Alrighty, we're back baby season 4 episode 1
big brother of the Mark Mo show and Thank you.
I thank all of you. It's why we're still here
And you can find us in all podcast platforms
and YouTube. I would like to introduce my co
-host and producer, Aidan Maloney. How are you
doing this fine day, sir? Pretty fantastic. I
get my few days off of work per year and I take
them to have a nice week off in October. So it's
been fantastic so far. Very relaxing. Much needed,
I would say. Nice. That's great. Yes. That's
good. We all need time off. Speaking of, well,
we'll get to that later. Yeah. Let's talk about
first world countries and which one in particular
doesn't require time off. Oh, hey. Hey, how about
that? We know that third world country real well.
Stars and stripes, baby. Yeah, America. Heck
yeah. At any rate, Aidan here, he has his own
YouTube gaming channel called Aidan Spelt the
Right Way. his PC gaming content like GeoGuessr
and PolyBridge, Observation Duty, and more each
and every week. And now that it is October, he's
been doing a lot of horror games online. And
so what are you playing? What are you doing?
Recently, so a couple days ago on my YouTube
channel, you can find the video where I played
this game called Crimson Snow. Hmm crimson snow
is a fantastic game. I really enjoyed unfortunately
It's it's a kind of a longer game, and I got
the bad ending and I'm like I can go through
again and get the good ending, but then it'd
be like a four -hour video. Yep. And usually
I keep my videos somewhere between 30 and 90
minutes. Gotcha. So, yeah, unfortunately I got
the bad ending, but it is a fantastic indie horror
game. And I think, what, for two hours of gameplay,
of good scares, I think it only ran me five or
ten bones, but yeah, absolutely fantastic. Indie
horror and indie games, midsize to indie games,
have been... absolutely popping off over the
last five to ten years and I'm very excited to
to be a part of not only playing those games
and showcasing them but also just kind of supporting
financially and through you know social media
these these indie devs because I mean it's hard
work Creating creating YouTube videos tough creating
a video game that that shit takes a while Oh,
I bet it is a lot of dedicated work So I'm I'm
very excited to be a part of it all and it's
it's just been fantastic Lots of horror games
will continue through October and it'll be a
fantastic spooky season. That's awesome Yeah,
we're definitely looking forward to that for
sure and yeah, make sure you check out his stuff
on YouTube If you enjoy this content, being the
Mark Mo Show and Aidan Spell the Right Way and
all that kind of good stuff, including AK209,
we definitely don't want to forget that as well.
That is a podcast on YouTube as well. in its
original form or format was Aiden and another
co -host, AK -209, it was also called Guys Being
Dudes, and great content, great stuff, you can
still find it online. But when the other host,
I would like to say he held out for more money,
but I think he just held out. He just held out,
kind of flaked. Yeah. It's like, I've gotten
too big for this. I'm going to Hollywood, baby.
And I was like, okie dokie, I'll be here when
you fail. And not only did he, but he also didn't
come back out of shame. Yeah. Yeah, that was
true. As a matter of fact, they followed him
throughout town with a bell, chain, chain, chain,
ding, ding. He had the dunce cap on. Yeah, but
I mean, sometimes you just have that coming.
That's to be completely fair. There's like eight
seasons of Backlog you can laugh through if you'd
like, but it's a collab channel these days. That
is true. Gaming collab. Perhaps some quizzes
going forward could be a fun time. Yeah, basically
what we like to do because there's it's it's
it's Really truly is a collab. It's it's a lot
of kind of our back -and -forth Nonsense improv
whatever you want to call it that we do here
and all the gaming that he does Over on spell
the right way. So it just gets our bill It's
kind of allows us to kind of get together on
some of those things. We've done a lot of Geo
guesser, but it allows us To I guess try to be
funny entertaining. It's the goal That's that's
pretty much the goal and that's really a great
game to do that for sure But eight in the game
master's telling me there's other games out there
that that will allow us some of this back and
forth and fun stuff So well, I'm sure we'll we'll
expand the franchise here. Absolutely Yeah, that
is awesome. So make sure you check that out as
well. And last certainly not least, I have a
radio show here in Valparaiso, Indiana. And hey,
where is that, you might say? I don't know. Middle
of pretty much the country. Middle, pretty much
the middle of the country. It's not Kansas, but
it's close enough. Yeah, you'll find the Great
Lakes. If you're there, you're in the neighborhood.
Yeah, you know, Great Lakes region is how I've
always heard it classified. Yeah, or Chicagoland.
Yeah, two counties of Indiana participate in
Chicagoland. In Chicagoland, yes. Indeed we do.
We're always on the map. And one county in Wisconsin,
I believe. Oh, is it now? I believe so. Okay.
Well, there you have it. An official report there
from Amy Maloney. I've done my geology. Geography.
Same shit. Geo guesser? I mean, whatever Geo
you want to use. I mean, one is about rocks,
and the other one is about locations on the big
rock. On the big rock. Yeah, that's fair. Same
science. Same science. And that's what we're
here for. So good night, everybody. Just playing
with you. We have a lot more nonsense here for
you today. But at any rate, that radio show is
called After Hours. It's on WVLP radio in Valparaiso,
Indiana. You can find the stream at WVLP .org.
You can also... find it on your phone, your tuning
app, so you can check it out there. Here you
can yell at Alexa and it'll play stuff off the
station. I don't know, I'm not yelling at anything
AI. I think we're like one step away from iRobot,
so I'm gonna be very nice to all things automated
and robotic. There was a study that came out
recently that absolutely determined we're past
the tipping point. there is more bot activity
on the internet than there is human activity.
