Hi there everybody and welcome to the Mark Mo
Show podcast. This is season three and it is
episode five, Police State. You can find us on
all podcast platforms and YouTube. I am your
host, Mark Maloney. How are ya? Yeah, that's
great. Good. Nice to hear. I'd like to introduce
my co -host and producer, Aidan Maloney. Aidan,
how you doing, man? Doing pretty fantastic. Very
chill, very exciting stuff going on in the content
sphere as a whole, which I am excited about.
But yeah, just good to be here. Oh, that's awesome,
man. Yeah, same here. My work life has changed
drastically. I'm doing... the job of two people
now, but for a little bit of peace, it's been
kind of bueno, been kind of worth it, you know?
I can't complain. It's just been busy, so I get
kind of tired. But at any rate, yeah, that's
been fine, and personal life good. I mean, it's
just, yeah, it's good. It's not bad, it does
not suck. Bueno is the correct word. Bueno is
the correct word. By the way, Aidan also has
his own YouTube gaming channel. It's called Aidan
Spelled the Right Way. He has new PC gaming content
like GeoGuessr, PolyBridge, Observation Duty,
and much, much more, each and every week. So,
Aidan, I know off the podcast here, I know there's
a phrase that we use, especially in radio, which
is where we came from, and it's, we say, off
air. Right. It's a little bit different in the
podcasting world, so it's technically off -air,
it's off -cast. I guess. I mean, off -air is
still like the way to say it, I guess, because
it's what people understand, you know? Yeah.
Because I guess the only people that aren't really
aware of off -air and where it came from would
be like Gen A. Right. Gen Alpha. But I don't
think Gen Alpha is really listening to the Mark
Mo show. I think they're still coughing on their
iPads playing Fortnite or whatever. Oh, probably,
yeah. Yes, you know my mom she gave me an extra
an extra 15 minutes tonight because I did all
my homework Yeah, average skippity toilet fans.
Okay That is accurate all right, so We were talking
off air about Some recent content that he's produced
and so what do people have to look forward to?
Yeah, well today As of this podcast coming out,
I had a very fun video come out on my channel,
even spelled the right way. I played this indie
horror game called Dread Flats. And it's not
what I'll be talking about in the while you were
sleeping segment, but I'll just briefly mention
it here. It's essentially you're a paranormal
investigator and a fan offers you a large chunk
of money to go to this haunted building for three
nights. Okay. And it's terrifying. Because there's
this, I don't want to spoil too much, but let's
just say there's this shape -shifting demon that
really just makes your life hell. And making
it out of the first night. Is it possible? I
guess you have to watch to find out. Ah, damn.
I like it. Yeah. But one of the longest plays...
Gameplays I've had on my channel in a while.
I think it was like an hour 40 or something like
that Usually my videos are 30 to 60 minutes,
but I just played the game in its entirety and
I thought it was super fun I got the shit scared
out of me like a good handful of times like flying
backwards in my chair Oh shit type jump scares.
That's good. It's very good. Lots of fun And
lots more content where that came from as well.
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definitely. Now, this week, as I said, this one's
called Police State. And when we title these,
by the way, and I'm sure most of you know, it's
season three. If you've been listening throughout,
you know how we do. But it's just our opening
dialogue right and so that's that's basically
what we we title each and every episodes is basically
how we open the show and then of course we have
all of our segments and news and Lists and everything
else we do after that, but in terms of this week.
This is police state and I Grew up in the decade
of the 80s, so it makes me a sarcastic and jaded
member of the Gen X class I'd have dinner every
night with my parents, which I know is like an
old school thing, but we did it and we would
have the nightly news on in the background. Remember
that news? Well, I know most of you over 40 probably
remember. Those of you younger, Gen Z, Gen, Gen
A, Gen to be named later, will never have kind
of that concept of what that is. But they would
literally just come on the TV and just report
actual news. You know, president hair, mayor
there, this vote failed, bad accent on the Dan
Ryan expressway, now here's your weather and
your sports. That's it. Ain't no politically
motivated this or that or just none of that crap.
None of it. And so it was just news. And that
would spark. Kitchen table conversation that
was the whole idea of it and in theory, that's
great however when the national nightly news
came on you'd see images and stories from war
-torn Chechnya and Afghanistan and Israel and
Palestine and Lebanon and armed guards walk in
the streets and markets and airports and I would
think that looks just awful and that could never
happen here right and those are the conversations
that took place at the kitchen table it just
It just seemed like, oh, this is a problem other
places have in the world. We really don't have
those problems here. Well, holy shit. 30 plus
years later, we're there. ICE is roaming streets,
nabbing people without due process, and now the
DEA and FBI and cops are roaming the streets
of Washington, D .C. like a gang. Right. And
why? I'm still not sure. Maybe they're bored
and they have nothing else to do. I kind of think
there's probably other bigger, badder dudes they
need to pay attention to. You know, forget that
there was just recently a domestic terror attack
on the CDC by some militant mouth breather. Let's
protect the streets from loud protesters and
the homeless. That just seems fucking crazy.
Right. It's absolutely insane. I don't. I don't
get it. And, you know, for you, you don't have
the concept that I have, you know, growing up
and seeing what I saw and then that now being
the reality. But for you, the younger generation,
it's just the reality. Right. Yeah. So it's different
views, for sure. Right. And you mentioned being
an 80s kid growing up, you know, jaded. And that's
a remarkably relatable statement. Because ever
since I like grew up as a wee lad and you know,
I don't know became conscious at the age of nine
or whatever The entire news cycle forever has
been terrible. Yeah, you know the first real
piece of big news that I remember as a kid was
the Huge recession in the late 2000s. Yeah and
then From there, we had, of course, endless wars
in the Middle East, which we still have, obviously.
And then you've got the corporate America destroying
the remainder of the middle class, which essentially
started in the 70s and has just gotten terrible
since then. Now there's no middle class. You've
got your working class, you've got your ruling
class, and there's never been... Good news like
you have to go out of your way to search for
good news Yeah, you know like local fire department
rescues third kitten from tree. It's like wow
very cool But that you have to search for that
you do if you just search news You will find
the most heinous things happening around you
all the time. Yes, and it's Difficult because
you float somewhere in between being desensitized
to it all versus being so disgusted that desensitized
is a fair alternative. Correct. So the fact that
ICE are roaming the streets abducting people,
disappearing them, the fact that American concentration
camps are very real, the fact that a pedophilic
dictator in the Epstein files just controls whether
or not we see them, whether or not they've been
redacted. Right. It's just all too much. Yeah.
It's all too much. And like you were saying with
that aspect of, oh, it'll never happen here.
Well, it is happening here, but it's not happening
to all of us. It's happening in DC and LA and
Chicago, New York. It's happening in big cities.
So for those of us who live in the suburbs or
the suburbs of suburbs, or especially those that
are more rural, It's it's very easy to just be
like wow that kind of blows. Oh well because
of the aforementioned Being desensitized, but
the same way. Oh, it'll never happen here Worked
in your day. It still works now as in it'll never
happen here right a smaller town of course it
can yeah You know it it's almost inevitable.
You know 40 some odd billion dollars and in budget
hikes for ice Right. It's going somewhere. Oh,
yeah. So it's all just terrifying. And you can
attest to this because you're a history major,
big history buff, that this is all within the
Nazi Germany playbook. Yes. You take the power
away from judges. Your three branches of government
meant specifically for checks and balances don't
exist. Nope. It's essentially just a dictatorship
with the appeal or appearance of a democratic
republic. Correct. Like, what can you do? What
can you do? I mean, people organize and then
they get surrounded by ICE, tear gassed, disappeared.
That's not working. Nope. And every time there's
a discussion of it, because I follow a lot of
progressive leftist subreddits that are very
woke to everything going on and How terrible
it is? It's like Throughout history the only
way to combat fascism is with violence. Mm -hmm
That's it. That's it. So yeah at what point are
we gonna cross that path? You know at what point
is an actual 2a fan not just you know, white
supremacist with firearms. I'm talking someone
that actually knows 2A is supposed to be used
against a tyrannical government. Right. At what
point are they going to act on their constitutional
rights and shoot an ICE officer that comes onto
the property illegally? Correct. And then what?
And then what's the response? Martial law? Because
you'd be within your rights to do so. Sure. Oh
yeah. I ain't seen no warrant. Nope. I saw an
armed man on my property. Yep. That's right.
It's literally a matter of time. So I don't know.
It's depressing, it's overwhelming and a police
state is almost an understatement because it's
this weird corporately owned oligarchy dictatorship
of a police state. Right. And it's just terrifying.
It is. And you had said something too. that John
F. Kennedy said on the first anniversary of the
Alliance for Progress. That was in 1962. And
the quote kind of goes something like this. Those
who make peaceful revolution impossible will
make violent revolution inevitable. Yeah. And
I mean, that was what? 1962. And he knew. Yep.
And he knew then. Hell, they knew before then.
Right. And it's a serious situation. Now, the
upside, which is something I think the fascist
right doesn't realize, is that there are more
guns in circulation in this country than people.
Right. Not all the people have the guns. About
a third of those people. So, there are people
that have small arsenals. Right. That's basically
what I'm saying. That's what I don't think a
tyrannical government counts on. They're counting
on everybody falling into line and people like
the assholes from January 6th are like, they're
always going to be there. Well, are they? Right.
You know, you promise this, that, and the other.
Well, you're not delivering to them either. Right.
Right. Because there's, I would say, a majority
of Trump voters. are exactly the stereotype.
Yeah. Racist, misogynistic, and just genuinely
bad people. Yeah. And there's a fraction of Trump
voters who are brainwashed, misinformed, lied
to. Definitely brainwashed. The group of people
that thought, oh if we get Trump back in there.
They'll he'll finally drain the swamp. We'll
finally get the Epstein files You know this this
elite ring of pedophiles is finally gonna collapse
and you've completely destroyed what that Fraction
of your voters. Yeah thought what happened. Yep,
which is why you constantly see his approval
rating drop because Not not a majority but a
nice minority of those righty voters that voted
for Trump are realizing, wow, this dude's kind
of a piece of shit. Yep. And that's the amazing
thing, Aidan. Once again, just kind of going
back to my formative years in the decade of the
80s. I remember Donald Trump, okay? He was a
sleazebag developer business piece of shit. And
no one liked him then. Right. And his father...
was a racist piece of shit. Right. And so was
his grandfather. That apple didn't fall far from
the tree. And so it blows my mind as time went
by that we got to the mid 2010s and people are
like, yeah, he's probably the best option. What?
