair. I would almost argue for B plus I think
I think they do stuffed crust super well. I think
the balance is not Unfair it's not too cheesy.
It's not too bready. Yeah, I've always loved
their stuffed crust. They've got great pepperoni
good tasting sausage But yeah, then they all
closed around here, because of legal stuff. Yeah,
right. Pizza Hut gets a B, Little Caesars. I
have that one a lot more, because it's cheap.
Yes. So the price point's very good. And so like,
you know, baseball team things, and we've done
fundraisers at a radio station, so you're just
kind of looking to feed the masses, and not make
the bank, and so it's good for that. But in terms
of taste, it kinda, it tastes like it costs.
Yeah, it tastes like a six or seven dollar pie.
It's a C. It's just straight up C. That's fair.
I'll give you that. Moving right along to this
one, Papa Murphy's, which we used to have nearby
and loved as we led. Well, I was a we led. And
then they disappeared too. It was like the subway
of pizza. Yeah. And you could just go up and
they'd make it and it was like par baked and
you take home and finish the baking process.
And I always liked it a lot. And I thought the
ingredients were always pretty good. And the
fact you could just be like, I want that and
that. And then it was just really neat, the whole
process. Yeah. But the pizza itself was pretty
tasty. I think I'd go B. Yeah, I can get down
with that. I think what killed them, if I remember
right, people loved their sausage. Yes. And they
changed the sausage. They did. People hated it,
stopped going. They changed the sausage back
to how it was, but it was too late. Too little,
too late. Yep. Yeah. Next up, Hungry Howies.
Hungry Howies, another one we just lost. I actually
kind of like it. It's more like the Detroit -style
type of pizza. which I do like. I often found
I got stomach issues at least a couple times
when I had it. There was something with that,
yeah. So I'm not sure if it was in the sauce
or what it was, but something really bugged me.
The taste was always good. I thought the crust
was always really good. I agree. C plus? C plus
for hungry Howie's. Jets Pizza, speak of Detroit
style. That is my favorite Detroit style pizza.
I had that first up in Michigan one time, and
then we have it now down here in Indiana. It's
a bit of a drive, but it's here. And it's good.
I enjoy it. And it's really good. It's the best
Detroit style in this category. I give it a very
solid B+. I really, really like it. I would agree.
It's the best Detroit style we can get, not in
Detroit. Not in Detroit, correct. The final two
for chain pizza, Sparrow. Sbarro. And that's
mostly in your shopping malls and stuff. So you
just think of incredibly mid -food in a shopping
mall. True. I love Sbarro. I love their ziti,
because they have this spicy sauce. It has this
kick. Yeah. And I used to go there and do that.
And I'm like, ah, one of these days I'll have
to get a slice of pizza. It is more New York
style, which is not my favorite. A little floppy,
right? A little flop to it. But like their ingredients
are good and the pizza is always very flavorful.
Solid B on Sbarro. I do like Sbarro. B for Sbarro.
Final chain, Cece's. See, see, see you later.
I do remember that. I do remember that. I love
the crazy combos that they had there. Actually,
my favorite CC pizza was the mac and cheese pizza.
That was so good. It was fucking ridiculously
good. I don't know of any other place that does
that. No. Aldi had a taken -baked mac and cheese
pizza for a while. Did they? And then they just
don't carry it anymore. I'm like, no. Man, killer.
No, I really like it. I really like CCs. And
that was like, you could get it to go, but like,
We would just go there as a day out and be like,
oh, let's get CCs. And we'd go and we'd eat there.
And it was really a family place. You see a lot
of kids because it wasn't quite as cheap as Little
Caesar's, but it was affordable. And you could
go up and be like, I want a slice of that. I
want a slice of that. It was buffet style. It's
kind of what Pizza Hut, CCs today is what Pizza
Hut was a decade and a half ago. Correct. I agree.
I agree with that. And I really like it, man.
We used to I remember as a wheel ad we used to
get that and we would get like coupons for it
for the buffet And it'd be like five or six bones
a person. It's not bad for Quite unlimited pizza.
It's like shit. I'm gonna pizza Yeah ranks and
you're just going ham on that stuff and they
had little desserts at the end I like their pizza.
Right now I'm in between a B and a B+. I'm not
sure where I want to go on that. But that mac
and cheese pizza. Oh yeah. The way I look at
it, that was an A. Yes. That pizza was an A.
So I think I'll go B+. I think that's fair. B+.
I would agree. We now move on. I have eight Chicago
trains. Okay. Oh. And this is going to be all
you. I'm going to just let you fire these off.
