Hey there, everybody. Welcome to the Mark Mo
Show. I'm your host, Mark Maloney, and this is
a pocket full of shells. And I am joined by my
co -host and producer, Aidan Maloney. Aidan,
good day to you, sir. It is a good day indeed,
a good day to you as well. A little bit of a
rainy one here in the Midwest U .S., but you
know what? Rain is good for plants, so I can't
be mad about that. It is. We've actually, parts
of the Midwest have actually been under drought
warning for a while. We just have not had the
summer storms that we normally have. And then
when we get them, they're usually, they don't
last very long, but they usually knock down trees
and shit, so. Right, right. It's just, it's kind
of whack this year, for sure. It's a little goofy
for sure, but good to be here on the show, per
use, on this beautiful Saturday morning. I would
agree, for sure. And I also want to make mention
that Aidan... also has his own YouTube gaming
channel. It's called Aiden Spelled the Right
Way. He has new PC gaming content like GeoGuessr,
which the most recent one is really funny. So
you can watch that one. GeoGuessr, PolyBridge,
Observation Duty and more each and every week.
So what can people expect? I know you've been
doing some GeoGuessr. You've been doing some
PolyBridge. Yes. Yeah. And of course it is spooky
season. So September and October really ramping
up. the horror games. I have several planned,
perhaps some that we'll talk about with the While
You Were Sleeping segment here in the near future.
But yeah, very exciting horror games. Of course,
PolyBridge and GeoGuessr will continue. It's
good to have long running series like that. Yeah.
Especially considering that I can only go uphill,
you know. That's right. It's hard to do worse
than bad. That is very true. That is very true.
And I do have to say in this most recent one,
And I can't remember exactly what the geo guesser
map was titled, but I think it was like like
really like simple stupid Maps are like the dumb
test like the dumb test. Yeah. And so the first
one to a place I've been to several times drops
Aiden in Vegas And so he's right by the Vegas
side that you enter into Vegas where you're coming
off the expressway most people from like the
Los Angeles area And then they take the road
in, which then kind of goes into Las Vegas Boulevard,
which is where all the casinos and resorts and
all that kind of stuff are. So there's a sign
that's kind of this iconic sign that people get
their picture taken when they go to Vegas. So
GeoGuessr drops him at the sign. And I was like,
wow, that really was pretty simple. Right. And
then Aidan's kind of trying to get his bearings
and figure out where he's at. And now to Aidan's
point, and you even mentioned it, you had never
been there before. Yeah. So you're not like 100%.
But like, I have. So I'm sitting at home and
I'm going, oh my god, dude. I'm like, you're
just off the airport. You're just. And the Karen
is like right there. And then you picked out
Mandalay. I'm like, oh, he's got it now. I'm
like, he's got it. Now, you ended up not being
very far away. Yeah. But yeah, once you saw Mandalay,
I thought you'd be like, oh, it's on the main
drag or main stream or whatever. But the airport
was also kind of a. Yeah. Yeah, I think I even
mentioned like, oh, if I just took a second to
think critically, I probably would have gotten
a better score, but. Well, yeah, you did that
with Pisa, too. That's true. And to be fair,
I knew Pisa was a place, but I wasn't specifically
sure like where in the north it was. I thought
it was like a borough of Rome. I took an L. And
that's fair because the architecture kind of
belongs. Yeah. Like it makes sense and it belongs.
And so I get that. But like, it was hilarious,
and you're just like, ah, Rome, and you just
click them, like, no, keep looking! But see,
that's the fun of those games, and I think that's
why people love it, is because you just kind
of immerse yourself into this journey you're
taking in each and every game. So that's why
it's a blast. Yeah, it is very fun. uh no doubt
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So definitely check that out as well. So I had
a different show planned for this week, to be
completely honest. And I had a title for it and
what we were going to talk about. Just to kind
of foreshadowing, if you will, my Carpe Diem
is going to reflect a little bit of what that
show is going to be. But this particular show
came about with an event that happened this week,
right? Warm, summer -like day in Valparaiso,
Indiana. It was a beautiful day. And interrupted
by the announcement that right -wing activist
Charlie Kirk had been shot in Orem, Utah. And
not long... After that, hey, another school shooting
in Colorado, which hardly anyone talked about
and that just pisses me off anyway. But anyway,
I mean, let's face it, if you're not gonna ban
guns when a bunch of little kids get shot in
Connecticut, that's never gonna happen. Right.
That's just me. But anyway, I immediately thought
of a song, right? Rally around a family with
a pocket full of shells, weapons not food, not
homes, not shoes, not need, just fill the war,
cannibal, animal. It's it's what it is. It's
uh, I'm really trying to keep myself under control
for this particular show because it definitely
hits home and and it just makes you thinking
like what's the tipping point when is enough
enough and Just maybe it's just our destiny to
self -destruct that people are so filled with
ego and pride and and and We can't change an
amendment even though it says amend. Haha, you
know, it's like that were just bound to self
-destruct. And that just may be the case. But
Charlie Kirk once said having an armed citizenry
comes with a price, and that is part of liberty.
So for liberty, whatever the fuck that actually
means anymore is good, and if kids are being
mulled down at school regularly, gangs shooting
wildly in the streets of major cities, Americans
attacking other Americans because of their sex
or religion or political beliefs, is acceptable
in the name of liberty. Sadly, more believe that
than don't. And this is modern -day America.
We're much closer to GTA 5 than Little House
on the Prairie, let's face it. Many Americans
are violent, brainwashed puppets, and straight
up these motherfuckers shouldn't have guns. But
they do. There's a lot more guns on the streets
than there are actually human beings. Right.
Which is crazy. But, you know, there's guns on
the left, guns on the right, and I'm stuck in
the middle with you. You're welcome for that.
That's good. That's a really good one. You like
what I did there? Yeah. What I find amazing is
the right in this country will say it isn't guns
or the laws, but it's mental health. Yet time
and time again, the Republican -controlled House
and Senate vote down mental health initiatives.
And they sure as shit don't vote. they vote against
every effort to strengthen gun laws. It is the
Wild West, but hey, it's the price of liberty
and our precious amendment. Aidan, you remember
the Hortmans? The Hortmans. The Hortmans. I know
it kind of sounds like a Dr. Seuss quote, but
it's not. The who is what most of you are probably
saying. The Hortmans. She was a Democratic rep
from the state of Minnesota. She was gunned down
in her home along with her husband and her dog
for being nothing but a Democrat. Remember all
the outage from the right? Remember? Anyone?
Hello? Silence is the order of the day on gun
crimes unless it happens to their own. When that
happens, it's the quote -unquote libtard's fault.
How the fuck is that even remotely true? Democrats
want stronger gun laws, bans on assault weapons,
and improved mental health care, but it's a blue's
fault again? And what is sad is that the right
is just much better selling that narrative than
actually solving the everyday problems of American
citizens. I know two things can be both true,
right? So Kirk's shooter should be condemned,
arrested, prosecuted for this politically motivated
murder, no question. Kirk was also an integral
part of the neo -fascist propaganda machine that
made political violence inevitable wherever it
is utilized. We can't solve the first problem
without acknowledging the second. True, very
true. That's basic. People should be allowed
to speak freely provided They're not inciting
a riot. Huh, I wonder what that was. Interesting.
Yelling fire in a crowded room, preaching hate,
any of that sort of stuff. However, remember,
everyone is free to speak. Absolutely everyone.
That's your right. However, you're not free from
consequence of that speech. I think a lot of
people forget that. You can tell your boss to
fuck off. The consequence is you're probably
going to get fired. Right. You can call your
significant other names, fatso, jerk, whatever.
But you do that enough, you probably had it for
divorce court. If you're a public figure and
your words are incredibly powerful, and with
every person you inspire, there are gonna be
those that will despise you for everything that
comes out of your mouth. That, of course, circles
back to the original problem, which is gun violence.
Nothing shuts someone up faster than a bullet.
Very true. It's Kennedy. Malcolm X. Martin Luther
King. MLK. It goes on and on, right? Activists
just being shot because it shuts them up. Right.
Shuts them up and what they hope for is that
it kills the movement. Yeah. That's why they
do it. So Kirk paid the ultimate price and I
do feel terrible for his wife and his kids. Those
kids gotta grow up. Those kids gotta grow up
in a digital age, right? Those kids gotta grow
up without a dad which is gonna be tough enough
for them. But they grow up in a digital age where,
as they get older, they're gonna see their dad
shot in the fucking neck. Right. Those kids are
not gonna be right. I don't care what anybody
says. And, you know, they didn't deserve that.
Even his wife didn't deserve that. But hey, all
for liberty, right? Right. All for an amendment
whose root word is amend, which means to change.
If Congress wanted to do this shit, it could
be fixed in short order. Thinking about amendments
in our Constitution, do you honestly think Thomas
and George and Ben and the rest of our forefathers
could have imagined high capacity semi -automatic
weapons and sniper rifles and drones in cities
of millions? No shot. All right, that's a bad
pun. That's a, ow, bad host, bad host. But that
is why the Constitution was designed the way
it was designed. Bottom line, until left and
the right come together on this thing and decide
that everyone should not own a gun, and the mentally
ill people should have all the healthcare that
they need, this will go on and on. And not just
to the Kirk and Hortmans of the world, this will
eventually touch all of us, if it hasn't already.
Oh, and did I mention there's another school
shooting? Right. All right, A, what do you got
to say? Well, I'm kind of in the same boat where
I, of course, feel sorry for his wife and his
children for the situation that they're now left
with without a spouse, without a father. But
it's tough to talk about. We had a discussion
similar to this during our conversation around
Hulk Hogan. Yes. Where, you know, Lines in the
sand and and whether or not to cross them. How?
Best can you talk about someone that died? When
they were a piece of shit in life Correct. Is
there a proper way to do that? I mean there's
there's already people people are being doxxed
online for criticizing the late Charlie Kirk
You know people are being fired from their jobs
from posting his tweets Right. His tweets. His
tweets. His words. Yeah. Inciting people to go
out and bail out the attackers of the Pelosi's.
Now I'm not a fan of the Pelosi's. But how is
that not an act of violence? That's dark. That's
dark. And it is. Yeah. And then minimizing the
damage of school shootings across the country.
Hundreds of children die every year from school
shootings. Yep. Mass killings across the country.