Yeah. In what universe? I mean, I'll be honest.
I was not a fan of the Clintons. Now, Bill did
some good things, got to sell weapons off the
street, got a lot of shit done like that. But
overall, he was kind of an asshole. I was not
a huge fan. Definitely was not a huge fan of
his carpet -bagger wife. But that being said,
when it came to her and Trump, it was still a
no -brainer. It was like, okay, she's not gonna
be great, but she's not gonna be a fricking criminal
wackadoo. like that almost anybody can see. But
you mentioned brainwashing, MKUltra, all that
bullshit that the CIA's been doing to so many
other countries. Once again, oh, that can never
happen to us. It is happening to us. It's happening
through commercials, through radio, through the
internet, through mainstream news. And they just
sit there, especially with the older generation
who is in their mid sixties. They're in their
seventies and they're sitting at home. They've
worked their whole life. And now they just get
to sit there and watch the news and game shows
all day and sit there and eat their TV dinners.
But Fox News, Fox News, Fox News, Fox News in
their brain all day long. And that's how it happens.
Right. That's exactly how it happens. And now
we're at this point where no matter what you
tell them, they'll just look at you like, oh,
you're just one of those, no, what are you talking
about? And you are the guys that started using
the snowflake thing. Yet if you want to look
and do a little side by side comparison, there's
nobody that whines and cries more than Trump
as an administration, his followers, right? Yeah.
It's ridiculous, ain't talk about snowflakes.
Right. Holy shit. And so now we're here. He's
got the police roaming the street. He's got ICE
roaming the street. And the thing is, is I saw
a stat. It was either 15 % or 17 % of people
that they've nabbed so far that have actually
had a criminal record. Holy shit. That's like
still 80 some odd people, 80 % who don't. Right.
and you're nabbing them off the street, you're
pulling them out of Home Depot in LA, what are
you doing? And now these businesses are sitting
there, and you're a manager at Home Depot and
they just pull three of your workers off the
floor, and you're just sitting there like, asshole,
how am I supposed to run my business today? Are
you gonna come here and work for me? No, because
you don't want these jobs you get to sit there
in your blue jeans with this pretend vest on
right that has some Sort of acronym across your
chest. Oh, you're so big and bad. You got to
wear a mask now when it was kovat Ah, you woke
people wearing your mask. Well now they all wear
masks, right? Because they don't want to be identified
Yeah, and why is that because they know what
they're doing is bullshit and they don't want
their picture out there be like oh this Bob Smith
of Annapolis, Maryland. Yeah, he's this ice guy
because people are going to call your ass out.
Right. Right. That's what we do. And Ben, I'm
telling you, we've got the weapons. We've got
the people. OK, we've got the numbers. If we
choose to go that route is all I'm saying. Right.
The numbers are on our side. Now, does that mean
Trump's not gonna use drones and tanks? He could
very well. He's off his rocker. And it wouldn't
be the first time the United States attacked
their own citizens. Right. Oh, yeah. I mean,
there are historical events of coal miners going
on strike, and the United States government,
along with the corporate owners of these mines,
just bomb American citizens. Yes. It wouldn't
be the first time. Wouldn't be the first time.
Hey, Market Rights in Chicago. You know, just
all of the people back then just fighting to
have labor unions, to have rights. You know,
read Upton Sinclair's The Jungle about the meatpacking
industry and just the horrors, the horrific shit
that went on. And the funny thing is like a lot
of that horrific shit still goes on today. Mind
you, that's our billion -dollar corporations
doing that to Vietnam and Cambodia and Indonesia
and places like that. But it's still done here.
Right. And there's an all -out assault on unions
right now. And here's the funny part. The unions
vote more for Trump than they did his opponent.
And to me... that made zero sense. Trump has
been a union buster since the 80s and it blows
my mind when these union guys are like, oh, you're
Trump. I'm like, all right, you're clearly not
voting for him because he's a big supporter of
union rights because he's not. He hates the unions.
I'm like, you're doing it because you're white.
Yeah. Because you're white and somehow in some
world made you afraid of people that aren't.
Yeah. They're coming for your jobs. No, they're
not. They're freaking out in the fields in California.
They're helping get the produce to your freaking
grocery store, you ass. For pennies on the dollar
of an actual wage. Right. Exactly. And they're
sending money home to their family. They're not
sitting here as like, oh, they're all coming
across and they're criminals and distributing
drugs. Yeah, thanks, felon. We know. Right. Bullshit.
Yeah, what's that one kid on that meme a bushy?
Yeah, it's total bullshit and You know for all
of you out there that are still like all gaga
for him. You're either a racist Maybe you're
brainwashed. Maybe you're a little bit off your
rocker. I don't know right. I can't speak for
you. I don't know But you look in the mirror
man because this is some crazy shit. Yeah And
I'm not advocating for another January 6th. I'm
not advocating that the people do that. But I
am saying this, and I've said this to people
that have local power. I can say that. Aside
from locality, they're not big players by any
stretch. I said this to many people. I said,
you can go out there on street corners and you
can protest and people honk and say, we support
it and this and that. You can do that. You can
do that every weekend if you want. I said, but
here's what I say to everybody. What's next?
Right. Because you can sit here and do this all
day. It's your constitutional right until the
Nazi police force comes and tells you you can't.
But you have that right as far as right now.
You have that right to do that. until Trump suspends
the Constitution, which I know he's gonna try
and do, you have that right. But, okay, great,
that's step one. What's the next step? What's
the step after that? How are we gonna do this?
You got guys like Gavin Newsom in Pritzker in
Illinois that are like, well, if you guys think
you're gonna redraw districts to add a couple
of seats, I can do that in California and add
about 30. Illinois can do it now at about 15
So if you want to play that game like literally
they have to play by their rules They have to
play that game right you can't sit there anymore
Like Michelle Obama didn't say when they go low
we go high no fuck that Fuck that that is a terrible
strategy right if they go low. I want them to
be like where did they go? Oh, they're under
my feet Go low. Yeah, go low and take them the
fuck out because you have to do it. You can't
play nice guy anymore You just can't do it. Well,
we're gonna play by the rules where they're changing
the rules all the damn time, right? Well, why
do you have to follow these rules? Yeah and Gavin
Newsom not only his is is he saying hey, I'm
gonna do this So whatever gains you have they're
gonna be completely gone but literally on his
socials. He's writing his socials like Trump
writes his in all caps and like, I'm dying. I'm
reading them and dying them. And of course, Fox
News is like, oh, can you believe it? I'm like,
he's just doing what your president is doing
and you're all gaga over that, but he does it
and what, now you're not? Right. Come on. Yeah.
But it's a problem. We got a problem. Houston
we have a problem, and I'm not sure what the
solution is per se they're in the streets of
Washington that could eventually become Chicago
and New York and That doesn't end there. I mean
we're here in a small Midwestern town, but now
we're from Chicago and 38 ,000 people at what
point do Like Valpo or Porter County Sheriff's
just start walking down streets, right? And then
what like why are you here? What what are you
doing, right? Because a majority of red state
National guards and police departments and sheriff's
departments have already said. Oh, yeah, we'll
cooperate with ICE Mm -hmm. Okay, so Protecting
and serving is apparently not your priority which
hey, um Most people already fucking knew yep,
but now you're just admitting it outright Which
hey, it makes our life easier saying fuck the
police because hey What you are doing is Proving
the point that so many people have been saying
for decades Yeah for decades. You've never been
protecting and serving The citizens of the country.
No, you've been protecting and serving capital.
Yep, and capitalists Correct, and that's it.
Mm -hmm. And now you're working with a Nazi police
force. Yes. So it is just a matter of time and
that's it's just disturbing. Yeah, it really
is. And once again, I'm not advocating you take
to the streets with bats or weapons or anything
else, but Be prepared. Yeah is all I'm saying
It's funny like five years ago ten years ago
There'd be all these youtubers and they're probably
still out there these preppers right and they're
they're coming up with these little underground
homes and all these Non -perishable items and
water and all this other shit and you like how
crazy and now I'm like home homie. Yeah, homie
Probably has an idea here. Blood might be cooking
with this one. He might be cooking He might that
might be the right thing to do just to go to
some small town with like 500 people and And
just dig right and just dig and just make your
own little utopia under the ground Man, it's
crazy billionaires are doing it. Yeah Yes, they
are. Yep. Didn't Zuck just buy an island. Yeah
a getaway island. Yep to escape from the inevitable
Yes, he did. Interesting. Yeah, I mean, that's
he's gonna build his mansion, and he'll probably
just have some security force working there for
him. Right. Private military. Yeah. Like all
the dudes James Bond used to fight. Right. Yeah.
Right. Ah, it's crazy. But, I don't know, you
know, by all means we always encourage engagement,
no matter what side of this you fall on, although
why you would fall on the other side is beyond
me. at this point, I don't get it. There's America
and what it should represent, and then what is
now. That is literally the two sides, and to
me, there really isn't a choice. No. There isn't.
You want to get back to the values of what this
is. Back in the 80s, I did some work for the
19th World Democratic Organization. I was 11
years old, I was going door to door, doing straw
poles. So they were probably grooming me, not
in the sense of like Drake, that's right, Drake.
Not in the sense of like that, but they're grooming
me in that, oh, last name Maloney and he's a
young kid and he's interested, so let's get this
dude into politics. Roll out the carpet for him
and see what he can do. And I loved it. I loved
it because it was just about helping people.
It was about... representing unions, workers.
It was about making sure that the homeless found
a home and that people didn't go hungry and like
all that important shit, right? The stuff that
they should just do as part of their job. Right.
I used to love that. And one thing that was always
amazing is that whether someone was a Republican
or a Democrat, no one gave a shit. Like you didn't
sit there and be like, oh my next -door neighbor's
Ralph and he's a Democrat and F that guy that
Never happened in the eight. It didn't it did
not happen You did not like or dislike someone
because they were sitting there and be like,
oh, I love Reagan You just be like, oh, well
good for you. Yeah, you just went on your day.
It was like whatever Yeah, there's what I'm what
good is it going to be in this world for me to
get all cranky about who someone supports You
just you do you? You do you. Right. Ultimately,
you go to the ballot box and cast one vote. You
do you, man. And that's what it used to be. And
no one gave, like, a huge shit about it. And
when there was a presidential election, be like,
yeah, yeah, that dude won. OK, yeah, you want
to watch the game tomorrow night? Yep. Done.