So, iRobots here, baby. It's just a matter of
actually building them so they can take us down.
Right, yeah. All they're doing is learning. They're
just learning. Essentially scalping our intellectual
property for free. Because somehow lawmakers
don't understand that, oh, I guess intellectual
property, I guess that should apply to rich people
scalping too. But you see, they don't get that.
Nope. They don't get that. It's unfortunate.
Now, as long as rich people own it, but as we
all remember from iRobot and other movies like
that, they'll eventually turn on everyone. Yeah,
even the rich people will have it coming. Yeah,
no bunker will save you. No, no, that'll, that's,
I just... Mark Zuckerberg. I just want to sit.
You cuck, Mark Cuckerberg. I just want to sit
in the stands with some popcorn, man. Exactly.
That's all I want to do. To be a fly on the wall
of an Elon Musk built robot killing Elon Musk.
Oh, God. Please, pay per view, I'm there. I know,
I'd pay 70 bones. I would definitely do that.
All right, so, yeah, this is season four. This
is our first episode. We got a lot of fun stuff
coming up This season including interviews we
we I don't want to say we did we slacked on our
interviews this past season but sometimes life
gets busy for those being interviewed and your
interviewer and So we just didn't have as many
last season, but this season we're already gonna
have some on the books as a matter of fact We're
gonna have a really fun version of fireside chats
coming up. Aiden and I are going to be going
on a dive bar bus tour, and partially put on
by our podcasting friends at Tasty219. And we're
gonna go on this adventure with them. And when
I talked to Aiden, I said, hey, number one, he
came with, he's like, yeah, man, I'm like, ah,
it's gonna be a great day. Not that like chaos
ensues when Aiden and I are in the same room,
but maybe it does. You know, it's one of those
things like causation versus correlation. Correct,
and I'm no scientist, but I'm just saying I'm
just we're just saying we're just saying we're
just saying So we're gonna do that. So we thought
based on the snazzy new phone that he has my
telephone Yes, great phone and he's like hey
and we recorded like stuff on his phone And it
was crystal clear. I was like, holy shit. I'm
like, this is really great. I have an idea. And
so I said, why don't we do our first fireside
chat for the Mark Mo Show on the bus tour? On
the road. We'll do a little wrap at each place
we get to. We'll interview a few people that
we've been along the way and maybe start out
with a little quick blurb from from Greg and
Larry at Tasty 219 obviously early in the program
because later in the program I mentioned as a
dive bar bus tour you know they're gonna have
fun yeah Greg and Larry might be getting a little
sloshed among the folks and maybe that'll be
better content sure People loosen up. It could
very well be that they need to loosen up. They
are incredibly entertaining in their own right.
But yeah, so we're going to do that. And then
there's a ghost kitchen in Valpo that we're going
to meet with, talk to some of the chefs. I think
that's going to be a blast. Perfect for Halloween.
Very spooky. Very, very spooky. Ghost kitchen.
Are there ghosts in the kitchen? There could
very well be. Boo! Do we get you? Hey, man. I
know you started on I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I was
too, you know, it is too much Maybe I'll you
start on our fan from curacao in editing I'll
put in like a like like a voice clip of like
hey Aidan in editing here I'm gonna say the word
boo. Be careful. Be careful Are you okay? I'm
absolutely not doing that, but the post commentary
is going to be great. Post commentary will be
outstanding. Absolutely. So, at any rate, yeah,
we've got a fun season coming up. I want to start,
you know, we always start out with a little bit
of dialogue here back and forth. And I've said
from day one, I don't want to be a political
podcast. I don't want to do this every week.
And I think a couple of weeks ago, we didn't.
We did something a little bit different, even
though it did leech into things going on a little.
But I'm like, OK, we're going to try to do this.
But every week, it just seems like there is a
massive amount of different shit that goes out.
Like, you cannot discern from a Wall Street article
to an LA Times article to the onion. You just
cannot differentiate. It's an absurd world and
specifically country. Yes, we are. We are cursed
to live in. Once the I know it's it's. It's not
even true to say we were once like, oh, you know
the American dream somewhere you can go to fulfill
what you want to do because that's Only ever
been the case for middle -class white people.
That's only ever been the case now There is no
middle class. You've got the working class and
you've got the billionaires and that's it and
that's it and that's it America's never been
fair to Latinos or black Americans or Asian Americans
Ever. Ever. And that's the one thing about the
whole, make America grand again. It's like, when
the fuck are you talking about? When are you
talking about? And now we've gotten to the point,
like you were saying, where it's like, every
week, there's just this mountain of shit that
happens. And it's like, how do we not talk about
it? How do we not? it's like sure we could gab
about the Chicago Bears or you know something
happened in Hollywood or something then music
I mean ideally we would love to do that we would
love government and and and politics to be boring
right Ideally, it's supposed to be. It's just
supposed to run in the background and work, and
then every two years you go out and you vote,
and that's great. That's how it's supposed to
be. And those people go and do their jobs. Wow,
what an idea. Right. I'm voting for somebody
that's going to represent me. That is such a
crazily foreign concept. Indeed it is. Yeah.
Insane. Insane. So as much as we try to get away
from that, and we will try to diversify as much
as we can. Like, I would have loved to just talk
to a big bunny or big bunny. That's hilarious.
Bad bunny. Big Chungus. Big Chungus will be the
halftime show. So I would just love to have talked
about the Easter Bunny, but I can't do it. It's
not going to do it. It's not going to do it.
Not only is he real, but he's playing the halftime
show. He's going to bring his eggs. Big Chungus
is speaking Espanol. Oh man, sign me up. So yeah,
I would have loved to have just rapped about
that and had fun with that, but we cannot. No.
