Hey there everybody welcome to the Mark Mo show
This is season 3 episode 4 freedom You can find
us all on all podcast platforms and YouTube I
would like to introduce my co -host and producer,
Aidan Maloney. Aidan, how you doing, man? Doing
fantastic. Beautiful evening. Should be a lovely
morning for all the beautiful listeners out there.
A little bit of a warm weekend in the Chicagoland
region, but you know, it's August. What can you
do? Yeah, we'll make it work, man. We always
do, and at least it doesn't appear to be super
humid, so I think this is gonna be hot. That's
true. So it won't be as bad. But hey, it's summer.
We're into August. Football is around the corner.
That's exciting. I am excited as well. And that
means fall's coming. And fall, I'm pretty sure
it's your favorite. It's definitely my favorite.
For sure. Definitely September, mostly October,
November. Usually after Thanksgiving, it starts
to get kind of cold. But yeah, like for me, it's
like Mid -September to early November. I just
love it. Yep. Yeah, it's kind of whack. We kind
of only get the two months of it. I know. We
always get like four months of summer and four
months of winter. We get we get cheated out of
spring and fall. We do. How hard is it to have
more of the, you know, wearing your hiking boots,
jeans and a flannel or a hoodie with a ball cap
and a bonfire in the back? Right. That's what
I want. I want more of that. Temperate. Overnights
are on the 50s. Highs are on the mid -60s. That's
where it's at, man. That is definitely where
it's at. I'm a big fan of that. But hey, not
too much longer. We've got that coming. And I
want to mention Aidan has a YouTube gaming channel
called Aidan Spelled The Right Way. He has new
PC gaming content like GeoGuessr and PolyBridge,
Observation Duty, and much, much more. All sorts
of horror games. Horror. A horror game. Man,
people, I'm telling you, their mind was in the
gutter. I read it. It's unbelievable. I read
it. Their mind was in the gutter. The word ends
with an O -R. I got the vibe. You know? Not an
R -E. You know, it's that simple. Yeah. It really
is. People always say, like, it's hard to tell
tone through text. But sometimes when you're
speaking, it's hard to tell what word you're
fucking saying. What word do you say, right?
Because it's just like... It's a horror game.
Right. Wednesday. Really? Doesn't look like it.
Looks a bit like Wednesday. Brett Favre? Looks
like Favre to me, but that's okay. Looks like
stealing from charity to me. Oh, hey, yeah. Allegedly,
I've heard. Allegedly, yeah, so true. But, yeah,
I want to know on your channel, what can people
expect this week? There's a pretty fun episode
coming out today, Saturday, for all you lovely
listeners. It's more Polybridge, and there's
little segments I like to do in there that I've
really come to love a lot. You get to see, like,
after you beat a... Like, you make a successful
bridge in the game, you get to see this huge
gallery of hundreds of other people's attempts
at making the same bridge that you did, and,
like, the different designs, their creativity,
you know, being bested on the budget scale by
people who are better than you, I guess better
than me. But, yeah, being able to see all that
is super fun, and then, like, reacting to it,
kind of assessing it. giving input. It's a really
good time and I don't think I took the time to
appreciate that side of that game in PolyBridge
1 and 2. And in this game, PolyBridge 3, I'm
really learning to appreciate that side of it.
That's awesome. So that's super fun. That'll
be coming out today. And then still got a lot
of horror games on the hot plate. That's excellent.
As I mentioned last week, they're looking pretty
fun. I love that. Well, everybody, you can catch
that on the old YouTube, Aidan spelled the right
way. And actually, what we've been doing too,
I guess it's worth mentioning, we've, I guess
you've more than anything, resurrected AK -219.
Back from the dead. Back from the dead. It's
more of like a... gaming collab kind of show
that we do. So you get Aidan Spell the right
way, you get Mark Moe, and we come together.
And I have to say, I listened back to the last
one that we did, and I laughed my ass off. I
thought, how funny. How funny is it? But that's
what I love best about it, and hopefully you
guys do too, that it allows us, especially GeoGuessr,
I'm sure there's probably other games that would
allow us to do this, but to kind of utilize that
type of humor. Right, like that reactive, like
improv. Improv type humor. That's the sweet spot
right there. It's our sweet spot. It has been
for a long time. Pretty much for our entire family,
but that's just kind of what we're good at, what
we've always done, and... Ass? Ass was hilarious.
There was a top comment on that video too, someone
European, someone that likes to comment on my
videos too. They're very insightful. And they
were telling us the flag we couldn't... Understand
yeah, that was like it looked like Finland or
Norway or something and apparently it was an
independent Island that I guess got swallowed
up by one of the Scandinavian countries But kept
the yellow in the flag no way, and that's why
we were how cool of the island I was like wow,
that's pretty neat. I love that. We'll see that's
it and that's you know for all you guys out there
and gals Engagement's great, and that's that's
I mean we love it. We love the DMS. We love all
that fun stuff But really what makes all of this
worth it, whether it's this show, whether it's
AK219, whether it's Aidan Spell the Right Way,
is the engagement. It's so much fun. We love
it. So flood the comments, man, just with your
thoughts and your ideas. Thoughts, comments,
yeah. We love it. So to that gentleman, thank
you for bringing that up, because trust me, I'm
a history major from Loyola University and was
definitely very good in geography and stuff in
high school and college. And I looked at that
flag man and I was like, what the F? I'm like,
it doesn't make any sense. No, we knew the part
of the world, but it was so confusing, very confusing.
And you, out of the blue, okay, this one pops
up, right? Oh yeah, is this Isle of Man? The
game we're playing, it's like the first screen
in GeoGuessr, basically a Google Map game, it's
a street view, so it puts you on a street view,
and there's one called flag, so it pops, you're
looking at a flag, sometimes you can move around
a little bit, sometimes you can't, and so, bam,
it was this and this flag, and it goes, oh, it's
Isle of Man. I'm like, what? I was like, get
out of here. I'm like, I know what the Isle of
Man is, but I would have never picked a flag
out in a groupie. Holy shit, that was awesome.
It's such a cool looking flag, too. It's just
three legs on a red background, I think. That's
it. Weird ass flag, but I like it. God, Isle
of Man. Isle of Man, that was crazy. And then,
of course, one of my favorite people. Kwan Kwan
what a legend. I got to tell his tale too. Yeah,
I gotta tell his tale But you know rather than
me telling his tale now. I'm just gonna say Check
out our content at AK 219 yeah a lot of these
bits aren't gonna make full sense unless you've
seen it unless you've seen it, but Kwan is a
protector of the bell. That's all I'm gonna leave
you with and Paul Blart's on the segue. They
were after him. They're after him and Kwan's
ready. Oh, yeah. I would have loved to have seen
the battle. He did. You're like, well, it's his
paper thing. I mean, no, it's a sword. He's the
protector of the bell. Trust me, I know Kwan.
I know Kwan. We go way back. We go way back.
But yeah, I think you guys will like it. It's
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Now we're gonna get to you know we open with
a little bit of dialogue every week, and we talk
about various subjects and we were trying to
do. And I always tell people this because they're
like, oh, tell me more about your show. And so
I talk about how we opened with like a discussion.
And when we started this show, I said, look,
I don't want to be a political show. Right. That
was the goal. I was like, I don't want to be
a political show. I don't. But when you have
the people that are in power and they give you
primo, cherry on the sundae, just content. each
and every week, it's hard. It's hard not to look
at some of this shit and be like, oh my god,
I want to get on that. Right. It's satirical
bits beyond what the onion could conceive. Sure.
John Stewart, John Oliver, Trevor Noah, that
kind of stuff. The unfortunate part is the shit
they're doing, it's not bits. They're just doing
it for real. They're just doing it. If this was
a bit, it would be hilarious. The fact it's actually
happening is really disturbing. It's disturbing.
It's crazy. It's absolutely insane. But at any
rate, so this week, you know, many of us get
stuck in life. So we get stuck in a job we hate,
stuck in dead end friendships, stuck in toxic
relationships. They will drag you down and beat
your ass to a pulp if you let it. without question.
