Hey there, everybody. This is season three, episode
six of the Mark Mo Show podcast. How's everybody
doing today? You can find us on all podcast platforms
and YouTube. And without further ado, let me
introduce you to my co -host and producer, Aidan
Maloney. How you doing, man? Fairly fantastic.
I would say a little tired. Had to wake up at
4 a .m. this morning. Oh, damn. Which, for all
the lovely listeners out there, it is Friday
for us, Saturday for you beautiful folks out
there. So yeah, bit of an early Friday for me.
Yes. Due to my employment. But you know what?
We power through, and we make some good content,
we make some laughs, we have some laughs, and
that's, you know, that's what keeps us going.
That is what keeps us going. Yeah, having a laugh.
No doubt. Well, I'll tell you what, this guy
here also has a YouTube gaming channel called
Aidan spelled the right way. And he's got new
PC gaming content like GeoGuessr and PolyBridge,
Observation Duty, and much, much more, each and
every week. So I know what people can expect,
but why don't you tell them what they can expect?
Certainly. Well, a video dropped today for you
lovely listeners of PolyBridge, which is fantastic.
I've been having a lot of fun with that. PolyBridge
3. The graphics look fantastic, the gameplay
is great, the physics engine is about as good
as you can get. With bridge building games and
such. And earlier this week I had an episode
of GeoGuessr as well. And we had an episode of
GeoGuessr on AK -219. We did, we did. That was
what I was going to bring up next. AK -219 was
AK -219 guys being dudes. Aidan's partner, co
-host, world -renowned spelunker, these former...
Senator. Senator. Senator from... Dakota. Dakota.
We just combined them because there's like eight
people in each state. Yeah. So then he was a
senator for like three days or some shit like
that. They kicked him out. They kicked him out.
But at any rate, he stopped doing the show. So
AK -209 was kind of on the shelf. And Aidan has
recently brought it off the shelf and we're utilizing
it. Is a collaboration tool for our two shows.
Absolutely. It's a little bit of the mark what
you get at the mark mo show With all the gaming
goodness that you get at aid and spell the right
way, so I'm right kind of dig it It is a great
time. It is a great time and we're we're able
to kind of play these games and utilize Our humor
a little bit our humor and our knowledge. Yes,
you know, especially with games like geoguessr
where You know, we played the competitive mode,
the Battle Royale mode on our last AK -209 episode.
Yes, we did. Well, we got demolished the first
round, but then we got a dub. We actually won
for the first time ever. We did. And yeah, it
takes big brains and lots of laughs. It really
does. Primarily we're going to be doing the GeoGuessr,
but we've done quizzes in the past, and there's
a lot of other games that Aiden has played that
I think would translate well into how our dynamic
works with this thing. I think it's going to
be fun, so by all means make sure you catch out
AK219. Absolutely. For sure. Now, if you enjoy
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yeah. So... As we always do, we open the show
with some dialogue. It's very topical. We chit
chat about things. Now, I've said this before.
I will say it again. We're really trying very,
very hard not to make our opening segment of
our show a political show each and every week.
However, when you have the ding -dongs our country
has, and yes, Europe, feel free to laugh. Japan,
laugh at it. You know our country is a bit of
a shit show right now, and they give us amazing
content each and every week So it's kind of hard.
It's hard not to talk about it. It's hard not
to talk about it and be like oh This is this
is gonna make me mad, but we're also gonna like
laugh big time so at any rate On occasion, we're
going to kind of branch off on that. Now, it
doesn't mean we won't get on our soapbox about
something else or make fun of something else.
You know, we may. We'll see. Right. I don't know.
It's just every opener is a little bit different.
Very true. It's a little bit in tone and everything.
When it comes to the last, oh, I don't know,
three, four months of life in general, it's hard
not to talk about the biggest thing going on.
Yeah, oh yeah. You know, it's really hard and
of course we like to keep things light and joke
about it and there are some opening dialogues
that stay a little bit more serious throughout,
but how do you not talk about how dog shit things
are? You have to. You have to talk about it.
Even if it's a little tongue -in -cheek, even
if it's a little John Oliver -esque or a little
bit Trevor Noah or something like that. we try
to do that because we want to make our point
but we also want people to giggle too so that's
kind of the point to that but um yeah you know
we're trying really hard and so once again i'm
sure we have people i know we have people all
over the world that listen to us and coast to
coast and all that jazz and we appreciate each
and every one of you Some of you may fall in
one belief system. Some of you may fall in another.
Most of you probably just kind of float in the
middle like, what the hell is going on? Right.
Kind of maybe where I'm at a little bit, I will
admit fully on this show that I am left of center
for sure. But it's just a shit show and I've
moved further left in recent years just because
holy hell, there's a lot going on. And as I said,
try not to talk about every week, but sometimes
you have to. Right. You just have to. And in
this particular case today, it's political in
a sense, but not really. But it's something that
I think is incredibly important. I think Matt
Gaetz should listen to this. Yeah, right. That
should be some foreshadowing for you. Cross town
traffic. That's all you got It's all you get.
I mean, I don't I don't know if Jimi Hendrix
is coming back from the grave to To sue me or
put a copyright claim. He very well may I I don't
yeah or or whoever the The whack -ass corporation
that owns his catalog shit. Yeah. Oh, yeah for
sure. That's the troublemaker They are the troublemakers.
Yeah But yeah, we're gonna talk Little bit about
trafficking because it's it's obviously been
in the news, but it's it's here's the thing It's
not new It's it's not a new problem. And I mean
I could have gone very far back and in My research
and what we're gonna talk about but I'm not and
so I just took a few high -profile cases. So
for example people versus Jackson 2005 criminal
trial held in Santa Barbara County in Santa Maria,
California and Michael Jackson was charged with
molesting Gavin Arvizo. He was 13 years old at
the time of the alleged abuse at his Neverland
Ranch estate in Los Alamos, California. The jury
deliberated for about 32 hours over seven days.
On the initial vote, nine jurors voted to acquit
Jackson while three voted guilty. On June 13th,
2005, they returned a verdict of not guilty on
all charges. Jurors found the prosecution's case
weak and the timeline of accusations problematic
because they had claimed the molestation allegedly
occurred after the broadcast of the documentary
when the world's attention was on Jackson and
Gavin. Michael Jackson went into seclusion and
about to embark on a massive world tour. accidentally
kills himself with painkillers. What a shocker.
Jeffrey Epstein was involved in multiple legal
cases throughout his lifetime, culminating in
federal charges of sex trafficking minors in
2019. 2008 Florida conviction, Epstein pleaded
guilty to two state charges, procuring a child
for prostitution and soliciting a prostitute.
This resulted in a controversial plea deal. and
a sentence of 18 months with extensive work release.
Epstein ended up dying in his jail cell on August
10th, 2019 while awaiting trial for the federal
charges. The medical examiner ruled the death
a suicide by hanging, but this has been disputed
by his lawyers and the public, leading to various
conspiracy theories. And his associate, Juslain
Maxwell, Was arrested and charged in 2020 with
crimes related to her involvement in the Epstein
sex trafficking ring She was convicted in December
2021 on five out of six counts including sex
trafficking of a minor and sentenced 20 years
in federal prison in June of 2022 and last but
certainly not least Sean Diddy combs the diddler
Was found guilty on two counts of transportation
for the purposes of prostitution involving a
former girlfriend and male sex workers. He was
acquitted of racketeering conspiracy and sex
trafficking charges involving Casey Ventura and
another woman. The jury's decision came after
deliberations that began on June 30, 2025, and
concluded with the verdict on July 2, 2025. The
convictions carry a potential 20 -year prison
sentence. with prosecutors seeking a sentence
of at least 51 months. The case stemmed from
allegations of sex trafficking and racketeering
with Combs being arrested in September 2024 and
subsequently pleading not guilty. He was initially
denied bail due to concerns about witness tampering
and potential flight risk. The trial began on
May 5th, 2025, with the jury delivering its verdict
after several days of deliberation. Now, if you
have wealth, fame, and the ability to take down
the wealthy and famous with you, you'll never
go to prison. You'll never go. There'll be no
justice for the kids that have been assaulted.
I actually wrote insulted. I'm sure they're insulted,
but more importantly, they've been assaulted.
According to Forbes, the human trafficking business
is a $150 billion business. Will there ever be
justice? Are the rich and powerful simply above
the law? Will there be a time that those that
abuse kids or contribute to the abuse of kids,
rotten prisons all over the world, or is jail
just for anybody else? It always just felt like
jail was for anyone else. Yeah. It's always felt
like that. You know, with the first Jeffrey Epstein
scandal, where that horrible plea deal with,
I forget who the... Acosta. Yeah, that's right.
I mean, that alone was enough to be like, well,
the rest in peace justice system, we had a good
run. Actually, we didn't have a good run. We
didn't have a good run. We never had a good run.
It's it's it's always been like that. Yes, and
it's just I feel more so in the public eye recently,
especially over the last I don't know five months
with you know a 34 count felon Pedophilic felon
becoming the president of the United States really
brought to the public eye of like well none of
this shit really mattered none of this shit really
mattered to any judge with their head screwed
on right any juror who could have been the voice
of reason and just never ended up being that
way it's it's always like you can if you're in
the state of indiana where we are chicagoland
indiana if you will and you have let's say an
ounce or two of weed on you you are going to
prison yes you're going to prison if you're worth
a couple billion dollars and you assault children
and traffic human beings. Eh, you know, wishy
-washy, maybe, maybe not. Gray, very gray area.
Depends on, you know, who you have dirt on, really.
Oh, of course. It's unbelievable. You know, there
was already limited respect for the justice system
of the United States. Yes. I say limited, heavily,
heavily limited. And it's just, the more that
comes out, especially about the Epstein files
and the fact that he was seemingly suicided,
I claim, allegedly. Allegedly. Suicided. Really
goes to show that those in power and those with
wealth won't be brought to justice in the system
we have. Oh, for sure. I just don't see it ever
happening. No, it won't. It won't. There's no
way. It can't, because you would be essentially
dismantling top -down the system that these corporate,
oligarchic pieces of human shit have spent decades
building. That's right. If not longer than decades,
really. Yep. That's very true. And, you know,
you look at this whole thing, and it's really
a house of cards. I've been able to see what's
currently going on. trafficking aside for the
last eight years, 12 years, however damn long
it's been. And I've seen the writing on the wall
and I've seen what's going to happen. It's just
this this pedophile ring thing that's just been
going on in the background for a long time. Right.