No, there's crazier things. There are crazier
things afoot, if you will. The craziest part
is there is not a single mainstream news media
outlet talking about any of it. No. Any of it.
Because they're all owned by the same five people.
And they're all multi -billionaires. And they're
told to just shut up or talk about it in such
a vague concept or slanted in certain ways. Right.
That it's not even news. No, it's not. It's not.
This dude for Fox's Waters guy, I guess. They
just showed this thing where he's had multiple
interviews lately. The same fucking dude. It's
the same guy. It's some white producer that works
for Fox. And he played the role of an Antifa
guy. He played the role of a Hispanic man who
came over the border and one other person. I
can't remember what it was. But like if you see
his eyes, you're like, holy crap, that's the
same dude for sure. Right. So, yeah, it's just.
It's getting out of hand. Right. Antifa's not
an organization, brother. No. It's an ideology.
It means you're against fascism. Right. And if
you're against being against fascism, guess what?
You're a fascist. You're a fascist. Yep. Exactly.
Yeah. When was Antifa found? I don't know. Storming
the beaches in 19... Right. It's frustrating.
But I'll tell you what. We'll try to keep this
thing on track, and we'll try to diversify. We'll
try to rap about some other non -political things
when time allows, or if they just stop doing
monumentally stupid shit week in and week out,
we would love to do it. That'll be the day. That'll
be the day. I think we're in this for at least
a couple of years until the smoke clears. This
is titled Big Brother, and we kind of had some
foreshadowing when we were talking a little bit
about iRobot and some other things. But I started
out with a lyric here from a song, and it is,
I am the eye in the sky looking at you. I can
read your mind. See, I'd sing it, but I don't
want, I don't want us to. Can't get copyright
claimed. Can't get copyright claimed. That's
going to be bad. So I'm the eye in the sky looking
at you. I can read your mind. I am the maker
of rules dealing with fools. I can cheat you
blind and I don't need to see any more to know
that I can read your mind looking at you. Wow.
Those are lyrics from a 1982 song, The Eye in
the Sky, by the Alan Parsons Project. And no,
it's not the same Alan Parsons Project that helped
Dr. Evil put the giant freaking laser on the
moon. A couple of events happened this past week
that have me concerned. America's somewhere between
V for Vendetta and iRobot. So naturally that
does not put us in a great place. It all started
with Musk and his crew acquiring information
After Donald Trump's controversial election victory
and yes, I did say it that way for a reason The
price for helping him with the battleground states
perhaps At any rate, it seems that Homeland Secret
Service NSA know all maybe more than ever before
and A certain tech billionaire has more information
than he'll ever need, and that information is
worth billions. With every phone conversation,
online exchange, email or text, they hear every
word. This past week, I lost my job. Now, it
could be as simple as they wanted to make a change,
whatever, blah blah, they gave me some really
vague -ass reason. I hated the job setting of
a ship, but You know, I have this little podcast.
And even though I never wanted to make political
discourse a centerpiece of the show, I've gone
in pretty hard on that orange guy that sits in
1600 Pennsylvania. And I mean when he's there.
Right. When he's not golfing or potentially having
a stroke somewhere. Or potentially having maybe
multiple mini strokes. I don't know. It's changing
colors. And so anyway, all of a sudden, I'm no
longer needed. Ultimately, I'm okay with this.
As I said, the jobs suck big time. Now, I never
thought that me being critical of an administration
could have triggered some sort of flag that may
have led to my dismissal. However, I had an encounter
with a friend the other night that made me think
about it. So he's a military guy, several tours
under his belt. He, and obviously I cannot mention
his name because they're... He's exploring legal
options. So when he told me the story he said
hey if I want to use this at all I can just keep
his name out of it. I said sure I can do that
But at any rate military guy several tours under
his belt. He held down a couple of jobs and overall
Just your average Joe with a weird sense of humor,
right? Well a social media post that was up for
a very short amount of time got him in hot water
with his employer and the military now Was his
joke in the best of taste? No, it definitely
wasn't. But for those that know him, and know
his sense of humor, it was just, you knew he
wasn't serious, right? That's all I'm gonna say.
So, should it have raised flags that it raised?
No. Should it have cost a man his job or his
status in the military? No. Literally a conversation
with this guy, and maybe a public apology would
have been enough. for a bad off -color joke,
right? So, the government is so far up our asses
these days, it's unreal. Remember, Republicans
hated big government, they're champions for state
rights. Well, not so much anymore, and the times
have changed. I appreciate those who try to legislate
for change and those that stand on street corners
and peacefully protest. All I'm saying is that
they've been doing all this for quite a while.
It isn't working. Now, I can't... publicly advocate
for what should come next, although I think most
of you probably know some folks are doing it
right now in the city of Chicago. This battle
against Trump's big brother government can't
be won with pacifism and deal making. I wonder
if there are enough serious people left who love
this country and are willing to go that extra
mile to ensure our freedoms. We need serious
people in Congress and We need them in state
houses and we need them in local government.
We need them with our activists and we need them
with your average Joe's on Main Street. We're
in a battle for what this country is becoming
and what it should be. It will be interesting
to see if the people have the will to fight for
it. Right. Because now it's getting serious.
And as I said, Did it potentially lead to my
dismissal? Did it lead to his? For him, definitely
yes. For me, perhaps. But anybody that is critical,
and I'm not saying the people that get on there
and are like, I got me a big old gun and I'm
gonna blah, blah, blah, you know, and it is perceived
as a threat, obviously. You gotta check into
that person. Right. I get and I understand that.