And among the very worst situations are toxic
work relationships. Like it or not, you gotta
deal with that person every damn day. Right.
Every damn day. 2 ,000 hours a year. Right. And
you may like or tolerate your job. You may like
the work and most of the people you work with.
For many of us, That's the best we can hope for
on a job. Just something you don't hate and you
show up and you get paid and whatever. But however
a toxic work relationship is something you have
to face often, especially if it's someone you
have to work closely with. That is the worst.
If it's someone you don't have to deal with too
much, you can probably skate by. If it's someone
you pass in the hallway, oh my god, there's Janice.
And then you gotta deal with Janice for like
two seconds. There's worse things. But you're
talking about someone you gotta deal with often,
all day, every day. I've had many colleagues,
friends and family that have left perfectly good
jobs because of a toxic asshole. That is the
worst feeling. You get a team member that has
a superiority complex. or a boss that's constantly
over your shoulder, taking credit for your hard
work. There's many examples to it, obviously.
In a world filled with dark clouds and disappointment,
sometimes the light shines upon your fields.
Sometimes there's justice. Sometimes that toxic
human being gets what they deserve. Sometimes
they dig their own damn hole. The feeling is
indescribable. You can breathe again. You smile
again. The two ton weight you carry around your
neck for eight hours a day is gone. You're more
productive, you're happier doing what you do,
and it filters into the rest of your life. Everything,
you know, things don't just like, there's not
all these brick walls in your life that separate
everything. It's like everything bleeds into
everything else. Right. So if you have a lot
of problems at home and you're going to work,
you're probably not going to be as productive
as you could be. You're not going to be at work
happy and vice versa. If you have an absolute
miserable job or you deal with miserable people
or whatever the case is. And then you go home
and like significant others all like happy, chippy,
like, hey, why don't we do this and why don't
we do that? And you're like, I want to crawl
in a hole. Right. Anyway, thank you. So, yeah,
man, I mean, that's just. That's just kind of
the point this week is, is that sometimes you
get that freedom back. Freedom from shitty people.
And that's the most cathartic way, too, is just
someone self -destructing. Because you don't
have to do anything. No input. They're just self
-destructing. They're gonna do it on their own.
It's poetry. It really is. And you think about
some people. And they might not get fired. They
might just like turn their time in and it's like,
yep, all right, I'm leaving. I've had enough.
And then you sit there and you're like, oh, that's
a victory. But then you're like, shit, I got
put up with them for two weeks and they're going
to be a... Now they've gone from asshole to mega
asshole. Right. Because they're a foot out the
door. Because they're a foot out the door. They're
not going to do any work. They're going to do
shitty work because they're leaving. They don't
care. And that makes it extra stressful. Right.
So a lot of companies have policies and I've
talked to a few people. recently about just HR
stuff. And a lot of companies have policies where
people turn in their two weeks, just pay them
their two weeks. They'll just be like, all right,
you can go. We'll take your card or your keys
or whatever you got. That's it. And I think that's
probably the best case scenario. Yeah, because
you wouldn't want someone who's vindictive enough
to sabotage the company or other employees. you
know especially if it's gotten to that point
of like oh you're fearing someone sabotaging
you because they're that much of a narcissist
first of all you need to look at your hiring
practices yes secondly just get them out the
door yep you know you you take the two weeks
you take that paycheck is just a loss whatever
write it off who cares right at least you're
free you're free man and it's it's unbelievable
and and to a point where Like if you're if you're
the one dealing with it, right and it's bogging
you down and you're like man I'm just this is
really making my life pretty shitty and you realize
there's not much you can do with it And you feel
like you have to just endure this thing every
day but then as I said this this just kind of
justice whatever just it happens and Then all
of a sudden you're like wait what? There this
person is going to leave on their own accord.
That is unfreaking believable And then they go,
but they don't go. It's like, I'm gonna go, but
I'm gonna make sure that I pour kerosene on every
bridge and just burn that thing. And it's like,
you just could have left. You could have just
been quiet and just left, and then you would
have had a reference and that sort of thing.
And instead, you were like, oh. I might as well
just show everyone who I am. And I'm like, what
are you doing? It's a bold move, Cotton. Bold
move, Cotton. Let's see if it works. And it really,
it's amazing. It's amazing how some people operate.
And I don't want to discount the fact that some
people have mental illness and they have other
things going on and whatever, but manage that
shit. You know, get that under control because
you're working with other people. So you got
to figure that part out. I don't like, I deal
with my own stuff. And I try to separate that
and be a good person to people. I think when
I talk to people about my challenges, they're
often extremely surprised because I'm like, I
wouldn't have thought that. I'm like, it's because
I hide it well. I don't. Compartmentalization.
Yeah. My shit is not your shit. So if we're out
and we're having a good time, you know, I'm going
to lock that in the closet, man. You know, we're
going to go out and we're going to have a good
time. That's what all this is about. So, um,
but I think that's what most normal people can
do, I guess, if you want to use that term. Maybe
that's not even the right term, but I think that's
just what, maybe good people? I don't know. But
that we're able to do that. We're able to be
like, okay, you know, I'm feeling and the you
know down in the dumps today But I'm going out
with a couple of friends. We're gonna have a
good time. Yeah, it's it I feel like Scenarios
are like that kind of fall somewhere between
empathy and people -pleasing Yeah, and of course
people -pleasing has its pros and cons but it's
it's one of those that kind of toes the line
of like Feeling like you don't want to burden
others with your issues and sacrifice what could
be a joyous revelry of an evening. But it's also
tough because you also don't want to go through
all of that alone. So it's like, how do you balance
that? What's the right time to bring it up? I'm
not a therapist, so I don't know these things,
but I know what you're talking about. I know
I've done that before myself, but it's interesting.
Yeah, it's very interesting and all I know is
that if you're out there and you're in this situation,
regardless of what it is, in this particular
example, we're talking more about the workplace
and that sort of thing. But it could be a friendship,
it could be a relationship, it could be so much
other different stuff. And you don't have to
deal with it. And it's tough because sometimes
you'll sit there and be like, oh, but I remember
better days. Well, we all remember better days.
Right, right. But the thing is, is better days
is back three blocks and around the corner. You
know, it's not, it's history. It's the stuff
you look back on and be like, oh, that was a
nice day. That was a fun day. Well, that's history.
You can enjoy that. You can have fond memories.
But if that's ancient history and your current
events are not great. I think we've used this
quote before, and it comes from Denzel Washington
in the equalizer. You know, don't like your world,
change your world. Yeah. You know, and that's
sometimes easier said than done, but you can
do it. You know, and I'd often said that I thought
where we live here in Valparaiso, Indiana, I
thought I'd pretty much exhausted all the various
resources here in terms of relationships, friendships,
work, all that stuff, and really thought about
just, you know, packing it up. And as challenging
as that would be, as much of a stressor as that
would be, you have to be like, am I doing it
for the right reasons? Sure. And will tomorrow
be better than today? And you have to ask yourself
those questions. Right. I think for any of these
situations, you really do. And all I'm saying
is, if you're not happy, go. Yeah. Man or woman.
If you're not happy, just go. Ski -daddle. Ski
-daddle. there will be better days ahead. There
will definitely be better days ahead. Anything
else to add on our subject here today? No. I
think we covered what we needed to. I think anyone
out there, especially if you're in a situation
like this, toxic work situation or otherwise,
just keep your eye out for the silver lining.
Most definitely I would agree alternatively skedaddle.
I mean you've got two good options. You really
do you you absolutely do you know you Try to
try to get your emotions under control because
I know if I get too emotional I I'm not thinking
right sure and I think that goes for most people
yeah, so a lot of times if you're emotional whether
it's sad angry whatever it's often best to be
like, okay, I need to take some time in this
moment and get out of these feelings in order
to make a better decision. And I highly encourage
that because a lot of people when you're just
furious about some things, don't make the decision
then. Fired up, snap reactions. Right. Yeah,
sometimes that doesn't pan out. No, no, it really
doesn't because then, you know, then you wind
up in in one of the boroughs in New York City
and you're under wearing a crack house and you
don't want to be there. Sometimes you do. And
sometimes... It's exactly what you're looking
for. Sometimes that's exactly what you're looking
for. It's where some people might ski -daddle
off to. That's... I bet people do ski -daddle
that way. Bless their souls. Indeed, indeed.