Where people in power, the wealthy billionaires,
the 1 % politicians, traffic in these young kids
for nefarious purposes. And that's really a difficult
thing. to deal with. Right, it's one of the most
evil acts a human could do. Yeah. Full stop.
And yet that's just seemingly what billionaires
and politicians and oligarchs get off on. Yeah,
definitely. It's unbelievable. Yeah, there's
no doubt. And yeah, it just kind of makes me
angry. Yeah. And I had to bite my tongue there
a little bit, but it's... It's kind of one of
those things where you think there's enough people
of goodwill that could make a difference. They
could take these fricking disgusting creeps and
put them away. Right. Put them away. Actors,
billionaire businessmen, I don't give a shit
who they clergyman. I don't care who they are.
They should be buried under the prison. Right.
They should go away forever. And the fact that,
if that guy knows that guy does some things,
and that couple does things to them, and they
traffic, and because there's this spider web,
they're all protecting each other in this. But
at the same time, blackmailing. Like, hey, I
can't go down, because if I go down, then this
entire web's gonna go down. And so that's why
this entire disgusting web exists in the first
place, so that when one gets in trouble, everybody's
like, oh, we gotta help that dude out. Right.
Right. And it blows my mind, too, looking at
this from the standpoint of legality and enforcement
of laws, because you would imagine, you would
hope that those who go into the line of work
of law enforcement, FBI, CIA, National Guard,
whatever, you would hope that they have, you
know, serving and protecting on their highest
priority list. You would hope that their goal
is to prevent bad things from happening. And
yet, the director of the FBI and the attorney
general, those who have the power to make a difference
in these major cases, taking down these, like
you said, rings of disgusting, disturbing human
beings got their jobs from people within the
ring. Yes. Yep. So, if anyone out there really
had expectations, oh, we're gonna get the Epstein
List, no, you're not. And if you are, you're
getting a redacted version of it. So fully redacted.
None of it's coming down. You empowered one of
the individuals that's within the ring. Yeah.
And can you imagine, like, the redacted... Forms
that people are gonna get in documents and whatever
even fully doctored it right They're gonna get
them and people will be oh my god. Look this
document says the and the Candy corn no That's
all you're gonna get right. You're not gonna
get shit, right? Or you'll get something fully
falsified and then you'll see names like Gavin
Newsom, and Alec Baldwin, and people that likely
aren't involved, but they're personal targets,
it's gonna be a hit piece. It's gonna be a hit
piece. And it's just disturbing, and it's infuriating,
like you said earlier, because what can you do?
You just have to hope. You have to hope there's
some type of internal affairs process. You have
to hope that there's some... agent out there
or Someone in a position of power that has functioning
brain cells and can see how dangerous this is
Yes, and can collect evidence. I don't know put
it in boxes in your bathroom. I don't fucking
care Just Get the real shit out there. So these
people go down. Yeah. Oh, yeah, and it makes
me wonder When the when the big orange asshole
took all those boxes to Mar -a -Lago, that there
was top secret stuff and all this other stuff,
which is absolutely insane anyway. But I would
imagine there was a lot of those other boxes
that may have had something to do with that situation
as well. Because why not? I mean, to me, that's
like, oh, he's covered his ass. Anything that
could hook him into something, he grabbed that
shit, let's get it out of here. Yeah, if anyone
out there wants a good Anger session of someone
who is who can also present these type of topics.
Well, there's a youtuber by the name of Jay Aubrey
who Does he's a video essayist so he covers a
lot of different topics. He had this I think
two or three part saga covering Jeffrey Epstein
Wow, and it's God it's six hours of content something
like that It's... It is an absolute deep dive,
you know, covering, like, oh, when law enforcement
agents went to the island and, you know, they
found X amount of files and VHS tapes, and all
of a sudden they went missing. Yep. That's like,
oh, cool. Right. How very interesting and strange
that that would happen. Oh, yeah. It's worth
your time if you're really dedicated to learning
the ins and outs of... the Jeffrey Epstein saga.
Oh, for sure. No doubt. And, you know, I just
I threw a few examples out there. There's so
many more. Like I could have just talked about
the Catholic Church. Right. And how they protect
pedophile priests. That was a massive ring. Right.
It still is. Still is. It still is. Still is
a massive ring. So, yeah, I don't know. And it's
like I said, it's this is slightly political
today, but not Not necessarily. It's more the
creepy, pedophilic billionaires, multi -millionaires,
actors and actresses, politicians that are involved
in all this shit. Right. And it's disgusting.
Yeah. It is disgusting. Yeah. So, well, I would
like to round all these people up into a stadium
and have my way, but... That's not gonna happen
today. Right. Sadly. Yeah. We keep our hopes
high. Really, I mean, hey, if you guys want to
round all these people up for me, I say we'll
go to Soldier Field in Chicago, and we'll round
them all up, and then what we're gonna do is
we're gonna coat them in oil. So when they try
to escape... the field. It's going to be very
difficult for them to do that. They're not going
to be climbing around. They're slipping around.
And then I could just sit up in the big columns.
Everybody's seen what Soldier Field looks like,
those big awesome columns. I'm just going to
sit up in the columns with a sniper. Yeah. And
if you're greasy -ass, can get the hell out of
that stadium. You live to fight another day.
Right. If not, you know. But you're so coated
in grease, we're going to find you anyway. We're
going to find you anyway. And we will. We will
find you. Yeah, we will surround and we will
kill you will surround a soldier field with hungry
wolves So if you do make it out you have another
obstacle. Yes, you know, which I think is fair
I think it's only fair. Yeah, most definitely,
you know, so there's there's gotta be a solution
I think that's one that is one of them, you know,
really if 1 % of Americans What? 3 .3 million
of us if 1 % of Americans got together and said,
okay, let's go hunt down some billionaires and
Hollywood elites and music executives. I think
it could be done. It not only can be done, it
could be done fairly easily with a little bit
of organization. Correct. You know, if the Teamsters
can do it, we can do it. Excellent point. Excellent
point. It's just a thought. It's just a thought.
We're just putting that out there in the ether.
These are all hypotheticals that we're suggesting
people do in Minecraft, of course. In Minecraft.
Just in Minecraft. Maybe you could stray a little
bit, do it in The Sims. Could do that. Yeah.
You know, just kind of do it there and use your
imagination. Of course. Because these are, in
fact, all hypothetical ideas. Correct. Yeah.
And you're not hearing them from us. No, no.
You're not. You're not hearing them from us.
We heard them. From someone else who heard them
from someone else right? It's like fourth party.
It really is at this point Yeah, all we're gonna
say is if we're playing Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
I'd love to be Luigi. Oh, why not? Yeah, that's
a no -brainer right there Luigi. Oh no doubt
Let's go I want to be that, from the TikToks,
I want to be that crazy clown with that big hammer.
And like, he scares the shit out of people. People
getting out of an elevator and then he's like,
rawr, and then people like all freak out and
run away. Yeah, that's what I want to do. Yep,
just wait. Wait for one of those freaks to get
out of the elevator. Oh, hi Diddy. Hello, Sean.
And see, being that everybody is going to be
on Soldier Field, it's going to be orgy -esque
and everybody's gonna be greased up, so you know
Diddy's gonna be there. Exactly. Diddy's gonna
be like, oh shit. He'll be the one bringing the
baby oil. He will bring the baby oil. Yeah. Yeah,
most definitely. And then he'll be like, yeah,
I got the baby oil for the thing going on, and
then he ends up on the field like, oh no. Yeah,
exactly. Yeah, and then he'll just, you know,
pop pop, pop pop, and then he'll just be like,
oh shit, is Tupac still around? Right. He's go
back for me. No, but this one's for Tupac, bitch.
My man. Well, by all means, if you have thoughts
on trafficking, and I'm sure you have the similar
thoughts that we do, by all means reach out on
our socials and shit chat with us. But, yeah.
Yeah, how do you end on a positive note? It's
hard to do. Yeah, it's hard to do that. So we'll
just save this Down with these assholes. Their
time is coming Okay, that's positive. Well positivity
Their their days are numbered gonna manifest
it got a manifest. You gotta believe it. I believe
it Yeah, a little I believe it For sure somewhat.
So I'm just saying put that out there Good things
are coming. These idiots are going to get what
they deserve. And you're going to get what you
deserve right after this musical interlude. All
right, everybody, we are back. How you doing?
It is now time for CarPay DM. You find beautiful,
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we'll do it. Because we can. And if you ask a
question, we will most likely, per chance, per
chance, may have some slim possibility that we'll
answer that. We could be persuaded. I think so.
We could be swayed. No doubt. Not like the fabric.
I love Persuade. Like in this hand is nothing,
right? It's just air. But like in my right hand,
I don't know, there'd be like a crisp hundred
dollar bill. Oh my gosh, how did that get there?
Oh my goodness. Now I'm listening. Now I'm like,
oh, look, there's a question. How did I not see
this before? You could be like a medieval peasant
trying to, you know, persuade. I like the word
persuade. like one of their lords oh my goodness
my lord i found this sack of golden coins that
would look perfect in your hand well goodness
sake not only are you correct you have my attention
now you have my attention you bastard you got
me you got me i will now answer your question
oh wait it's after business hours yeah right
so sorry i will keep this but you'll have to
you'll have to catch me at nine a .m on one day
yeah you have to catch me between nine a .m and
nine oh four Interesting how that always works.
Oh, yeah. It's like how the fuck am I supposed
to get to the mechanic? When I work during the
day and they're only open during the day impossible
How am I gonna go see the doctor can't do it?
We can't for the fucking doctor. You kidding
me. Well that also good lord I've been to a doctor
since like 1989 I think me too. Actually Pepperidge
farm remembers. Yeah, I don't think I was I was
born yet and that was the last time I was at
a die I go to the emergency room when I break
and tear shit up That's about it. Yeah. It's
like, oh, yeah, that blood pressure is a little
bit high. OK. OK. Well, you have yourself a nice
day. Exactly. Have a merry little Christmas.
Have a merry little Christmas. You might want
to control that. I'll try. Exactly. I will do
my best. I will will it into existence. I will.
Just like I'm just like I'm willing actual health
care and health coverage into existence. Hasn't
worked, but one day it might. It just might.