It was done. Literally, there was no water cooler
talk. If there was, it was just the next day.
And then it was done. Yeah. Like it just didn't
exist. And I think social media has a lot to
do with where we're at today as well as mainstream
media and other shit. This is awful. It's just
awful. It almost makes me wish like I could go
to one of those remote islands Like off of India
like really like a tribe there that no tribe.
Yes, but gross, please Let me join please. Can
I just like whatever what I just what I wear
that little sack over my junk and then what I
throw a spear Yeah, sounds very freeing. That
sounds great. All right escape from capitalism
count me in count me in count me in Obviously
guys been doing this a thousand years you find
a way to eat and live. Okay. Yeah, let's do this
thing I get it. I totally get it. But I don't
know. You know, it's like we don't want to bring
we don't like to bring people down per se in
our show. And we had always said we don't want
to become a political podcast, although some
of our openers, we do tackle that. Right. But
it's I think it's just important enough to have
the conversation because when you see what's
going on, I just think it's bullshit. Right.
And if you've got a platform, how Because of
course we talked before season one started on
our move from radio to podcast About not being
a political show, but how do you not talk about
the craziest shit going on? Right. How can you
avoid talking about that? They're giving us content
right? The only thing on most people's minds
at least most people who are woke to the crazy
shit going on, right? You see these crazy stories
all the time, and it's like, how do we not chat
about this? It's insane. Yeah, you have to. I
don't mind having the conversation. I don't mind
having the conversation with you. It's two different
generations and perspectives, but one thing that
we know that even though he represents Gen Z
and Millennials, and I'm more like the Gen X,
even though we may have different views on certain
things, or maybe different views on how we get
from A to B, ultimately we agree on the same
thing, that what exists now can't stay, cannot
remain. It just can't. And if that means, like
Gavin Newsom ends up being the candidate, I don't
want to hear young Americans, Gen Alpha or Gen
Z or Generation N, whatever fricking... letter
you put after generation. I don't want them being
like, he's not liberal enough for me. Motherfucker,
I'm going to tell you this. If you don't get
your ass into that voting booth and vote for
him or Kamala or Pritzker or any, it does not
matter. All right? You need to vote for blue.
No matter how centrist or left or whatever, because
the other option is horrific. Right. All right.
Vote for blue. Get blue in there. All right.
AOC is not going to sit there and quit. She's
like, oh, I'm not going to be going to leave
this blue party because it's too centrist. She's
going to fight for her shit. And there are other
people like AOC, like possibly the next mayor
in New York. Awesome. Great. But vote blue. If
you don't vote and you're sitting there and you're
getting all mad about ICE now, fuck you. You
don't have a right to do that. You don't, because
you said, nah, I'm too lazy enough and I'm just
disengaged and whatever, so I'm not gonna vote.
Well, if you don't vote, then you don't have
a say. That's my personal opinion. Right. And
if you sit there, look, I'm not saying you have
to vote. You can protest, you can be like, nope,
I'm not doing it, I don't believe in this shit.
Fine. But don't sit there a week later, or a
month later, or a year later, be like, oh my
god, blah, blah, blah, and ICE, and Washington
DC, and all that. Nope, you don't have a right
to say that. You forfeited that right. When you
said, ah, if Trump gets in there, whatever, you
own that now. You own it. If you voted for him,
you own it. If you stayed home and didn't vote,
you own it. What is going on is on you. Plain
and simple right and to anybody that didn't vote
or to anybody voted for Trump I literally to
their face would say all of this shit going on
it is on you Right at each and every one of you
and and it's it's it's you can call it tough
love You can call it whatever you want. I just
call the truth. Yeah, that's that's the way it
is and I'm just saying get your ass out there
and vote Stop fucking around. Right. If the midterms
actually still exist next year. If it's not rigged.
You don't know. I don't know. There's already
evidence 2024 was. Oh, 100%. 100%. There are
guys in the CIA, Federal Election Commission,
a lot of other places that are like, no, the
night the election happened, and I know Aidan,
who is sitting right here to my left, will confirm
this because we talked about it, I literally
said, The numbers don't match up. As the national
total came in, I'm like, these numbers don't
match up. Trump had less votes than he did four
years prior. Okay? Less. And managed to win.
Yet earlier in the day, oh, we have amazing turnout.
This could be the best turnout ever. Okay. Then
where did all these votes go? Right. And every
time the pedophilic dementia patient sorry, president,
slips up and says, oh yeah, Elon Musk helped.
He knows how those election machines work. Oh
really? And then you've got, what's his name,
Peter Thiel, or whoever owns Planeteer, who does
like back end for all these machines. Yes, he
does. It's insane. It's something we've been
saying for years, that every accusation is a
confession with these people. Yes. So when 2020
happened, and there was all its election interference,
it was stolen from me. Well, 2024 rolled around
and that's exactly what you did. Yeah. You interfered
with the election and you stole it. Yep. So,
yeah, if 2026 elections even happen, or if they're
all redistrict and whatever weird mid -decade
census they're trying to plot, I don't know.
I don't know. No, and that's the thing Aidan,
literally the House and the Senate have to flip.
They both have to flip in 26. If they do, I swear
to God, the very first thing in session, articles
of impeachment, immediately. Like without hesitation,
should be the first thing that they do, because
they're gonna pass it in the House and they're
gonna pass it in the Senate, and he's done. He's
done, he's out the door. They are not gonna fuck
around. They shouldn't anyway. That should be
the first thing to do. Now, for some people,
they're like, okay, that's just as scary because
you're gonna take his little minion and make
him the president. Maybe so, but you just got
done impeaching him. He's gonna be powerless
for two years. He's gonna be powerless. There's
really... They'll put him in check for two years.
Yeah, and and hopefully hopefully set it up for
Gavin or Pritzker or whoever the hell is gonna
run they're gonna set it up for them to get the
big dub and Then you fix all the shit right and
you are gonna have to spend your first hundred
days Undoing all the shit. He's done, right?
There's a lot of work It's a lot of work. And
then going through all of the different law enforcement,
right? So your FBI and your local police and
state police and DEA and Homeland and weed out
all the bad actors. And that's gonna take years.
Yeah. And the National Guard also. It's your
lawful duty to report if you're being sent to
break the law. And the National Guard's not doing
that. So it's gonna have to be a huge overhaul.
Massive. Massive. Because if that's how quickly
every government agency can be compromised, well
they were cooked before we even knew it. 100%.
Yep. So there's a lot to do. There's a lot to
do, and I'm sure we'll have a lot more shows
where we talk about this kind of stuff. And like
I said, this is a fun show. And we like to have
fun, and we like to laugh, and we like to do
all kinds of crazy shit. But we do like to open
the show sometimes and just talk about real shit.
And this is real. It's bothering us here in this
red state of Indiana, although we live in a very
purple part of the red state of Indiana and there's
just enough people here of goodwill, I want to
say. And I know there's other people of goodwill
across this country that live in Florida, that
live in Texas. I read a story the other night,
there was a special election for a Florida house
seat in a district that Trump won and the Democrat
won by more than 20 points or some shit like
that. So that bodes well. I think maybe in South
Carolina something similar happened. So you see
little things like that and it gives you a little
bit of hope like, okay, people are done. People
are done. And not everybody on the right is a
crazy. mega fascist. There's still people on
the right that are like John McCain, right? George
HW Bush, right? And like just different more
like fiscal conservatives and those types of
people. I used to like those conversations because
those were just different little ideologies and
ultimately both parties always wanted what was
best for the country. And despite the differences,
it'd be nice to get back to that someday. I don't
know if we can. but that party has to root out
all of these crazy, Sarah Palin was just the
beginning. I knew it, I knew it. I'm like there
are more of her, we gotta watch out. There are
more of her and that is gonna be a real problem.
So I don't know, it's just my hope that we fix
this because if things don't go the way we want
them to at the midterms. I think it's overdue.
Yeah, I really do I really do I have friends
that smart friends good friends that They had
the ability to Get not only their passport. They
had their passport, but Citizenship one in Ireland
and his wife in Poland, right and they got it
done. She's a professor in Stanford This is called
a brain drain. You're gonna have so many smart
creative people smart business people, and they're
gonna fucking go. They are gonna get the hell
out of here. And everybody's gonna say, all the
maggots are gonna be like, oh great, you know,
this, you and you leave, and no, that's bad for
you. That is bad for whatever is going to be
left of this. It's gonna be very bad. Yeah, how
oppressed do you have to be for the brainwashing
to break and you realize, hey, this is fucked
up. Because we're approaching that. And by the
time they get to that point, it's gonna be too
late. Wait, I didn't want it to be this way.
Well, dummy. It is. Welcome to the party. Welcome
to the party. But anyway, that's just kind of
maybe a first conversation of this whole police
state thing we got going on. It's not great.
I don't feel good about it. We'll continue to
keep our eye on things and chat about it. As
I said, we welcome the engagement. So, Marc Mosho
has a Facebook page. You can hit us up on any
of the socials. And we're happy. We're happy
to have that conversation with you. And we appreciate
each and every one of you that listen, no matter
where you fall on this. And if you happen to
fall on that other side, we welcome you to just
open your mind and just think about shit. Right.
Just think about it. All right, and think about
what's really going on out there. And sometimes
I say this to Christians. I grew up Catholic.
I was Catholic, went to a Catholic high school,
Jesuit university. So when it comes to Christians,
they largely disappoint me because they're supposed
to care about others, they're supposed to love
others. You are supposed to put, them and the
needs of the hungry and the destitute before
your own. Right. That is how some of this shit
works. And they don't. Right. And they don't.
There are way too many fake Christians out there
today, way more than there have ever been. And
I'm not saying Christianity is the end all be
all. It isn't. It's just, it's one of a numerous
amount of cults out there that all believe in,
you know. Here here was this guy and he had magical
powers and you know this because his dad's up
there and it's like I'm gonna impregnate this
chick and then he's gonna come out and it's gonna
walk on water and loaves of bread and wine and
Here's the funny part Jesus went into the temple.