You know, maybe you end up on that floor and
go, I'm so happy. I made it, finally. I made
it. I did it. I'm living the American dream.
All right. Anyway, we I think we've done enough
damage here. When we return a little carpe diem
here on the Mark Mo show. All right, we are back
from our break and it's time for. Carpe Diem,
you find beautiful people send us DMs and we
read them on the show just for you. Sometimes
for us, but mostly just for you. Exactly. You're
welcome. You're welcome, by the way. And, you
know, they could be statements, they could be
jokes, they could be speaking of jokes. I have
a bank teller, her name's Maeve, and she works
for Fifth Third Bank, not sponsored, soon to
be. And so she works in Fifth Third Bank here
in Valparaiso. And so she told me she always
has dad jokes. And she's like, and the last time
in, she didn't have a dad joke for me, but she
gave me a little duck. So I got a little duck
in my car. Oh, that's pretty great. So that's
pretty great. I got a little duck. But I stopped
in there today, and she's like, oh, by the way,
I have a dad joke. I'm like, fantastic. What
do you got? She's like, how did the daddy bucket
know that his son bucket was sick? How's that?
Looked a little pale. Come on. Love it. Love
it. You did good. You did good. I told her, I
said, you give me the content. That's good. I
read it on the air. But back to the DMs. Yeah,
we read these things on air. Hopefully you guys
like them. And I'm going to start out with mine.
I got four of them for you today. At the Doobie
Brother. Peace, my brothers. WTF is up with Indiana.
Alcohol, over -the -counter drugs, prescription
drugs mess people up way more than a joint. Just
sayin'. My man's got a point. Right. Let him
cook. Let him cook. He's preachin' right now.
We gotta stop these people smokin' J's, man.
They're gonna drive careful and slow. Yeah. God
forbid. God forbid they end up at the supermarket.
They might buy Cheetos. Yeah, really. Look, the
stoners, they're gonna drive the economy, especially
at the grocery store. Oh yeah. Without a doubt.
Snacky foods? Yep. your local Taco Bell or White
Castle, they are gonna hit it hard. If weed's
legalized federally, which of course it won't
be, but yeah, invest in Taco Bell if that happens.
Yes, 100%, without a doubt. At, Aidan will like
this very much, at. Franklin Scaramanga FC. My
man. Hello, I am president of the Franklin Scaramanga
fan club. Oh, of course. We would love you guys
to come speak at our monthly meeting if you're
ever in South Carolina. God, he knows us so well.
We're huge Scaramanga fans. Yes. He invented
the horse. He invented the horse. Yeah. He did.
It was a great invention. What a guy I mean,
we're never in South Carolina, but then if you
you know, you could zoom call us in Easily, you
know do like they did during kovat and just have
like little iPads with fans faces on them The
two fans in your meeting. Yes, we would do that.
Yeah, that would be outstanding Franklin scaramanga.
What an absolute legend He is a legend. He's
definitely a legend. And the more GeoGuessr that
we play, we are going to encounter many, many
more legends like Franklin Scaramaggo, for sure.
His stepfather, Dave Franks. Dave Franks. Yeah.
Made standing popular. Yes. Invented the two
-piece suit. He did. He invented the two -piece
suit. He made standing popular. People used to
just sit, kneel, all these. He's like, check
this out. Yeah, watch this. Watch this. And they're
like, whoa, what are you doing? I'm standing.
So yeah, you gotta check that out. Check our
content out over on AK219. The next one I got
at Kwan McGillicutty. Oh my god, he checked in?
He checked in. Kwan says, get your eyes off my
bell, bitch. Yo. Come on. I would never dare.
No, I would never dare. I wouldn't I know your
power. I've seen it No, he guards it with Zen
like patience, man, but I do have a feeling that
when he needs to turn it up a notch Yeah, I think
he does his essence is legendary. Indeed. It
is a standing. Yeah. Oh no doubt Last certainly
not least stoner Stanley 420 Momo and Alan are
the happy people of the times Hey, did you hear
what happened? I did. Have a day. Stan. Oh, man.
I didn't hear what happened. It would have been
cool if you would have elaborated slightly. Maybe
he told us. We'll find out next week, I'm sure,
what happened. Yeah, and instead he's bragging
like I know. Yeah. Oh, he's being coy. I think
so. He's being a little stinker about it. I think
that's fair. That's crazy. Yeah. Well, we would
have been the happy people of the times, but
then you had to be coy about it. You had to be
a little sass. You really did. You really did.
So, what do you got, Aidan? Got a couple DMs
here. Okay. One from Landparasite, asking, hey,
bucko, I've got one apartment left. It's 400
square feet. 25 stories up and there's no elevator.
50 bucks a month rent. Do you want it? How many
floors? 25. No elevator. No elevator. 50 bucks.
50 bucks. Now, that's an opportunity to save
money on rent every month because, you know,
you average two bedrooms like $1 ,500 these days.
2 ,000 to 3 ,000 if you're in a city. So 50 bones
a month is pretty nice, but round trip 50 stories,
you would not want to leave your apartment twice
in one day. No. For any reason. No. That's tough.
Especially if it comes to like groceries, other
things. Where you would have to schedule your
whole day just going out once. Which is crazy.
Which is crazy. Crazy. I mean, the amount of
money you'd save every month. Yeah. Probably
save a thousand a month, 12 ,000 a year. Yeah.
But climbing 25 stories, that's gonna take you
an hour? Maybe 45 minutes? Yeah, I actually don't
know. Because how long does a flight of stairs
go, but then you run into fatigue after a while?
Right. you get about five six floors up and you'll
need to rest for a minute right another five
or six rests then maybe another three rest yeah
you know that that becomes tough and then what
happens what happens if you sprain your ankle
god forbid and now you got to go home right jesus
i i would have to say no yeah i think i also
would pass that's That place could be the swank
pad of the universe, but I'd just like climb
in 25 stories, it's the easiest. Like the amount
of money you'd spend on extra food and like,
I don't know, muscle relaxers or painkillers,
because you'd be burning all those calories,
and then your legs would feel like jello every
day. Yeah, oh for sure. Could you imagine you
get home from work, and you climb 25 stories,
right? Imagine the times you get home and you
have to pee. Oh, you'd be hustling. Dude, I'd
be peeing in the stairwell. I'd be like, sorry.
Yup. I'm on floor 10. Yeah. My bladder was like,
now. Yeah. Boy, oh boy, yeah, that would be bad.
Can you imagine climbing 25 stories, getting
in, dropping off your bag from work, and all
of a sudden, yes, oh yeah, it's the lobby. Jimmy
John's is down here. Oh, or you forget your phone
in the car. Oh, gosh. That's the worst. Holy.
Yeah, I think I'd pass also. I would. That's
just too much of an asshole. Too problematic.
Yeah. You make it 10 stories, now we're talking.
For sure. 25 is... Nope. Yeah, that's kind of
crazy. That's an adventure I don't want. Right.
Because the fatigue is, it accelerates as you
get more stories in. Yeah. You know. Unbelievable.
The next DM I got, Crippy Grove. Crip. What is
a grown -up problem no one prepared you for?
Oh Grown -up problem. Nobody prepared you for
that's interesting. It's a thought -provoking
question. I would say the the constant financial
stress Mm -hmm. I would say like like I kind
of knew Because I've been working since I was
about 15. Yeah, so I kind of expected like, you
know once once I get around to paying rent regularly
or mortgage regularly add bills on top of that
like I understand I'm not I'm not flush with
cash like I was after my first paycheck when
I was 15 but yeah no just just the quantity of
like like mentally knowing I'm working 2 ,000
hours a year and then like my bank account is
just disagreeing it's like really have you been
yeah I don't see it in here it's like oh cool
thanks so that that kind of blows that's something
you don't really expect until you're in it. Oh,
for sure. Another problem I didn't expect is
how nervous I would be to mow the lawn too early
in the morning, especially on the weekend. Yes.