And... One of his entire life's missions, it
seemed, was to minimize that, to simply make
guns look better? Right. I mean, how ironic,
really, that this all unfolds. It really does,
and I think some people have to take some responsibility
for the things that happen. Once again, the shooting's
terrible. I get it, and this kid should be buried
under the jail. I get it. But at the same point,
You have to go back and look at the bulk of his
work which includes telling black women that
they're not smarter than the rest of us because
they have a small brain and telling people that
if he walks onto an airplane and there's a black
pilot that he's thinking twice about whether
he wants to get on this fucking plane because
he's not he's a DEI hire and he's not sure he's
qualified to fly the damn plane. Getting angry
at someone that was asking a question by the
way most of those people are planted in his audiences
by the way, right? That That a and Asian American
woman had asked him a question about something
and then he calls them debates, right? So he
calls these things debates But yet she pushed
him on something and he starts yelling dives
into the crowd calls our chink He was not a good
dude and people are like, oh Christian and blah
blah blah. I'm like Look, I was born and raised
Catholic, went to a Catholic high school, went
to a Jesuit university, studied theology. I get
the shit he's talking about, but there's the
whole practice what you preach thing, and he
was just not a good human being at all. And when
he espouses all these things at all these quote
unquote debates that he has, someone's not gonna
be really happy with you at some point. I'm shocked.
that someone hasn't tried to do something to
him before now. Right. To be completely honest.
And that goes for anybody, even the President
of the United States, who he's not exactly trying
to lower the temperature. Right. Instead he's
going the other way. And in Fox News recently,
it might have been either this morning or yesterday,
when they were like, hey, this thing between
the far right and the far left is kind of getting
out of hand and blah, blah, blah. What do you
plan to do? I'm not going to do anything. Right.
None of it, he doesn't give a shit or whatever,
however he phrased it. But it was like, you hear
that, and I'm like, how can everybody in Washington
DC not hear that and be like, yeah, this guy's
gotta go? Right. Right, because, and you saw
how quickly the narrative changed, too, when
they didn't know who the suspect was. This this
means civil war we gotta find whoever did this
and then it ends up being some far -right white
kid And all of a sudden it's like oh, we got
to pray for this guy. He was definitely troubled
It's oh interesting interesting that that changed
your mind. I wonder who radicalized kids like
that Mm -hmm Charlie Kirk right Stephen Crowder
went this Yeah, Nicholas Fuentes Ben Shapiro
all those guys all of them and Donald Trump mm
-hmm Pedophile Donald Trump right correct Correct.
That's who's radicalizing these kids. And then
you have alt -right, far -right infighting that
causes these crazy righties to shoot other crazy
righties. Insane, right? It's insane. And I'm
supposed to feel bad? Well, right exactly that's
the I'm supposed to feel bad. No, I feel bad
for the kid and the wife I feel bad for all those
children that die in school shootings I don't
fucking feel bad for Charlie Kirk now and and
that's and that's real and and I'm glad you said
that because at some point you're gonna say stuff
that's gonna make someone angry enough to be
like NAS guys gotta go and You do whatever you
have to do now this kid that shot him. I guess
You know, we're assuming that that was the case,
but his dad brought him to justice, so I'm guessing
there's probably some legitimacy to all this,
but I think his dad just did it because he didn't
want to see his kid, quote unquote, disappear.
Right. And then, you know, get shot in a garage
in Dallas. Oh, that was the other guy. Interesting.
Interesting how that works when you want to shut
someone up. It's a bullet. Yeah. So at any rate,
this kid had been shooting a gun since he was
a toddler. Like it was a gun family. Right. And
so many of us thought, wow, what a pro shot.
And I still think that. I mean, that was just
like, that's a pro shot. Oh, it wasn't head or
center mass. I'm like, who's the jugular dude?
Like he shot him in the jugular, which means
he's going to bleed out before he gets any medical
attention. Right. And from what I've heard, it
was a hunting rifle. Yeah. And what? You're in
the middle of Utah. I mean, Utah, Montana, all
those states out that way. It's full of hunters.
Right. So it's a hunting rifle with a kid growing
up shooting guns. They're going to know how to
kill their prey quickly. Right. They're hitting.
That's what a hunter does. They're hitting deer,
moving towards them or away from them or whatever.
Charlie Kirk's just sitting in a chair. Right.
He's just sitting in a chair. That was easy pickings.
Yeah. So at any rate. Yeah, man, I hear you.
It's just the temperature has got to come down.
But it's, you know, to be able to look at it
and blame the left is absolutely ridiculous.
But. the right is the one stoking all of these
these violent sound bites and fascist sayings
and this and that and just anti LGBTQ and anti
-woman and anti black and Hispanic and everything
else and At some point it comes to a head as
a matter of fact in Chicago An ICE agent got
shot. Finally, someone decided, hey, I'm Mexican
-American. They're probably at some point gonna
come with me. I'm gonna strap up. Right. And
the guy did. Now that guy got killed, but he
got a shot off. Right. And he shot one of the
ICE agents. For doing things that are unconstitutional.
Right. No due process. At some point, the shit's
gonna come back and bite you. Right. So essentially,
an agent with a mask on and no visible badge.
Attempted to kidnap somebody, abduct somebody,
and they got shot. And then they shot the dude
who was constitutionally correct in defending
himself. Defending himself, correct. Meaning
the United States of America just killed a citizen.
Yes. For following the law? Right. Oh, they killed
the citizen because he looked different than...
He wasn't a cracker. He wasn't a white dude.
Right. Exactly. That's it. Yeah. It's unbelievable.
It is unbelievable. And as I said, this is the
climate they've created through free speech.
And I had a conversation briefly with a friend
of mine, a guy who's a former Marine and everything,
and I knew he'd probably have a little bit of
a different take, which I'm sure he did, which
he's entitled to. But in the same sense... I'm
like, look, in a way, it's like one amendment
is kind of opposing the other here. It's kind
of conflicting because the thing that is called
free speech is now creating an environment where
those that own guns are now, hey, I gotta shut
up the guy who's practicing his free speech,
utilizing my practice of gun ownership and being
able to own a firearm in the United States. Which,
quite frankly, is a well -regulated militia.
But hey, let's not get crazy. Let's not dive
into the amendment thing and what it actually
really means or meant at that time they wrote
it. Right. That's the point. That could be another
whole show. But we won't get into that. But it's
where we're at. Yeah. It's where we're at. Right
now. I don't think we have people serious enough
in Washington DC to really want to fix these
problems Which is a problem? Because it's it's
going to end What the United States is and was
right? It's gonna change it dramatically, and
I don't think there's people in Washington serious
enough to fix it No, absolutely not and you know
if if hey if you're out there, and you're listening
to this show and you are a US representative,
you are a senator, hell, you have a cabinet position,
I don't give a shit, and you're sitting there
and you're disagreeing with me, oh, we have serious
people, number one bullshit, number two, feel
free, reach out to us here, hit us up in the
DMs or the socials, I will have a conversation
with you and it won't be like a Charlie Kirk
debate and we won't have to duck, so. Let's have
that conversation, because I'm telling you right
now, if we had people in Washington serious enough,
they would look at the gun problem, they would
look at hate speech, they would look at all the
stuff that's going on right now, and the shit
would come to an end. Right. It would have to
come to an end. Yeah. And we just don't have
anyone serious enough to do it. Nope. You know
who is serious about it? Australia. Damn. One
mass shooting. That was it. No more guns. Yep.
No more guns. you know what it worked mm -hmm
they don't get no more guns okay cool yeah that
mass shooting was pretty devastating I nothing
wrong with that only thing is what we average
a hundred a hundred plus mass shootings a year
in the US a year and I'll talk Australia was
one they're like all right then all right better
get these guns out of these contents all right
right exactly and here's the thing Aidan as parents
Okay, as parents now, I'll speak growing up as
a Gen X kid, right? you have a plastic gun and
you run around the house and you're fucking with
your sibling as siblings do and Right. Ah so
and so's picking on me blah blah and you run
around the house all of a sudden You reach back
with your plastic on you bop your sister in the
head sister starts crying goes to mom what? What
happens 99 % of time? Just riddle me this, Batman.
What happens 99 % of the time? Parent takes that
gun, hey, fucker. You just, yeah, you're not
getting that back. Yeah, no more. Go to your
room. So not only do you have your plastic weapon
confiscated, you're going to your room for a
while. Right. So we went from that mentality
as a parent raising your child to be like, mm
-mm, nope. And that's how they, to kind of growing
up. And now you're running the country. Oh, we
can't take guns. Well, they're not using them
right. But but we can't take them right you can
you can do whatever the fuck you want Look at
Trump was he was he four or five hundred executive
orders now, right King Trump You can do it if
you want to as I said their amendments right
when when When this country's government thought
hey people are really getting drunk What did
they do? They amended the Constitution, said,
nah, you fuckers. Nope, we're gonna do away with
it. No, they eventually brought it back. But
my point being in that example is they thought
enough of it at the time to be like, mm -mm,
nope, you guys are done with this shit. So why
can't we look at that? And I'm not saying overall
ban of all guns, but at some point. What's the
breaking point? What's the breaking point? Right,
is there simply, there's too much money in guns,
there's too much money in war, that the lives
of school children, the life of Charlie Kirk,
they just don't matter enough. Correct. There's
too much money in guns and war, and maybe there
is no breaking point. Maybe, maybe, civil war
or some, some global war is, is the inevitable
outcome, but you know what? I'm not participating,
because it's not my fucking problem. No, no.
And you know, I've had, Aidan, I've had friends
that were able to get dual citizenship, and they
were, they're really, as their kid finishes up
high school, they're looking to leave. One in
Ireland, one in Poland. I'm not sure Poland would
be such a great option right now, but that's,
once again, that's another show. At any rate...
Look at this and that's a viable option. Yeah,
he's leaving look. I got a friend in Canada I'm
sure I could like work out a thing to get there
I can go to Ireland and get my citizenship and
We've talked about this and and I've had numerous
people ask me why haven't you done this yet,
right and I think next year that's kind of part
of the plan is to take steps in that process
because If we're not serious about solving problems
are just gonna get worse and I don't want to
be around for that, right? And so if I can go
to Ireland and get my citizenship and then if
any of my kids want to get over there I can help
them in that process. Then that's probably the
right thing to do. Yeah, I would agree. Yeah,
but at any rate that's you know it's it's kind
of a you know kind of a buzzkill kind of opening
to the show as we have sometimes but i think
we just deal with real shit and we just talk
about it sometimes and you know if we can kind
of be tongue -in -cheek and be a little bit funny
with it we try to be but uh you know i think
this is enough where this type of shit it riles
me up i know it riles aiden up and uh and and
i think it's it's just worth it's worth talking
about right and uh And once again, I know there's
people out there that give a shit. I do know
this. I think there's way too many people that
are probably brainwashed anymore through either
Fox News or Breitbart or whatever they get brainwashed
through. Or the aforementioned podcasters. The
podcasters that we've talked about that are really
creating this climate where there's no turning
back. There's even people that have said, You
know, the Pacific states are talking about seceding
in Washington, Oregon and California. And I guess
now Hawaii kind of just doing their own thing
and becoming Pacifica or whatever that is. There's
also been memes out there talking about like
the Republic of New England and all the New England
states breaking off and doing their own thing.