He went to the temple with all the kind of all
the corrupt businessmen. He flipped that shit
Yeah, he got violent so Trust me. I see you It's
the reverse John Cena. Yeah You can't say, oh,
I do see you. Yeah, I've seen you for a long
time. Took a lot of theology at Loyola. I know
your shit. Right. So I see you, and I know you,
and man, I'm telling you right now, it's wake
up. Wake up. Especially the single issue voters.
Oh, abortion. That's all I care about. Really?
Okay. Yeah. My take on that, and I know this
gets us off the highway, but we do this from
time to time. Single issue voters like abortion
just as an example if you don't like it it goes
against your values or whatever Here's a an amazing
concept. Don't get one right. Don't do it. Don't
do it. You don't have to do it Don't do it. Tell
your kids. Hey, I don't I don't like this whatever
keep it in your house That's fine, right? That's
it. That's it. Don't get one. Yeah, the reason
why it's a personal choice personal choice exactly
You know, we gotta protect the baby. You gotta
protect the baby. And then when it comes out,
everybody ignores it. Oh, now it's a welfare
child. Well, fuck that kid. Right. Nope. Nope.
Yeah, the same people. Oh, illegalized abortions
are the same people cheering that there's no
more free school lunches. Yep. What the fuck
is wrong with you? What's wrong with you? You
got kids in school that are hungry. Once again,
fake Christians. I can't, I cannot deal with
them. There's no hate. Quite like evangelical
love You said it yeah, you said it man That's
I think we end with that pipe Bob Man, that says
it right there. Well as I said, we're gonna keep
our eye on this shit We're gonna keep talking
about stuff and as I said, please engage if you
want but I Want I want America back not that
America's been perfect. It's very imperfect But
I think largely it tries to do the right things.
And I think we need to get back to that. I think
we need to get back to that. But at any rate,
this is about the time where we breathe and we
take a little bit of a break. And when we come
back, we are going to lighten the mood. We're
going to lighten this mood with a little Carpe
Diem. All right, we are back, everybody, and
it is time for Carpe Diem. You find beautiful,
wonderful people, send us your DMs, and we read
them on the podcast. And if they are in the form
of a question, we might answer them. We might.
Within reason. Within reason. You know, it's
up to our discretion, is basically what I'm saying.
A fair way to put it. Yes, really. We are open
to coercion. Oh, I agree. We offer coercion.
Look, we talked about that capitalism earlier,
you know? It's like we hate it, but in the same
sense... It's a system we're trapped in. Really,
I mean, we're just trying to survive. Exactly.
So if you throw us a Benji or two... Well, you
know, we might read it. Yeah, you might make
it. Exactly. Exactly, that's it. We're gonna
make it a competition. Right. But at any rate...
Yeah, so I have some DMS. I know you do you want
to start us off certainly awesome? I've got one
here from evil genie checking in again Asking
I offer you $1 ,000 for every flight of stairs
you climb Continuously, but you have to determine
how many flights if you fail you lose all the
money How many flights of stairs are you attempting?
It's a thousand per flight thousand a flight
And you have to tell how many flights you're
gonna do. So I'm guessing continuously means
no breaks at all. Step after step. It doesn't
say a pace though. You can do it slowly. A grand
of flight. I feel like I would start getting
tired after four or five, right? But it doesn't
mean I would stop. With money on the line, I'm
thinking 10. I could do 10 flights, $10 ,000.
By eight or nine, I'm probably winded. But I
wouldn't need to stop. I think I wouldn't need
to stop. I'd be fine. Ten flights of stairs,
and ten G's is a nice, comfortable amount of
money. I'm going 20. 20 flights. I'm going 20.
Brave. I will will myself to do it. And then
die. Yeah. And then die. Yeah, $20 ,000 barely
covers the medical bills. Right, exactly. Because
this is America. When I stroke out... Here's
your money. Oh, yeah, just hand it to that. Yeah
That's how it works I've got a DM here from gumbo
James gumbo gumbo asking. What are your favorite
video games from after 2010? Who? after 20 after
2010 so that takes away a Pretty much most of
the ps2 era video correct, which is kind of system.
I grew up with in my later youth Yeah, but it
leaves games like Black Ops Call of Duty Black
Ops, I think came out late 2010. Ghost. Yeah,
pretty much all of the Call of Duty's. All the
Call of Duty's. From the 2010's at least. Yeah.
The 2020's I'm not convinced. GTA 5. GTA 5's
a good one. Yeah. Yeah, the main Black Ops series,
1, 2, and 3, and then the original Modern Warfare
3 I think came out after 2010. Those would all
be up there. I think Madden 2015 was a good one.
Yeah. I think we had that for 360. Yeah, we did.
What was the college football one? Was that 2014?
2014, I think. Because that was a pretty good
game. That was a good one. As far as creativity
and gameplay and everything, it was good. Yeah.
WWE 2010 was a good one. That was a great one.
That was a great one because in terms of controls
the gameplay was gameplay was really good And
I thought the graphics were just good enough.
Yeah, and if you want to create it like the creator
wrestler was really good I agree, but I feel
like in later iterations either the creativity
part got kind of wonky, or the gameplay was just
too much. Like you had to do way too many things
on the controller. It was a complete control
overhaul. The gameplay from the PS2 era, 2000
to 2010, WWE games, and the early 2010s WWE games
on the 360, the control schemes were very similar.
Whereas once you hit the 2K era, like WWE 13
and on, the controls got a complete overhaul.
It was a pain to relearn. Oh, it was. And I still
don't know how to play those games. I don't.
Quite well. I don't. It's really tough. And there's
some fun creative things on, I think, 13, though
I'd be the one with punk on it. Yep. There are
really some neat creative parts of that one.
But the gameplay itself is a little bit clunky.
Yeah. And I sit there, and I'll be playing, and
I'll be like, How do I throw this guy into the
ropes again like you're trying to figure it out
meanwhile? He just like grabbed a chair and smacked
your ass, and now you're like oh, yeah, yeah
So that's that's kind of tough, but I would say
that's that that's that was the golden era GTA
5 and yeah agreed the heart of the Call of Duty
games Last dm. I got here creepy grew true in
asking what makes someone immediately unattractive
I would say a bad attitude first and foremost.
Yeah. Especially if you're out and about and
they're like throwing jabs at your friends or
like gossiping behind people's backs or mistreating
the service staff. Like that's such a low thing
to do. Like that really paints you poorly as
a human being. So that I think is first and foremost
like first impressions especially when it comes
to attitude. think are super important and can
immediately just Turn me off from from even considering
becoming an acquaintance Let alone a friend,
you know, right? Yep. I think that that's priority
numero uno in my book Oh for sure. Yeah, I don't
There was someone and you know, I can't mention
who they are but like they're semi -important
locally and so I saw One day I was at a coffee
shop and I saw how this person was treating another
person. And this other person wasn't doing anything.
Like they weren't being a bad person. They were
just like, gave an answer that they didn't like.
And they just became an instant asshole. And
I saw that and I'm like, what a jerk. And so
immediately I was just like, wrote them off.
I'm like, nope. I'm like, I just, I know I don't
carry myself that way. So when I see other people
doing it, it just really... Really bugs me. Yeah,
so yeah, I would say that I would say Man, what
makes someone unattractive? I would say people
I'd say people that are just fake as fuck. Yeah,
really bug me because there are definitely some
people out there that are fake They do shit for
clicks. They do shit for You know, they just
want to be the center of attention. Yeah, I hate
that shit people that code switch all the time.
Yep Just like, yeah, that I completely agree
with. Yeah, I can't stand, and sometimes you
don't know. You don't know until you know, and
then you wake up one day and be like, man, that
person's really, like, I genuinely woke up this
morning and now I don't know who that person
is. I just have no idea who they are or what
they stand for, and I know a few people like
that, and it's disappointing, but, you know,
at some point, people will reveal who they really
are. And, uh, sometimes it's sad. Yeah, that
is true. It really is, but at least we know.
Right. Yeah, better to find out late than never.
Yep. How fake someone is. Oh, for sure. Yeah.
Always painful, though. It is. You know? Well,
yeah, because if you grow to like someone, or
to be like, yep, I'm letting this person into
my universe, and then could be days, weeks, months
later, and then you wake up and you're like,
fuck. Right. That person was not who I thought
that person was. Right, and it's... Like, I like
to think that I value my time well. Yeah. And
especially if someone were to do that, then my
immediate first thought is like, wow, they wasted
my fucking time. Yeah. Or, like, I wouldn't say
I rethink whether or not, like... I would immediately
trust someone again, but it's more so just like,
you know, that person wronged me by simply being
fake, you know, because it's very easy to just
be genuine. And if you are being genuine and
they're being genuine and you don't get along,
that's fine. That's fine. That's A -OK. Hey,
we weren't meant to be like bros. That's chill.
You know, don't have the same hobbies or whatever,
whatever. But if I'm being genuine and you're
being fake for whatever your end goal is, because
God only knows, right? Then it's just like, you
wasted my fucking time. Yeah. I could've been
talking with someone that genuinely likes the
shit that I do and I like the shit that they
do. Yes, correct. Yeah. Foul behavior. Yeah,
agreed. So you got, uh, was that your last DM?
That was my final DM. That was your last one,
alright. Excuse me, clear my throat. Excuse me
while I clear my throat. That's all we can do.
That's all we can do. That's all we can do. I'm
not getting hit. Nope. Alright, the first one
this week is from Godbert Gilfrey. That name
sounds oddly familiar. It does. Godbert Gilfrey.
You know, life isn't easy as a parrot, you know.
You think when you die, you go to a cloudy existence
surrounded by loved ones. I'm a talking cartoon
parrot. What the hell happened? Well, I had that
one coming. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know what to
tell you there, brother. Yeah. That's that's
a tough go. But thanks for thanks for chatting
with us from the afterlife. We do a very impressive
feat. Yeah. Oh, it is definitely. At CP bar diver
crown point is a fun town after the sun goes
down name a better one. I'll wait. Oh Interesting
day. Yeah, I see I'm not much of a night scene
guy with with my boomer schedule Which is kind
of dictated by my job, so I don't necessarily
have a great answer. I know which towns I Deliver
the most beer to because that's my job. So there
could be some correlation. I could infer Aye,
aye, aye. Crown Point is a huge one. Crown Point
is huge, Valpo is huge, but Valpo closes early
for some reason. A lot of places do, yeah. So
I kind of agree. I'm kind of tempted to say Crown
Point. Yeah, I am too. There's no other town.