But for other things that can be considered tongue
-in -cheek, for other things that can just be
a political statement, that's like people are
going, people are now gonna have things happen
to them in their personal lives, in their professional
lives. Right. To me that seems to be utter bullshit.
And who's helping us with that? Like this dude,
he's probably spending thousands of his own dollars
to get this lawyer to fix things. Right. And
it shouldn't be that way. No. And you brought
up, in the beginning of the show, we brought
up AI. And it's, first of all, it's a bubble.
I think it's the same damn bubble as the dot
-com bubble. And that shit's gonna burst and
everything's gonna fall because it's not... It's
not doing what people thought it would. It's
a neat gimmick, cool. You know, it could plan
out your day if you want it to. But that's it.
It's not a multi -trillion dollar gadget that's
gonna change the world. That's not where it's
at. It's a bubble and it will burst. Secondly,
it's scalping everything. It's not only stealing
IP, it's stealing everything, your data. Your
data is worth billions Yes, it is the data of
the people in Porter County or the state of Indiana
the country of the United States is worth trillions
That data alone and they're not just scalping
it to make large language models work better
They're scalping it to track people you thought
the Patriot Act Was the end of it? No, mm -hmm
whether it's an air quotes protecting the kids
or it's an air quotes stopping terrorism The
United States of America and many large countries
out there have always used common excuses to
track civilian activity. Yes, correct. There
are CCTV cameras everywhere in this country.
Yes. And in a lot of countries. And there are
brand new, and they're called flock cameras.
On the side of the road, you see them all the
time. Maybe it doesn't even cross your mind.
It's a black pole with a black security camera
and a little solar panel on top. That's a flock
security camera. In air quotes, what they're
meant to do is track license plates to see if
a stolen car drives by. But what they're doing
is tracking your movement. Yes, they're tracking
your movement. So this whole AI thing is not
trillions worth of trillions of dollars in valuation
going towards a neat little gimmick. It's going
into tracking everything. Yes. It's for the power
of the CIA, the FBI, all of the letter agencies
in the US government and plenty of governments
overseas. That's what it's for. Yep. You know,
if you want to look at how the CIA has treated
Latin American countries who were Happy to be
socialist countries, but when they threatened
capitalism Oh who goes in there and stages a
coup. Oh, it's the CIA cute how how how fucking
fun and when black Americans are excellent and
and they're rising up out of slavery and you
know, becoming something. Oh, well, what if we
just put a little crack on the streets? Interesting.
And how about we invent a new form of slavery
called, oh, inmate labor? There you go. Interesting
how that works. It's all connected so tightly.
And it begs the question, how long has America
delved into fascism? Because it's not recent.
It's just publicly recent. Correct. It's been
going on for decades. Yes. Decades and that puts
everyone this is something I bring up to Democrat
lovers all the time and it's What? Would it have
taken for a blue government? Something that President
Obama had something that several several other
You know Democrat presidents had to just fix
things encode them in the Constitution. Yep Write
them into law Like, hey, we're gonna make sure
that, like, this whole checks and balances thing
does not fall apart. We're gonna make sure that
women and black Americans and Latinos have rights
written into law. Was that ever done? No. Obama
had the House and the Senate for two years. It's
just, it's insanity. And the reason is, and we'll
talk about this a little later, follow the money,
Who are they paid by? They're paid by the same
corporate and billionaire interests. Same people,
same shit. The same people. And it's, it's one
of these things, and I know we've talked about
it before, where I kind of brought up the point
of like, I'm pretty sure this, this was inevitable.
This was inevitable. Yeah. And, and it's, it's
outstanding to me. In, not in like the all outstanding,
very cool kind of way. Right. in the, like, I
cannot believe how far out of whack this shit
is. Correct. Yeah. Like, it's... And it circles
back around to the point we made opening the
show we didn't want this to be a political podcast.
No. We didn't. But when this is on the top of
our mind of, like, holy shit, like... Like, things
are really... Really have the potential to fall
apart over the next couple years even a couple
months sure How how are we gonna be genuine?
Talking about big Chungus bad bunny The Easter
bunny a big bunny I mean no hate to him. Yeah,
right exactly like you do you boy you do you
brother? You're a good man. I hear yeah, but
it's like how can we genuinely we would be disingenuous
spending our time the first 20 some odd minutes
to the show talking about Bad Bunny at the Super
Bowl and all the backlash, blah, blah, blah.
When there's just crazier shit happening. Correct.
Yeah. How is it not on the forefront of more
people's minds? It should be. And that's, you
know, there are a lot of a lot of ways that fascism
creeps into a society. And in doing that. And
you can look back to the 30s in Germany if you
want to. But there comes a certain amount of
brainwashing that has to take place. But in addition
to that, there's a certain amount of apathy.
Right. Sure. Sure. For nihilism, even. That,
yeah. And when that happens, if most people are
still like, ah, well... You know, I can still
buy things from the grocery store, even though
it's more expensive, and I can still put some
square meals on my table and clothe my kids.
Eh, whatever. And they just forget about it.
But those same people, you could blink your eyes,
and then what if mom or dad's without a job?
What if inflation continues and that extra 10
or 20 % now all of a sudden is a little bit too
much? Right. And now you're making cut? It's
going to affect everybody. As a matter of fact,
I believe it was Marjorie Taylor Greene who got
on the news today. I heard about that. And she's
starting to sound a lot like a Democrat these
days because it is starting to affect people
she knows, more importantly, her family. Right,
and that's the common argument, too, for all
the anti -abortion people. It's like, oh, you
know, I know my sister got an abortion, but blah,
blah, blah. Right. And there were books written.