So at some point, you know, maybe it's not that
this place self -destruction turns into a big
civil war. Maybe it's just there's no more United
States. Right. Maybe this becomes four or five
or six. different countries and that's probably
more realistic than an all -out gray bath yeah
but that's I think that's just the way it looks
right now yeah you know and maybe not in my lifetime
but it's certainly moving in that direction yeah
and that might be the only peaceful option it
might be it might because you can't you can't
vote your way out of fascism that's not how that
works so I mean, I wouldn't blame any of those
states if they secede. If they can make it work,
that's kind of the peaceful way out, just to
be like, you know what? We'll just do our own
thing. USA, you do your own thing. We're going
to just be a different country. Yeah. And maybe
I would want to move to that country. Maybe.
Maybe I would. But you know what? There's one
good thing that comes out of this. I'm sure the
CEOs of Lockheed Martin and Sig Sauer and Boeing
are doing totally fine. Oh, I'm sure they are.
I'm sure the shareholders are very happy. Sitting
on a mountain of cash. Yeah, exactly Yeah, over
a mountain of dead bodies. Yeah, you know, I
don't think the NRA is losing sleep today No,
you know, but anyway, as I said, it frustrates
us. I know frustrates you guys this is just our
opportunity to vent a little bit and and talk
about it and get that discussion going and You
know, as I said, I don't think there's anybody
serious enough to really want to do anything.
You know, we had a serious guy, oh God, what
was it, 2016 now? A guy that kind of wanted to
make change. Right. And his own people turned
against him and that didn't end up happening.
And I swore that the day that happened, I'm like,
this country's over. Yeah. Oh yeah, we both called
it. This country's over. Yep. You know, when
they essentially, quite frankly, and I've said
this to people, I'm not a Hillary fan. I'm not
even a really big Bill Clinton fan. I think the
guy's a scumbag. Plus, I think that's why some
Democrats aren't really stoked about... Oh, by
the way, Epstein files. I don't think they're
really stoked about that because I think Bill
Clinton, just like Trump, I think he's all over
this shit. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I know for a fact
that's why they don't. There's a lot of billionaires
on this shit. So, naturally people don't. want
that. People in power don't want it released.
They don't want it released. Here's the fun thing.
Information is information. And just because
you think you have and own everything, you don't.
I think it was Canada that just released a bunch
of emails that Epstein had. And apparently England's
got a bunch of stuff and they just fired, they
fired, God, who was it? The UK or England had
Like a diplomat or something they were like nope
you're out of here because like they knew he
was in him and so I'm trusting in other countries
to make that part right right I I really am and
just just release what you got. You know if that
dude with that funny mask that has his little
his little Dark podcast anonymous anonymous.
Yeah Yeah, if he wants to get on there and like
what are you waiting for if you if you think
you got something? Let's go. Yeah Let's go. I
mean, he's been really good at, or she, I don't
know who anonymous is, right? So they've been
really good at releasing a lot of interesting
information, but this would be the biggest bit
of information in history. The troubling part
is too, what would it change? We have the letter
that Donald Trump... wrote to Jeffrey Epstein
on his birthday. On his birthday. Oh, that's
fake, that's not real, that can't be. It is.
It blows my fucking mind. You showed we're all
fucking excited. Oh, Donald Trump's the dude
that's gonna release the Epstein files. We're
gonna get rid of this pedophile ring. We had
a whole episode about that. You have the letter
now, and you're all denying it. Yep. At what
point do you take a second to be introspective
and think, oh my god, I might be in a cult? At
what point? Right, yeah. Unbelievable. It is
unbelievable. At least if they were released,
we would all, you know, with functioning brain
cells, we would all have the list and know for
sure who's on it. Oh yeah. And I think we, I
think we already have an idea of many of these
people that are on it. Right. I really do. And
all the women, all the women spoke up at Washington
DC, what was that, a couple weeks ago now, and
they stood up and they spoke and... All of them
together, collectively, can put enough information
together to really fuck with a lot of people.
Right. And I think they need to do that. Oh,
by the way, did you notice that during their
little press conference that there was a fly
by? Yeah. Yep. You know, to drown them out or
whatever? Yeah. And they just waited. They're
just like, oh, hold on. Yeah. And they just waited
for the plane to... Oh, man. That petty fucker.
Yep. But, yeah. It's always my hope that bad
people... get what they have coming to them.
Once again, not that I'm advocating someone being
shot in the throat. I'm just talking about justice
in general. Right. But once again, that's corrupt
too. So maybe all it's going to take is a little
bit of liberty. That's the best way to end it.
I love it. Well done. Let's take a quick break
here. And I promise we're going to start having
a little bit of fun. We're going to come back
with Carpe Diem. All right, we're back everybody
and Let's let's lighten the mood. Let's let's
let's bring that temperature down. Shall we?
And let's jump into some Carpe Diem And I mine's
a little different this week. Although I do have
one from a regular which I guess I'll just throw
out there now, is from Stoner Stanley. Oh, our
boy Stoner Stan. Our boy Stoner Stanley, who
said, hey, Momo and Alan, they shot Captain Kirk.
So sad am I. Oh, man. Not Captain Kirk. No, no.
Wrong one, buddy. See you probably watching that
Star Trek too much. I call it. Yeah It's I don't
know it is then the track are to track. It's
people tracking Stoner here's Dan. You're the
best my guy. He's our lad. Oh he is now I'm doing
something a little different this week, and I
I started collecting these Early in the week
as I said when the show was gonna kind of go
a different direction which the direction was
Trump having the quote -unquote Department of
War. Right. Yeah. Fucking goofy ass. Win that
Nobel Peace Prize. Yeah. The Department of War
and then saying he was gonna invade Chicago,
have these apocalypse now memes with him like
sitting there and helicopters flying in the city.
By the way, I've seen military helicopters over
Valpo. Oh, yeah. Like the last three days. Yep.
freaking stupid anyway so him kind of doing this
whole thing has been really crazy and it boggled
my mind in a way and I have so many DMS here
and I'll fly through them as quickly as I can
but it's really amazing just everybody's thoughts
across America when he decided to pick on Chicago
of all places. It's like, oh. You're in the wrong
place, fool. You're in the wrong spot. There's
a reason why so many of these dystopian novels
and shows and stuff like this always picture
Chicago as that last standing bastion of freedom.
Right. That flips up their middle fingers and
says, bring it, bitch. Because that's Chicago.
That's like Chicago is a reflection of those,
you know, blue collar, we're working hard, we're
just trying to live a good life, Midwesterners,
that like when it comes around to fucking with
them, we all band together and kind of go, nah,
no, that's not gonna happen. I love it, like
literally all of the street gangs in Chicago
are like, okay, all right, bring it. Temporary
truce, boys. Yeah, and I think any country that
would ever invade the United States, really doesn't
know what they'd have coming to them when they
would go into, say, like, inner city LA or Chicago
or New York, gangs would fuck them up. Oh, yeah.
Would just mess them up. And so, like, I look
at this, and I'm like, what's his play? Because
I don't get it. It's like, oh, Chicago's a, hellhole
is a big word that he uses. Chicago's a hellhole.
Chicago's a hellhole, and it's terrible, and
it's the most violent place on earth yet. There's
his little Trump building. Just sits pretty.
And how much are they charging per night? Right.
For a war -torn hellhole? Yeah. Give me a freaking
break, dude. Also, it takes one Google search
to find... Very thorough studies showing the
more dangerous cities of oh, I don't know Baltimore
Memphis st. Louis st. Louis I mean the list goes
on Chicago's not even in the top ten and I think
they're just outside I think per capita. They're
like number 23 or yeah, yeah, which isn't great
You don't want vibe but their violent crimes
been down in Chicago for a bit. Yeah, it's moving
in the right direction Yeah, I think what pisses
Trump off is the fact that it's just this true
Midwestern melting pot You know, Illinois and
Minnesota can be in those last blue bastions.
Yes. In the Midwest. Yeah. And you just gotta
pick on them. And you know what? It's not gonna
pan out. It's not gonna pan out because I'll
tell you what, as many differences as we have
with our neighbors, sometimes political, but
mostly, and comically, really, it's like sports
teams, right? Yeah. Ah, the Brewers, the White
Sox, the Cubs, grr, grr, the Packers, and Viking,
you know. But that's it. Right. Like, it's just
these friendly rivalries normally. And here,
I'll just start with Potty Mouth Pollyanna. Oh.
And she says, I'm in Wisconsin. Chicago is like
family. I can say all sorts of shit about them,
but you don't get to fuck with my family. I love
that. My man. Morgan Finley King says, as night
falls on Chicago, motorcycle clubs join in preparation
to resist an invasion. That's awesome. I saw
the pictures. They were outside of some bar on
the north or northwest side. Hundreds of bikes
from motor clubs. I'm like, dude doesn't know.
And then in some cases, ICE is kind of going
into the city. And not only are people resisting
them, but the CPD is alongside the people. Nope.
Now, I'll police them. You don't get to police
them. And it's, when I saw that, I'm like, oh
yeah. I'm like, if CPD's stand with the people,
you guys best just leave. You should go. Sanja
Abdul says, I'm so proud to see Chicago showing
up in this pivotal moment in U .S. history. When
I first moved to the U .S. in 2009, Chicago made
me feel so welcome. It was easy to fall in love
with the city. I'm so grateful Chicago was my
first experience into the United States as a
country. That's fantastic. Isn't that amazing?
That is really nice. Nate Morris, fuck ICE, fuck
Trump. Y 'all are about to learn, don't fuck
with Chicago. eloquently put eloquently put Tracy's
Tracy searing Detroit stands with Chicago we
fight here you fight there together we're louder
drop your city huge P supermarket PSA all Chicago
residents who are currently armed remember this
is literally what the second amendment is for
me are the militia yep real to a people stand
up yep Design me super fine. All right. JB Pritzker
and Chicago Mayor Johnson are a two -man department
of deep dish resistance. Inspiring. I love that.
I was just about to mention too the combo of
Pritzker and Johnson kind of like hands off.
Don't fuck with us. Yes. The way they just put
it is hilarious. That's hilarious. Department
of deep dish resistance. Oh, that's amazing.