And for many of you, because we do have listeners
outside of the region, all across the country
around the world, the whole jazz, right? And
so these towns we might bring up, it's going
to be pops and buzzes to you. You're just not
going to know. As a relation if you're in a major
city somewhere these would be like towns the
size of Some of your suburbs, you know that kind
of stuff and so there's there's towns here like
shareville and Merrillville and dire and Munster
and Hammond Gary the Lake Station it goes on
and on and None of those towns scream like party
to me Right like you think about Griffith and
yeah, you got the bill you're tall and you have
oh god I'm trying to think of that one other
bar. I was just added on a bar girl But like
other than those couple places like that's most
towns and just a couple spots, you know, and
that's what they've got Yeah, Crown Point and
Valpo. That's like one in two. You could flip
-flop either way. Yeah on that for sure But yeah,
I don't know and and to be fair. I would probably
throw Michigan City in the loop I think they've
they've come a long way in recent years. I think
there's a lot of fun places up there So those
those would be the top three for me. Yeah But
yeah, I mean Crown Point might be at the top.
Yeah, I would think the same So we're right with
you bar diver at the missing link 22 I am from
Ireland and I want to visit the States. I am
guessing I should probably wait a while. Yeah.
I think visiting the States was a bad idea already.
Yeah. Before all this started happening because
if you need visitor's insurance to make sure
you don't go medically bankrupt visiting somewhere,
I would not recommend visiting that place. Oh
yeah. I would consider that a shithole of a country.
Agreed. So it was already a bad idea. Yeah. Now
it's a terrible idea. Oh, yeah, I I would recommend
You wait, there's there's a year in Europe dog.
You are surrounded by really neat countries to
visit Yep, the US is not worth it, bro. No, New
York City, LA, Chicago Fun places to visit. You
know, you could easily spend a week in Chicago
doing a bunch of different stuff But I know don't
risk it. No, it's a reason to not no reason to
My last one as if we didn't know yeah at stoner
stanley 420 It happens again momo and alan Why
it happens to me? I'm in a box, but I don't know
oh no I'm sitting on the lid am I stuck forever?
Stan brother stay in a box He's on the lid. He's
on the lid. He doesn't know if he's stuck. I
think, is he trapped in a bathroom stall? He
might be. I think he's trapped in a bathroom
stall. He might be. Dude, it locks from the inside.
You can just slide the little doohickey. Just
slide it. Just slide it. Yeah. Even if you're
in a box, like a regular box, I don't know how
you get, I don't know. Yeah. All you have to
do is push up. Yeah, just push up usually you're
people are typically stronger than cardboard.
Yes Yeah, I think he got this I'm rooting for
you. How do you get in the box? Why did he get
out of the people were chasing him? Then he didn't
know what was going on. He was in the tree, right?
So I'm wondering if they got him and they put
him in a box. Maybe What if it's not a cardboard
box? What if it's like a casket? Oh, he's like
trapped trapped. He's clearly got a telephone
If he's reaching out to us. Right, if he's reaching
out to us. If it's that case, I would say try
911 first. That'd be a good call. Yeah. And granted,
even if they rescue you and your pockets are
full of green in a place where it's illegal,
call some friends maybe. That's a good idea.
Could be this spot. Yep, I think so. Yep, for
sure. Alright, well that concludes our DMs for
this week. Reach out to our socials and send
those DMs. and we'd love to have your comments
as part of our show, for sure. It's about the
time where we tap my co -host, Aidan, and have
him mention some other food. No, no, no, no,
it's not a burger, not a hot dog. Now we typically
find it a diner. No, no, so I am incredibly interested
to see what Aidan has for us this week. Very
simply put, bull penis. That's pretty straightforward.
Yeah, bull penis. Many cultures believe that
eating penis of any kind imbues the diner with
virality, health, and power. Nope. But most simply
as a source of lean protein. Listen, Champ, if
you're going for lean protein, there's a thousand
other things you can eat. A thousand other things,
yeah. Bull, ox, yak, and buffalo. are among the
most common eaten, particularly in Eastern cultures,
including China and notably Beijing. There is
a restaurant in the capital called, I'm gonna
butcher this pronunciation, I'm sorry in advance,
Guolizhuang, I think, I tried. Dedicated to serving
penises of all kind, from bull and buffalo to
seal and snake. I've never seen a snake penis
before. and I don't want to, let alone know what
it tastes like. According to those familiar with
the delicacy, Venus tends to taste tough and
sinewy, and quote, benefits from being braised
or slow -cooked. Oh no. Yeah, there's a little
other food insight for you. That sounds awful.
For anyone who is hungry, You're welcome. I probably
just saved you a few bucks on takeout. You are
no longer interested in oh Not not not at all.
This is not. This is not good. You uh you doing
your I am repulsed. I am repulsed looking up
images of bullpeni Yeah, which is now forever
in your Google image search. Oh awesome. I can't
wait Yeah, this is this is horrific. Yeah terrible.
Yeah, this is Pizzle? Pizzle? Pizzle, that's...
People refer to it as... Somebody did a hashtag,
Pizzle. Pizzle. Okay. Sounds like a rapper's
nickname. It really does. It really, really does.
Oh my god, this is... Well, Pizzle for Dinner.
Yeah. Mom, can we have Pizzle? Sure, Bobby. That
sounds great. Braised or slow -cooked, Bobby?
Yo, baby, braise that penis. I like that shit
sinewy. That is, that is, that is bad. Yikes.
All right. A delicacy, I think you meant to say.
A delicacy, yes, yes. Yeah, I'll have the potato
salad and those onion rings look real good. Let's
get a side of onion rings and hey, how about
that bull pizzeria? What is that? What is that?
That's about a foot long, and then some. Alright.
You got a snake cock? You got some snake cock,
by chance? Yeah, so I'd like a sighted chicken
dick. Nah, no way. No way. A man who knows his
penii. A man that knows his penii. Alright, well,
you know what? Let's get off the bull penis.
Already? That did not sound right at all. Nah,
I would not get off that bowl anyway it is time
for the fry guy fry review and It was it was
just a matter of time before we got to this place
as well Because it is a place that it it holds
a deep place In my heart down deep in the cockles
man. We just want to hear this Yeah, so I went
to White Castle God bless White Castle now you
folks in the south I'm probably gonna go, what?
What is that? Okay, you have something called
crystals. That's like the anti White Castle.
That's like, oh, we don't have a White Castle,
so we're gonna make one of my own. Yeah, let's
see how shittily we can do it. Right. Yeah, crystals
is not great. Although crystals fries are pretty
good. Anyway, I'm not reviewing their fries.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm reviewing White Castle
fries. Now, I often eat White Castle after midnight.
Usually more around two or three in the morning.
Sure. A little fuel up, gotta keep that party
going, right? And so you get a couple of what
we call here in the Midwest sliders. And you
just get a couple of those cheesy sliders and
you're good to go, right? This is great stuff.
Get the little mini hamburgers. You get these
little mac and cheese bites which are delightful.
So many other good things. So, you get the fries.
Had a really tough time reviewing this. Oh, no
I'm I'm not a fan their fries are of The crinkle,
I think variety to be fair. Yeah, that's the
closest thing I can think of is their crinkle
cut But they're limp dick. Yeah dick fries you
pull them out and they just flop soggy Completely
flop. Yeah That's a problem. I've never had hot
White Castle fries. Yes. Ever in any existence.
I agree. Never had them hot. They're never salted.
Ever. That's true. That's true. Like you get
them and you're like all fries and you put a
couple in your mouth and you're just like, eh.
Yeah. You could use some salt or ketchup or both.
Right. So I had the fries and after I ate two
or three that were like lukewarm, they got cold
real fast. Yeah. Real fast. And we've talked
about cold fries. You just can't do it. Right.
It's like when fries get cold, I throw them in
the garbage. Yeah. So I do. My review is not
going to be kind. Yeah. Not glowing. It's not
good. They're just not good. I've honestly always
agreed with that. I always just like White Castle,
you go for the burgers. Yes. You fuck with some
onion rings. Onion rings are good. The cheesy
bites are good. But that's it. Yeah. I never
have liked their fries. No. I'm interested to
see out of 10 where they land for you though.
Yeah, I'm thinking a 5 .5. 5 .5? To be honest,
that's even more generous than I would have been.
Yeah. Yeah. I just, I had to grade them as I
got them. Yep. And it's the law. I've had them
worse. Like I literally have gotten a couple
of burgers and a fry and I go home It takes me
five minutes to get home from where this White
Castle is in our town and I get home Flip on
the TV open my bag and the fries are cool. Yeah
Like they just cool down so fast or they were
just cold when I got yeah Yeah, they were lukewarm
when you received them and they just they just
cool down. Yeah, so under It would have been
under five had they been like that having been
cold But like I said, the first three or four
or five that I ate were at least lukewarm. So,
I don't know, five -five. Five -five. Yeah. I
think I'm being kind, but... I would agree. But
it's what I have to do. White Castle, you gotta
up your fry game. Up the fry game. For sure.
Never change the burgers. They're great. Burgers
are fine. Also bring back the mac and cheese
bites. I don't know why they disappear for why
they do that four months at a time Right. Oh,
we got the shrimp nibblers. Okay. Why yeah Why
yeah, give me some of those grub nibblers. They
were screw that. It's like what's What's with
this seafood shit? That's what I want to know.
I don't get it I just I don't a lobster. Have
you seen that thing right? It's the devil's spawn
of Satan. That thing is gross. It looks like
the scorpion of the ocean. Yes. I don't know
if they necessarily have stingy tails, but it
looks the same. Yep. It really is, you know,
and then you look at, you know, you look at shrimp,
and you're like, they're the bugs of the ocean.
Shrimps is bugs. They're bugs. They're the bugs
of the ocean. And to eat it, you gotta deter
it? No. What? What are we doing? Most of the
time, popcorn and shrimp, they don't do that.
Nope. The intestines and feces are still in there.
In it. Yeah. Nope. Mm -mm. Yeah. I'm out. Just
bring back the mac and cheese bites, up your
fry game. That's our advice. That's it. That's
it. We love your burgers. The rest of it, do
better. Yeah. Yeah. I'd agree. That's all I'm
saying. Well, that takes us to our next break.