It just might. But I know it will definitely
work. Is these DMs I'm about to read? Here we
go. We got one from at Dwayne Arnold. My man
Dwayne. Hey guys, do a segment on Fortnite and
it's riding popularity and having any character
from anywhere. Hell, you can play Sabrina Carpenter
in Juice World. That's very tempting to do. I
would love to be Sabrina Carpenter. Just to see
what it's like. I would love. I know I know just
to see how it's like I'm gonna I'm gonna avoid
that comment Altogether abstain abstain. She's
very lovely. Yes. That's fantastic. We'll leave
that alone I would love to be Sabrina carpenter
just so I could like Venmo me the actual me like
a $20 ,000 why not? You know, what's she gonna
do? She probably got that in her hang about it.
Yeah. Yeah, right, right Yeah, but the whole
fortnight thing not my speciality, but I do know
it's It's been one of, like, the top ten most
popular games for the better part of a decade
now. Yep, that's about right. About a decade?
So I get it. I get it. I just don't know if I'm
the crowd. You know? Especially, like, I get
the appeal of free -to -play games. Because,
hey, they're free -to -play. That's fantastic.
Yes. When, you know, most of the hellscape of
capitalism is telling you you have to spend money
just to exist. Free -to -play sounds nice. But
then you have all the sweaty gamers, the kids
with all the free time, and you're like, okay,
I don't game enough to be on these guys' level
that spend ten hours a day playing this. And
on top of that, everything's a microtransaction.
Yeah. You know, free -to -play is oftentimes
pay -to -win. You have to. They toe the same
line, and that's the unfortunate part. So, I'm
not sure if that's the answer my main man Dwayne
here wanted, but it's not... It's not saying
we're never going to play it. True. We could
always play it. We could. It is, as we said,
free to play. It is free to play, so we may check
that out at some point, for sure. Yeah, it's
really interesting. A lot of this roleplay, RP,
whatever, these open worlds, open concepts, or
whatever the exact phraseology is. Sure. You
know, like a GTA 5 or whatever. Just games where
you can just pop in and just play. You can just
play and do whatever the hell you want. And it's
kind of fun. And so I do enjoy games like that.
There was a game, and I want to say this was
back in the 90s. I want to say like 93, 94, 95.
And it was a PC -based online game. So it was
ahead of its right before it was cool, and it
was called second life I've heard of that. It
was called second. Yeah, so there were like any
night. I'd get stuck at work So I worked in Chicago.
I had to come back to Indiana and if I missed
my rush hour trains I was effed. I'm like up
now. I'm stuck here for another hour and 15 minutes
So jump on my computer start playing games or
whatever and so I would get in this second life
thing And it's like you got this guy or woman
and you can just create them. You can be an animal.
You can be whatever you want. Absolutely anything
you want. And they have all of these different
worlds and these worlds have different rooms.
I mean they have everything from like bubblegum
popstar shit to just like very different like
Japanese, Japanese yakuza broom, adult content,
like you name it, it's there. Right. It's as
real as it can get. Mind you, it's what, 16 -bit
or whatever the hell it was at the time. But
back then, you're like, this is cool as shit.
Today, it'd be like, oh, a Daffodil baby? I mean,
that's that's just kind of how it would be. Right.
Yeah. But it was so cool. And I remember, God,
this was I think maybe it might have been over
COVID because Jesus Christ, we're all looking
for shit. Right. I'm sitting at home sick and
I pull up my MacBook and I'm like, I wonder if
my MacBook remember Second Life. I don't because
I got my MacBook in 2011. Yes, that's right.
I have a 14 year old MacBook and it's still kicking
your ass. Anyway. I'm like, I wonder if in 2011
I was still playing it. I was trying to remember.
I'm like, I think maybe I was. And so I figured
this shit out and I was able to log on. That's
crazy. Oh my God, I got in. But here's the thing.
Like I hadn't been in this thing in 10 years
or however long it's been. And it's like something
happened. Like the world fell apart like like
my guy's naked with with with a clown nose and
a baseball cap And that's all he's got on and
I'm running around. I'm like what and I'm trying
to remember how to play I'm like holy shit, and
I'm running around these worlds and these homes
are all effed up, and I'm like Holy shit, there
was Armageddon in Second Life, and I didn't know
what happened. And here I am. I'm living. I survived.
That's great. So, like, you unplugged from the
Matrix for a decade. I really did. And you plugged
back in, and it was like, her, hey, nice nose.
I know. Meanwhile, my guy's probably like, asshole,
where you been? There's some shit going on here.
So, yeah, I mean, for me, I was a Second Life
-er, and I played a lot. God, I'd love to get
back into it or if there's some new iteration
of it. But yeah, it's like, I don't know, Fortnite
I'm just not as into as well, but I get the appeal.
I 100 % get the appeal. To be fair to Fortnite
too, they do an excellent job putting on events.
Like I think they had like M &M do a concert
in Fortnite. Are you serious? In the video game,
like a virtual concert. Like putting on the events,
the different seasons, how things change in between
them, the various different game modes, how they
kind of come and go with popularity changes.
It is fantastic. I totally get the appeal. I
totally get it. It's just not... It's not my
forte. Agreed. You know? Yeah. Like I can appreciate
it from afar. I'm like, wow, that sounds really
cool. Yeah. If I played it, I don't think I would
have very much fun. Oh, yeah. I would try and
be good. Correct. That's, you know what? Introspectively,
that's a problem with me. I would try and be
good. I would find out I'm not. and I would get
upset. And I would be like, I don't want to play
anymore. Oh, it's totally that way. It's like
that in GTA V. It's like when you're doing free
play and you're in the game. You can just kind
of screw around, screw with the cops a little
bit, mess with a gang, just have some fun. And
they got all the little question marks and things.
So you can go mess with that stuff if you want.
So like that's great, but like if you decide
to go in the online version Oh God, you're just
like, oh, yeah I'm just here to screw off and
all the sons like and you're like dad and you're
like what just happened, right? And it's just
like that gets inferior because you got a lot
of modders and bullshit that do that and with
the moderns they you know if you're not modded
up and that guy sits there and like When he shoots
his gun like gas tankers come out of his gun
You just forget right just just forget it. It's
just not worth it But thank you for that, Dwayne,
I greatly appreciate it. At Mayor Goldie Wilson,
you wait and see, Mr. Carruthers, I will be mayor.
I will be the most powerful man in Hill Valley,
and I'm gonna clean up this town. You know what?
Did he do it, though? I think he did it. He did
it. My man. My man, Mayor Goldie Wilson. What
are they on now, like Mayor Goldie Wilson the
fourth? I lost track. after Back to the Future
changed the timeline, and then they did it a
second time, and then there was the third movie
with the horses. I didn't know what was going
on, and I don't even know if Goldie Wilson was
in that. I don't know. Yeah, I don't remember.
That's very interesting, and a good question.
Perhaps I should - Inquiry man's wanna know.
Yeah, exactly. The New York Times would love
an answer. Exactly. If you have information,
submit a tip to the FBI. I'm actually going to
change my name to Goldie Wilson. The fifth. The
fifth. At White Sox, aw. Oh, Jerry? At White
Sox, Jerry, we hear from him. He's alive. Hello,
darkness, my old friend. Only one team worse
than us. Just one. The Rockies. Do they still
play? Does the Sun still rise man? That you know
what that's giving that's giving sound of silence.
I know isn't it? It's you could almost hear it
in the same tune mm -hmm of sound of silence
and Yeah, Jerry is He's not doing so hot you
could say he's feeling a little disturbed. Yeah,
okay, pretty good. Thanks in the dark in the
Huh, yeah. I don't remember. Anyway, it hurts
now. Yeah, Jerry, I don't know what to tell you
other than I think we recommended this before.
Yeah. Get a hobby. Touch grass. Touch some grass.
You know, usually I save. Get the good rolling
paper. Oh, no, never mind, never mind. The rolling
paper? Different grass. Well, he's from... Illinois,
that's okay. So it's okay for him. Yeah, it's
okay for Jerry. We're in Indiana. It might be
good for Jerry. It might be. And stay away from
Indiana, Stan, for sure. We just talked about
that, too. Yeah, yeah, that's... I actually have
a friend that is escaping Indiana, Stan, and
he's going to Chicago, so good for him. Yeah,
that's fantastic. By the way, rent in Chicago
is equal to the rent in Valparaiso. How bullshit
is that? It's so weird how that works. Uh -huh.
It's so weird. You know, one of these days we'll
do a deep dive as to why, and I have a really
strange feeling I kind of get it. Mm -hmm. I
kind of get as to why. Yeah, I do too. Interesante.
Yep, we'll hit that up. Regardless, Jerry, you're
not the Rockies. Be happy with that. Be happy
with that, indeed. You're doing better than last
year. It's all uphill from here. Indeed. I feel
like I've said that a lot in the last couple
weeks. Oh, yeah, for sure. It's all uphill from
here. It's all uphill from here. There is an
18 % chance you'll succeed. My man. You're saying
it's not zero. Finally, at stoner stanley. My
man. 420. Momo and Alan are the ones. Yes, sir.
Hold a finger in the sky. It is fun times to
do that. Funny guys. Gotta go. I think I see
a bear or is it a big dog? Oh my god, Stan. Brother.
He always seems like he's an imminent danger.
He really does. Week over week, and he ends up
fine every time. So I'm starting to think they're
they're lacing. They could be lacing. It's very
possible. Stanley's green with a little something
psychedelic. But that's, you know, I'm alleging
that. I don't know that for sure. That's a hypothesis.
Yes, indeed. Also like the one finger in the
sky. I don't know if he's like a He could be
a could be a fan of the chief. What's his name?
Oh the the otc roman roman stanley roman stanley
stoner roman stoner roman. Yep. So hi chief roman
Is he a wwe fan? He might be He could be interesting
Interesting indeed. We get more questions than
answers With stoner with always yeah for sure
Stanley always well that was my last one So I'm
very interested to hear what you have there Aiden.
Yes. I've got one from a returning customer if
you will Evil genie. Oh, okay. Once again Got
a DM. I've come around and I think I want to
offer something purely good Well, it's about
time honestly. Yeah, would you rather have a
global citizenship card? Meaning you don't need
any visas and you're a welcome citizen to any
country a golden food card Meaning you can eat
for free at any restaurant across the world or
an all -access entertainment card What movie
or concert is free? That's that's not nice. You
know what? That's how evil genie gets ya Even
if it's something good you still have a tough
decision. That is a tough decision My immediate
thought as much as free food anywhere. Well and
free food at any restaurant would be Wonderful
and would also save me a lot of money And and
you know all access entertainment is fantastic
as well. I don't really go out as much You know,
perhaps the the money the dinero issue could
be a part of that Yeah, sure, but having a global
citizenship card would immediately help out You
know, because then all those like, ooh, you know,
if things get worse than they already are in
this dogshit country. Right. It's quite the process
to actually get citizenship elsewhere. That's
very true. Having that would be really nice.