Just Sue says Chicago Detroit stands with you
Great Lakes strong true Peaky our potions says
Chicago Michigan is with you Midwest strong Powers
Matthew says that's not how Chicago does things
from the Haymarket affair to the 1960s Dem convention
to a million other thing Million other things
Chicago fights true. This is very true I'm Katie
High. Remember in Handmaid's Tale how Chicago
refused to give in to Gilead? Keep fighting,
Chicago. Julius Skim, 55. I was born in Chicago
even though I live in Milwaukee now. Chicago
will always be my hometown. I think like a Chicagoan.
I talk like a Chicagoan. I don't take shit like
a Chicagoan. Trump doesn't know what he's fucking
with. True. Very true. Violet Minx. I grew up
outside of Chicago. I know that he has no idea
what can of worms he just opened. Give him hell,
Chicago. There's one of the Space Needle. You'll
like that one. Seattle stands with Chicago from
True Blue Images. My man. Yep. The Flying Brian.
Divided by sports teams. United against fascism.
Give him hell, Chicago. Signed a Wisconsinite.
Brooke talks politics watching the Chicago PD
March alongside the people of Chicago who were
out protesting Healed a part of my soul. Yeah,
that's pretty great Jen Kautz Says Chicago. We
are watching and supporting you in New Jersey.
Stay strong. You got this GG grandma 96. Oh,
yeah bringing it. Let's go grandma. Stay strong
Chicago. Even Packer fans are pulling for you
That's pretty great. Catrice Four, I love how
the whole Midwest is like, not Chicago, motherfucker.
So true. Yeah. Well, once again, we talked about
portions of this country blocking. I could totally
see the Midwest doing their own thing and Chicago
being the capital. I could totally 100 % see
that. Let's see if I got a couple more here.
I do. Love after the taste. The Chicago police
are marching with the protesters to stand for
their city and their community against an illegal
occupation by a fascist authoritarian. I hope
the NYPD is taking notes. True. Stray Tabby.
Chicago is out here earning a fifth star for
their flag. I'm so proud of my city. That's awesome.
Yep, I got two more here. Chimp nulls. I love
what Chicago is doing, but comparing it to the
response in LA isn't helpful. City of Los Angeles
is twice the size in land of Chicago, and what
folks think of as LA just isn't just the city,
it's a collection of cities, which is true. This
is true, yeah. Which is about 20 times larger.
Well, I don't know about 20 times, but it's larger.
It's also very decentralized here, so bringing
downtown to a standstill would be unnoticeable
to most of the greater LA area. Plus we don't
have salt trucks. I like that. That's funny.
And last but not least, I have never had Chicago
on my list. This is from a Canadian, Sue Misviv.
I have never had Chicago on my list of cities
to visit until yesterday. If one day the dust
settles and Canadians feel good about returning
to the U .S., Chicago will be the first city
I choose to explore. The people of Chicago have
seduced me with their courage. Very well, but
that's awesome. I love that. Yeah But yeah, I
thought that was kind of originally going to
be the show where we focused on what was going
on But I had such a great collection of DMS from
that. I'm like, oh, okay. Well, I still have
to make this right. It's just right Oh, I guess
it's my turn. It is your turn. My people did
not get the message about talking about Chicago.
That's okay. My first DM here is from Pants McGee
asking, would you rather get one million dollars
or have absolute mastery of any skill of your
choosing? One million bucks. One million big
ones. Not life -changing, but definitely... puts
you in a good retirement position. Right, right.
Absolute mastery of any skill of my choosing.
That would be nice. Don't get me wrong. Because
what if the mastery of that skill provides you
with a hell of a lot more than a million dollars?
Right, right. What if the mastery of the skill
I choose is bank robbing? Yeah, exactly. Then
we're looking at a little bit more than that,
boys. A little bit more than a million, so. Yeah.
I mean, if I were to go that route, I don't know
what I would... pick though you know because
I have a lot of hobbies I really love to do you
know playing piano learning guitar chess I mean
there's a bunch of things I would love to be
better at but does choosing absolute mastery
of one of those skills take the fun away from
the journey you know true And a million dollars
is a million dollars, so I think I'll have to
go with a million dollars. Yeah, that's true.
And plus, if you have that million dollars, who's
to say you can't buy yourself a little extra
time and teaching whatever to improve whatever
skill you want to improve. This is true. Because
there's a reason why ultra -wealthy people don't
go into the trades. They don't get a CDL. They
don't... They don't go in to work at the steel
mills right now. They go into the arts because
that's what humans love to do Is be creative.
So if you have the money you can just go do that.
Yeah, that's true. That's good. Yeah, I don't
know Yeah, I kind of like the bank robbing thing.
That is a fun idea I think I might I might just
do that the world's greatest criminal That's
exactly. Ocean's 15 right here, bitch. 14 or
27, whatever they're on. Like Ocean's 31 with
how good I am. Creepy Gru, our boy, if you were
an action movie villain, how would you want to
die? Ooh, action movie villain. That's a fun
thought experiment. Because I'm thinking, like
I have two. I would want to go with like if it's
an action comedy like the other guys type style,
right? I would just want to like I would want
to a fridge dropped on me for like a really a
really tall like straight out of Looney Tunes
Yeah, just like a fridge suspended on the edge
of the building like I'm holding like a bomb
trigger detonator and I'm like Going on my monologue
tirade and then the fridge just falls on me That
could be a fun one if it's more of like a serious
movie Like, if I'm the bad guy in, like, uh,
shit, what are those Denzel Washington movies?
Equalizer? Equalizer. If I'm, like, a bad guy
in, like, Equalizer 4, I think I would want to
be sniped. Not to get, like, too meta, like what
we were just talking about, but, like, yeah,
that'd be cool. Like, maybe I steal, like, the
protagonist's partner and I'm, like, monologuing
while, like, having a gun to their head and then
just, like, pew, from... 2 ,000 yards away. Interesting.
Yeah. I like the fridge idea though. The fridge
idea is fun. Like the fridge just falls and you're
under it somewhere and all of a sudden this road
-roader comes out of nowhere, looks at the camera
goes meep meep and then just takes off. Yeah,
I like that. Now for me, I think it would be
that That heroic moment where there's this guy
and he just seems so imposing that he can't be
defeated and in that moment you're like bleeding
out and you're just struggling and you like grab
him by his lapel or whatever and you pull him
in and you have a little button in your hand
and you're like bye bitch and you push it and
You know, yeah, you're both just smeared. Yep,
but I think like that that would be pretty epic
That is pretty good. I like that Don't take our
ideas, Hollywood. We're already trademarking
them. Yes, exactly. Especially the one with that
Road Runner. That just came right out of my head.
Exactly, yeah. We just thought of that right
now. We did. Final DM I got here. Dr. Salt, what
surprises you most about the human body? Well,
first off, I love that your name is Dr. Salt.
Salt Safe Live, remember that. It's a good electrolyte.
It really is. I think Dr. Pepper was taken. I
think so. God. Trademarks. Bastards. Bastards.
What always confused me is the appendix. That
it's just kind of there. It's just kind of there.
I haven't done enough research, of course, to
really learn evolutionarily what it used to do.
I don't even know if scientists really know.
But it's just there. then there's like a 1 in
10 chance that at some point in your life your
appendix just gets mad at you and Explodes and
tries to kill you. Why does it do that? Why why
is it there? How if we not have all just getting
rid of it? Exactly cells right at what point
does our human body go? Oh, wait, what's happening?
What is that? But it doesn't do anything. Yeah,
okay Hmm. The second thing that gets me is hiccups.
There is no reason for hiccups to occur Scientists
don't know why hiccups occur, and we don't know
how to stop them from occurring. Why do we do
that? It's also irritating. It's also irritating.
I don't know, and I don't want to get deep here,
but how we're able to use stem cells to repair
us in later life as it comes to joints. Body
parts things in our body that are breaking down
and then miraculously and so the stem cells bump
up and you're like like that's all better But
all stem cells are stem cells come from the human
body. So why can't we just fix ourselves? Right?
How is it that like we possess that? But yet
we need injections of stem cells To fix it, right?
I don't understand how we and and granted I know
We all have a shelf life at some point anyway,
but if humans are to continue to evolve I'm assuming
that also includes the age of human beings that
at some point humans are routinely going to live
to be 90 and 100 years old Although I see death
certificates all the time in my job People are
dying at 67 and 72 and 81. And so at some point,
it's like, OK, some humans are breaking down
faster than others. This is interesting. Some
is genetic. Some isn't. Some might be environmental.
But how is it that our body can't just go, oh,
man, this is getting kind of fucked up? Let me
fix that. Right. Like, how is it this marvel
of of of of engineering, human engineering? Doesn't
find a way. for self -repair at some point. Look,
I understand a gun wound, you can't, like the
body's not gonna go, oh, shit, let's go stitch
this. I mean, I understand it doesn't, it doesn't
work right. Too bad about that. So I understand
the human body doesn't work that way. But like
when we start to get a bad cold, like a lot of
times I'm surprised the human body just doesn't
go, all right, well, we know what it takes to
combat this, let's combat that. Right, and like
why? Like, the immune system is a fascinating
point to bring up, too. It's like, why is the
immune system so inefficient at times? Like,
why is one of the first thoughts of the immune
system is like, okay, fire this dude up. You
know, let's get up to 104 degrees and see if
that works. It's like, well, isn't there a better
idea? Isn't there a better idea? Because I'm
dying right now. Right. or like the immune response
for people that have like peanut allergies or
something, where it's clearly not a dangerous
thing, but then the immune response is, well,
it's a peanut, I better kill myself. Right, exactly.
Guys, calm down. This makes no sense. Can we
think about this for a second? Right, I mean,
like you think, like for me, it's like a blood
loss thing, so I go in and get like a finger
pricked, for example, for a medical test, something
along those lines, and I get dizzy. And if I
have to have an actual blood draw, which I did
when I had to do this consulting management gig
for a hospital in Florida, they're like, okay,
you have to take all these tests because you're
gonna be in a hospital sometimes. I'm like, oh,
okay, that's fine. And one of them was a blood
draw, not a blood prick, it was actually a vial
of blood. And so I got in there. I started having
cold sweats walking down the hallway, going to
it, like knowing what was going to happen. So
I went in there. The guy's like, wow, you look
kind of pale. You feel OK. And you're sweating.
I'm like, oh, I'm going to pass out. So I should
probably lay down while you do this. He's like,
oh, this is just a vial. I'm like, oh, that doesn't
matter. Right. Right. Right. Because my brain,
the second you put that in and blood starts coming
out, my brain goes, mayday, mayday, brr, brr,
brr, and starts freaking out like blood loss
is like a big thing. Right. And so I don't know
why my body operates that way, but it does. I
get that sometimes too. I think I've donated
thrice to the Red Cross and the last time I went
was like bad. It got bad. Like usually I'll get
dizzy and I'll be like, wow, this is really uncomfortable.