Okay. Alright. That's fair. Kick it off with
this one. Giordano's. Giordano's love it. Their
deep dish is good. You got that big cheese pull.
Their thin crust is excellent. Yes. Ooh. A plus.
A plus for Giordano's strong start. Remember
those listening at home, this is a completely
different tier list. Chicago chains. So if you're
thinking, oh Giordano's only got a plus over
Domino's, no. This is a different list. Different
category. Different category. Loom all notties.
Lumal Nadis, I don't even know if they have a
thin crust. I've only had their deep dish. Yes,
I would agree. But their crust is excellent.
The cheese, the ingredients. Oh, I gotta put
it as superior, man. S. I gotta give it S rating.
I was gonna be cross with you if you didn't give
him an S. Yeah, I have to do it. S for Lumal
Nadis. Geno's East. Geno's East. Man, they got
this pizza called Wheel of Meat. That's right.
I forgot. I think it's like sausage Pepperoni
and ground beef and bake. It's just it's stupid,
but it's so good Yeah, so you get it's like a
different flavor in every bite. It's so good
Gino's east. I like a lot. I would give it Probably
an A -. A - for Geno's East. Totally fair. This
is a more local one, I believe. Gelsosimos. Gelsosimos.
That's Northwest Indiana, for sure. They have
a little bit sweeter sauce. True. But their thin
crust is really good. I do like it. We used to
get it once in a while. Yeah. For whatever reason,
your sister Sarah used to call it Geraseroserosimos.
That's right. None of us understood why, but
they all ended up calling it that. I would give
it... A B. A B for Gelsosimos. Correct. Next
up, Pizzeria Uno. Pizzeria Uno Superior. That
took me zero time to even think about that. I
love it. No notes. Yeah, I'm not, once again,
I'm not much of a deep dish guy. I do prefer
the tavern style, which is a thin crust. But
when I do have the deep dish, it's my number
one choice. Yeah. Fantastic. Next up is a local
one to our hearts, Fox's. Fox's is superior.
One of the best tavern styles that you can get.
And trust me when I say it is on the south side.
The south side has five or six S tier tavern
style pizza places without a doubt. But Fox's,
I grew up on a couple blocks from my house. We
used to walk over and my mom and dad would buy
it. What what was my take on it? I had to go
pick it up my problem. I walked down the street
grabbed the pie always always excellent their
ingredients are top -notch and it was always
and that they got the On the bottom of it the
cornmeal. Yeah, that's right bottom, which is
just great chef's kiss chef's kiss the penultimate
one Don't get it confused listeners from afar.
You may be used to seeing this in your frozen
section But it's a little special here for us
because we get to eat it fresh Home run in. Home
run in. Another excellent pizza. Deep dish or
thin crust. It is in the frozen section. But
we get the brick and mortar here. But we get
the brick and mortar. The south side of Chicago.
There's a couple of spots for home run in pizza.
The sauce has a very unique flavor. I think different
than most pizza sauces. Very good. Very rich.
The crust is this buttery crust that... Flaky.
Flaky, yes. Flaky's a great description. Right
now, I'm wavering. Close to S tier, but I'm going
A plus. A plus for home run in. And if we do
a part two of this, which includes frozen pizzas
and other things of that sort, you may hear their
name again. Final one on the local pizzas list,
Pequod's. Oh, that is a pizza on the north side
of Chicago. Once again, deep dish or thin crust.
It is constantly voted Near or at the top every
time there's like a pizza competition. Yeah nationwide.
It's it's right there I've had it a couple of
times. I do like it I'm hesitant to give it the
s -tier though because I know that's like think
that's the popular thing to do But I've had so
much pizza in that damn town that I have to rate
it that way sure And I give it an A without question.
It's an excellent pizza. But there are others
that I put above it. Yes. Totally fair. Totally
fair. That is the end of both tier listings today.
A quick recap on our chains. Domino's got an
A. Papa John's C minus. Pizza Hut B. Little Caesar's
C. Papa Murphy's B. Hungry Howie's C plus. Jet's
Pizza got a B plus. Sparrow got a B. Cece's Pizza
got a B plus. Chicago and Local Chains, Giordano's
A +, Lumal Notti's S, Gino's A-, Gelsasimo's
B, Pizzeria Uno S, Fox's S, Home Run A +, and
Pequod's got an A. Yep. That's it. We love our
pizza around here. Yes, indeed we do. And that
is all the time we have! this week. And I want
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always good to be here. All right, hope you enjoy
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Have a fantastic weekend.