And I think all of the money -saving opportunities
from the food card or entertainment card, I gotta
go global citizenship. Okay. I have to do it.
For my peace of mind. Here's what I think. I
was leaning towards that, but I still have to
get there. This is true. So I have a global citizenship,
be like, oh, I could just waltz right into Ireland.
And it's like, well, it's not free to get there.
That's true. It's not free once you're there.
So you still got to have some cash. So I was
like, oh, boy. So at least with the food, like
something I do three times a day. Breakfast,
lunch, dinner. or a lunch, dinner, a snack, or
whatever. But I usually have some three meals
a day. And to be able to take that, which would
cost me 10 to 15 bucks a day, and have that for
free, it's 15 bucks a day, you got what, seven
days, 15, seven, four, and three. Oh, my brain
hurts. We're doing live math? Well, we were.
Are we trying to figure out 15 by 365? Yes, ow.
Let's just say over $5 ,000. Let's just say,
hey man, I swing at it and carry it too. My man.
Stoner Stanley knows what it's like. He's not
afraid of math. He's not afraid of math. He's
not afraid of anything except for the bear or
the big dog. I was close, by the way. It's $5
,475. There you go. So I know for sure I'm going
to save that. That's immediate savings on that.
Money in your pocket. If you're talking about
entertainment, I go to, what, a movie a week?
Would you go to more movies and concerts if you
had the card? Of course you would. I would. Yeah.
Of course you would. I would. I would go to every
freaking concert. Right. Tough. It's tough. I
love where your brain's at. I just have to stick
with the citizenship card. No, go for it. Go
for it. I will, uh... Damn. I'm gonna stick with
the food, although the entertainment one is tempting.
Yeah, it is. Evil Genie, you dirty bastard. You
dirty dog. Aw, man. Crippy Gru. Crip. What are
some of your favorite animated movies? That's
a good question. Immediately, I love Shrek 1
and 2. Okay. I think 3 and 4 were questionable.
Didn't appeal to me. But Shrek 1 and Shrek 2
are fantastic. I love Up. Up is a fantastic movie.
Gosh, what else is there? The beginning of Up
is sad as F, man. Jesus, God. Makes me want to
jump off a bridge. The soundtrack though. The
soundtrack of a lot of Pixar Dreamworks movies
are fantastic. Monsters Inc is fantastic. There's
a lot of good ones. Who is the one with Will
Smith? Shark fins? Shark tails? Shark tail. That
one was not very good, but I did laugh at it
as a child. It was not a good movie, but I was
like, hey, that's funny. Funny sharks, it's a
funny thing. So that doesn't make the list, but
I wanted to talk about it at least. Oh, for sure.
I'd say Aladdin with Robin Williams. Oh, there
you go. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That one's up there
for sure. I would probably say the South Park
movie. The Christmas one? No, they actually have
a movie. Oh, regular? Oh, okay. South Park bigger,
stronger, uncut or something. Gotcha. Yeah. Beavis
and Butthead have a movie too. They do. Beavis
and Butthead to America, that would be on there.
That's a good one. I don't know, a lot of people
swear by those Spider -Man ones. Spider -Man
Into the Spider -Verse I really, really liked.
Did you? I really liked it. Yeah. I thought it
was great. Yeah. Man, I just... Didn't appeal?
I watched 10 minutes of it and fell asleep. Oh,
okay. Tried again, fell asleep. I was like, okay,
maybe that's telling me something. Yeah. I'm
not a big animated movie guy. That's fair. Although,
I like The Simpsons and I do like South Park.
The Simpsons movie is pretty good. You know,
I do like all of it. The Simpsons movie is great.
Yeepa! Yeepa! I love it. Throwing the bomb out
of the dome. Yep. The motorcycle. So I probably
do that. The only other thing I think of would
be there was this movie, I don't know if it was
the late 70s or early 80s, it was called Heavy
Metal. And it's this awesome animated film. very
much like graphic novel artwork slash anime.
It's just cool as hell. Yeah. And and it has
all this amazing 80s hard rock and metal. That's
cool. Like Sammy Hagar and so many other great
performers. And so I dig that. So that probably
be my number one, I think. That's pretty righteous.
I don't think I've ever heard of that. You should
find it. That's cool. It's like I said, it's
just it's. Really interesting. The animation's
really cool. Very much like just this dystopian,
barbarian, Thor kind of like post -apocalyptic
world and there's all these people and just like
they blend in this hard rock and metal with this
story. It's very cool. Damn. Yeah, that's righteous.
It's cool. Yeah, you should find it somewhere.
Yes, we will have to and all you lovely listeners
out there There's some homework for you, too.
Yeah, maybe I'll review preview it someday. It's
a good idea You know before I move on I will
give notes and I I don't like Musicals, I don't
like musicals singing in the rain like I so I
can do yeah, it's all can't get content I mean
Kelly yeah back from the dead exactly. It'd be
terrifying I don't like musicals. I think if
you can get a point across in Words, that's totally
fine, you can run with that. Musicals aren't
my thing, especially Disney -esque movies. Oh,
God. But. High school musical, my ass. I watched
Moana and I watched Incanto. I really like them
both. Do you really? I really like them both.
And like all the singing and everything. It's
like jazzy. It's interesting to listen to. Isn't
the rockin' in the Hawaiian one? He was in Moana.
He was in Moana. He played the... Hibbidi bibbidi
boobidi bobbidi yabba n'da juggle de coconut.
Like whatever the hell he's doing. He sang the
You're Welcome song. You're welcome. For the
wonderful world you know. Hey, hey. Watch. Watch
it. Oh, sorry, sorry. That's all we can do. I'll
bleep it out. Don't want Dwayne... Fix that in
post. Dwayne the Rock Johnson right. I'll just
make it like way off key. Unless I was already
off key, in which case I won't change it. There
you go. Well done. Final question I got here
from Craig. What are some of your most used slash
visited apps or websites? First thought immediately
is Reddit. Yeah, Reddit's up there. I use Reddit
for news. I use Reddit for memes and having a
laugh. I use Reddit for research for the show.
I used it for AK219 when we were doing that podcast.
Yeah. So I use Reddit a lot. I know I'm going
to sound like a bit of a nerd, like a bit of
a chode. Chess .com. Oh, no. I love chess. I
love playing chess. Oh, no. I'm not very great
at chess, but I love it regardless. Such a boomer.
I know. Bit of a boomer thing to say, but at
least I'm not, hopefully not as entitled as the
generalization. That's fair. But yeah, chess
.com is a big one. Oh, what else do I, you know
what I use a lot? New York Times Games, the phone
app. It's got like Wordle and it's got connections.
Think we played a couple of those games before
that was pretty fun. So I used those a lot I
think the only social media website I use is
reddit is it yeah, I can't remember the last
time I logged on to Facebook to actually use
Facebook or Or Instagram. I just it just doesn't
appeal to me It's like it's fake ass algorithms.
Every post is a sponsored post or a suggested
post like Nah, I just want a feed of what my
friends are putting out there Why can't I have
that bring back the chronological friends feed
right if you want to form an ad like every 10
or 15? Have at it, but when it makes up 50 %
or more of your feed that's right And you know
what I've seen to Facebook and Instagram start
doing recently when you're scrolling it will
stop you from scrolling Yes to play a timed ad
and you cannot scroll further you can't I haven't
gotten that because of course. I don't really
use those That alone would make me close the
app. Yep. And the entire draw of Facebook and
Instagram is they want you to keep using the
app, keep scrolling, keep getting served ads,
keep making money for us. Oh yeah. You do that
to me, one time I close the app. Congrats, you
lost. Yes, correct. It's like how fucking dumb
and out of touch can you fucking be? So dumb.
It's infuriating. I hate ads. I didn't mean for
this to turn into a tangent. I hate ads. with
a passion. Anytime they show up on the television,
I mute the television and I look away. You get
none of my attention. No. None. But I just want
to say that we appreciate all of our supporters
here on the Mark Mo Show. Granger and Indiana
Farm Bureau. We're not sponsored by them, but
they do tend to advertise on our stuff. They
do tend to advertise on our stuff, so thank you.
I think - Just disregard what I said. It was
a bit. I was making a funny joke. Ha ha ha guys,
ha ha ha ha. Laughing, right? Oh my god. It was
a funny bit. It was a little jape. I was joshing.
Freaking advertisers, man. I was joshing. Just
joshing. This is a little bit of humor here on
the Markiplier Show. Exactly, exactly. It's what
you've come to get used to. Oh, yes. In some
ways. Alright. Man, we are off the fucking rails.
Oopsie McDaisy. Oopsie McDaisy. Here we go. It
is now time for the other foods. Other foods,
you say? Yes, I say. It will be said. It will
be said. It is the other foods. So Aiden finds
all these crazy foods from all over the world.
Things that normally you're not going to find
on your Sunday afternoon family dinner, for sure.
Unlikely. Unlikely. So Aidan, what have you found
for us this week? Today, I wanted to do something
you would find. Okay. Perhaps at your Sunday
family dinner. Oh, fantastic. But with a twist.
Oh, okay. Pizza sounds awesome. Pizza's great.
We love pizza. Love pizza. Now, how about some
examples of some of the worst pizza toppings
that culturally people just do for some reason?
We'll start with Sweden. A topular pizza topping
in Sweden is a banana chicken pineapple curry
pizza. That's a lot going on. The thought of
mixing banana and chicken alone is disgusting.
Yep. Like there's, there are debates, there are
endless debates on, you know, pineapple and ham
on pizza. But you could argue pineapple and ham
make sense. Right? Yep. Because typically ham
goes well with cranberry sauce, like the savory
saltiness of ham mixes well with sweet fruits.
Chicken and banana? Sounds like a recipe of,
like, vomit. That's gross. The texture in my
mouth alone, the thought of it is, like, gag
-worthy. It is totally disgusting. And apparently
the Swedes put it on pizza. Ugh. In Japan, they
put squid ink on pizzas. What do they put? Squid
ink. Ugh. Pickled mackerel. Mm -hmm. Teriyaki
chicken is another one that actually sounds pretty
great, but the whole squid ink and pickled mackerel
one I'll have to pass on. Australia, the Aussies
on their pizzas. Yeah. Sometimes contain kangaroo.