I made the mistake. Uh oh. The last time I went.
I made the mistake of like, okay, I'm like, I'm
strong. I'm sure if I just look at it and rationalize
it, it'll be good. I'll be fine. Yeah. And I
looked at it and I was like, oh no. And the nurse
was like, oh God. And I was like, I don't feel
so good. Yeah. So yeah, that's a bad decision.
It is a bad decision. But that is an interesting
DM and an interesting thought. Yeah. But body,
if you're listening. Do better? Right. And on
your point, too, I wanted to circle back around
to this also. When you're talking about stem
cells, why don't we just make more or pharmaceutically
find a way to produce more? Replicate. Because
we can do that for other things, right? Sure.
In weightlifting, you've got substances like
creatine, which I believe frees up and creates
more ATP molecules, which helps with muscle building
and things like that. How do we not have something
that's like food for stem cells? Make more stem
cells. That should exist, right? Right, exactly.
Some sort of supplement, food, something like
that that says, hey, instead of having to go
through a full knee replacement when you're 60
years old, hey, how about let's just regenerate
that cartilage and tissue that's down in your
knee? Right. It should be easier, I think. Yeah,
very strange. That was that was my last that
was your last one. All right. Well, those are
carpe diems as we always say Hit us up in the
socials engagement. We love it. Shoot your DMS
our way and we are happy to Talk about them and
you in in the carpe diem segment This now goes
to the other foods something Aidan does each
and every week where he scours the globe No,
really, he's got a little globe in the studio
and he just scours it every day. I look very
closely. I saw that once. Yeah. Once. I only
allow it once. Just one time. But at any rate,
he finds some very interesting dishes from around
the world. And when I mean interesting, I don't
mean like, hmm, wow, how interesting. I want
to try that. It's more like, hmm, how interesting.
I hope I never encounter or smell that ever.
Right. So what do you have for us this weekend?
Well, the other foods, I... Kind of like this
trend I accidentally started. So the other week
I just went to the country of Brazil. I went
to the country of Brazil and I found a couple
dishes there that sound foul. I figure I'll continue
the trend. I love that. I'm going to a new country.
It's called Finland. Oh well. Finland. So I have
a couple dishes here that just sound fairly foul
out of out of the great country of Finland. At
least they have health care. Oh hey. Oh these
are. Bloodpalt. Oh, okay. They're supposed to
be dumplings, made in Finland. Your main ingredients
would be some type of wheat flour, rye flour,
and then you have reindeer's blood. Ah. Well
traditionally reindeer's blood, you could also
use pig's blood. They get a little adventurous
in Finland. So yeah, bloodpalt, traditionally
associated with the northern parts of Sweden
and the Finnish Lapland, bloodpalt are nutritious
dark brown dumplings prepared with rye or barley
flour, and animals' blood. Traditionally made
with reindeer's blood, although today they appear
in numerous regional varieties, which employ
blood of various animals, different spices, and
occasionally mashed potatoes. I think I'll pass.
Yeah, you know it's it kind of sounds similar
like what do they call like blood sausage or
some? Yeah, something like that or blood pudding
whatever the whatever they don't do in the UK
that whatever they eat piss and shit So similar
to that still sounds foul. Oh for sure and the
second one out of Finland I found was Finnish
barley sausage Okay, it doesn't sound doesn't
sound terrible right doesn't sound bad at all.
I'll try to pronounce What they call it hmm?
Right read knit right. Nima Cara right. Nima
Cara. OK, you could you give it a try. Nima Cara.
Yeah. Nima Cara beats me. It's made with barley,
pork, lard, potato flour and pork. Awful. And
we've heard the term awful before. Oh, no, it
essentially means the eyes the intestines the
organs Parts ahead. Yeah, the parts the pork
awful which kind of sounds like awful pork. Let's
fucking go. Let's go. That was pretty clean.
That's clean But yeah, it's like they were so
close to just making good sausage and then they
just put pork awful in there It's like you could
have just left the intestines and eyeballs and
organs out of the out of the equation Sure, and
it had been fine But now we'll put brain and
sinews and nasty shit in the sausage because,
hey, we're Finland. Because we're Finland. Oh,
God. Because we're Finland, so... Oh, God. Yep,
I've bullied Brazil, now I've bullied Finland.
No country out there is safe. No country is safe.
But let's face it, they're doing it to themselves.
They're doing it to their own taste buds. Oh,
God. That's yeah. Yeah, I don't like that. Uh
-uh. I don't I don't like that Finland do better
You only get one life. Why are you spoiling it
with pork offal with pork offal and blood blood
dumplings? Reindeer blood that's that's gross,
man And never once did I like watch Rudolph the
red -nosed reindeer be like, you know what I
want right now I could make a dumpling with that
I'm gonna I wonder how if he'd give me some of
his blood just wondering just curious oh my god
well we kind of turn the corner here and we stick
with food but i do the fry guy fry review every
week uh sometimes we do uh on the macro sometimes
the micro and what i mean by that is sometimes
it's mcdonald's and burger king wendy's sometimes
it's local spots because you just never know
who's gonna have the best fries. This is very
true. So in the Chicago area, and by that I mean
Chicago, its suburbs, Northwest Indiana, all
that. Chicagoland. Chicagoland, if you will.
There's a little thing called Italian beef. My
man. And it's excellent, one of the best sandwiches
in the country, if not the best sandwich in the
country, to be fair. And so this one place called
Buona Beef, I think is in that top tier of Italian
beef sandwiches. Might have to do a tier list
on that one day. Definitely top five, sure. That'd
be fun. We might have to do like show sampling
at the time. Might have to do that. At any rate,
so Buona is one of the top tier beef places.
And one day I was there and I thought, why not
throw their fry? into the mix, if you will. And
so the fry that they have there, always hot.
I've never had an issue with them being hot or
under or overdone. They're always kind of on
point that way. They're an interesting fry. They're
not crinkle cut, which I've been full disclosure
as a fry guy fry reviewer. that crinkle is kind
of on the lower end for me. Subpar. Yeah. Crinkle
cut and the steak fries are kind of a little
bit lower end for me. But this one is kind of
different in that it is along a McDonald's or
a Wendy's, but they're a little bit thicker.
They're a little bit thicker of a... shoestring,
do we want to call it, or fast food fry, or however
you want to talk about that, but it's a little
bit thicker cut of that type of fry. And it is
good. It's tasty, it's hot. I don't think they
use salt, because every time I get them, you
need ketchup or salt. Right, right. So there
is that. Now, are there fries you can eat sometimes
that have low to no sodium that you're like,
man, that's just a good fry? Yes. This one is
like, when I heat it, I know it's hot and I know
it's fresh, but I don't get a taste like, oh,
I don't need salt, or just a pinch. Like, I need
salt. I need salt on this french fry. But once
you do, it's a good french fry. So, I kinda am
waffling a little bit. And I was I wanted to
get them in the eights, but I think seven nine
is still a good score for that particular fry.
So that's that's where I'm going to put Bona.
I'm going to put them at a seven point nine.
Very respectable. I think so. Yeah. As I said,
it's not it's not a bad fry. I just feel for
it to kind of get up into that next level. You
got it. You got to dress it up. Yeah. Somehow.
Right. Right. You know. But not bad. Not bad.
All right, what we're gonna do we're gonna take
a quick break and when we come back You just
made the list and this one should be kind of
fun Especially for Aidan because this is really
in his wheelhouse said as far as like when he
grew up We're gonna talk about the worst songs
of the 2000s All right, we are back and it is
time for you just made the list here on the mark
mo show podcast I'm your host mark Maloney along
with my co -host and producer Aidan Maloney and
We do a top 10 list called you just made the
list every week. It is 10 through 2 with our
number one big reveal and Let's see the rules
rules rules. Oh, look at that. We do have a rule
Oh, no, we do. Yep. It is that there are no rules.
Oh, thank God Yeah, I know you're freaking just
for a minute. Yeah worried. Yeah, this whole
show's kind of kept us on our toes a little bit
But yeah, no rules no rules So we are good to
go and this week worst songs of the two Thousands
how very fun. I have a radio show I've been doing
radio at WVLP and and Valpo for eight years And
we've had shows. Now, if you've ever seen like
Mystery Science Theater, the robots and they
make fun of really bad movies. We had a couple
of shows where we did the radio version of that
and we made fun of some really bad music. And
I love those shows. Those shows were great because
we like we have the volume of the music, but
we keep it just a notch low so that we can keep
the hot mics and interact with that music as
it's being played. I think that went over very
well. This is kind of that, in a way. But I thought,
you know, we've bagged on the 70s enough. And
I thought, you know, when the 90s ended and we
got into the 2000s, there was some whack music.
There was some great music as part of that decade,
but some whack music too. So I'm interested to
see what Aidan has for us this week. Alrighty.
I'll run my 10 through 2. Okay. Save the big
number one reveal. Probably going to hear some...
some terrible songs here to reminisce on. Number
10, With Arms Wide Open by Creed. That's all
I got. Can't get content ID. No. Yeah, what were
we thinking there, Creed? No. Number 9, Crank
That by Soulja Boy. That's a good one. Yeah.
That's a good one. Remember the old Soulja Boy
days? I do. I do, indeed. Number 8. All Summer
Long by Kid Rock. Oh, God. Kid Rock, what a fucking
loser. Oh, yeah. Number seven, Bad Day by Daniel
Powder. Uh -huh. So you had a bad day. Shut the
fuck up. Shut up, Daniel. Shut up, Dan. Number
six, Only God Knows Why by Kid Rock. He's so
whack, he made it on the list twice. Right, I
wonder if he's looking in the mirror when he
wrote that. Right. Just curious. Number five,
Hey Soul Sister by Train. Oh, wow, yeah. Terrible.
That's a bad song. Terrible track. And why was
it so popular? Who was like jamming to that?
Right, there were people out there like, oh my
god, Train. Train that trains are great takes
place. It takes a train away from this microphone.
Oh or speaker rather number four my humps By
the black eyed peas. That's yeah, my my lovely
lady lumps. Yep. Oh, yeah indeed wrote I know
damn well Fergie didn't write that There's no
way she is on this list here future though number
three You're beautiful by James Blunt Shut up,
James. You sound stupid. Just gross. Number two,
our girl, Big Girls Don't Cry by Fergie. What
a terrible message to put out there. It's a terrible
message. Also, it's a bad song. Right. Fergie,
you want to talk about how people fall off. Where
did the Black Eyed Peas go? Where's Fergie? None
of them are doing anything. Nope. Nope. And maybe
for good reason, because they're on this list.