And when we come back our feature list and there
there was a certain young lady and her football
playing boyfriend who had a Vodcast if you will
they got online and They had an announcement
of a new album So this top 10 list is going to
be related to this young lady quite quite indeed
when we return All right, we are back for our
feature segment. You just made the list here
on the Mark Mo Show Podcast. I'm your host, Mark
Maloney, along with my co -host and producer,
Aidan Maloney. This week, based on the announcement
that Tay -Tay, Taylor Swift, has a new album
coming out. Something about the showgirl, showgirl,
the whatever. Anyway, new album coming out. I
mean, who drops promos like me, right? That's
why they pay us the big bucks. That's why they
pay us the big bucks. So she's got this new album
coming out. And I thought, hey, why not do a
Tay -Tay top 10, our 10 favorite Taylor Swift.
songs. And this is coming from a guy who listens
to a lot of hard rock and rock and metal and
alt rock and Celtic punk and all that other stuff.
But that being said, you can still appreciate
good music when you get it. True. Or at the very
least, innovators. And so here are my... Oh,
by the way... Silly me you just made the list
our top ten list ten through two with our big
number one reveal and the hang on Let me see
page seven subsection see Oh, yeah, the rules
are that there are no rules excellent outstanding.
I love that rule. We love that I wish that was
just a general rule for life. Yeah, that would
be amazing So here we go. I have ten no no Honorable
mentions this week. Here are my 10. Number 10,
we are never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever
getting back together again. Number nine, blank
space. Number eight, love story. Number seven,
wireless dreams. Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That
one almost made by Top Ten. That one did not
make the cutting room floor, but I was thinking
about it. Okay. Number six. Shake it off, shake
it off, that's all you get. Gonna get content
ID'd. Yeah, don't wanna go down that road. Yeah,
it's just like, knock, knock, knock. Yeah, who
is it? Oh, it's Taylor. Oh, shit. Oh no. Yeah,
yeah, you sang eight seconds of my song. Where's
my royalty check? No, I don't wanna live in that
world. Uh -uh. Number five, Bad Blood. Oh yeah,
there you go. Yep, number four, Anti -Hero. Number
three, Cruel Summer. Nice. And number two, Lavender
Haze. Nice, that's a good list. Thank you. That's
a good list. I appreciate that. Couple similarities
on mine. Okay. I would say. Number ten, Karma,
featuring Ice Spice. Ah. It's a pretty good track.
Number nine, Delicate. I enjoy that one. Number
eight, Ready For It. Ooh. Number seven, I Had
Cruel Summer. Okay. Number six, I Knew You Were
Trouble. Oh. It's kind of a bop. Number five,
I had Lavender Haze, the Sneak Hips remix. Oh,
okay. Kind of a jumpy, more of a, I'd say almost
club mix in a way. So a little bit more up -tempo
take of that song? Yeah. I'll have to check that
one out. Yeah, kind of a fun listen. Number four,
Midnight Rain. Oh yeah, that's a good one. Number
three, Bad Blood with Kendrick Lamar. And number
two, Lavender Haze. Love it. Yeah, that's great.
Yeah, that's a bop. It is a good one Yeah, I
do like that was a good that entire album was
pretty pretty excellent. Mm -hmm. Yeah, I would
agree Midnight's I think it was called That sounds
right. Yeah. Yep. That does sound right. I Now
will give you my number one the big reveal big
reveal. It's a little bit of a surprise I think
But it is genuinely my favorite song of hers
I don't know if lyrically it just hits, but I
do enjoy the music as well. Ivy is my number
one song. I dig it. As a matter of fact, when
my friends kidnapped me and took me to her concert
at the movie theater, I was just like, man. And
look, there are some theaters like our theater
here in Portage, Indiana. It was a very nice
theater. Very nice theater, big theaters, and
they have those recliner chairs. So if you go
to a late show, at least for me, I'm screwed.
Yeah, snoozing. I'm screwed. If it is not an
up -tempo kind of movie, I am done, man. I just
get all comfy and I'm out. Especially in the
wintertime when you have coat with you and stuff
like that, and you can kind of, I'm done, I'm
sleeping. And it's just like, wow, I just paid
15 bucks to fall asleep. Holy shit. But I went
and saw that and I like it kept my attention
and I thought Like the music was good and the
set design was amazing how they did everything
So quickly in between like you literally was
like music videos on the stage. It was is unbelievably
how Detailed yes these things were so like when
she did ivy live I think that might have been
the selling point I see it was like a good song
and lyrically it was solid But like she did it
on stage live like that and I was like wow that
was impactful. Yeah, that's kind of cool That's
really righteous. Yeah, that's fun my number
one Vigilante shit, I think it's a great bop
An XO2. Oh, interesting. Yeah, I believe that's
off the same Midnight's album. I believe so,
yeah. Yeah, so the top two off the same album,
but great track. I'm definitely, the fact I have
a number one and I missed it, I am now gonna
have to kind of go back and give that one a re
-listen. Yeah. Cause I'm pretty sure I would
like it. Yeah, I think so too. Yeah. So interesting
fun list that was that was a fun list so as we
always say every week hit us up on the DMS and
You know for there are some songs that that we
miss maybe some that we've mentioned that you
like by all means Hit us up. Yeah, absolutely
most definitely so Alright, we are going to move
forward to the old review preview We review movies,
we preview movies. I do it for a magazine article,
magazine that I write for, the entertainer magazine.
I do a movie article and I also do a restaurant
bar review. So the review I have this week is
a film called Weapons. Now the movie is a 2025
American mystery horror film revolves around
the mysterious disappearance of all but one child
from a single classroom in a small town. The
film explores the ensuing chaos and trauma as
parents and authorities grapple with the inexplicable
event, while the surviving student and the teacher,
Justine, played by actress Julia Garner, becomes
a focal point of the investigation. Weapons delves
into themes of trauma, social collapse, and the
impact of unexplained events on a community.
Garner and Josh Berlin are great in the film.
There's a lot of suspense and mystery wrapped
up in like a pulp fiction -esque style of storytelling.
There are a handful of really great jump scares,
a little bit of gore but not too much, and some
dark humor sprinkled throughout. Very, very well
done. I enjoyed myself thoroughly. 8 .9 out of
10. So for me to give it that grade, especially
for a horror movie, it's good. Yeah, we are quite
critical of horror movies and their excellence
or failures. So that is an impressive score.
Yeah, I really, really enjoyed it. And I think
you will, too. So run out to see it or just wait
until, I don't know. It's on streaming or whatever.
Somebody has some streaming service. Or just
pirate it. You could do that, too. Jump on some...
dark reddit something or other and go down that
rabbit hole and try not to infect your computer
with something yeah and i'm sure the chinese
are going to grab it so you'll find it you'll
find it you'll find it my preview uh is a movie
called honey don't and that kind of hits home
i've heard that more than once honey don't It
is a dark comedy about Honey O'Donoghue, a small
town private investigator who delves into a series
of strange deaths tied to a mysterious church.
Set in Bakersfield, California, the film focuses
on a private investigator, a cult leader, and
a mysterious woman. That's all they've revealed
about it. Starring Margot Qualley, Aubrey Plaza,
Charlie Day, Chris Evans, along with Talia Ryder,
Billy Eichner, Don Swayze, Lara Bova. Hell of
a cast. Kind of a kooky concept It's written
and directed by Ethan Cohen, so I'm sure it's
funny, right? The film premieres nationwide August
22nd Sounds like it's got potential. I like the
sound of that. Oh, yeah. Yes, definitely like
it's I I do dig a quirky comedy and Ethan Cohen
is kind of a Master of it. Yeah, so I I will
probably see that one. Yes. Yeah, that one looks
just like I like weird movies Not necessarily
something like incredibly avant -garde, but right
you know if a movie is just a little bit weird
and Aubrey Plaza's in it, so She kind of owns
that yeah, but like her style of it and her comedic
stuff is just it's excellent chef's kiss Yeah,
yeah, it's just fantastic. Yeah, I would agree
and Chris Evans is a funny dude, too So I'm looking
forward to this. Yeah, I think it's gonna be
good but anyway As it pertains to pop culture
and music and movies and video games and a lot
of other things Aidan has a segment here called
while you were sleeping, so it could just be
something that We missed we blinked our eye,
and it kind of went by So this weekend. What
do you have for us? What do we miss this week
another youtuber? Flying under the radar kind
of seems like they're popping off a little bit
recently, but I love their content. So it's this
dude and he doesn't like go by any name. He always
wears a mask on screen for anonymity, which I
can respect. I mean, not everyone wants to be
a public figure, but he's got like an engineering
scientific electronics background and uses that
knowledge and skill. to just be absolutely chaotic.
Oh wow. So he does these crazy experiments in
the basement of his house. And I'll just give
you some examples here of some of his most recent
uploads. Using motor oil to fry cursed chicken.
Filling a blimp with hydrogen in my basement.
Oh god. Because surely that'll go well. Yeah.
How much paper can you add to food before someone
notices? He built a gas -powered PC to test its
limits. Wow. And making a 100 outlet power strip
to see what happens. 100 outlet. 100 outlet.
That sounds amazing. And I think one of the ones
that got me to start watching his content, that
got me to subscribe and everything, he did this
video, I think it was a couple months ago, of
testing out different liquids to cook rice in.
You know, so we got like three different rice
cookers and he was running different experiments
and he did it by like sets. So he would do a
set of three and then a crazier set of three
and even crazier set of three. And by the end
he was using Malort to cook rice. He was using
cigarette water to cook rice. And then he used
like a two month old. McDonald's McFlurry to
try and cook rice. That's gross. And it's just
really fun content. And he streams it all. Like
the YouTube videos are edited, cut down, clips
of it. But he streams it all to a live audience.
And it's just the craziest, most chaotic, fun
experiments that the human brain somehow conceives.
It's called Uo's Lab. What is it? Uo's Lab. And
he just does it all out of his basement. That's
amazing. It is excellent. I love it. I love his
little... That's his little caricature you're
looking at. A lot of times I do research on the
fly as we do our show sometimes. And so I love
his little... His little logo guy that he's got
on here very like anime style kind of thing.
I dig it. Yeah, it is very cool Yeah, it's a
fun time. It's a fun watch Who owes lab? Yep.
I like it. All right. Well check out who owes
lab while you were sleeping You're missing some
fun content. You miss it. Yeah, you miss it,
but now you don't have to exactly you get informed
You've been informed. He's keeping an eye on
this shit. You're well telling you so Be grateful.