Because I'm an early riser, right? So I'll be
up at 6 or 7 a .m. on Saturdays, and then I'm
like, I should go out and mow the lawn, but I'm
like... Oh shit, what are the neighbors going
to think? Am I going to wake them up? Is it too
early? How early is too early? I don't know.
It's like this internal debate and usually no
one cares. Nah. That's true. That's something
I dealt with when I was younger because it would
be the weekend and your papa would be like, okay,
make sure you get out and mow the lawn early
and this and that. It's like 7 .30 in the morning.
I'm not even up yet. It's like 7 30 in the morning
and I hear And I'm like, ah, did he start the
lawnmower and I'd go outside to be like, what
are you doing? Hey told you I wanted this I'm
like the grass isn't gonna go anywhere I'm like
it'll get cut right? Why does this have to be
done right now? Oh, man. And then I'm the asshole
out there cutting the grass, and then my neighbors
are like, oh, do you have to be out here so early?
I'm like, why don't you talk to the boss? Right.
Talk to the boss, because I don't want to be
out here. Yeah. Yeah, just crazy. Oh, man. Absolutely
crazy. But yeah, I think for me, I think one
of the things that I didn't count on is how difficult
it is, as a single middle -aged adult, to make
friends and And try to Date or get in relationships
or any stuff like that. It is like so much harder
Yeah, it's incredibly difficult just because
there's so many other Complex issues. It just
did not exist when you were young sure because
like look, we're all young. We're all broke We
go out we drink we hump you know, rinse, recycle,
reuse, whatever. I mean, it's every day just
kinda like that. But now it's just like, everybody's
got a story and everybody's got history and luggage
and skeletons in the closet and all that shit.
And it's like, can we just hang out? Right. Can
we just hang out and let's see what happens?
Why do we, we don't have to deal with any of
this shit. Yeah. Let's just hang out. Do we like
each other? Yeah, cool. That's it. Let's just
live in that moment. Yeah. But for whatever reason,
it's just that much more difficult. That's unfortunate.
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Damn. Yeah, don't be middle -aged
and single. It's not fun. It's not an ideal situation.
Yeah, really. Yeah, 100%. The last DM I received
from Evil Genie, checking in again, asking, I
offer you $100 ,000, but you must endure the
symptoms of the flu for six months straight.
You can't die from them. and there's no pill
to feel better. Do you accept? How much? $100
,000? $100 ,000. I take it. Most days I feel
like ass anyway. Yeah. And if we're just talking
what, stuffy nose, maybe a little feverish once
in a while, achy. Yeah. Got a lot of that. So...
It just depends too because... If it's the stomach
virus, if it's a stomach flu... That's the problem.
I would probably say no, but if it's like the
one that's more like a head cold, sinuses will
full, you get the chills, you're eating a lot
of soup and drinking Sprite, I'll deal with that
one. I would agree completely, because I'm kind
of in the same boat. Usually colds don't affect
me that bad, unless it pertains to the stomach.
That is just debilitating to me. Oh it is. My
stomach is upset, count me out. count me out
till it feels better I'm doing nothing yeah so
yeah I'm in the same boat depends which strain
of the flu we're talking about if it's in the
stomach keep your money nah I don't want it I
don't want it at all me either yeah that's no
bueno mm -hmm Well, that was good. That concludes
our Carpe Diem. Feel free to reach out to us.
Send us your DMs. The Mark Mo Show has a Facebook
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of reach out to us. If you want to throw a DM
at us, that'd be great. We have another segment
that we do here called the other foods So you're
not gonna find a burger. You're not gonna find
a hot dog Spaghetti you're not gonna find that
here. What you're gonna find is the shit you
look at and be like, oh my god What the hell
is that right or holy shit? What is that odor?
Yeah, and That's what this is all about Aidan
finds that food that would make a billy goat
puke Aidan. What do you have this week? This
week I was inspired. We mentioned this food last
week. Just in passing, we mentioned this food.
And I realized we talked about that on radio.
It hasn't yet been mentioned on the podcast.
So I thought... Uh oh, I think maybe I know.
It's best if the podcast folks know too. I think
they should. A little tasty street food for you.
It's called balut. Oh, no. This little thing
called balut. It is a fertilized, developing
egg embryo that is boiled or steamed and eaten
from the shell. It's commonly sold as street
food, often eaten with salt and vinegar, most
notably in the Philippines, Cambodia, and Vietnam.
Balut, the fertilized bird egg, usually a duck,
it's incubated for two to three weeks. So there's
a little a little baby duck growing in the shell.
The contents are then, after they're steamed
or boiled, the contents are eaten directly from
the shell. Balloot that is incubated for longer
periods, of course, have a well -developed embryo
that the features of the duckling themselves
are recognizable after you boil it. Nope. Partially
developed embryo bones are soft enough to chew
and swallow as a whole. Oh, God. The mallard
duck, also known as the Pateros duck, is often
used to make this balut. Quote, it is a renowned
dish due to its different developmental stages.
Some people prefer when the duck embryo is still
largely liquid, while others prefer when it is
more mature and has a chewier texture. Yeah.
Quote, it is an acquired taste. Yeah, boy, that's
that's that's awfully nice foul foul I would
call it. Yeah, I'm sure Definitely wanted to
bring that one up because I know damn well we
mentioned it in passing and I was like, oh my
gosh We haven't actually talked about it on the
podcast So yeah, but loot if any brave souls
out there you lovely listeners want to look it
up. There are several dozen Disturbing images
of this street food. You can look at Yeah, I'm
curious. I I went down that rabbit hole as you
were talking about Balloot I'm like, I think
I remember what that was and then I went and
I looked at the photos and I'm like, oh my god
I definitely remember this. Yeah, wish I didn't.
Yeah. I wish I did not I wish I could unsee it
again, right? Just not great. Not great at all.
God bless Balloot. God bless Balloot Now before
we take our next break It is time for the Fry
Guy Fry review here on the Mark Mo Show. And
a little controversial one this week. And that
is Chick -fil -A. Ooh, the waffle cut. The waffle
cut fry. And I like me a waffle cut fry. And
so I went and I ordered the fries and I took
them out of the bag. And damn it if they weren't
perfect. They were just amazing. They were hot.
They were well salted, and I thought, wow, these
are great. And for whatever reason, they stayed
very warm through the duration. Like, they never
got cold. And I enjoyed that entire bag. I thought
it was great. That's fantastic. I wonder how
much engineering actually goes into the fry cup
itself to attempt to save the warmth of the fry.
Yeah. I'm not sure if it's part packaging or
what. what it is, but those fries stayed warm.
Yeah. And I was very, very, very impressed with
that. Now, I would give Chick -fil -A about an
8 -8. Oh, okay. However, I'm giving them a .5
deduction. Oh, a penalty. A .5 deduction for
hating gay people. So. Just stop doing that,
Chick -fil -A. Just stop doing it. It's stupid.
Grow up. because normally you guys have pretty
good food and I don't eat there as much as I'd
probably like to because some of your views are
just incredibly outdated. Right. It's like welcome
to 2025. It's not me, it's you. Uh huh. Yeah.
So it would have been an 8 .8 but you get a 0
.5 deduction for being idiots. But still a solid
8 .3. A solid 8 .3. I can't fault the fry. The
fry is the fry. It's a good fry. That's true.
Is that the first waffle fry? That's the first
waffle fry. On the fry guy fry reveal. Yeah.
There will be more. There will definitely be
more because I know some other good places that
have waffle fries. You know a guy. I know a guy.
Who knows a guy. Who knows a fry guy. That's
this dude right here. Nice. All right. We're
going to take a quick break and we come back.