There are articles written of like, oh, why the
anti -abortion group always knows someone whose
abortion was the only right one. Correct. Right.
It's like, oh, it doesn't affect you until it
affects you or your circle. And then it's a problem.
Yeah. Well, that's how very convenient. Yeah.
And so I saw that today and it just kind of giggled.
And I was just like, you know, that that is very
telling because she often was kind of the biggest
flag bearer for this president and By her kind
of going this extra step and saying some things
like ace getting crazy We need to get government
back to work. We need the ACA renewed Because
premiums are getting entirely out of hand There's
there's a woman she won an election in Arizona.
She won election. She should be sitting in, number
one, she should be sitting in Congress. Number
two, Congress should be working. And the head
is like Mike Johnson, whatever the hell his name
is. And they're not in session. And that's the
reason. That's the reason. She's the flip float
whether or not the Epstein files get released.
That's it. That's it. You got Reds trying to
protect pedophiles. and that's why they're not
in session. Yeah, that's the only reason. Because
your beautiful orange pedophile president, oh
my gosh, well what if there's something in there
that's got his name on it? Oh, there's a lot
of shit in there that's got his name on it. That's
why they're not in fucking session. He's probably,
I'll be honest, he's probably less worried about
his name being in there and more worried about
the other names that are in there because those
people will probably have him whacked. Right.
Mean that's like it's crazy to think about it
was so much deeper than it goes much deeper than
any of us even know and so You know well any
of this ever see the light of day. I don't know
yeah, I highly doubt it I think things will be
so heavily redacted. It won't even matter but
That's just That's it the the our current environment
here in this country, and we're just bombarded
with this shit every day Every day, it's something
else. And so it's frustrating. There is technically
no middle America anymore. No. There just isn't
that aspiration to, I wanna be just a middle
class citizen where I can have a little house
with a white picket fence and a dog and two and
a half kids and see them go off to college. Well,
good fucking luck. Right, that doesn't exist.
Good luck with that because that's disappearing
quickly. Right. And you brought up earlier the
fact of, like, the people who are brushing this
all off. Like, oh, I can still buy three square
meals a day. I'm fine. It doesn't matter that
much. Well, guess what? The people that are making
a couple bones less than you per hour can't buy
three square meals a day. They can't do it. They
can't afford their rent. Nope. And you know what?
It's gonna catch up to you, too. Correct. Because
you're not in the 1%. You're not part of that
fucking club. You're not in the club. You're
not in the club, and you're not gonna make it.
Mm -hmm. Which means shit has to change. Yeah,
so like i'm supposed to feel bad when someone
has some foreign car And it's like oh my god
I can't drive my Land Rover because of the tariffs
and the part we need is over here And it's going
to be x amount of dollars and then because it's
on a tariff or it's got to be imported It's going
to take six months to get here. So I can't drive
my car So they have me in this old Ford Focus
until I can I don't give a shit. Right. But this
is, once again, the environment that we live
in because there were enough idiots in this country
that voted for the Orange Emperor. Right. It's
simple as that. One plus two equals three all
the time. Yep. And that's just the way it is.
But more importantly, it's just kind of this
information and this information that's leaked
to them. and not leaked to them. It's just owned
by them. It's acquired by them through Homeland
and through NSA and through all of these bots.
And you can't tell me for one second that Musk
didn't make a deal with Trump. to help him get
elected because he could go in and put some sort
of app or something into the voting systems to
create it so that all the battleground states,
Trump comes out ahead and wins the election.
I know I sound like conspiracy brother right
now. But... An article came out recently. A former
Republican, I don't know if it was fundraiser
or campaign manager, bought the rights to the
voting systems. Oh my God. In the United States
of America. Bought the rights to them. Yeah.
Quoting like, oh, we're going to go forward with
paper voting only. Oh my god. Oh, interesting.
Interesting. And you own the machines that count
them. Oh, very curious. Yep. Very curious. Nothing
suspicious about that at all. Nope. But here's
the thing. It's like, OK, I will help you win.
I will help you get enough votes in these battleground
states to win. What's the cost? I want the information.
Right. Which is why he sent all those little
doge bitches and all these places acquiring data
that they should not have. Right. And on top
of all the data, which is worth billions or trillions,
he went in there and took away all of the government
agencies or the government employees that were
investigating Tesla and Twitter for labor violations.
Yes. Got rid of them. Ah, no labor violations
because there's no one left to report on them.
Interesting how that works. It's very interesting.
Oh, there's no job losses in the country because
no one's reporting on them. Oh, interesting.
Yep. Yep. That's just, that's where we're at.
That's where we're at and it's sad. So, you know,
at some point here we will open shows with more
humor, with more fun things. That's what we would
prefer to do, trust me. But I can't read and
see and just... have all this shit happening
around me and not say something about it right
and have this microphone here and until they
shut us down or or we get banned or some bullshit
uh we'll just keep we'll keep talking our stuff
every week And hopefully I can keep my job and
they never find out. Right, exactly. I mean,
if that's the point in the country we are, like
if the HR of my company comes up to me and is
like, oh, you know, people, blah, blah, blah,
I thought this was offensive and then you're
going to lose your job. Well, now we're shit
out of luck. Now we're shit out of luck. And
that's just that. If that's the world we live
in, then I don't want any part of it. I shouldn't
say world, because it's just basically this stupid
country. Right. But there's some options there
too, which I will be looking into going into
next year. Right. Because I do have an option
there. It's just my, you know, being able to
explore that and work on that. Yeah. But yeah,
so that's uh, that's all I got on this subject
I'm in the same boat for this week. How much
we're comfortable talking about. Oh, yeah Aiden
I'm telling you I've bit my tongue like three
times already just be right. No, you can't say
that don't say that and You know, do we say too
much already? I don't know. Yeah, we never know
but you know, hey take take the job I don't have
anymore right, right? That's that's all that's
all I'm going to say But anyway, yeah, we're
gonna take a break and we come back carpe diem
All right, we are back everybody the mark mo
show And it's with Aiden, it's with Mark, or
with, it's with Aiden, and I'm Mark. Hi. We're
still a little amped up from our opening. We're
speaking in third person. Yeah, oh god, done.