Oh no! I can only imagine how gamey and chewy
kangaroo meat is. Yuck. They'll add crocodile
or emu because apparently they lost the war against
the emus and now... cook them on pizzas. That's
right. And they'll put salmon on their pizzas,
which I guess is right up there with sardines
as things I'm not gonna have. Nope. Germany,
they put canned tuna on their pizza. Oh no. And
it's often, they'll combine it too because they
get a little crazy with it over there. You know,
Germans getting a little crazy with it. Oh yeah.
They'll combine canned tuna with onions and olives
and then put that on pizza. Mm -hmm. You guys
have added, I'll pass. Brazilians put peas on
pizza, which I just, I don't get. Mmm. Yeah,
I know. Because peas alone are kind of mushy
little... They're gross. ...thangs, and they've
got like the thin skin, but in the inside it's
just mush. It's gross. What does that add to
a pizza? Vegetable content, I guess. And then,
in the U .S. of A, there's some very curious
things you can find. In Missouri... You can find
pizzas featuring cicadas as a topping. Oh, that's
gross. Fowl, even. New Haven Speciality would
be white clam pizza. Mmm. You can find pizza
with mashed potatoes on top. That actually, that's,
that sounds like something. I'm intrigued, I'm
listening. Now that sounds like something. You've
got sweet and savory mixes in the U .S. of A.
Okay. Including the apple and goat cheese pizza.
Mmm. Mm -hmm. Not sure if I really fuck with
that. Nah. You've got the pistachios and honey
pizza, which I'll also pass on. I don't find
pistachios or honey to mix well with mozzarella
and tomato sauce. Yeah, I don't either. In my
mind. This one actually sounded good though,
but I thought I'd bring it up. The Thanksgiving
leftovers pizza. Ooh. Now you get the mashed
potatoes like we talked about earlier. Stuffing.
Now you get the stuffing of the turkey. Yeah.
Now that's an idea. That's an idea. And then
you've got other like dessert pizzas like a raspberry
mascarpone pizza, which I would disagree is a
pizza. I would argue a pizza is crust and sauce
and cheese at its base. If you switch out the
sauce... the cheese for mascarpone and raspberries,
that's not a pizza anymore. That's a that's a
pastry. That is a pastry. It's a pastry. So I
disagree with that, but I just wanted to bring
up some of the worst sounding pizza toppings
of all time to really let the people out there
know it's not just all bull penis. Now, sometimes
the pizza you have at home could be disgraced.
That's right. By humans just trying something
out. That's all you gotta do, man. Sometimes
it's bull penis, sometimes it's olives and tuna
and all this other stuff. Because why wouldn't
we? Sometimes it rains. My man. And that brings
us to the Fry Guy Review. Fry Guy, Fry Guy, Fry
Guy, Fry Review. God damn it. Okay. It's been
a long day. It has been a long, it's been a long,
like a long week, but not like a bad week. It's
just long, it's busy. I hear you. But anyway,
this week I took on Culver's. Ooh, the bastion
of Culver's. The bastion of Culver's. I knew
a kid named Bastion Culver's. Anyway. Really?
No. Oh. I'm not a huge fan of the crinkle cut
french fry. Not a super big fan. Yeah, we talked
about that with White Castle. Yeah, and so I
have to be careful because like some people are
view pizzas They might say hey, I'm not as big
a fan of deep dish or I'm not a bigger fan of
New York or whatever So when you get it, even
if it's pretty good, I think you grade it a little
at a little bit different scale than you would
like something else and I feel that way about
fries too and so Man, I'm trying, I'm trying.
It's almost one of the arguments like, do you
have to grade fries on a weighted scale? Yeah.
Does the weighted scale have to account for bias?
Yeah, man. And here's the thing. I do like Culver's.
I think Culver's is great. Every time I get a
meal from there, it's fresh, it's delicious.
Their custard stuff is freaking out of this world.
So don't get me wrong. I am a Culver's fan. I
like Culver's. Their cheese curds are great.
but the fries it's like they're not bad they
are better than white castle i will state that
as a fact sure mine happened to be very hot they
weren't incredibly crispy but they were hot um
i know what i gave white castle mid -five yeah
five i would probably give these a seven two
sure i think is a fair score because i said just
not a fan of the style right nothing to do with
that restaurant per se. It's a great restaurant.
But I say 7 -2 for Culver's and the Fry Guy Fry
review. That's solid. I like that. Heck yeah,
man. Yeah. Hey, let's take a break because obviously
we need one. And I mean, because our awesomeness
is just reeking. Or maybe we just reek. I don't
know. I haven't figured that one out yet. But
we're going to come back and we're going to hit
up. You just made the list. All right, we're
back everybody. And it is now time for our feature
segment. You just made the list. We do a top
10 list, 10 through two, our big number one reveal.
And the topics, they can be absolutely anything.
And hang on, let me look through the rules. Flip,
flip, flip, flip. Those are the pages. Flip,
flip. Yeah, it looks like one rule that there
are no rules. That's fantastic news. I knew you'd
like that. I had a funny feeling. This week,
we are going to do more music. We did Tay -Tay
last week in our top 10, and this week we're
doing 21 Pilots. They have a brand new song and
a brand new album. I'm sure they're gonna be
touring soon. 21 Pilots, top 10 list. Aiden,
what do you got? All right, I'll run my 10 through
two, save my big number one reveal. Number 10,
House of Gold. Ooh. Great song, great track.
Almost reminds me of the old days of like...
MCR, you know, that's that kind of attitude,
but also like less MCR heaviness. Okay. Number
nine, The Hype. Good track. Number eight, The
Judge. Another good track. That is. Number seven,
Ride. Ride's great. Jumpy one. Classic one. Number
six, Shy Away. That's a fun one. That is a fun
one. Number five, Heathens. Heathens is good.
Heathens is great. And the craziest thing is,
off that album, the Suicide Squad soundtrack.
Yeah. The music was so excellent. And the movie
was not good. And the movie was not good. It's
like, how do you build up that much hype, dropping
an album this great with all these various artists,
banger after banger, and then your movie is so
mid. Yeah, that's what it was. Number four, Level
of Concern. Excellent track. Number three, Stressed
Out. I know for a hot minute there it was kind
of overplayed, but it's all right. Overplayed
just means people were really excited to listen
to it. And then radio got a hold of it and was
like, oh, we're going to put this on every 10
minutes. That's right. Number two, Morph. Morph
is a good song. It is a great track. I got a
couple of honorable mentions. Honorable mentions,
Trees and Car Radio. It's a good one. uh my honorable
mentions number 10 lane boy great track uh number
nine chlorine oh yeah okay yeah number eight
morph good one number seven the hype good one
it's a little bit of crossover a lot of a lot
of bangers uh number six overcompensate number
five the contract i i I almost had that one on
my list. Did you? Yeah. Yeah. It's a good one.
Number four, The Line, which they did for Arcane,
I believe. Oh, nice. Number three, Ride, and
number two, Heathens. Nice. A little bit of crossover
there. Definitely. Oh, yeah. Believe it or not,
my number one was your number 10, Laneboy. Oh,
no way. I love it. Excellent track. It's so good.
Excellent track. Just the beat is fantastic.
The lyrics, excellent. Really good. Yeah, it
is good. My number one, obviously, is Stressed
Out. I've been listening to that one a lot lately,
actually. Yeah. I've been putting that on my
radio show, like, every other week. It's a good
track. But then it's my show, so that's, you
know, it is what it is. But yeah, it's really
good. But yeah, like, if you're a Twenty One
Pilots fan, and you, do we missed? Any bangers
let us know what those are and we're happy to
tell you wrong Exactly Now we definitely appreciate
we welcome your opinion so we can shit on them
These guys are so nice No, but I am so personable.
They seem so personal Wow. I wish he was my neighbor
Anyway, yeah, that was that that was 21 pilots
and We're now going to move to another segment
called review preview. It's also a magazine article
that I write for the entertainer magazine. And
review preview is just what it sounds like. I
review a movie and I preview one coming up. This
time I didn't, I reviewed a movie, but not. So
hear me out. Okay. I reviewed Riftrax, who are
the mystery science theater guys. They just did
Timecop. Funny guys. Great stuff. Those kids
are great. If you ever seen time cop it's this
cult classic Jean -Claude Van Damme. It's as
bad as you think it is and When you turn the
mystery science theater guys loose It's just
funny stuff. Oh, yeah absolute funny stuff so
You know, I'm not gonna say time cop is highly
praised. It's not but this rift tracks was yeah.
Yeah, it's funny entertaining and they hit those
films plot holes big time, all the cheesy elements
and stuff that they exploit. It's good. The critics
and audiences alike have found the riffs to be
clever, looking at a lot of comments and stuff.
Witty, well -educated, enhancing the viewing
experience. I would fully agree with that. And
then for those of you who've never heard, you're
missing out. on a barrage of really bad and witty
jokes. Riff Tracks is from the creators of the
90s cult classic TV show Mystery Science Theater
3000. I would highly recommend checking out those.
Now there's a lot of references because they
use a lot of pop culture references. So there's
a lot of references you're not going to understand
because when the show was was new and was at
the height of its popularity, I want to say it
was late It was 88 or 89 when it started as a
public access show in Minnesota. Oh. And then
it became something in the early 90s, early to
mid 90s. And so there's a lot of pop culture
things because like they'll... they'll do, they
would do these movies from the 60s and 70s and
use like Jimmy Carter jokes and Gerald Ford jokes
and all these other things. Right. You know,
so a millennial or a Gen Z -er today is going
to be like, well, I didn't get that one. Yeah.
It's like, well, history. So anyway, yeah, you
wouldn't get all that, but like when they do,
when they riff tracks, they do these movies.
Their stuff is more topical. It's more today.
So I think like everybody could get like get
a good laugh on. Yeah, for sure. That's excellent.
So I gave it a very solid set. Not the funniest
riff they've ever done. They've definitely been
funnier. Santa Claus and the Ice Cream Bunny
is the funniest shit I've ever said. I mean,
hilarious. Put it up there with Airplane and
Happy Gilmore and every other funny ass movie.
Wedding Crash. put all that shit, and I will
put Santa Claus and the ice cream bunny right
up against it. I hurt. I hurt when I left that
theater. My stomach was killing me. I was laughing
so much. And the funny thing is like you're laughing
throughout, laughing throughout, laughing throughout,
the jokes are just primo. And then they do a
song at the end. And they craft these songs themselves.