Yeah, I think Will .i .am had that brief stint
with the X -Men. I think that was the Wolverine
movie. Maybe one more movie, but that's it. That's
all I got. That's it. I don't know about the
other members of the band either. Nope. I don't
know what they went on to do. Check your local
Chili's. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe Denny's. I'm
not sure. I don't know. That was your number
two. Yes. So I'll start with mine. Kid Rock made
the list twice, and Fergie made it twice through
Black Eyed Peas. I love that, actually. I'm going
to start my number 10, Drops of Jupiter by Train.
Oh, yeah. That's a good one, too. That's one.
There's no way I can make this list and not have
Nickelback on there. So, uh, How You Remind Me.
Oh, no. This is how you remind me. Oh, God. Well,
didn't that make number one on the Billboard
charts? I'm pretty sure it did. You know, You
Know What's Crazy? I kind of like this song.
Oh, no. I don't blame you for it being on there.
Aidan fell for some catchy crap. Number eight,
Stars Are Blind by Paris Hilton. Oh, God. If
you don't know it, look it up. And then when
your ears start bleeding, I'm sorry. Right. But
it's not good. Oh, terrible. Number seven, All
Summer Long by Kid Rock. Oh, yeah. Just crap.
number six bad day by daniel powder you know
i i want to punch daniel in the face and then
i'm like i'm not having a bad day exactly what
a fix i know right yeah thanks daniel uh number
five lips of an angel by hinder oh yeah lips
of an angel what and look at the lyrics to that
too Just look at the lyrics. They're horrible
horrible. Yeah This is this is great because
like I when my kids were younger I like it was
always on it was always on all the time I don't
know if any of them actually liked it, but I
bagged on it constantly Hey there, Delilah. Hey
there, Delilah. Hey there, Delilah. Hey there,
Delilah. Hey there, Delilah. Hey there, Delilah.
Hey there, Delilah. Hey there, Delilah. Hey there,
Delilah. Hey there, Delilah. Hey there, Delilah.
Number two who let the dogs out by the man now
the song was originally written in 1998 but not
performed and Famously or infamously. Yeah by
the Baja men. Oh Yeah, so they just got just
snuck in. Yep. They did who let the dogs out
woof woof That's a good one. That's a good one
for sure This had to be my number one. It was
on your list to lips of an angel by Hinder So
bad such a terrible song. Yeah, why was it always
on the radio? It was all the time and like it
was on the hard rock station the metal station
Like the here in Chicago is like 101 .9 So it
was like the station of soccer moms listen to
the mix like it was everywhere. You couldn't
get away, right? Say stop fucking playing it,
please. Yeah, it fits into none of these well
because it's not a good song It's not it's just
not My number one was actually on Aidan's list
as well because it is lyrically It's one of the
most shit things ever written which is my humps
Yeah, by the black eyed peas the black eyed peas
had a few too They had a few gotta get that boom
boom boom It's like, what are you talking about?
No idea. And then to top it off, and I think
this was the beginning of the end for them, they
did that Thanksgiving halftime show in Dallas.
Oh, shit. If you remember. And not only were
they bad and they didn't sound good, but they
were lip syncing parts and other parts they weren't
right. It wasn't working out quite right. And
not only that, but then they had like an electrical
light problem with some of the star things on
the stage. And like that was all kind of a nightmare.
It was a nightmare. It was not good. Like I feel
that was the beginning of the end for the Black
Eyed Peas. Right, right. Also, look up the original
lyrics and song title to Let's Get It Started.
Well, I know started is not the original word.
No, it's not. Let's Get Something Else, which
is not a great choice of words. No. And then
begs the question, why? Why would you write that?
Did Will .i .am write that? Right. Hey man, let's
get... And you're like, really? Yeah. It's like,
whoa, buddy. Wait. What are we doing here? I
understand it's the 2000s, but still. Mm -hmm.
Yeah. Not great. But I'm sure there's some we
miss. So I always say, reach out to us on the
socials. See us on the street. Tackle us. Whatever.
And let us know. Hey, you missed this. You missed
that. Or hey, how about that song? We love the
interactions. Yes. That Paris Hilton was a good
call. Thank you. Yeah, cuz I I saw it in you
know, cuz like I immediately had five on my list
Yeah, like I was like, oh that was bad. That
was bad bad And then when the Bahama came up,
I'm like, oh did they qualify and then I saw
I was like It didn't become popular until 2000
like yeah, you're in I said, that's great But
yeah, but then I saw Paris Hilton on a couple
lists. I'm like That's right, she had a couple
of songs. I'm like, holy crap. Damn. It was not
great. Not good at all. Not good at all. That
takes us to Review Preview. It's an article I
write for The Entertainer magazine. Eric Sanchez,
what's up, homie? And that's where I review a
movie and preview a movie. Some weeks there's
just not many bangers at the theater, so I'm
not... gonna go just to spend a hundred dollars
to watch a freaking movie. Unless I go on a Tuesday.
I don't know where in the world you are. Tuesdays
seem to be kind of, at least in the region here,
seem to be the cheap days. So if you're kind
of not sure about a movie, cheap day is the way
to go, because then you're only spending five
bucks. True. I was actually kind of excited for
this movie, because I've seen all of them in
the series so far, including Annabelle and including
The Nun, and that is the Conjuring series. Oh,
yeah. So Conjuring Last Rites is at the theater,
and it is spooky season, so I was kind of like,
yeah, I should do this. Fitting. So it's the
final installment of the story of real -life
paranormal investigators, Ed and Lorraine Warren,
played by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga. They
do a fantastic job. The movies are based on many
incidents. said were real culminate a well -known
case of a haunting that the Warrens investigated
in 1980s in Pennsylvania. With the Smurl family
said strange terrifying occurrences including
levitation frighten the family. The Smurl case
is the basis for the final film. film is dark,
creepy, ties in concepts from all the other films,
which is really cool. While it lacked really
good like jump scares, which I like, like if
you can make me jump off my chair, I curse and
I'm like, oh, you guys. Like, I kind of like
that. There weren't a lot of that, but it succeeded
in being consistently creepy. throughout. Like
if I'm getting like the little chills, the little
goosey bumps and those sorts of things like throughout
the movie, which I did get. Bueno. Good job.
So that's kind of how this one operated. Not
too many jump scares, but definitely creepy stuff
throughout. And it just, I like the build. Some
people don't like it as much, because they go
so slow in the beginning. I'm like, will you
let something marinate for a minute? Right, you
gotta tell a story. You don't eat the Italian
beef after it's sit in the crock pot for five
minutes, right? let it marinate and then it becomes
brilliant. Same thing with a movie, especially
a spooky movie, a good spooky movie where you
let that fit, let it cook, let it cook for a
while. Let it build because then inside as it's
building your anxiety and everything else starts
to build. And that's, I think what makes a really
good horror movie. And that's exactly what this
one did. So when you get to the end, you're already
a mess. You're just like, no, and, and like there's
There's some people in the theater that like
get vocal in movies I typically don't but in
a good horror movie You're gonna hear me if you're
sitting around me or within that like I'll sit
there. I'll be like Fuck like I'll just do that
and which gets some chuckles from people around
me and Like some things where like this woman's
on the phone, right? And it's like 1980 so it's
one of those corded phones at the long cord Yeah,
mom's got to move about the kitchen while she's
on the phone with the neighbor And so she's doing
it all sudden the cord just like to starts to
pull and starts to pull into this not a closet
what pantry yeah so this pantry in the pantry
is dark but the doors open and you just see the
cord getting pulled into the pantry into the
darkness and then she like glances back at it
and then the cord releases and then she's done
it back to her and the cords pull my god and
like literally the cord pulls hard enough that
the the receiver pulls out of her hand and gets
pulled into the and gets pulled a pantry and
like loudly I go nope That's like, nope. I'm
like, nah, fuck that. Where's the front door?
I'm outta here. Whoever's in that pantry. It's
yours, I'll get the deed to you. I am out of
here. I am gone. They just wanted to talk on
the phone. Oh, yeah, but this one girl starts
cracking up. I was like, nope. I was like, I
am out. Oh, man. But that's once again, that's
the sign of a good, a good scary movie, especially
one that deals with things that may or may not
be real. things like you know demonology and
things like that stuff with the catholic church
and exorcisms it's like when the catholic church
has hundreds of priests and nuns that are trained
to do exorcisms do you think they're just doing
it because they're bored or because there's some
shit going on and i do think there is there is
Kind of the yin -yang, right? I mean, there's
there's good and how do we know if there's good
if we don't know what evil is? And I think there's
good and evil in this world and I just am under
the impression You know Christianity or Catholicism
aside that there's just this evil and we don't
know what it is But like when bad shit happens,
sometimes it's like Cuz I'm just who done it
who done it I can't see them, but they're there.
I know they're there But yeah, so that's why
I like things like this when it comes to exorcism
or demonology ghosts all that kind of shit That's
always had me that's always had me for sure the
preview He is once again. It's now a series because
this is the third one It's called wake up dead
man a knives out mystery. That's fun. Oh my god
Well, first of all, Daniel Craig's a G right?
I mean he was a great bond and he's just great
and everything He does so the third installment
of knives out And this mystery is written and
directed by Rian Johnson who's done them all
and he does a great job with that standalone
sequel to Glass Onion, which was really good.
That was in 2022. And so Daniel Craig reprises
roles Master Detective Benoit Blanc. The ensemble
cast also includes, get this, Josh O 'Connor,
Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Jeremy
Renner, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Kaylee
Spaney, Daryl McCormick, and Thomas Hayden Church.
Yowza. What a cast. What a cast. Each one of
these movies does have a really good cast. I
think like the last one was like Edward Norton
and Batista and like there were excellent actors
in that one. Right. So anyway this movie looks
awesome. It takes place. It looks like it's it
looks like a cemetery but it kind of looks like
an old Scottish one with all the old buildings
and all that's cool. It looks really super cool.
And the movie hits theaters nationwide. Actually,
I think it's either this weekend. I think it
might be this weekend. Oh, fun. Yeah, so check
it out. Go check it out. Yeah. I wonder if it's
as fun for the actors to do like a murder mystery
movie as it is for us to watch it. Oh, right.
It's gotta be a good time, right? Oh, for sure.
Yeah, there's no doubt. I mean, it's just, it's
so much fun. And these mysteries like these two,
they can be scary. Like, a good mystery can be
scary, too, which I think it has to have that
combo of, it's a mystery, so in your head you're
trying to figure it out, but if you have those
concepts and maybe a couple of jumpscares and
suspense and all that, like, I love that combo.