Time for our feature segment. You just made the
list on the Mark Mo Show. All right, we're back
everybody and It is time for you just made the
lists our top ten list ten through two with our
number one reveal And our long long long list
of rules. Oh wait, hang on Now do we have a correction?
I'm I'm getting a buzz in my ear. Yeah. Yeah,
we're actually hearing from our producers I'm
sorry. That's that's just one Just one rule.
We're being told, no rules. No rules. We're being
told there's no rules. They say there's no rules.
They say there's no rules. Other than the ones
we make up on the fly, but that's fine. At any
discretion. Exactly. So tonight's top 10 list,
worst team names all sports. So that covers a
lot of territory, professional, college, whatever
you want to do. And Aiden, I'm going to let you
go first. All right. I've got some real winners
here. Uh -oh. I'll run my 10 through 2, save
the big number one reveal. Number 10, the Wichita
State Shockers. Yeah. Yeah, that's... The old
Shocker. Shocker, I hardly know her. It's so
shocking. When they take the field, does everybody
just go, oh! They all get jump scared. Exactly.
Like Wichita State, do we like electricity that
much? Or the Shocker? The Shocker. The Shocker.
Everyone's not favorite superhero? Right. Number
nine, the Los Angeles Angels, which... You can
translate it either way. In English it means
the the angels angels. Yes. And in Spanish it
means Los Los Angeles Angeles. Which is really
fucking dumb. It's ridiculous. It would be like
the Chicago Chicago's. The Chicago Chicago's.
Okay cool. Awesome. It's dumb. It's dumb. It's
dumb. Fuck you LA. Number eight. The evergreen
state geoducks. The Geoducks mascot is awesome.
Is it? Okay, so we have to look that up. Awesome,
yes, of course. Lovely listeners, I know you're
good at multitasking. You can feel free to look
up these mascots if you want. Some of these are
fantastic. Oh my god. Yeah, the Geoducks are
great. Number seven, the Presbyterian Blue Hose.
The Blue Hose. The Blue Hose. And that's H -O
-S -E. Not H -O -E -S. Oh, see, I was thinking
like they come out and their cheerleaders are
all like they look like Smurfette. Yeah, Smurfette
got a little freaky with it. Yeah, got a bunch
of blue hoes out there. Yeah, no, blue hoes as
in like the blue socks, but they couldn't just
say blue socks for some reason. Yeah, I wonder
if those blue hoes play horror games. Watch the
Blue Hose play horror games. Oh, cool. Oh, cool.
Number six, Williams College, Purple Cows. The
Purple Cows. The Purple Cows. Now, I put this
one pretty high on the list for the express reason
that we always say. Yes, thank you. We always
say, if you're having trouble finding a team
name, pick a color, pick an animal. They did
that, which, hey, props to you. But it's just
that's too far. It's too far. It's got to be
like the brown bears. That makes sense. Brown
bears, golden eagles. Yeah. Red birds. Red hawks.
Yeah. There you go. Yeah. Purple cows. That's
the purple cows. Yeah. Purple cows sounds like
a dairy product. It's funny you mention that
because I was just going to say when I was a
kid growing up on the southwest side of Chicago,
we had this ice cream shop and it was called
the purple cow. No kidding. Ice cream shop. That's
crazy. Yeah, and on the roof was a humongous
purple guy. That's pretty charming, actually.
I kind of like that. It's kind of charming. Yeah.
Yeah. Number five, the Cleveland Guardians. Now,
I know there's a lot of people out there that
are, like, expecting me to go on some tirade,
like, oh, bring back the Indians. No. OK, I understand
how using Native American stereotypes and imagery
is problematic. But what are you guarding? You're
Cleveland. Yeah, no one wants to take anything
from you. Let alone go there. No, you got we're
guarding Cleveland Okay, have fun your your river
caught fire, right? It's water and it caught
fire That's F dot man. Come on. We're the Cleveland
Guardians. Oh, what are you guarding? Flaming
water. Yeah, right one of a kind all of our quarterbacks.
Yeah, right Guardians is stupid. You're Cleveland.
No one wants to steal anything from you. Number
four, the Delta State fighting okra. Wow. Because
when you think tough, you're thinking vegetables.
Absolutely. I mean, I'm a fan of vegetables.
I enjoy arugula and spinach and cucumbers. Okra?
Fighting okra? Is that supposed to invoke? Who's
their rivalry, like the southwestern state broccoli?
Yeah, right. Or the sprouts. Cool. Man, if we
could just find a way to get past the broccoli,
we are ready to take on the carrot. We'll see
the pumpkins in the state finals. Oh, no. Okay,
number three, the Akron rubber ducks. The rubber
ducks. Leave it to Ohio to have multiple on this
list. The Akron rubber ducks. yeah it's like
her he would like oh I'm so scared so scared
here come the rubber ducks oh no I mean is that
makes me want to take a bath is that the play
like you pick a name so outlandishly stupid and
unthreatening yeah that the team the opposing
team just thinks you'll be a like easy breezy
yeah and then you trick them is that the play
that might be the play I don't know All I know
is number two on my list being the El Paso Chihuahua's.
Because if you wanted the most annoying rat -like
mascot and logo, you got it in El Paso. You definitely
have it. Can you imagine like on the big scoreboard,
be like, you see this little dog? Like some music
like if it's steer, we're like, you know crossing
the Rio Grande Right here. You just have this
little chihuahua. Do you like runs up the camera
goes yucky or Taco Bell? There was a good tacos.
I mean, I don't understand how he's sponsored
by Taco Bell, but it's sponsored by that. Well,
that's about all I got for you Those are great.
Those are great. You definitely understood the
assignment. I'm gonna name mine Mine are pretty
sterile, but they're all stupid, so it kind of
works. Number 10, the Utah Jazz. I was thinking
about putting that one on, too. There's nothing
less jazzy than Utah. I'd be surprised if there
is a jazz club in the state of Utah. Right. Just
crazy. Number nine, the Buffalo Bills. So, it's
like Bill, like a name. Right, like the bill
of a cap. Right. Is it for Buffalo Bill Cody?
It can't be because he had nothing to do with
the city of Buffalo. So that can't be right.
And you got a Buffalo on the side here, so why
aren't you just called the Bison? Right. Or the
Buffalo Buffalo. The Buffalo Buffaloes. Literally
the only exception to the rule we just made.
Correct. That would be allowed. Would be the
Buffalo Buffaloes. That would be allowed. Number
eight, the Charlotte Bobcats. Bobcats. Meow.
I mean I was actually looking up a story and
there were people commenting like yeah like they
were just gonna be the cats or something but
it's actually named after a dude named Bob like
it's named after a guy named Robert oh no and
they went with Bobcats it's a Bobcat yeah okay
cool that's great number seven the Cleveland
Browns thank God two Cleveland's had to put the
Browns on there it's like look I know it's named
after Paul Brown who then went and owned the
Cincinnati Bengals. He was so impressed with
the hilarious. You know, that's just funny in
its own right. But then you're the Browns. So
you're like, we're the Browns. We're the Browns.
Orange helmet. Yeah. So got it. We got that going
on. And what's the logo? Just the orange helmet,
I guess. You just put the helmet on there. I
don't know. Maybe that's not sexy enough. Let's
dig in the trunk. Oh, look at that fucked up
-looking elf. Yep, we're gonna put that on the
50 -yard line. No idea. And then there's the
dog pads. You got dogs, you got elves, you got
an orange helmet for a team called the Browns.
You're on the list. It's Cleveland. It's Cleveland.
Number six, the Columbus. We're still in Ohio.
The Columbus blue jackets. Oh, yeah. You know,
when I think of the Civil War, I don't think
a lot of Columbus, Ohio. No. It doesn't ring
a bell, really. No, but they're the Blue Jackets.
We're the Union. Call yourselves the Union. Yeah,
good on ya. The Columbus Union. The Blue Jackets.