I'm almost about to start busting out laughing
now, because it's so goddamn funny. I'm sure
you can find it. Go to the Riff Tracks website,
see if you can find Santa Claus and the Ice Cream
Bunny, but make sure you get the riff from the
live riff, the thing that they do in... God,
what theater is it? I want to say it's in Tennessee
somewhere, Memphis or Nashville or something,
where they do it at that one theater. See if
you can find that, because that... was Comet
Eagle, the epitome of what these guys do. And
then they redid Mano's Hands of Fate. That was
an original one they did for the TV show a long
time ago, but they redid it for the theater just
a few years ago. And to make kind of the jokes
a little more current, Oh my god. And not only
is it maybe the worst film ever made, but these
guys just slice and dice it like a couple of
circuits, man. That's awesome. It's so good.
So yeah, so 7 -9. Not the best riff, but it was
definitely quality. It was definitely good. So
check it out. And then my preview, something
I know Aidan will be excited about, Jaws 50th
anniversary. Dang. It's coming to the theater.
So, like, I need to even tell you about what
Jaws is about, but for, you know, if you want
to get out from under your rock now, you can.
With the seaside community, Amity finds himself
under attack by a dangerous great white shark,
the town's chief police, played by Roy Scheider,
a young marine biologist played by Richard Dreyfuss,
and a grizzled shark hunter, Robert Shaw. Embark
on a desperate quest to destroy the beast before
it strikes again, featuring an unforgettable
score that evokes pure terror. Jaws remains one
of the most influential and gripping adventures
in motion picture history. Catch it August 29th
to August 31st. Exciting. It is exciting. I dig
it. It is one of my... You know, I haven't done
like a top 20 that could be something fun to
do some time top 20 all -time films That could
be up that could be it and I'd have to expand
to 2010 is just yeah. Yeah absolutely not fair
Yeah, Jaws is Probably in my top five to be feral.
Yeah, it's just such a great film and When they
have that that dialogue when they're sitting
in that boat out in the ocean in the dark and
They're saying Show me the way to go I can't
do anymore by the way, so and they're singing
the song like that's kind of cool It's like them
bonding when it's three guys that really have
nothing in common and these guys are bonding
over like trying to save the community from this
machine right and then My favorite scene, they're
like comparing all her wounds. So the biologist
is like, oh, this is from a thresher shark, this
is from this, this, this, this. And then they're
like doing all this different stuff, and it's
kind of interesting. And then they look at Shaw's
arm, and mind you, this movie takes place in
the late 70s. So he looks at his arm, he's like,
oh, is that a tattoo? And Richard Dreyfus is
like, what does it say? Mother? He like makes
a mom joke, right? So he's like now that was
the USS Indianapolis and Like they just went
from like this goofy comic moment to a holy shit
moment in 2 .2 seconds which in cinema is just
right unheard of the fact that they were able
to do that and then he tells the story and Robert
Shaw telling that story is awesome It's amazing.
Just him telling that story You just, you feel
like whether you were in that theater or on a
boat, you could hear a pin drop. Right. I mean,
that is so captivating. And that's just one scene.
But I think for me, you know, it's a scene that
just stands out. Yeah. Absolutely stands out.
That's acting at its best. Yeah. Without a doubt.
I kind of had a moment similar to that watching
Pearl. If you ever saw Pearl, the horror movie,
like psychological horror. Movie no, I know I
know the whale that is mr. Krabs mistress That's
not his daughter no, that's that he's a pimp
I've heard the conspiracy theory. He's a pimp.
Yeah and Pearl fills his trap. That's pretty
much how that goes down. Is this a different
Pearl? It's a different Pearl. Okay, I'll shut
up now. It's a psychological horror movie called
Pearl. It's fascinating because it's not like
jump scare horror, right? It's not like watching
Sinister or Paranormal Activity which are fantastic
in their own right. It's just this slow burn,
this building suspense, the entire movie, with,
of course, Pearl being this main character who
seems a little quirky and strange. And then the
more you, and not that I want to give spoilers,
but maybe partial spoilers here. Okay. Coming
up. The more you watch it, the more you realize,
oh no, she's a little nutso. Yeah. And then you
continue watching and it's like, No, she's more
than that And one of the ending scenes is so
captivating but usually like there's there's
like hidden rules in in Hollywood and Essentially
like you want to make sure you change Camera
angles like every whatever it is seven seconds
to make sure like it it feels dynamic. It feels
like something new is happening Even if it's
just a monologue or a dialogue, but it's a still
camera and she's monologuing like across the
table to this innocent person who came over to
her house in good faith and she's just monologuing.
It's gotta run for like five minutes. Are you
kidding? Straight. Wow. Still camera. Whoa. Just
perfectly executed. No cuts, nothing. And just
like the acting alone is captivating. Like I
literally watched that. And then like the scene
cut the you know Final suspense shit crazy things
happen. Yeah after that that kind of leads up
to it. That's like That's like the people are
holding their breath because it's been suspense
all the way up to this point and now it's like
oh I think it's like shits about to get wacky.
Yeah insane like that same type of like Like
you could hear a pin drop like you were talking
about. Yeah, where it's like someone acting so
perfectly you know, telling a story on a boat
or monologuing while this other person is slowly
finding out, oh my god, you might be a killer.
It's insane. Like that scene alone, I paused
it before the credits started to roll. I was
like, that is cinema. That's so fucking cool.
I was like flabbergasted. I almost like, I lost
immersion because of how good it was. Like I
literally like it was so immersive and suspenseful
and I lost immersion because I paused the movie
and I'm like, holy fuck. That was a really cool
Damn, that's cool, man. So of course, that's
not my while you were sleeping but I just wanted
to tell that story and like I appreciate kind
with with the with the jaws being equally as
like Wow, like captivating Storytelling no doubt.
Well, thank you for sharing that that was that's
I'm actually making a note so I can watch it
you'll know the scene when it happens. Yeah,
Pearl. Okay, Pearl. Yeah, well, check out Pearl,
check out Jaws, and Aiden has his segment now
called Why You Were Sleeping. So it could be
anything in pop culture. Yeah, a song. It could
be a TV show. It could be a movie. It could be
something, a YouTuber. It could be some sort
of game. It could be anything. And then Aidan
goes, hi, hello McFly. We've been sleeping on
it. We go, oh my God, I'm so sorry. What did
we miss? I'm sorry, Aidan. Oopsie. Oopsie. Oopsie.
I know, right? I know, right? Oh, you had to
be there, folks. Yeah, exactly. You had to be
there. Should have been there. It should have
been there. What did we miss, Aidan? This week,
while you were sleeping, I came to the realization
of something. Okay, we've talked about this video
game a dozen times. Oh, we've played this video
game several times and it dawned on me Not everyone
knows what it is Geo guesser. Yes, we've talked
about it a thousand times and it dawned on me
We never explained once what it was what it was
So people are probably like so they're guessing
G Gio Gio Gio You have to suss out a rock while
you're like, what? What are they doing? What's
the appeal? No, the appeal is... What are they
doing? They never know what they're doing. Mom!
Meatloaf! Fuck! So, GeoGuessr... This is the
article, and then I'll actually tell you what
it is because the article is just the article.
GeoGuessr is an online geography game where players
are dropped into a random Google Street View
location and must use clues like signs, architecture,
landscapes to pinpoint their position on a map.
Of course, there's like a page description is
required for full access of GeoGuessr, but there
are like open world free alternatives like there's
world guesser open guesser there's a couple other
ones you can find out there so you're not locked
into geo guesser as the method to play a game
like this that's just the one i play because
i think it's i think it's the best one and i
i don't mind paying two dollars a month sure
to have access to the google street view stuff
so it's it's exactly as it sounds you are literally
dropped in the well there are maps right there
are like Curated like staff created maps. Yeah,
and then there are community maps where people
can create their own map and just drop This Google
Street view guy anywhere on the globe Anywhere
there's even drops in the ocean. There are drops
on islands There are drops that use like the
Google photos fears where you're like up in a
drone looking down Craziness really and you just
have to guess where you are in the world, huh?
And it's super fun because it's like a mix of
geography and trivia and like language knowledge
and that that appeals to me a lot all three of
them and and just the fact that it it plays nice
and it looks nice yeah most of the time because
they're like there's some regions of the world
where the google car doesn't really get to that
often like the images are all grainy it's like
oh yeah and that's rough yeah But no, it is fantastic.
And if anyone out there is a fan of geography,
trivia, language, I would recommend it. Most
definitely. It's a fun play. It is definitely
a lot of fun. So I suggest people definitely
check that out for sure. We're going to take
a quick break. We come back. We're going to have
some beer. And we are going to, as we do every
week, we're going to grade it using our untapped
app. And then we're going to finish up with retro
gaming volume two of our tier list. All right,
everybody, we're in the home stretch of the Mark
Mo Show podcast. I am your host, Mark Maloney,
along with Ada Maloney. If you dig what we're
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to do, fold it into thirds, put in an envelope,
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do, but definitely share the love. A professional
trifold. A professional trifold. The envelope
fold. For sure. Man, I tell you what, I went
to the hospital once. I did a trifle. And it's
just, it really... So it happens when you try
Pilates. Yeah, don't do that, don't do that.
I thought they said something about Pilates and
I showed up to this thing and then it hurt. So...
This is what happens when you don't ask yourself,
what would Jesus do? What would Jesus do? Jesus
would not do Pilates. He would look in there
and be like, nope. I think there's a temple for
me to flip over. My man. My man. Alrighty. So,
anyway. That dude was a freak. Anyway. Hey, I'm
just saying, I'm saying. Oh. Oh. Oh. How you
doing? I'm Jesus here. I'm Jesus here. God, I'm
clutching my pearls virtually. The blasphemy.
I know, I know. We just, we lost. Now we didn't
lose anybody. People know where we stand on that
shit. Anyway. It's time to review beer, but the
official beer of the official beer review, but
it isn't quite a beer. Oh, no Tell the fine folks
what we're about to drink. Oh, no, we decided
we've had enough of summer Indeed. I'm fucking
done. Yeah, I'm kind of over. I'm done. I'm over
it. So we're we're willing and Manifesting fall
by trying this fall coated cider today. Let's
go. We're doing a cider. It is from Wicked Grove
Cidery. It is a blueberry apple cider. Ooh. So
the cidery, of course, is out of Middlebury,
Vermont, where most good cider comes from. Yes.