Like, that combo is really super awesome. So
I was going to look that up real quick because
I want to get the exact release date on that.
A little bit of live research. A little bit of
live research because I think... I want to make
sure that I had the day right on that. That is
Wake Up Dead Man and Knives Out. Oh, right now,
95 % on Rotten Tomatoes. Oh, promising. So that
is definitely promising. It says initial release
September 6th. Oh. So she's already out. She's
ready to be watched. She's out. She's ready to
roll. Good. So get to the theater. Go check it
out. Go check it out. I know I will at some point
for sure. Alright, before we take our next break,
we have While You Were Sleeping, and that is
something Aidan does each and every week, where
whether it is a game or it's YouTube content,
it is a show, a movie, a book, it could be anything
that we just kind of slept on. Or maybe forgot,
even. And Aidan brings that shit back. So true.
Yeah, what do you got man today? I took a little
bit of a detour Oh a detour not necessarily headed
to the Badlands, but I Figured while you were
sleeping Open -sourced softwares have been making
life easier. Oh, I love I've gotten these questions
a few times from co -workers or acquaintances
who kind of don't know where to start on their
YouTubing or podcasting journey and it's really
really easy Okay. It's way easier than anyone
really thinks because of these excellent open
source softwares. You don't have to go bankrupt
giving your money to dogshit companies like Adobe.
Don't do it. Okay, fair. Don't do it. Just get
yourself a decent quality mic and I still use
a webcam for my recordings. I think it's like
an 80 or 90 dollar webcam as long as it gets
decent frame rate and looks good. You can fix
most things in software. Speaking of software,
OBS, which is Open Broadcaster Software, is completely
free. It is video recording, desktop recording,
game recording, editing software that is super
easy to use. It took me like an hour or two playing
around with it to just like, oh, okay, I get
it now. So super easy. You don't have to download
any like weird like freeware. Spyware type shit
to like screen record or anything just get OBS.
It's free and very easy to use DaVinci resolve
free video editing software. Oh Absolutely free.
It's what I use you can program it to like if
you come from like Adobe Premiere you can There's
like a preset where it functions similarly to
Adobe Premiere like where the buttons are, it'll
feel familiar. So, super easy to use, especially
if you have previous video editing experience.
You can transition over super, super well. And
it's free. It's open source. So, highly recommended.
Audacity is free audio recording and editing
software. It's what we use. Super convenient.
It's, of course, free. And super intuitive. Like
not at all difficult to use. There's like little
tips and tricks. It might take me a while to
like get through them if I were to try to, but
super easy to use. And then Ableton Live Lite.
If you're interested at all in music production,
creating your own music, Ableton Live Lite is
free. You can do, I think they limit it. So you
can only do like eight tracks of MIDI or audio
at a time. You have to like... pay to get anything
more than that but if you're just getting into
music production you just like playing around
with it eight tracks is totally fine yeah oh
yeah um so yeah that's that's what i recommend
if you're interested in music or content creation
podcasting youtube those those are clutch to
have you don't have to spend a dime on software
because people make good software and release
it for free yeah if you have a bunch of money
you can tip them donate whatever but they're
all free so that's obs for video recording, DaVinci
Resolve for video editing, Audacity for audio
recording and editing, and Ableton Live Lite
if you're into music. That's awesome. That's
a really great thing to talk about, and let me
ask this, because obviously if people are listening
to this and they've been stewing on things for
a while, they've been thinking of getting into
podcasting or gaming or any of that sort of thing,
from an equipment standpoint, now these are all
software's production that that they can utilize
to share their content, right? And it doesn't
cost my time. As you said, if they want to donate,
which I think is a good idea, donating to some
of these companies that provide this open source
free software, but from an equipment standpoint,
what would you tell someone? They're like, okay,
great. I have this laptop that I'm working off
of, or I just have this little Dell box or whatever.
Do you think there are limitations within some?
Is there stuff that they should have to do this?
Good question. I would say most like modern laptops
should be able to run These softwares plus a
decent mic most Webcams on laptops are decent
you can upgrade you can get a little like USB
webcam That's literally what it is. I have a
USB webcam and the microphone is through USB
also So you don't need like expensive audio desks
or anything unless you really are into that I
don't have the money to be into that so It's
it's more so like if you have an older computer
or an older laptop It may struggle. It may, like,
chug along really difficult if you're running
these softwares and trying to record yourself
playing a video game with, you know, audio and
video recording while running a game, while the
computer's trying to keep up with it. It can
be difficult, but if you have decent hardware,
you should be able to run all of it fine. There's
a lot of good microphone brands out there. The
last mic we used for this show I think was just
like a 20 or 30 dollar USB plug -and -play microphone
it sounded okay Which is why I eventually upgraded
because I wanted us to sound better than okay
So we're using the hyper X quad cast to microphone
which is a bit pricier. It's like 180 bones I'm
still using the logic tech webcam. Like I said,
that's like $90 So, you don't have to go crazy.
You don't... I mean, if you have a phone in your
pocket, you can record video. That's true. And
you don't need a webcam. You just have to learn
how to sync up audio and video, which isn't that
difficult either. So yes, you can do it. There
can be hardware limitations. So, if your laptop
is old and it already feels a little slow, you
might have to upgrade your hardware before you
can get started. Sure. So, something to think
about for sure. Okay, now that's really interesting.
And you mentioned the phone. Now we recorded
live in the field. when we did Town's Time Forgot,
which we have to get to a part two. We've been
talking about it. I think we know where we're
going. We just have to kind of plot it out. One
of the things that we made mention of, because
Aidan, I believe, used his phone for a lot of
that recording, which I think the phone and that
was an iPhone, I believe, wasn't it? Yeah. I
think it did a good job. The one thing that we
had in the field, because literally we were in
fields for some of this, is the wind. The wind
is rough. And so it's really hard, and then there's
a lot of stuff you have to do in posts that kind
of drown that out, which you can speak to it
better than I can, it's a pain in the ass. So
what sort of devices are there? And I think I've
seen them, like every once in a while I'll see
someone, like there was this girl the other day
and she was doing content, she was holding, it
looked like a little fuzzy caterpillar, and she
was holding it in her hand, but the sound was
real crisp. that is one of the issues like especially
with phones the video is going to look great
the audio is a little more sus especially if
it's windy so yeah you can do lavalier mics which
just pin on to your shirt somewhere or you can
do those little i think they're like road mics
that just is this tiny little black box and there's
a microphone on the end and then you just put
some type of pop filter on it it sounds fantastic
i think those are a touch pricey But really,
for good quality audio, you kind of have to shell
out, especially for mobile devices like that.
But yeah, that's also something if you're out
in the field and it's windy, you're just going
to need to find a way to get better audio. Oh,
for sure. Which does indeed mean spending money.
Yeah, yeah, that's it. But all in all, you can
get started on the cheat. Damn right. For sure.
And that was really great. Thanks for bringing
that up, Aidan. And that was while you were sleeping.
We're going to take a quick break and finish
up with, of course, our beer review and the world
of weird news. All right, we're back, everybody,
the Mark Mo Show podcast. I'm Mark Maloney, I'm
your host, along with the co -host Aidan Maloney,
also produces this fine show. We're now in the
homestretch with our beer review, the only beer
review. The official beer review. The only official
beer review, I love that. Yeah. It's so true.
It is very true. You'll never find another one
like it. And, you know, I know it's tough. But
we will drink beer for you. It's you know what
we've been burdened with this task Indeed we
have and we must do it. It's for the people damn
it. It is for the people Will you please review
beer? We'll fit it in there somewhere. Well,
this week, and we often use our untapped app
as well. We keep track of our rankings and things
of that nature. Maybe we'll do a year -end review
of some of our latest and greatest. Maybe we'll
just drink beer for the whole show. That's a
great idea. I think it's a fantastic idea. So
we'll get on there and we will maybe talk about...
some of those, but at any rate, we're gonna drink
this fine concoction and grade that out. So Aidan,
what do we have this week? This week, Shotgun
Wedding is the name of the beer. It is an American
brown ale by Country Boy Brewin'. Yee -haw. A
regional brewery out of Lexington, Kentucky.
Love Lexington. Right here in the U .S. of A.
A brown ale aged on vanilla beans. We'll be ranking
this on a scale from zero to five based on how
much we like it We're using the untapped app
on our phones. It's free. We're not sponsored.
We just like using it And we'll give some flavor
notes for you rank it on a scale from one to
five per usual Let us know in the comments what
you guys are enjoying today indeed Slunch it
slunch it here we go. Oh Can definitely get the
vanilla. Oh, yeah, boy. That is nice. Holy cow
That is super nice. You get the vanilla. Yeah,
it's in no way overpowering But you definitely
get the hints of it. It is smooth as hell guys.
Holy hell very smooth the the brown ale has this
Almost sharpness to it. Mm -hmm very refreshing
though. It's not like it. It's not heavy It's
not it doesn't feel super dark, but yeah, just
vanilla eat and refreshing God that's really
good. That is a good beer. That is very tasty.
I believe the Either the first or second brown
ale we've tried on the show. I think so. Yeah
What I like about this is you don't get the vanilla
Until after you swallow the beer and it sits
on your tongue for a second Yeah, and then you
get that little bit of taste of vanilla in it
But like I said, it's in no way overpowering.
It's just like hey, I'm here But it's very smooth,
leaves no bad taste on the palate at all. That
could be a beer you can easily down. Oh yeah,
for sure. Like some IPAs that are a little bit
more bitter, a little bit harsh. Those aren't
exactly those types of beers. Those are the ones
you just kind of sip and you don't down because
of the bitterness, I guess you want to call it
that. But this is in no way that. Oh yeah, I
would agree. Bet we're drinking them straight
out of the can of course I bet if you were to
put this into a pint glass And let it breathe
a little bit breathe a little bit You know let
let your nose experience a little more of the
beverage before it hits your tongue I bet it
would even be better like that. I think you're
right That's a that's a good comment because
I was thinking about it breathing a little bit
And I think maybe you'd get those vanilla notes.
Maybe even a little bit more. Yeah Even as is
out of the can it's fantastic. It's really good.
Yeah, I quite enjoy that Hats off to... was it
Triangle Lickers? Who is it? That I got this
wrong. Oh, I don't know. I wasn't there No, I
was talking about it earlier the the one across
the university trail in trail in trail in in
Valparaiso there's a lovely young woman that
works there and She had made mention. Yeah, we're
gonna trick cuz I had mentioned that we do some
beer reviews on the podcast She's like, oh, that's
really great. Next time you're in let me know.
I'll let you know when we get all these new beers
She's like we're gonna start doing that a lot
more. I'm like Ah, you are my new best friend.