That's great. Cool. That's awesome. So what,
they all went to Kohl's and they got these blue
blazers for like $89 .99? You got scammed on
some cheap shit you could have gotten from T
-Move. Exactly. If we'd only gone to Alibaba.
Right. Okay, number five, the Minnesota wild.
Oh yeah. So now we just pick a verb. Right. We're
wild. Or is it the wild? It's like, it's the
wild. Well, wild is wild. You're wild. Thanks.
Yeah, because it's a verb or a noun. It's a verb
or a noun. The wild. Yeah, we're the jumpers,
man. We're the Minnesota stinky, bro. Yeah, man.
Bring it. We're the Des Moines skippers. Just
crazy. Des Moines skippers. I'd go watch a Des
Moines skipper. Des Moines shower handle. Des
Moines shower handle. I'd watch them, too. Oh,
yeah. Number four, the Houston Texans. That's
a good one, too. It kind of fits with the LA
Angels argument. Yeah. We're the Chicago Illinoians.
I mean, I guess Indiana Hoosiers is kind of meh.
But I guess Hoosiers is already. It's a slang
term really more than anything. That's just saying
we're the Houston Texans. What are you in the
phone book? Right. I mean, I don't. Houston,
Texas. The Tallahassee Floridians. Yeah. You
know, what if your quarterback actually grew
up in Baton Rouge? Right. He's not a Texan. He's
a poser. He's a poser. He's a poser. He might
be Joe Burr. Number three, the Los Angeles Lakers.
Oh yeah. You're Kareem Abdul -Jabbar. You play
for the Los Angeles Lakers. No, I'm Roger Murdoch.
I am your co -pilot. I don't even know officially
if there is a lake. I think there's like two
- There's a man -made lake. Yeah, there's like
two small lakes in LA. There's reservoirs. Yeah.
didn't they come from Minnesota? Yes, where they
have lots of lakes. Yeah, the land of 10 ,000
lakes. Yeah. The Los Angeles Lakeless? Lakeless,
yeah. Yeah, that's a silly one. The next one,
number two, the Chicago sky. Again, with a random
noun. Just the sky. Everybody's got a sky. You're
taking ownership of the sky. You can't do that.
But the Chicago sky is so much cooler. Yeah.
We're the Des Moines sky. We're taking ownership
of the sky. Oh, man. I don't understand. I don't...
We're the New York ocean. We're the ocean. We're
the Des Moines cornfield. Children of the corn.
Children of the corn. That's terrifying. Yeah,
that's pretty scary. Now I need therapy. All
right, we're now on to our number one. The number
one reveal. Give it to me. The UC Santa Cruz
banana slugs. The banana slugs, let's go. You
know I had to do it to them. Oh, for sure. They're,
it's just, it's stylish. Stylin', profilin'.
It is the worst team name I've ever heard. thusly
number one on my list. But it's just something
about it's so creative, you know? It's inspiring
in a way. Oh, most definitely. Yeah, I would
agree. If you see Santa Cruz can be the banana
slugs, you can be anything. Oh, no doubt. 100%.
That is, man, I love that. Mine is a much larger
team. Well, no, I'll take that back. They're
not large in the sense of like a large city.
Right. They're just a well -known team, and that
is the Green Bay Packers. Ah, yes. So... Because
why would you name your professional sports team
anything besides a completely different profession?
Right, exactly. We're the Packers. Wait, hold
on. So we're playing football, right? Yep. But...
Would you pack meat? You work for UPS? You're
packing boxes? Well, no, it might work. What
are the other teams in your division? Oh, the
Lions? Well, that's terrifying. The Bears? Oh,
they're very, they're not so nice. We got the
Vikings. And the Packers. And the Packers. Well,
if you don't let us score, we're gonna tape you
up in a box. Ooh, terrifying. Well, you got me.
You got me. And they're the cheeseheads. Are
we assuming they're packing the cheese? I mean,
I guess Wisconsin, you get the cheesehead. You
get the cheesehead. I'm assuming they're packing
fudge. Yeah. That's just me. Cheesehead sounds
like a derogatory term, and I don't know why.
I know. You know what? It should be a derogatory
term. Should be. You got cheese on your head.
For Green Bay fans. The hell are you doing? Yeah.
Put it in your mouth. You look like a fucking
idiot. You look like an asshole. Put it in your
mouth. What are you putting it on your head for?
Oh man, crazy. I support cheese. I support cheese.
Said queso. Yeah, uh, no, that's just, that's
stupid. That's just, that's a dumb name. And
they should lose, always. Yeah. Anyway. It's
a fun list. Yeah. Once again, if we missed any
teams, you'd think there's something out there
with a more ridiculous or crappy name. By all
means, send it our way. We would love that very
much. And out of time for review, preview, I
review a movie, I preview a movie, and then I
take a drink. That's what I do. And I'll be taking
lots of drinks this weekend, for sure. The first
review. Is Happy Gilmore, too? I'm thrilled to
see Adam Sandler back on the screen after nearly
three decades. Well, I mean, Happy Gilmore more
than Adam Sandler. Yeah. You know, he's done
things. He's been around. He's been around, but...
Uncut Gems? Uncut Gems was legit. Yeah. For sure.
Just go with it. It was a pretty fun movie. It
felt nostalgic and happy, and I wish everyone
who grew up with Sandler's earlier work felt
the same way. While the movie wasn't as well
constructed, I still think it's worth watching,
especially for those who like to see Sandler
on the screen. Many of Sandler's regulars make
an appearance in the film, which is fun. And
I gave... Happy Gilmore to seven and a half out
of ten. It's solid. It is solid. It's pretty
solid. You know, Samler and I, actors get these
contracts through Apple or Netflix or whoever
to make a certain amount of movies and so I just
get a chunk. So it it's not always the most creative
way to do business because, like, I'll see a
Sandler movie, I'm like, oh, that kind of sucked,
or there's that one about Halloween. I'm like,
oh, that was terrible. You know, and you watch
these movies, and it's just, it's not the same.
You're like, all right, I haven't seen anything
like Billy Madison or Happy Gilmore or anything
like that. I just haven't seen it. Yeah, and
it's always nerve -wracking, too, getting sequels.
to to like these classics especially so late
it's like god i hope they didn't just bomb the
series oh yeah so it's it's good to hear they
didn't oh no doubt um so uh it was it was good
it was entertaining like if you're a fan of the
original happy gilmore you won't be disappointed
there's there's some there's some good moments
there uh my preview um nobody two So four years
after he inadvertently took on the Russian mob,
Hutch remains $30 million in debt to the criminal
organization and is working it off with an unending
string of hits on international thugs, much as
he likes the slam -bang action of his job. Hutch
and his wife Becca find themselves overworked
and drifting apart, so they decide to take their
kids on a short getaway. While Bill's Majestic
Midway and Water Park, the one and only place
where Hutch and his kid brother went on vacation
as kids, and as you can imagine, it doesn't stay
a vacation. I'm sure. Very long. Yeah. And Bob
Odenkirk is the main guy, and he's an SNL guy.
He was an SNL writer, and he's a funny guy, but
he did Better Call Saul, and now he's done this.
So the dude's got chops. He can get it done.
In this, he's able to use that dark humor, but...
He's now like an action guy, which is hilarious.
Right, that is true. So I like it. It's very
good. Well, I don't know if I like that. I saw
the original Nobody. Yeah. And I did like that
one very much. The trailers for this one look
promising. They look promising August 15th. Check
it out. Good. Before we take our final break,
we do this thing called While You Were Sleeping.
So Aidan reviews hours and hours of tape as...
anybody responsible for this segment would do,
looking at YouTube, looking at TV shows, looking
at movies and other YouTubers and so many other
things, to find out something that we may have
missed. So I'm very curious. What did we miss?
This time, took a break. Usually I'm big into
video games people may have slept on. But while
you're sleeping, this fun YouTube channel exists.
Yes. It's called Cold Ones. Cold Ones? Yes. Okay.