And we'll be trying to hear for you today. Well,
we're using the untapped app. We're not sponsored,
but it is free. So we always recommend it because
free is for me. Yes. And we rank it on a scale
from zero to five. on how much we like it, we
give our tasting notes, and of course, that we're
not sponsored by the beer either, but we will
give it a fair review. We always do. And we always
welcome you lovely listeners to let us know what
you're enjoying today. Indeed. Hit us up on the
Soche, if you will, and a sloncha. And a sloncha
to you, sir. Boy, that tastes like a blueberry
pie. That tastes like a blueberry and apple pie.
Yeah, you know, and I have to say, when I smelled
it, Before I had my first sip it smelled like
a blueberry muffin Yeah, it's not like a blueberry
muffin. I was like, oh I want blueberry muffin
now All right in a weird way It kind of sits
on the tongue a little bit and it it tastes like
blueberry pie filling Yes, you know like that
pie filling that's sweet But it's also got like
a touch of that like breadiness that reminds
me of like the pie crust. Yeah, but yeah blueberry
pie filling Would say is like that's this flavor.
Oh for sure like blueberry jam ish That's really
good very sweet. I will note that it's it's on
the sweeter side of ciders and usually I I enjoy
bitter things IPAs black coffee But you know
what if I'm in a treat yourself kind of mood.
I I definitely enjoy this oh Absolutely, this
is one of those things you probably couldn't
have more than two of because the sweetness might
get to you it would definitely get to me, but
That's really fantastic. That's a definitely
a dessert beer. Definitely a dessert beer, dessert
cider. Mm -hmm. I would say it reminds me of
fall. You know, I don't enjoy many blueberry
pies these days, but it's something about the
apple and blueberry mixture, the blueberry jamminess.
Yeah, the blueberry really comes to the front.
Yes. Yes, I would agree. That's really fantastic.
I enjoy it. I enjoy it a lot. I'll... Where to
rank it on a scale to five though? is the tough
point. That is the question. That's the tough
question. I, ayayay, I'm gonna dock it a quarter.
Oh. I'm gonna dock it a quarter, and that's just
my personal flavor palette because I think it's
a little bit too sweet for me. Okay. I was gonna
give it a 425, I'm giving it a four even. A four?
A 4 .0. I really like it. It's just a touch sweet
for me. I've got it a 3 .0. Oh, okay. 3 .0. Yeah,
typically, like I said, it's very good, light
on the palate, very super easy to drink. Very
smooth. Very smooth. But as you said, maybe just
a little over sweet. Yeah. Just a little. But
I enjoyed it. I definitely enjoyed it. I enjoyed
it quite a bit. Yeah. Yeah, it was really good.
So give that a shot. Where can people pick that
up? I mean, obviously liquor stores, grocery
stores, whatever. I believe it's an Aldi exclusive.
An Aldi exclusive? That's interesting. An Aldi
exclusive. I'm sure if you went to the cidery,
most cideries welcome people in and have a little
restaurant or bar or whatever. If you're in Vermont,
you can check it out, I'm sure, but I believe
it's an Aldi exclusive cider. So for all you
oldie stains out there, I'm not sponsored by
oldie, but I would love to be, because it's kind
of the only place I shop these days. It's where
I got it from. Not to get too far behind the
curtain, but the man behind the curtain is just
an oldie storefront. It's just an oldie style.
You know, I deeply respect that. Yeah, I really
do. That was excellent. That was really... I
quite like it. I enjoyed it. So that takes us
to our final segment. and that is our tier listing.
And it is volume two. We did retro gaming last
week and we only had so much time because we
were up against it and we had to get 15 in. So
I got another 15 this week. Aiden has not seen
these yet, so we are going to move forward on
this with a game called Qbert. Qbert, ooh, okay.
Now some of these, and for anyone unfamiliar,
tier listing, the segment came from AK209 many,
many months ago. We rank items on a scale from
F being the worst to the worst, D being bad,
C being mid, B being good, A being great, S being
the best of the best. Of the best. Damn right.
So we'll be ranking them on that scale. Now,
we came to the conclusion last week that this
retro -gamings would have to be a collaboration.
We'd have to meet on a letter because I know
these as retro games. You knew most of these
as the video games you grew up with. Correct.
So Qbert is one I'm less familiar with. I've
seen it played on YouTube videos, YouTube Let's
Plays and whatnot. Yes. I've not played it myself.
So I may have to just leave the main character
as cool as hell man. Look Hubert look Hubert.
He's got his little horn nose That's why he just
bounces around but they have all of these different
geometrical shapes mostly pyramid type shapes
where he's got to jump and get all the way to
the top. But then there's like shit in his way
and stuff. And so he has to like jump on these
little squares that make up this pyramid. And
so it's it's really kind of interesting and unique
because even though it was a 2D game, they tried
to make it as 3D as possible. Right. And of course,
later on they they did. But then it was like
a stock cube. Yeah, it's it's it's solid. So
I would give it a B. A B for Qbert. Qbert. Yeah,
putting the B in Qbert. Alright, we met on that
one. This one is old but elite. Sure. Space Invaders.
Oh yeah, man. That's like those classic arcade
cabinets that you sit in front of. And you put
your quarter in and you're a kid and you get
it to the arcade. You've got some quarters in
your pocket and there's some teenage kid and
he's just like got a stack of quarters there
and he's still on his first quarter. He's been
there an hour and you're just like, I'm never
touching this machine today. It's fucking true.
I know. Oh, they were so bad. Bastards. That's
awesome. That's got to be A or S tier. If it's
A, it's got to be high A. I think it might be
S tier. I really do. I think it was it's got
everybody is like Pac -Man, Pac -Man, Pac -Man.
But for me, it was Space Invaders. Yeah. And
that was just a game was cool as shit. And there
were so many like different variations of the
different levels. And like these these little
alien guys are supposed to be coming down at
you. They're shooting shit. Yeah. And then they
get the closer they get, they speed up and they
speed up like, oh, shit. I liked it. Like, gameplay
for 8 -bit was excellent. I always found it fascinating,
too, the sound engineering that went into those
simplistic games. Yes. Because the sound itself
was limited in scope as to what they could do
as well. Yeah. But they still made, like, the
escalation, the anticipation of, like, ah, shit,
they're getting too close. They made it equally
as, like, tense. Yeah, they did. You know? Oh,
yeah, for sure. I'm thinking S -tier. I think
it's in the elite. And S for space. S for space,
B for cubert. All right. What are we doing for
pole position? Oh, man. Pole position's great.
I don't like pole position. No, no, there's something
about it. It's like the only part I don't like
Aidan is that like when you're playing and you're
like you're top speed, right? Yeah And you're
just flooring it. I feel like the cars you're
passing they glitch out on you Yeah, I feel if
you're going too fast, like you see them, but
they're kind of like flash flash, right? Right,
so it's it's a little bit different and then
you're like, oh, yeah Can I squeeze in here and
it's like now it's actually right there, right?
Yeah, and that's of course a limitation of how
many frames per second, how quickly the chips
can render what you're doing. It's one of those
games where I get too sweaty at it, you know?
Where I'm like, oh, I'm solid. I'm so solid.
And then one bad thing happens, and I miss the
checkpoint, and I'm like, man, fuck this. Yeah.
I hate it. Oh, yeah. But it is great. It's got
to be B or A tier for me. OK. Was thinking c
-plus. Oh, we could go be then okay. I was I
was being too generous Yeah, B's good. I think
B is we could be minus even if you wanted okay
now B's good Okay, we got a B grade. How about
doom? Oh dooms great. We wouldn't have So many
of the shooter games we have if it wasn't for
do if it wasn't for doom Yeah, and I love like
the the recurring name that you can run doom
on anything mm -hmm like there are people that
have gotten doom to run on like their Texas Instruments
calculator get out of here. Yeah, they've gotten
oh, what is it? There's like another cool one
like they got doom to run on their cars infotainment
system. I Love it like oh my god. That's so great
because it's like a simple game. It's 2d But
once again, they made it feel 3d. Yes, and it's
It's excellent. It's really that's gotta be That's
either a plus or s man Yeah, it's really like
the way they made it work to where like you can't
look up and down but Enemies could be positioned
above or below you. Yeah, there's a certain Like
oval where if the enemy is within that it will
strike one of them Yeah, because of the limitations
of like well looking up and down you'd have to
render What's above you and below you you'd have
to make it 3d. Yeah, so the the way they pulled
it off I thought was excellent Yeah, I think
S. I think S is fair. S is fantastic. That's
good. Final Fantasy. Oh, man. It's a game I never
really got that into. I was never into the fantasy
gaming much anyway. Yeah. It's a genre of games
I've really come around to enjoy. Yeah. But that's
not an IP I really got into heavily. But it's
one of the games where I totally respect it.
Yeah. You know? So, just out of respect, I'd
have to give it a B. A B. That's exactly where
I was on that. Yeah. How about Super Mario World?
Ooh, fun! Now, I, of course, I wasn't around
for a lot of those when they first came out.
But... You played them as a retro game. Yes.
And there's a lot of ways you can play them on
Switch or Switch 2, or you can do emulators,
which Nintendo hates, but fuck Nintendo. As a
company, they're such assholes. Super Mario World
is fantastic. If we gave Super Mario Bros. an
S, this has got to be A or S as well. I think
it does. You'd imagine. A plus? A plus is good.
I like that. Think a plus I just just missing
the S tier yeah damn close to it for sure Okay,
and let's see how about Mario Kart 64 Now we're
talking now we're cooking I we never had Nintendo
consoles in our house growing up I think the
first console we got was a PlayStation 2. PS2.
In the late 2000s. And then we didn't upgrade
till 360. We didn't upgrade till 360, sometime
in the 2010s. And yeah, we never had Nintendo
consoles. The only time I played N64 games, I
played them on my friend's GameCube, because
the GameCube, I believe, could run N64 games.
And that's kind of my only experience with those.
Or the McDonald's Play Place. The McDonald's
Play Place always had N64. N64, yeah. N64 Mario
Kart is fantastic. I believe that's one of the...
Was that the first true 3D Mario Kart? I think
it was. I think it was, also. It's fantastic.