My man. You have no idea. So when I went in to
get beers last night, it was exactly that. They
don't have a massive selection. They're not Binny's
in Chicago by any stretch. But for the stock
that they do have, they do have a great variety.
Yeah. They really do from all over. I should
talk to them about getting Irish death from Seattle.
Oh, now that's an idea. Because I would love
to review that on here or we could just talk
to Alex and have her ship is right That's true.
She could do that, too But yeah, that was one
we had out on the West Coast and that was fantastic.
It was it was wonderful There was one in Montana.
I wouldn't mind getting it's called bong water.
Oh bong water. It's really good It is really
really good. I actually brought that back for
actually the station manager WVLP. I brought
him that beer And he was like wow, that's good.
I'm like I got you. Yep We got that bong water.
We got that bong water. Actually, it's my own
bong. No, I'm just kidding. I don't live in Illinois.
I can't pull that off. But at any rate, god,
this is good. It's very tasty. Let's look at
this flavor profile on the app. Smooth, check.
Vanilla, check. Sweet, I don't know. I didn't
get a lot of sweet. Like I said, you get a little
bit of vanilla notes, but I didn't get sweet.
Malty, yeah. Light -bodied yeah, I think that's
all right on the money. Yeah, I gave it light
-bodied multi vanilla smooth. I gave it sharp
as well That's that's really good. I'll give
that a three seven five out of five that is very
tasty Yeah, it is definitely good I went a little
bit better than that. I went 4 .25. 4 .25, nice.
I really enjoyed it. That is definitely something
I could see myself keeping in the fridge. And
mind you, I'm a PBR guy. I go into the bars here
locally, and they literally just set it on the
counter like I'm that predictable. Well, you
are that guy. I am that guy. You're the PBR guy.
I'm the PBR guy. PBR, by the way, you should
really kind of kick in. sponsor us I think you
know me give us money a little bit yeah for sure
pay us in PBRs actually I know that's an idea
I would actually be okay with that yeah I know
they have money I think they did. Based on my
bar -hopping abilities across the region and
noticing that all the bars keep the big, what
is it, the 16 -ounce? The pints. Yeah, the 16
-ounce cans. And when I visit, that gets depleted.
Yes. A little bit, for sure. But at any rate,
I go into these bars, and whether it is my doing
or not, I know a lot of these bartenders, bar
managers, things like that, and they all say...
It's like one of their most popular. Yeah, and
you deliver it. So you would know too. Yep It
goes pretty well that old style goes pretty well.
It does. Yeah, it really does I don't know when
like PBR and old style became more in vogue,
but it definitely is now for sure It's been over
the last few years like hams is back even back
rose. Yeah. Yeah So I don't love that actually
yeah like people kind of swaying more towards
the full -bodied loggers instead of the the light
loggers Right if if they're going out just it
makes the easy drinking beer more pleasant in
my opinion I think so pleasant and flavorful
I had a buddy growing up and his his dad like
I am to PBR his dad was to old Milwaukee and
he's oh yeah, he's done that all the time and
I snuck one one time and that's you know that
time I like that kid practically. I was just
like, huh, why would he drink this? And now that
I'm older, I'm like, I know why you like that.
Life is hard, which requires a hard beer. A little
old Milwaukee. A little old Milwaukee in your
life, no doubt. Oh man, that is great. But this
was a good beer. Yeah, I got a couple badges
unlocked on the app too. Oh, I didn't. Oh no,
that happens to me sometimes. Yeah, what did
you get? For the can, level 63, canning is all
the rage. It's 315 check -ins with the serving
style of can cheers to independent us craft breweries
level 59 I love how you're at all these high
levels. I get excited like when level eight names
like oh, baby earned is level eight oh Man it
is fun though. Oh, there's no doubt and I love
going back the cool thing about once again when
we're not paid should be yeah um the cool thing
about the untapped app is you can go back and
it keeps track of your your scores where you
drank what you drank all that kind of stuff and
uh i love doing that because you know Life's
hard so so like if you went to that one bar and
had that one beer like that was really good But
then like weeks later be like how where was I
when I had that if you just keep tracking your
app That's true kind of scroll back and be like
oh, that's what I had Yeah, we're like you pick
up a craft beer from somewhere. You can't find
it anywhere else. Oh, where'd I pick it up? You
can you find out? Yeah, exactly. I love it. Yeah,
good to know. But this beer, I think, especially
if you enjoy vanilla or brown ales for that matter,
I think you'll enjoy this. Yeah, it doesn't like
punch you in the mouth with vanilla. It's just
like... It's just there. It's just there. It's
there giving you a good time. Right, and what
was it? The last show or the show before last
where we had that one where it said like cherry
or whatever was supposed to kind of be the main...
Oh, was that the cider? I think that might have
been the black cherry cider, and we were just
like, okay, we got this, this, and this. I'm
not getting the cherry. That did not step up
front like, hi, I'm black cherry, nice to meet
you. Right. It almost wasn't there, at least
for me, which was interesting, but this is definitely
there. Yes, I would agree. The vanilla definitely
shows itself. Well, that concludes our beer review,
but we cannot finish this podcast. without the
world of weird news and I think Aiden I have
some quickies here for which I do love quickies
see out in tonight Valpo um so uh I have to say
that um we have a little world of weird news
we have some quick stories Aiden's like thinking
like man I think I like what do you got I've
got another one Recently another one a recent
story. I did involved a Guinness World Record.
I think it was like a kebab wrap. I Remember
that one. Yeah. Oh my god. Yes, I do. Yes, I
do So I found another Guinness World Record Man
spits table tennis ball at wall 51 times in 30
seconds Let's go So September 9th, this is from
UPI journalist Ben Hooper, a serial Guinness
World Record breaker took some time during an
ocean cruise to spit a table tennis ball at a
wall and break one of his own records. That's
amazing. David Rush, who holds the most concurrent
Guinness World Records titles at more than 181.
them oh damn said he was quote somewhere in the
North Atlantic Ocean aboard the Disney wonder
cruise ship when he broke the record for most
table tennis balls bounced against a wall with
the mouth in 30 seconds for the third time Wow
he originally set the record at 43 bounces Besting
that in 2024 with 47 bounces at the Guinness
World Records headquarters in London, he managed
to break the record for a third time with 51
bounces on day five of his cruise. Oh no. Quote,
to the casual eye, it might look goofy, but trust
me, this record is deceptively difficult, he
wrote online. The spit has to be perfectly aimed.
Too much pressure and the ball rockets higher
than expected. Too little, it drops low and slows
you down. Every bounce is a split second calculation,
pressure, angle, timing. What the hell? So in
30 seconds, he spit and caught with his mouth.
a table tennis ball at the wall 51 times. That's
unreal. That's almost two spit and bounces per
second. How the? Right? No way! Right? How the
hell? Set and broke his own record on a cruise.
My man. Well, I mean went on a cruise. I know,
went in Rome, right? Yeah, my man. That's unbelievable.
Not to mention his other 180 Guinness World Records.
I'm sure they're all kind of goofy like that,
but they gotta be right I if it takes skill it
takes skill. You know yeah this dude this dude's
got it apparently Oh my god. I'm looking. I'm
actually looking at that. You can go on to YouTube
and find the video Yeah, I can find this dude
This is hilarious I'm not gonna say what it looks
like he's doing. I cannot Some things are best
experienced with one owns eyes. Yeah, that's
that's unbelievable That okay. I'm watching it
now He literally it looks like a glass wall or
so yeah like a mirror. I cannot It's it's so
he's so quick with it. He's that's unbelievable
so precise I mmm He's no No, okay. All right
putting the phone down. I can't know That's great
for you. Good. Yeah, good. Yeah Just watch it,
please. Please watch it. It's it's hysterical.
I also have a world of weird news today for oh,
sorry world of weird news For somebody breaking
records. No way I do I do this is unbelievable
and I'm glad we didn't pick the same one Spanish
man breaks record for fastest backward 100 meter
in heels. Oh my god. In heels. September 8th
UPI, a serial Guinness world record breaker.
Another one. Another one. Another one. From Spain
defeated one of his own titles. Wow. By running
328 feet backward. in 16 .55 seconds while wearing
high heels wow christian roberto lopez rodriguez
broke do you like that broke his broke the record
for the fastest 100 meters backwards in high
heels which he previously said at 20 .05 seconds
during an appearance on a spanish tv series called
la noche de los records wow The Night of the
Records? The Night of the Records. That would
be very good. You know what? He had good time
save, though. He took almost four seconds off.
He took four seconds off. That's remarkable.
The record -keeping organization's rules for
the record required Rodriguez's shoes to have
heels of at least 2 .76 inches and be no wider
than 0 .59 inches at the tip. Rodriguez currently
holds more than 80 Guinness World Record titles,
including the fastest four 400 meters in clogs.
One minute and 1 .38 seconds. The fastest 100
meters wearing flip -flops. Wow. 12 .10 seconds.
The fastest mile traveled while balancing a Puel
Q on his finger. Five minutes and five. Now,
are we just assuming no one else is doing this?
So he just does it once, so he's the world record
holder. But then again, he's holding 80 -some
-odd world records, right? Yeah. Which means
he's too good. He's uncontested. He's too good.
The fastest 100 meters on a space hopper. What
is that? What's a space hopper? You might have
to do some real time. Yeah. 29 .91 seconds, the
fastest 100 meters carrying an egg on a spoon
in the mouth. Oh wow. 17 .21 seconds and the
fastest 50 meters backwards wearing swim fins.
8 .82 seconds. That's awesome. That's my guy.
That's great. I just found out what a space hopper
is. Okay. It's a yoga ball with a handle on top.
No. Yeah. It's just a yoga ball with a handle.
Oh my god. He bounced his way to the quickest
100 meters on a space hopper. My guy. My man.
You know what? That's called a space hopper.
We didn't call that a space hopper in the 70s
and 80s. I think that was called a hip hop. Oh.
A hippity hop. Hippity hop is what it was called.
Interesting. Yeah. Because you'd get that, and
like you could barely get your legs around the
damn thing. But you would just sit there and
you'd bounce on this thing, and you'd do it three
or four times until it launched you onto your
neighbor's yard. And you're like, yeah, this
hippity -hop thing sucks. So he set a world record
on one? Hey, props to that dude. My man. He is
the goat. He's the goat. He's the world record
holder goat. Oh my god, that's hilarious. My
man. See, we always find a way to end on a...
Note of hilarity exactly can for sure But that's
a show for this week. We are rapidly approaching
the end of season 8 I think we're gonna have
one more interview along the lines here before
we finish this season out and then a couple more
episodes as well But by all means if you like
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