It's my duty. Yep, send him all the cash that
you have. And then go out and take a loan and
send that also. And send that as well. High interest,
of course. Yeah, of course. And yeah, make sure
to send him your social security card, credit
card numbers, and any mothers, grandmothers you
may have. Title to your car, yeah, that too.
Title, yeah, because we do mother storage. So
yeah, we're happy to do that. We'll see what
we can do. Yeah, yeah, definitely no doubt. All
right. That's awesome Well, we are gonna take
a break and then we're gonna move on to the last
parts of our show We are going to review a tasty
beer for you. And then this week We're gonna
take a break from the world of weird. No, I didn't
do it, right Let me do that again. We're going
to take a break from the world of weird news.
And we're going to do a little tier listing this
week. A little tier listing. And I thought this
one would be fun, being that Aiden is a gamer.
And we're going to do some gaming tier listing
coming up. All right, we are back for the home
stretch. Ladies and gentlemen, the Mark Mo Show
podcast. Please like, subscribe, share, send
carrier pigeons, whatever you wanna do to spread
the good word around. And we, of course, are
going to, we are gonna talk about a very interesting
beer here, a rainbow sherbet. I'm quite curious.
Sherbet. Sherbet. by Prairie Artisan Ales. So
do you have any info for these fine, beautiful
people, Aiden? Yes, definitely. It's a regional
brewery, this Prairie Artisan Ales, out of a
place called Krebs, Oklahoma. The way they describe
it is a summer forward sour ale with raspberry,
pineapple, and orange. They add, do yourself
a favor, toss one in the cooler on your way to
the Pooler River. You deserve a rainbow. That
is a very kind thing to say. It is. For anyone
unfamiliar, a sour beer, this one specifically
a fruited sour, span effervescent American ales
blended with heritage peaches, sour lagers, or
with blackcurrant blended with blonde ales, aged
in wine barrels. Wow. So it kind of spans a wide
range, but typically a sour ale is going to be
more sour. But yeah, we'll give you some notes
here on this rainbow sherbert flavored one. We're
drinking it out the can today on this official
beer review. That's right. And we will be letting
you know on a scale from one to five, or zero
to five, how good we think it is. We're using
the Untapped app, which is a free app on your
phone, not sponsored, but we are using it, to
rank these. And I do have to say, I always like
a lot of these micro brews and things like that.
They have really interesting cans. Yes, very
eye -catching. Very eye -catching. This is really,
there's a lot going on. No, but there's like
a lot of cartoon characters, a lot of fun colors
on this can. Looks like a lot of space people
in their flying automobiles. Yeah. And just kind
of driving around, there's one guy in this little
car, he's definitely too big for the car. I don't
know what he's doing up in there. I got a couple
dudes of green hair just chilling in this one.
One of them looks angry, like angry to be sitting
in traffic down here. Yeah, I think that's fair.
I would be kind of angry in traffic, too, so...
Especially if you're in the sky. Just go higher.
Just go higher. That's exactly right. Oh, man.
Wow, there's a lot of traffic today. Let me jump
up by 500 feet. Yeah, right. We're gonna fix
that real quick. I love it. Well, we're gonna
give it a go. Of course. Sláinte. Sláinte to
you. Wow. Ooh. Well, that's fun. I agree. It's...
Ooh. Here's some what it leaves on the tongue
is interesting. There's something bready Yeah,
there's something bready about it afterwards
because the first flavor you get is obviously
the tart very tiny of the sour ale and Then you
get the little essence of fruit creeping in but
that flavor afterwards tastes like toast Yeah,
it doesn't leave the same thing in your palate
as a lot of a lot of ales or IPAs or anything
else like that, they can leave that little bit
of, oh god, what's the right word? Tang or? Yeah,
hoppy, piney. Yep. Yeah. None of that. And it
got, it didn't even register on the IBU scale,
which makes sense, it's not a hop forward drink.
But there is something it leaves on the tongue
that's kind of bready, sweet, almost jammy. Yeah.
In a way. That's quite good. I don't frequent
sour ales because they, especially with micro
brews, regional breweries, they tend to be a
little more pricey. But I like this. I do too.
It's very interesting on the tongue. It is. Because
like I said, a lot of times you drink different
beers, it'll linger a little bit on the palate.
This is, but not the same way. No. I don't this
is like after eating like a sour piece of candy.
Yeah Yeah, like it's almost like you get you
get almost like a tart strawberry And then it
ends off with like a strawberry jam bready flavor.
Yeah So I don't know if I necessarily agree with
rainbow sherbet. Yeah, I don't know about that
But it's it's almost in my opinion. It's almost
strawberry throughout You know very tart almost
like an unripe strawberry with the sour ale front
notes. And then it just ends with like a jammy
strawberry bread flavor. That is very tasty.
And very pleasant. Yeah. I would agree. And once
again, since we've been on this kick of beers
that are ideal for the summertime. Yes. This
is one of them. Oh, yeah. Without a doubt. The
sour makes it refreshing. It really does. Yeah.
That is really good. And it's not like sometimes
fruited beers. Can get overly sweet which does
have its place. Don't get me wrong. Yeah, but
this is not one of them It like respects the
tart of the sour ale and it respects the tart
of the fruit. Yep. Yeah, that's very good I think
I'm gonna I'm gonna give that a 3 .5 out of 5.
I really like that. That's strong Got a bit of
a surprise here for you this these ratings by
the way if you've never used Untapped, they go
up to five. And for me, this is a 4 .25. Nice.
That's strong. It really is. I really enjoy a
beer that doesn't leave a lot of heavy shit on
your palate, on your tongue. Yeah. And sometimes
it does, depending on the beer, I can usually
deal with it. Truth be told, I can drink just
about anything anyway. But that being the case,
this, what it leaves is pleasant. Yes, absolutely.
And kind of clean. Yeah. And I do rather enjoy
it, you know, after, especially with some of
these beers. Now, this is a tall beer. This can
is, I think it's a 19 -ouncer. Is that what it
says? I believe. Yeah. So it's definitely a taller
can, so it's like having two cans of beer. And
so the beer can get warm by the time you kind
of have that bottom third. There's some beers
where that just it's not overly pleasant. Yeah,
like this. I think it would be fine. I agree
I really do and that's that's that's what prompted
the strong score. I think I like that Yeah, that
is really tasty. Mm -hmm. I I unlocked the local
badge untapped at home level seven. Ooh That's
pretty fantastic. That's pretty great middle
of the road level six. I don't know if I like
that name of that badge I got middle of the road
level 53 did you oh jeez But that means I feel
like less of a beer drinker now Get on my level,
bro. I know right but yeah that what that means
It's a an 80 greater than five less than ten.
This is a five point two So it's not much higher
than your average lager. Yeah, or you know Irish
red But yeah, very tasty. It's not going to get
you crunk, which is good. You don't want your
first summertime beer of the day to get you schwaisted.
You want to be able to enjoy your time. So I
quite like it. Exactly, because there's so many
beers that I feel are in that 8 % range, 10,
12. Yeah. If they're very flavorful, they can
sneak up on you. Oh sure. And so you sit there.
That happened to me once. I was at a friend's
house and we were in his backyard and sitting
in his patio. And we had these high ABV beers.
I don't know if it was in the double digits.
I think it probably was. But they were going
down so good. It was a warm day. The beers were
super cold. By the time I got to the third beer...
I finally had to break the seal, right? Yeah.
And so I'm like, I gotta take a leak. So I stood
up and the world was like, I... We're moving
a little bit. I was like, whoa, shit. Yeah. Was
not counting on that. So it's like every beer
was like a double beer. Right. So it was not
counting on that. Yeah. Yeah, those are tough.
And I'm, you know me, I'm a big, I'm a fan of
bitter. I like, I like black coffee. I like IPAs.
So... I'm a big IPA fan, but there are some out
there, and notably one that we tried a little
bit ago, which was the Voodoo Ranger Fruit Force.
Yes, I remember that one. That line of Force
drinks, they've got a Fruit Force, Peach Force,
Tropic Force, Juice Force. I really like the
Juice Force. Do you? That one is excellent, but
they're 9 .5%. New buddy, so if you drink a couple
cans, and you're not thinking about it I mean
you stand up off the couch after a little bit
of gaming having a couple brews chilling out
is yeah No, oh yeah. Oh, no Yeah, I gotta be
taking it easy. Oh for sure. Yeah, no doubt.
They definitely sneak up on you Yeah, they they
really do so At any rate, get out and get some.
This was one of my higher rated beers for sure
so far. Not sponsored, but recommended. Agreed,
and I think just as flavor profiles in general
go, I do rather enjoy things that are Not overly
sour, but a little bit sour, but like fruity
and sour healthy tart. Yeah Yeah, I do rather
enjoy things like that and that's kind of what
this is So not that you're gonna get I think
sherbet out of this a whole lot like you said
no It's it's strawberry. I would say I would
argue yeah, like I would almost call this like
Jolly Rancher Sure, yeah, I can see that right.
I can definitely see that but there is a There
is a certain type of sour beer typically the
ones that are including orange or heavy citrus
orange or grapefruit and the sour can clash and
The taste it leaves on your tongue isn't like
a pleasant. Jammy flavor. It's more of like a
oh, that's almost vomit Oh, yeah, so yeah, some
people get that type of flavor. It's kind of
like the thing that happens with parsley whether
or not you have the gene that makes it taste
like soap. Oh, right. Yeah, right. Yeah. So it's
kind of like the same thing where some sours
for some people can taste like vomit drinking
them. This is not one of that. This would not
affect anyone with that type of palette. Yeah,
I don't think so. No. Yeah. No, this was really
good for sure. Pit fruits and strawberries. Accent
tart in... Such a way. I love it. What a way
to end. Go out and grab some. It's very, very
good. We're going to end with a little tier listing.
We do this from time to time. I love tier listing.
And we got Pro Gamer over here, so I thought,
hey, what a better way than to maybe do a couple
of episodes here where we delve into some games.
I love that. We're going to do that now. We're
going to start off this tier list. And for those
of you who don't know tier listing, There is
S, and that is what, superior? Yes, tier listing
started as an AK -209 segment, and then we moved
it over to the Mark Mo Show since AK -209 podcast
doesn't really go on anymore. But yeah, it's
a letter scale, so it's 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, exactly. Yeah,
that's what we got. That's how we're ranking
them. That's how we're going to grade it. And
this is going to be a challenge, because I think
there's a lot of top tier ones on here, although
I did sprinkle a couple of suspect games. Ooh,
interesante. So you got to keep it interesting,
because as I was doing this, I'm like, ah, there's
too many bangers on here. Yeah. So we're going
to start off with maybe the ultimate banger,
Pac -Man. Pac -Man, so we're doing retro games.