It's glitchy as hell. It's a broken game. They're...
people have found ways to make incredible shortcuts
where you get lap times in like four seconds
and like the entire race only takes 12 seconds,
right? So it's a broken game, but at its time,
it's fantastic. I love it. And the Mario Kart
games I've always felt handle, as racing games,
handle fantastic. They always have. That's gotta
be S. For me, that's an S. I can do that. Can
you appreciate that? Okay. I really can. Now,
I hope you've played this one. Okay. You may
not have. Largely PC -based game. Castle Wolfenstein.
Castle Wolfenstein. Once again, that's a game
I know of, but I haven't played. Yep. It's one
of those things where... You're going up against
these Nazis and these rabid dogs and all this
shit. Yep. And it's like you're going through
a maze and you have to get from one thing to
the other, but you're encountering all these
crazy things. And you have the gun is like, and
you're just like, it's like a really good shooter
game. Yeah. But then it's kind of it's challenging
because you have to like navigate these mazes.
And like I said, it's an old school PC game.
But at least for me, I used to play in college.
This guy, this guy Richard and Jeff Wiseman,
they had the computer in their in their room
and they had Wolfenstein. So that's great. We
played all the time. But if you played, if you
use their computer to play Wolfenstein and they
couldn't do their homework, you had to wear a
chicken hat. I wore that chicken had a lot. I
think it's good. I think it's like a a bee, like
a solid bee. I would... I'll let you have the
B. I'm willing to go B +, if I could influence
the plus in there, because one could argue games
like Castle Wolfenstein influenced the creation
of, like, Nazi zombies and Call of Duty zombies.
Oh, for sure. 100%. Oh, yeah. And I think that
alone gets at that plus. All right. The plus
gate gets. I respect that. That's awesome. Galaga.
Oh, Galaga's great. Galaga's great. Galaga used
to piss me off, man. That game was hard. Yeah.
Galaga's good. Which is some... That always confused
me, too. The difference between Galaga and Galactica.
Right. Yeah. I was always like... Growing up,
I thought they were the same game, and I was
just stupid. I was just missing something. And
then I played the both of them. I'm like, one
is so much better. Yes. It's crazy. Galaga is
infuriating, though. It's like it's really difficult.
It's infuriating in like the difficulty way not
so many games that era You could find patterns
and stuff and have success until you really get
further along in the game things speed up and
whatever they get you but like Galaga like it
could f you five minutes into that right right
it was tough. Yeah, I Like I respect it, but
that's It's too. It's a little it's not ET but
It is tough. That's C or B. C plus? C plus. C
plus will split that difference. NBA Jams. NBA
Jams. He's on fire. Yeah. All his shit's burning
on the court. Another game I know of and have
watched, but I haven't played. So I'll have to
defer. Yeah, I think the most fun. Was that if
you hit like three three -pointers in a row?
The ball would be out literally on fire. Oh,
yeah And you're like, if your guy touched that
ball, he's dribbling and the ball's on fire.
It's just like blazing balls. That's great. That's
going to be my autobiography, by the way. Blazing
balls. Blazing balls. So yeah, like literally
he's doing that and like he fires up a shot.
It's got trailers of smoke. Yeah. And like the
dude will make a whole bunch of shots in a row
before, you know, some guy knees up on him and
he misses and the fire goes away. Yeah. But it's
kind of it's kind of neat. The caricatures of
the players are really interesting. I can't remember
if it's three on three or two on two might be
two on two It's kind of interesting. But uh,
I don't know is like it was an entertaining game
But if you're looking for like the most realistic
Sports gaming that's not what this well, right?
So I would I would say see that's fair. That's
fair. Like it's got its fun to it You know, it
does it absolutely does fallout fallout. That's
awesome That's awesome now the fallout. I know
is like the fallout 3 fallout new Vegas era Yeah,
that one I played that one so and those are fantastic
as well the original I mean you don't get fallout
3 or new Vegas without fallout so that's I'll
have to defer again. That's another one of the
games I've I've seen but haven't played, but
I've played its successor its successors and
those are fantastic So I am biased towards a
high score of B or A. B's good. Yeah. B is definitely
good for fought. Defender. Defender I'm not aware
of. Yeah, it's 26 under a game. Oh, okay. Tell
me about it. I don't know anything about Defender.
Oh, okay. Like this one is actually beyond me.
I'm not sure. Yeah, no, Defender... I would say
like a poor man's space invaders, but it's okay.
I don't know. It's it's interesting gameplay
Nothing spectacular. Like I was follows just
like a solid game But I think you could kind
of figure it out sure like it wasn't a wasn't
like Galaga that would make you rage quite right
right But it's a good game like I would I would
rate it a C. That's solid I would rate it a C
and if I'm not mistaken the Atari 2600 was the
only are one of the only game console controllers
of that era to have a joystick. Correct. Right?
The NES controller didn't have a joystick. I
don't remember if the early Sega machines had
joysticks or not, but the Atari 2600 had a joystick
and a button. Yep. Oh yeah. You know? Correct.
Yeah. Okay. This is gonna be fun. Oh, okay. Grand
Theft Auto. Oh man. Number one. The original
PC top down. The PC top down. And like the trains
and you just sit there and shoot people and like
you kill them and then... It's like a little
red spot. Oh, god, it was great. That's awesome.
It was fun. It was good gameplay. I played a
lot of that. Yeah, that is a great game. I always
got caught by the cops because I could never
find a garage in time. Oh, right. In my getaway
car. Like, shit, I gotta change my plates or
something, man. I get caught. I'm like, man.
So those cops drove mad fast. They were crazy.
It was stupid. They were pissed. Like what I
do besides kill 20 people. Right, exactly. Come
on. It's not that crazy. Yeah. That's awesome.
That's an S. I think it is too. That's an S.
I really do. I mean, it has to be, right? To
create, what, 30 years later. Right. You know,
Five going on Six. Yes. San Andreas is a classic.
Vice City was great. Five is a masterpiece. It's
a masterpiece. Yeah. And guys are still RPing
that today. Game came out 12 years ago. Right.
And people love it. Right. Like, I love it. It's
so cathartic and you get on your TV. Obviously,
we will talk about this more if we do a more
current version of this tier listing for gaming.
But yeah, for me, it was always like, it's just
like so cathartic and you go home. And even if
you've succeeded, right, you play through the
game and you win, you can play forever because
you've got the money. You've got gazillions of
dollars, which means you can play forever. And
all you have to do is just... steal cars, and
shoot guns, and drive around and do little missions.
It's great. Yeah, it is fantastic. The whole
idea behind that game is great. Three left, Double
Dragon. Double Dragon is another game I'm not
familiar with. It's great. It is 8 -bit, two
guys walking through the streets, and they fight.
And it's really good. The gameplay is pretty
solid, although the graphics are very mid. The
gameplay is solid and it's fun. So for me, it'd
be like a solid C +, I think. That's excellent.
I think I have seen that game played before,
in a YouTube video. Oh, have you? Yeah. Another
game you may or may not have played, Joust. Joust?
I think I've seen... Yeah, played. It's kind
of crazy. It's kind of crazy. It's kind of crazy.
It's like a fever dream It's it's a weird game.
Does it get points for creativity? Yeah, it's
creative as fuck. Yeah See for creative. I mean
it's up to you. I you know, see his fair score
Yeah, the C is a fair score. That was a game
that like it made me giggle It was kind of fun
and crazy, but then like ten minutes later. I'm
like that's plain. Yeah. Yeah, I was like done
with it We're gonna finish with one This is going
to hit Aiden pretty good. SimCity. SimCity 2000?
Yeah. Oh man. Which is crazy because I think
it came out in the mid to late 90s. But hey,
everything was 2000. Well, that's for this retro.
I figured about like 1980 to 99. Yeah. It was
kind of the retro. I just found it funny. They
called it SimCity 2000. Oh, right. It's not 2000
yet. It's not 2000 yet, guys. Which I think the
Blues Brothers did also. Yes. Which was a terrible
movie. Terrible movie. Awful movie. SimCity 2000
is beautiful. It is fantastic. It's an S tier.
It's maybe an S plus, which could be our first
S plus on the Mo Show version of tier listing.
Of course, I'm biased. I love it. It's fantastic.
To this day, you could just sit there for like
an hour and just play it. It's great. Yeah. It's
the only game, because we're on 64 -bit systems,
right? Yeah. It's the only game I need to use
a DOS box for, because you have to run it in
Microsoft DOS. You have to. And it's so worth
it. It's definitely worth it. It's worth every
bit of trouble. It really is. And I'm trying
to think of the game. What's the game where like
all the like there's all the people and you can
build your home and you have all the other people
they It's like and then like they talk in gibberish
so the Sims The Sims. I knew it was close to
Sim. I knew it had some sense. Yeah, they speak
Simlish. But there's a narrator for SimCity 2000.
And I never understand what the hell she's saying.
Why did you stretch your spline? I'm like, what?
Articulating splines. That's what they are. I'm
like, what does that mean? Yeah, it's like that's
the intro. You get the Maxis intro, right? Yeah.
And then a placardish. shows up that's like welcome
sim city mayor like are you ready to build your
town and then just this woman's voice out of
nowhere she's like articulating splines what
does this mean what does it mean yeah it's it's
so engaging though it is and the soundtrack is
great it's like funky and upbeat um it's there's
so much to do it's not just building a city like
you can drop like monsters on your city and then
you have to like battle them off with like the
National Guard and your firefighters are dealing
with shit. You have to keep the people happy
otherwise they riot. Right they boo and you're
just like what? Shut up. It's like I raise your
taxes one percent okay I gotta pay for parks
man. Right exactly. I'll calm down. It's great.
Yeah definitely. The transportation guy who's
always mad that you have too many roads. Oh he's
always angry. It's like, you have too many roads
and highways. You should cut back. It's like,
cut back and then what builds there? Then what?
Nothing builds there. Right. Yeah. If I built
something there, I'm going to need a road. Right.
You're just a salty bitch. He really is. I hate
the guy that always says, I have too many roads.
Mm -hmm. I'm like, what? You're not doing pavement
work. I'm paying you. Why are you mad? Why are
you mad, bro? Oh, God. What showed? yeah but
that's uh that's it that's it for this week um
we had a great uh tier list here i'll run through
this group uh cubert b space invaders s pole
position b doom s final fantasy b super mario
world a plus mario kart 64 s castle wolfenstein
b plus galaga c plus nba jmc Fallout B, Defender
C, Grand Theft Auto S, Double Dragon C +, Joust
C, and SimCity 2000. With an S. With an S. That's
fantastic. And that concludes our show, the Mark
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