So... It's a YouTube channel, these two Australian
personalities, Chad and Max, and most of their
content revolves around drinking alcohol, which
is... Love that. Fantastic already. But the way
they do it, like, they'll do competitions, right?
They'll play, like, trivia games, and the person
who gets the point wrong has to, like, take a
swig of, like... Like nasty alcohols like they
did this one recently where they had like a mustard
flavored vodka. Oh, no There was some weird things
in there and Like they'll they'll test out like
teamu products that are way overpriced and just
huge They'll get these gigantic shipments on
these pallets and of course like teamu you have
to wait five months before anything ships so
They'll get their stuff five months later and
they're like, I have no idea what's in this box.
I already forgot what I ordered. Oh no. And they'll
crack it out and it's like, this build -it -yourself
mini golf course and they'll set it up and everything.
They got a go -kart from Teemu. What? It was
crazy. And of course, they're somewhat inebriated
during most of the filming, which just enhances
their hilarity. Yeah, their chemistry is fantastic,
and I would recommend giving them a shot. They're
very funny fellows. All right. We'll definitely
have to do that. The cold ones. Cold ones. Cold
ones. I like it. All right. Well, we're on to
our last break. So hang in there with us. We're
almost there. We got some fun things coming up.
We got a beer review coming up. And of course,
the world of weird news on the Mark Mo Show.
What's going on everybody? We are back and we're
in the home stretch We've got our beer review
and the world of weird news coming up for you
today's beer review It really it would be a disservice
Not to at least do a shandy. Oh at least once
before the summer expires and We have a fine
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people all about it? Yes, of course the official
Beer review, perhaps? I believe it's actually
the number one selling Shandy in the country
of the United States of America. Summer Shandy
from the Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company. Ah,
most people might just know it as the Leiny Summer
Shandy, but that's its full name if you're interested.
It's out of Wisconsin, U .S. of A. Of course,
it is a Shandy, so it's essentially a lager beer
with lemonade. Well, it's not the original Shandy.
I believe the original is lager with sparkling
lemonade. Yes. And then it, for some reason,
became lager with lemonade, and then now it's
lager with lemonade flavoring. Regardless, regardless,
we'll be the judge on this summer Shandy, the
nation's most popular one, rating it on a scale
from 0 to 5, using the Untapped app. Not sponsored,
but if you enjoy sampling different brewskis.
Yeah. It's a pretty fun way to track it all.
Indeed. So the official beer review, cilantro.
Cilantro. Tastes like summertime right there.
Sure does. I feel like I need a lemon in it.
Yeah. Like a lemon slice. Might give that extra
pizzazz. It does have some nice pizzazz. Not
to take away from its pizzazz levels. Yeah. It's
almost got the... It's almost got the back end
of like a wheat ale. Very much so. In a way.
Yeah. It is very hazy. in look. Very tasty. It's
not overly sweet. Nope. For those who are lemon
haters, it's not super lemony. Right. You know,
it's not like a lemon drop or anything like that.
But yeah, beer with lemon. A tale's old as time,
as they say. Indeed. Indeed it is. I quite like
it. I do too. It's hard to get more simple than
beer with lemon. I think I'm gonna go all the
way. It's pretty high. for a lager for me, but
it's technically a shandy. I'm going 4 .0 out
of five. Wow, that is high for you. Yeah, I quite
like it. It's, they call it a summer shandy for
a reason. I mean, this just, we say it, we say
it almost every week, but like coming in after
mowing the lawn, what are you looking for in
the fridge? Well, it's either a really nice tall
glass of cold water or it's a summer shandy.
Oh, for sure. This is quintessentially summer.
Oh, no doubt about it. Yeah, it's very, very
refreshing, and I enjoy it. I like that quite
a lot. Of course, as always, let us know on the
socials what you are enjoying today, if anything,
and let us know what you think of the Shandy
if you've tried it yourself. Yeah, I flavor profile,
I gave it a citrusy, a lemony, and a light -bodied.
Yeah, I gave it a lemony, light -bodied, gave
it some wheat. Some wheat, that's a good call.
Definitely a good call on the wheat. Very tasty.
Yeah, I enjoy it. I like it. Kind of reminds
me of just walking around, like, especially when
it's like past 9 p .m. Not that I stay up that
late these days with my boomer schedule, but,
like, back when I used to be up past 9, 10 p
.m., when the temperature breaks, you know, you
finally get a break from 90 degrees, it's like
75, walking around at night. Yeah. You know,
that's the vibe. Yeah, no doubt. I dig it. On
the untapped app, I've got the Brewery Pioneer
Level 7. No kidding. There's a beer in them thar
hills. You're setting off on a journey. I suppose
I should read this properly. You're an old prospector.
There's a beer in them thar hills. You're setting
off on a journey through the world of beer. But
be sure to take a little time to get to know
each brewery as you go. That's a beer from 35
different breweries. Try five more for level
eight. Okay. Oh, we're getting level eight. Oh,
yeah. We're gonna get level 80. Maybe tonight.
Yeah, exactly. Maybe tonight. We'll see how it
goes. In due time. No doubt. But, yeah. No, very
good, very clean. Aida 4 as well. Fantastic.
Yeah, we both had fours on that. It's not as
good as it gets, but one thing I wanted to do,
and I think I told this to Aidan in pre -production,
if you will, and I was like, man, I really, I
picked these up at the store and I thought about
it on my way here. I was like, oh, I should have
done a taste test because I find that when you
make your own shandies, they're even better i
would agree and you just pick up a lager that
you like like i would probably get uh i don't
know maybe like um oh what's the what's the one
that's really popular right now popular hams
old style pbr well pbr be good i was trying to
think of the um the one that just came to indiana
not too long ago oh from pennsylvania Ah, it's
not Garage Beer, is it? No, no, no, no, no, no,
much bigger. Oh, Ying Ling? Ying Ling. Yeah.
I think Ying Ling would be perfect for a shandy.
And you get Ying Ling, and you can get, there's
this drink called Ice. Oh, yeah. And Ice has
a lemonade, but it's a sparkling lemonade. That's
the way to go, too. So that's what you do. You
get a glass, and you do about 50 -50. You do
50 of the sparkling lemonade, 50 of the lager,
and it's... It's very, very good. Yes. That sounds
fantastic. Yeah, that's the way to do it. But
we wanted to do the taste test, and I flubbed
it. Or nor. Oh no. But I thought this was good
on its own. So we were good. Perhaps an idea
for a future official beer review. I think so.
Which lemonade goes best with which lager? Ooh.
Now, that's an idea. That could actually be a
YouTube video if they would allow it. I think
that's a really good idea. I think we got all
the lagers. And lemons? That's a good time. That's
good. That's some... So, Stoner Stanley's old
college bud. Yeah, exactly. Drunk Drew. Drunk
Drew and Stoner Stanley. Yeah, they're a pair.
That is for sure. We're now onto a final segment,
the world of weird news. And I tell you, you
know, you could pretty much stick to the state
of Florida and find enough weird news. Oh, yeah.
But I tell you, Oceania has been really... It's
a good spot to be. Stepping it up. Oh, yeah.
It's really been stepping it up. And not just
because they have really crazy people, but because
their writers... the best to the pinnacle at
writing these types of stories just fantastic
I think because they understand the absurdity
oh no no we're leaning in oh for sure well this
was a very interesting story I had and the title
of this one is stress adults rely on pacifiers
to soothe themselves I feel a sense of safety
from childhood Okay, no, go ahead. I'll save
mine. When the going gets tough, the tough pop
in a pacifier. Do we? Do we now? That's the surprising,
stress -busting move thousands of young adults
in China are making. Swapping melatonin and meditation
for an adult -sized binky. But of course. But
of course. Once... A niche quirk, the silicone
soothers are supposedly how big business on Chinese
e -commerce giants like Taobao and JD .com, where
they are priced anywhere from a budget -friendly
10 yuan, which is a $1 .40, to a luxury 500 yuan,
which is 70 bucks. A $70 adult pacifier is crazy.