This is all retro games. This is all stuff. I
would classify as like Mid late 90s and then
backwards into the 80s So consider like your
ps2 and then backwards. Yeah pre -2000. Yep.
Okay. Mm -hmm checks out Pac -Man. Oh man, that
is a classic That is a classic. I feel like this
is one of those tier lists where we'll have to,
like, confer and agree. Yeah. Rather than the
rapid fire style tier list we did with pizza.
Correct. Pac -Man's great. I never... Of course,
growing up, I was born in the late 90s. I grew
up in the 2000s and 2010s. So, I never played
any arcade games. Unless they were in, like,
a fun park or whatever. Right. And then it's
just, like, the cheap money -grubbing ones. But
yeah, Pac -Man on the original arcade, I can
imagine, was an experience, a great experience.
But I've played it on, you've got like one of
those classic NES consoles. You've got an Atari
somewhere. Of course we had like the Bandai Namco
disc for the PS2, the Howl of the Retro game.
So I have played it a fair bit. That's good.
I think Pac -Man has got to be somewhere in the
A tier. High B, low A tier. In my opinion. Yeah.
I think... I think A is probably... Right down
the middle, A? Fair. I really do. Yeah. I mean,
it's simplistic because it's an early video game,
but it's not like Pong, you know? Exactly. Where
you're just moving a stick up and down. Yeah.
It's like, oh, riveting gameplay. Yeah, that's...
And don't get me wrong. Without Pong, it wouldn't
have graduated to other great things. This is
true. So we will give it its due. Donkey Kong.
Oh, the original. The original Donkey Kong. The
original Donkey Kong. Bastard ape dropping barrels
on me. That would do to you, man. Give me my
chick back. Give me my chick back. He keeps tossing
barrels. Yeah, Donkey Kong is excellent. I loved
there was a documentary I watched. like a decade
ago about the world record holders in Donkey
Kong. Or was it Tetris? It might have been Donkey
Kong. Where like Billy Mitchell, like one of
the most notorious record holders ended up being
like a cheater and was faking shit. And the dude
that the documentary was focused around was like
an up -and -comer. And he ended up like beating
Billy Mitchell in the end type deal. I think
that was about Donkey Kong. I hope I'm not misremembering.
That's awesome. Yeah, fascinating watch. I have
a whole big respect for Donkey Kong. That's gotta
be A+. Maybe you could argue S. I'll go A+. Okay.
I'll go A+. I love Donkey Kong. And all the different
screens and different designs and things like
that. That's pretty sweet. I agree. The original
Sonic. Ooh. You know what? There's something
very nostalgic about hearing the Green Hill Zone
soundtrack. It's so excellent. And that's before
Sega kind of fell off. I mean, you've got absolute
flops like Sonic 06 and what's the other one?
Sonic Boom. That one just got awful. Especially
in like the 3D era of Sonic. But yeah, the original
Sonic, fantastic. You could R U S. We could.
I'm tempted to go S. No, that's alright. I'll
give it to you. Okay. S for Sonic. S for Sonic.
I think that's appropriate. Super Mario Bros.
Ooh, man. Some could argue Super Mario Bros.
2 is better than the original Super Mario Bros.
But I think they're both excellent. I would agree.
I would agree, but there can't be a 2 without
a 1. Right? We might have to stay in S tier with
this one. With the Super Mario Brothers? Yeah,
because you're talking... I love it. The two
biggest names in gaming for the longest time
was Mario and Sonic. Yeah. They have to both
be S -tier. I love it. Legend of Zelda. Oh, man.
Oh, man. So we're talking the first one, the
retro one. Yeah. Well, it was new back then.
Now it's retro. But yeah, I think that was like
a top -down view of Link as you're going around.
Right, correct. Hyrule. Not much of a Hyrule.
I mean, you only had, what, 16 colors on the
screen. But, or was it eight at that point? Was
it eight or 16? That had to have been 16 -bit.
I think it was. I think it was 16 -bit. Yeah,
that had to have been 16. But you can't have
stunning games like... Legend of Zelda breath
of the wild or tears of the kingdom if there
was no legend of Zelda that's right and at its
time I That that had to have been amazing to
play like I've played it on The Nintendo switch
with like the the way back not way back machine,
but they like the classic NES games and whatnot.
It's awesome It's awesome that that honestly
might go s -tier also You could argue a plus.
Okay, cuz I know It wasn't really until the Breath
of the Wild, Tears of the Kingdom era that the
Legend of Zelda series really shined. You could
argue you could go back to like Ocarina of Time.
Sure. But yeah, that's got to be A plus or S.
Okay. I'll go A plus if you're willing to do
that. That's totally fair. Yeah, for sure. Bangers
off jump. I mean, retro gaming's like that though.
It is. It is. GoldenEye. Oh man. That's an NES
classic. Yes, it is. That's one of those games
like... Not only was the movie great, but then
they made this game and you're like, wow, this
is just as good as the damn movie. This is really
good. And the tech they had to employ to make
it work on a 16 -bit cartridge console was unbelievable.
I mean, do you have modern shooters if you don't
have GoldenEye? That's a fair comment. That's
either A or S tier. I never had the pleasure
of playing it or watching much of it when I was
a kid, so I'll leave that up to you, but I'm
tempted to go high. I think it's an S tier. I
think at that time it was one of a kind. Right,
because who else is competing with that? No one.
Yeah, that's before Sega started getting big
into the console wars. Sony hadn't dipped their
toes in yet. Yeah, not really. And yeah, for
that 16 -bit, just in the graphics and the story
and just how intelligent the game was. I just
thought it was great. Yeah. I really did. All
right, are you ready? I'm ready. ET. Oh, god.
For the 2600. The game no one can beat. No, because
you fall down that one hole and you're stuck.
You're just like, God damn it. Who play -tested
that? Really? Because you have to play -test
it to know every level works and doesn't break.
Coders and developers, when they're making these
games, they get to the point where they're like,
OK, try to break it. Right. That's what they
try to do. Because if they do, then you're like,
oh, got a problem. We get stuck at this one part.
Well, everybody gets stuck at that same part,
and you're in there, and it's like, you gotta
shut the game off, because you're like, I cannot
get out. Yeah. Yeah. Like, game companies these
days will hire people, OK, run around, try and
break the game. Yep. You didn't do that past
this level? It's unbelievable. Did you get to
that level and be like, we're leaving this game?
Right. Right. This will be a good bet. No one's
going to get past this. I love it. I think that
was right around the same time when people were
worried about a video game crash, too. because
of the amount of shovelware. And I think that
may have been before PC gaming, like with all
the discs, the ROM discs, got popular, but that's
just terrible. I mean, that's softlock in its
purest without the gamer having to do anything
to get it softlocked. They just programmed it
shittily. That's D or F. I mean, I'm tempted
to go D just because it's hilarious looking back
on it. But as a game, it's F. You can't beat
it. How about D minus? D minus I like. Well,
great D minus. I had that game and I played it
and I rage quit that game so many times. Oh,
yeah. And here's something that's, I think, very
interesting. Number one, they rushed the game
to the market because they wanted to get it out
right after the release of the movie and they
rushed it. you know, shame on them for doing
that. But I think, because the movie itself stands
the test of time, it's a really 80s classic,
but I think everybody's impression of the movie
slightly decreased based on the whack -ass game.
I really think people kind of like, oh, this
is an S -tier movie, and now it's like maybe
B+. Because people are like, oh, fuck that game.
Right, because you put your brand... Your IP
yeah on this piece of dog shit. Absolutely. Yeah,
you can't do that You know you want to talk about
a money grab people don't like that right now.
I think this qualifies I'm pretty sure from a
date stamp you can you can let me know I have
Super Smash Brothers. Oh Super Smash Brothers
That's a good question. I don't remember when
the first one came out cuz I was the first one
melee or brawl Is a good question, right? That
is that is a really good question. I think you
know what I think that's I think you're right
I think that was out on n64 wasn't it the first
one yeah, I think I think that was an n64 game
I think so too, and I think that was the ps2
era around the ps2 era Well, we're gonna do some
live research live research. Yeah Super Smash
Bros is excellent. Yeah, I think the original
game only had eight characters, too If I'm not
mistaken, I think so The series game Super Smash
Brothers 1999 99 it's in it fits was released
for the Nintendo 64 64. Okay. Yeah, at least
we were mostly right. Yeah, we kind of knew what
we're talking about. I love smash I Think the
combination of IPs, especially as it's turned
out today with Super Smash ultimate where there's
so many IBs like IPs combined to make this fighting
game and it's so pure it's very responsive and
no matter how many imitations there are they're
never going to be smashed yeah and i think for
99 it was ahead of its time in in that type of
battle yeah so i love it i love it that's got
to be that's got to be a tier somewhere a tier
all right uh we're gonna do let's see we're gonna
do two more and we're gonna come back next week
and we're gonna we're gonna finish this so let's
maybe add a few to it Mortal Kombat. Oh Speak
of that's not necessarily an imitation of smash.
Yeah, it's a different style game But Mortal
Kombat is fantastic. That's that's sweaty gaming.
That's competitive sweaty gaming right there
It really is that's got to be either B or A tier.
I could go B plus for that I think it's good
Not great in my opinion Yeah, Mortal Kombat,
I'd probably put as a solid B. Solid B, yeah.
Yeah, if that's all right with you. I like that,
yep. And then the last one we'll do for this
week, Street Fighter. Street Fighter, ooh. Similar,
similar to Mortal Kombat. Similar, oh man, I
feel like it had a little more pizzazz. I think,
yeah, that's fair. I think it had a little more
pizzazz. I think it's gotta go B +, or maybe
A, you could argue. Okay, how about B+. B +,
I like. All right. We're gonna end there. We
did 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 this week.
We had Pac -Man as an A, Donkey Kong A +, Sonic
Superior, Super Mario Bros. Superior, Legends
of Zelda A +, GoldenEye Superior, ETD-, Super
Smash Bros. A, Mortal Kombat B, Street Fighter
B +, and we will do the second volume in the
next show. And Aidan, that does it for this episode.
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