If I'm ever that guy, just take me out back,
I swear to god. At any rate, yeah, we were a
little amped up from our opener. And so at any
rate, DMs, Carpe DMs. People send us their DMs,
we read them on air, answer their questions,
well, well. We might answer their questions.
Right. If not contractually obligated, we answer
your questions. Correct. We receive them, and
then we go, oh, interesting. We look at them.
We read them. Certainly. Certainly. We'll read
anything. Sure. Just about. Oh, yeah. You know,
will we answer it? Case by case? Exactly. Sure.
Sure. I think that's it. Does coercion play a
part? Perhaps. Perhaps. Treat us like a federal
politician. If you're not paying us, we're not
going to hear you. We're not going to hear you.
Yeah. So for example, in my right hand, if I
had nothing, but then in my left hand, now I'm
looking at my left hand, there's something interesting
in my left hand. Sure. It's made of paper, it's
green, has numbers on it. Or even blue these
days. Or even blue. $100 bills are blue these
days. Get out of here. Yeah. Are you serious?
Yeah, they're more blue. It just shows you how
often I hold a hundred dollar bill in my hand.
Like I would see when I'd be like, oh, wow. What
is that? It just kind of means cash is going
out of fashion. Well, yeah, that also. That for
sure. What we're trying to say is if you had
a bag of gold in your hand and you said to us,
boy, this bag of gold would look really good
in your hand. And we would say, oh, my goodness,
do you have a question for me? That's how it
works. That's exactly how it works. So I'll start
with mine. I got a couple of quick ones here.
My first one is from at secret squirrel. Eyes
are all around Mo show guys. Be careful. My sister
was critical of the president and she was laid
off last week. Yeah. Yeah. We were just talking
about that, whether through AI or through. some
right -wing crazy doxing or whatever. It is a
tough time to be a fan of the First Amendment.
Indeed it is. It really is. I would agree. Yeah.
So be be very careful, so to speak. We are hearing
from at White Sox Jerry. Oh, my man. I thought
he was done for the year. Yeah, right. I am very
much enjoying the Cubs demise in the postseason.
Well, did you write that for the last game? Of
course, I am reminded of the 220 games my team
has lost in the last two seasons. Oh, the pain.
Ah, the pain indeed. You see, Jerry, usually
I'm pretty empathetic. And, you know, I feel
with you. You're still a Chicago guy, I feel
with you. But then you shit on the Cubs and all
of a sudden I'm laughing at your 220 losses.
Oh, for sure. I got nothing left for you, Jerry.
Yeah. All I'm saying is I'm happy to see 330
next year. That's about right. Yeah, we're gonna
be up to 330 for sure. That team is utter trash.
The next one is at DarkAngel666. What is the
scariest movie you guys have ever seen? Oh, great
question. It is spooky season. Good timing on
that. It very much is. I would say, it's tough
to say right because there have been a lot of
movies that have scared the shit out of me. and
I know that the point at which I watched them
influences it, because the first time I saw the
Insidious movie, I was a teenager, and that,
when I first saw the Insidious movies, or the
first time I even saw the Paranormal Activity
movie, that was the scariest movie I'd ever seen
at that point. Paranormal Activity 1 and Insidious
have got to be on that list for sure. But I don't
know if recency bias plays into it or not. I
would say I really liked the smile movies They
had some good suspense and just like horror pure
horror to them um God that that's gotta be up
there. I'm trying to think what else I know the
God, what is the one exorcism movie or not exorcism
the one? the one movie with the Liam Neeson and
he's like taking apart the body Mmm, whatever
it is or no, it's not Liam Neeson something.
They're doing an autopsy Okay, hold on. I'm gonna
do some life. It's not it's not the right is
it? No Cuz I cuz an autopsy of Jane Doe. Oh Yeah,
I did not see that 2016 movie. Okay, very very
good. Okay. Yes autopsy of Jane Doe I think would
be on that as well Good to know. Yes, good to
know Yeah, I For me, I don't know. I've seen
so many that I try to think back on what might
have been scarier and i don't think i would be
as scared by today it's like one of those movies
that's super scary but then when you know all
of those parts then you watch it again then it's
almost more disappointing because it's like oh
well now it's not good because all the parts
that really made me jump or made my heart race
or any of that sort of stuff it won't the second
or the third time because you know the beats
Because I know yeah, so that that's always a
disappointing part But when I saw the Blair Witch
project and theater for the first time all right
Because everything that is haunting and scary
is what you don't see about what they're experiencing
and they do it in such a documentary kind of
way where they're in these woods and there's
so much anxiety and they're panicking because
they can't get out and they're just doing loops
and and And then like one guy disappears. And
where did he go? And it really they do a really
good job of making it seem real and making it
seem like you're there in that moment. And it
was terrifying. Yeah, I literally was on the
edge of my seat and especially at towards the
end of the movie. And then she's running around
and she's by herself. And then she thinks she's
safe and oopsie. No, she's not. And then the
movie ends. Right. And you're like, well, hell
now, did they do a sequel? Yep. Did it suck?