They're sold as sleep aids, stress relievers,
even smoking... cessation tools and shoppers
are gobbling them up. That's a good one. Well
done. Some online sellers move thousands each
month, according to South China Morning Post,
and the fans aren't shy about it. Why? When I'm
under pressure work, I feel a sense of safety
from childhood, one Chinese buyer said. But not
everyone's clapping for the comeback kid of the
baby aisle. Oh, really? Dr. Tang Kou Min, a dentist
in Sichuan, warned SCMP that if you sleep with
a past fire in your mouth, it can interfere with
breathing, and in worst case, there is a risk
of suffocation. That checks out. I see that as
a solution. The doctor also cautioned that prolonged
use can mess with your bite, strain your jaw,
and even disrupt sleep. The trend isn't staying
swaddled in China either. Oh no. TikTok is sucking
it up. Literally. With videos of American adults
pacifying themselves in traffic, at work, or
in the throes of burnout. In the comment section
of a TikTok by AtTheBentist, one user swore,
I just use an adult pacifier. It hasn't moved
my teeth. Been using them for four years. Another
double down. Just get an adult pacifier. I use
one and the ADHD tip, it works. Oh, wow. For
me. Others admit, we got to do what we got to
do to keep focused. Overbite. or not getting
stuffed. We need to get done. LOL. One confessed.
I'm so ashamed. I've been addicted for 23 years.
My entire life. Bro, how'd you make it through
high school? Mm -mm. Oh, no. No, that dude's
getting his ass whooped. Some naysayers chimed
in with alternatives. If you want something in
your mouth, chew gum. If you want to suck on
something like a pacifier, have a sucker. Meanwhile,
beneath a related and recent clip about the trend
from, of course, at the age Australia, commenters
offered everything from mock psychoanalysis,
quote, R .I .P. Sigmund Freud, you would have
loved whatever this is, unquote, to personal
testimony. I've been using an adult pacifier
for four years now, and I have no dental problems.
Well, good for you. One summed it up bluntly.
It was cheaper than a mouth guard, and it didn't
make me want to claw my teeth out trying to sleep.
Wow. And it's not the only sign that young adults
are craving a softer landing in the real world.
As previously reported by the Post, some members
of Gen Z are flocking to adulting 101 crash courses,
desperate to learn how to change a tire without
FaceTiming their dads, how to read an electric
bill without crying, And how to fold a fitted
sheet without having an existential crisis. To
be honest, I still don't know the fitted sheet
thing. I don't know how to do it. I don't fold
it. I just chuck it in a ball. Chuck it in a
ball. If it's not on my bed, it's in a ball.
Yeah, maybe the appropriate way to do it. Yep.
Overall, it looks like growing up may be hard,
but for some, giving it... The pacifier treatment
is a lot easier to swallow. Wow. That deserves
a round of applause. Well written. Well written.
That was beautiful. Unbelievable. Yep. That is
a trend I have not heard of. I know. Before.
That's wild. Indeed. That is wild. Yeah. You
know, if it helps you, bless your soul. Right.
Keep up that great work. A little something that
may also help you. It's a fun little story I
found. straight out of, I believe, Brevard County
in Florida. In Florida, there we go. Of course.
Love it. There's just something so good about
it. It's the Australia of the U .S. It is something.
Florida Man threatens to... Florida Man! Florida
Man threatens to destroy everyone with an army
of turtles, police say. Turtles! The man was
accused of screaming obscenities and misusing
911. So of course out of Brevard County, a man
yelling obscenities, calling himself a saint,
and threatening to send his turtle army to destroy
everyone has been arrested. Oh no. Surprise,
surprise. Officers responded to at least seven
calls about disturbances at Starbucks coffee.
No. Surfa Nista Cafe and Sassy Granny's Smoothies
all along the same avenue. What the hell? This
dude was traveling. What is going on? So Thomas
Devaney Lane, 61 year old dude, went with an
officer, went with, after they got the... The
disturbance calls went with an officer to the
police department. So they didn't arrest him
at this point. He went with the officer to the
police department where he started yelling at
the dispatcher in the lobby and pounding on the
walls and glass of the police station. What?
They let him walk. No. He left the department
but was later picked up at a 7 -Eleven on Fifth
Avenue. An officer stood by Lane called 911 and
told the operator I need you to leave now or
you will all be sorry You're fucking with the
saint No What So they got him at the 7 -eleven
the police are there he's on the phone with 9
-1 -1 as it's all happening Apparently they tried
to get him out of his car. They say he refused
to leave his car. So someone forcibly removed
him and placed him under arrest for the aforementioned
crimes. Holy shit. Why are you bringing up your
turtle army at Sassy Grandma's Smoothies? Shouldn't
do that. What is she? She's a sassy granny. She's
gonna get your ass, bro. Yep. Yep, you're gonna
get got. I'm the saint. My turtle army will get
you. Turtles. Turtles. I love turtles. I love
turtles. Gotta save the turts. Save the turtles
for sure That's hilarious how absurd what I mean?
I don't want to accuse him of anything, but to
be that crazy you've got to be on something right
I I would think so I'm just I'm assuming I don't
mean to assume Right, but I am assuming you're
assuming Yep, as you should our boy. How are
you in your mid -60s early 60s, and you're still
this? Audacious Right. Yeah in the Starbucks
like fuck it with the saint. I will send my turtle
army after you That's that's something special
right now. What a man, you know, yeah That is
that is that is definitely something special
Legendary yeah, whatever it's if you need a turtle
army if you need a passfire whatever it is that
you need It's gonna make you a better human.
Just do it That's crazy. Oh my god. Oh my god.
And if you're not in need necessarily, you can
always just stick around and catch more Mark
Mosho where we will talk about what happens to
those in need of a turtle army. Yeah, we will
do that. I mean, this is some serious reporting
that we're doing. We do the journalistic investigation.
Absolutely. And, you know, that's how we come
up with with grown ass adults sucking on plastic
nipples. And we are daring. We are thorough.
Yes, we most definitely are. And, you know, and
Donatello and Michelangelo and all the rest of
the turtle army just like... Ready to go at it,
you know? If I had a turtle army, I would take
over the world. In the Starbucks, you have to
start somewhere, right? You have to start somewhere.
And why not start with a latte? Yeah, exactly.
That's the way I look at it. Turtles gotta wake
up from that pizza hangover, right? You have
to, man. That pizza party, you are definitely
gonna be hungover. Those carbs and just hanging
out in the sewer, that's not good. No bueno.
Smell like turtle feces. Watch that be in other
food. That's right. Stay tuned. Coming next week.
At any rate, I think that's about it, man. We
are ready to wrap. Absolutely. I hope you guys
have had a fantastic time. I want to thank all
the support that this guy gives me, Aidan Maloney,
and I'm going to let him plug his content here.
Definitely. Aidan spelled the right way. I've
got my gaming YouTube channel there, Horror Games,
Bridge Building Games. observation, spooky games.
It's all fun stuff, and I hope you guys enjoy
it. And of course, AK219 is back with the Mo
Show crew, played some video games as well. Massive
backlog of podcasts, and they may or may not
come back. It's just a collab channel for now,
but... It is fantastic if any lovely listeners
want to check it out. Yeah, we've had a lot of
fun doing it. It's been some good content, and
I think just the whole idea that it was kind
of sitting there. I don't want to say it was
defunct, but it was definitely paused. I think
that's fair. And then just to be able to kind
of go, hey, why don't we do this kind of collab
thing. where we're kind of bringing the zaniness
and humor of the Mark Mo Show and the gaming
of Aidan Spell the Right Way and just do this
kind of its own thing. And I think it's been
pretty successful. I agree. I just hope you guys
are enjoying it because we're having a great
time doing it. I crack up editing it all the
time. Do you? That's awesome. Yeah, we definitely
have some good bits. So, yeah, we appreciate
each and every one of you listening each and
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Come up with your comments, if you have questions,
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out on Saturdays. Absolutely. That's one of the
uploads. At any rate, thank you all so much for
listening. And we're going to catch you next
week. Bye!