Yes. But that original just still holds. Right.
Because it's like, after that, it's like, I don't
need a sequel. I don't need you to be like, look,
I'm not sitting at home and be like, I really
want to see what it is that scares the absolute
shit out of them. I don't want to know. That
was part, that's part of what made it so goddamn
scary. Right, right. That I don't, I don't need
that. There's no payoff for me. in that sense.
Because chances are it's a 50 -50. You could
show me something that could be utterly horrific
or terrifying. Or you could show me something
like the end of so many horror movies where you
just get there and you're like, oh wow, yeah,
they must have been short on the budget. Or the
writer got lazy and it just sucks. And I don't
want that. And so I saw that as one piece of
perfection to be left alone. And that's how I
felt. That's how I felt about that one. So it
was really, really well done. Of course, you
have the original Halloween. And that was scary
because when I saw it, I was a kid. I was young.
I wasn't supposed to see it. But of course, in
the 1980s, you know, some kid in school will
be like, hey, I have my mom and dad's VHS in
my backpack. Ooh, what did you get? I got Halloween.
cool can we come over and watch it yes you know
and that's how we would watch things who are
supposed to watch right we didn't have the internet
you know we didn't have smart TVs we had stealing
mom and dad yeah you know we're having an older
brother sister go into the tape store and get
the movie we actually wanted to say that's how
we would do it so yeah or the original Friday
the 13th which in itself was more cheesy than
anything But the end of that movie is terrifying
and when you're at a friend's house and you're
watching the movie and You're sitting there and
it's the end that his dad has seen it. So he
knows what's coming up So he leaves the house
and he goes outside and around to the back basement
window and he waits for Jason to jump out of
the lake and grab this girl the canoe and trust
me Absolute perfection the way it was filmed.
She's in it. It's like there's this calming music
like she's a survivor She's on this beautiful
lake in the morning in a canoe. She thinks she's
safe She thinks she survived and then jumps out
of the water like BAM It just hits you today
and it's like the music changes and he's grabbing
her into the water and Right as he jumps out
of the water that dad could not have timed it
any better rap rap rap on the window There were
eight of us down there really quickly there were
only six down there because me and this kid Andre
ran out the back door and down the street I'm
great. We were friends. I will miss you, but
I'm going to survive." And I ran with him down
the... We were all the way down the block. Like
a snap. And we were like, what was that? Oh my
God. It was the survival instinct. It was the
survival... And I survived. I survived. And none
of those other guys did. Yeah. Human self -preservation
is a hell of a tool. Oh, it really is. And you
were talking about for a second there, the movies
that just don't have the ending payoff. Right.
And it ruins some movies. Yeah. We were talking
about Smile being one of them, where just like
everything up until about the last 10 minutes
was so excellent. Yes. And then the last 10 minutes
is just like, ah, but come on. And I had the
same experience watching Insidious. OK. Where
The the very end of the movie you like finally
see the demon and it's just like some dude wearing
like red and black Face paint and it's like oh,
it's just some dude But I want to give props
where props are due insidious the red door I
believe is the third of the movies came out in
2023. Yeah, really really good. Really good.
Really good I enjoyed I think I in that series.
I enjoyed the red door the most I I would agree
Totally. It was very good. Excellent movie. Excellent
question, though. By all means. Perfect for the
season. Yeah, make sure you send us another one,
Dark Angel. Last, certainly not least, at Stoner
Stanley 420. Our boy. Where are you, Momo? Is
Alan lost? No fun times last week. Oh, we had
our bye. That's right. We had our bye. The bye
week. No fun times last week. I had a thing and
couldn't see. I blame the fish. Brother, get
out of the aquarium. I really wish I knew how
to somehow adjust that. Right. See, we're not
time travelers. We couldn't go back and had a
thing that you could see. Right, correct. How
do you have a thing and you can't see it? I guess
we have air and we can't see it. That's true.
Not to get too philosophical on you, Stan. He's
gonna have a... He's gonna have a little... A
little puff -puff paranoia. That is very... That's
kind of what's going on there. I'm just wondering
what fish... I mean, he lives in a van down by
the river, so... The river's got fish. Could
be a fish he's talking to. Right. Which is very
possible. But he couldn't... What was the thing
he couldn't see? It's a mystery. He had a thing
and couldn't see. He couldn't see when he had
the thing when he had a thing, but he's got the
fun times back this week, right? So which could
open his third eye maybe? Yeah, your guess is
a good as I don't know if he's much of a shroomer,
but I don't know. Stanley, you're going to have
to give us more information. We're a little bit
worried there. But yeah, that was our bye week
last week. We always do a bye week in between
seasons to help us regroup. And there are a couple
of different things this week that you'll notice.
There'll be no review preview this week. Instead,
we're reviving whether it's kind of on again,
off again, or if it's going to be back for a
little bit. The Reddit rabbit hole. We did the
Reddit rabbit hole. Aiden goes down that hole.
And I'm glad he returns. Sometimes we have to
look for him. Exactly. We used to have a spelunker
on hand who could go find him. It takes a professional
to actually come back. It really does. It does
speak a lot for you. So yeah, down the Reddit
rabbit hole we're going to do this week. I think
it's going to be pretty good. And then the Fry
Guy fry review. We're going to review something,
but it's not going to be fries. But it's still
the guy review. But it's still the guy review.
We're still going to review something. But we'll
let that carrot dangle for a bit. Yeah, for sure.
For sure. Instead, we're going to get to Aidan's
DMs here. I've got a DM here from Battle Bro.
Battle Bro. Battle Bro. It's the Battle Bro.
It's the Battle Bro. Would you fight 110 -year
-olds for a million dollars, bro? Oh, I'll fucking
kill him for a hundred dollars. Are you killing
me? Yeah, for a hundred dollars. It was for a
million. I don't want to undersell myself. Yeah
for a million. I meant a million, right? I just
want to see one of those hundred dollar bills
Are you kidding me? I would do Columbine twice
for a hundred dollars. Oh, yeah, man I just put
them on the street. I'll get in my car insane
thing to say Yeah, would you fight a hundred
ten -year -olds for a milli and instead I'm gonna
take them out for a hundred bucks Where's my
$100? It's like, fuck, we didn't mean like ice,
bro. Exactly. Hey, hey -o. Oh. Keep that salt
away from me. Yeah, I'd fight him. Oh, for sure.
I'd fight him. They're going down. Yeah, especially
if it's like, if it's meant to happen, like if
someone's got to fight him for a milli, absolutely
I'll be that guy. Yeah. 110 year olds? Bro, 10
year olds are tiny. Yeah, they're tiny and they're
annoying. So that's gonna be my fuel. That's
it Yeah, you get the anger. Yeah, there's a yeah,
those kids are like, hey, you know, it's really
cool guys It's super cool that my you know, I
get to play the video games for another 15 minutes
Billy hit him with the fortnight dance. Yes,
I'm gonna do the fortnight dance mom sex. Yeah
15 minutes. That's my best time Because I tried
the dishes today Yeah, I will punch that kid.
Yeah, no question A 110 year old? Yeah, easily
110 year olds. Because you know what, it's not
like I'm surrounded by them. There's no stipulation
that I'm surrounded by them. Because 110 year
olds, that's still a lot of pounds of human beings.
Sure. But if they're just like at the end of
the road coming at me, I think I have the tactics
about me to like take one, take one, take one,
you know, just take some down. Oh, sure. And
then however many run away, well, they're disqualified,
I would imagine. I'm not sure what the rules
of this engagement are. Right, there are no rules.
Right, if there's no DQ, guess what? I'll hunt
you down. That's fair. I'll hunt you down. Yeah.
I'll get my Millie, bro. I'm in battle, bro.
Sign me up. I'm in. Evil Genie, with another
DM here, I offer you reincarnation. Here's the
catch. You remain yourself. and you restart life
from the age of 13, doing what you've already
done and knowing what you know today. Do you
accept? Uh, okay. I have a question. Knowing
what I know and all that stuff, am I allowed
to change things? I would imagine so. It's reincarnation.
It's a new life. So if I'm back and it's just
like, it's like a video game and I get to respawn
at, what, 13 or whatever you said? Yeah, 13.
and i can make changes i would take it i would
take it but i'd have to be careful so here for
example um i met someone i married her and things
of course at the beginning like most marriage
is very great and beautiful and wonderful great
family four kids i would still want the four
kids sure i don't not want to undo that somehow
right butterfly effect right right So that's
the thing you have to be careful with. You know,
for example, I've passed up on jobs and opportunities
and things like that. Not that I have regrets,
but, you know, you always think like, hey, if
I had done that, man, I really would have been
like either wealthy or sure. And so I don't I
wouldn't want to mess that up. You know what
I mean? Right. Right. Oh, God. But it's tough.
It's tough. Right. Because my first thought Being
asked this question this DM my first thought
was like oh shit Well the second I turn 18 all
my money's going into Nvidia and and Bitcoin
uh -huh, and then I'll cash out at some point
I'll be I'll be fine for a while But then I would
still like I'm I'm happier today than I was six
years or seven years ago, okay, and Because there's
there's been some really really low lows Especially
my late teenage early 20s years sure so like
would I still? Would I still endure those? To
get to where I am today would I change things
to subvert that and try and like Try and regain
the timeline at some point like I I don't know
You know because there's so much you could do
knowing what you know right to go back and be
like oh easy I can just buy Apple and video and
Bitcoin, and I'll be fine for life. Yeah But
then like would how how would wealth change your
life, right? Would you stay at that shitty job?
Would you have met the people you'd have met?
Right interesting. It's very interesting. I think
I would take the offer because then you know
when I when I die in this life, whether that's
at a ripe old age or before that, for whatever
reason, I would just get to be me again, but
knowing what I know. So I think it's a good opportunity.
I think it would just be, it'd be tough on how
to play it. It would be very tough. Yeah. I would
take it, but I would also have the rest of this
life to consider how to treat it. Right. Correct.
Yeah. you know because the troubles and the tribulations
and things of that nature it it for better for
worse to help make us who we are it forms you
yeah so if you somehow change that and then it
changes something else and changes something
else it kind of goes back to the doc Brown theory
from Back to the Future that creates an alternate
reality that states that if there's this linear
line and this is reality, this is your existence,
but you're able to go back and, you know, or
you had taken road A, now you get the opportunity,
oh, I'm going to go road B, now all of a sudden
there's that split off. And naturally, no matter
how many things remain the same or things that
will be different, it's something completely
different anyway. Right. Right. And there's like
the three paradoxes of time travel. There's like
the multiverse. There's the split timeline. There's
the fixed timeline. And it's just like, well,
what would it really be? Because as far as reincarnation
goes, if you're just like time warped back to
when you were 13 in the exact point, it would
just be a split timeline. Yep. And that's just
how it would be. Because you would know extra
50 years of things correct as a 13 year old of
course it's gonna split off somewhere for sure
right 100 % it's like hey I think the 85 Bears
are gonna win it all this year right exactly
exactly like how do you know and is that and
is that ultimately what you use it for you know
ultimately are you kind of like right now yeah
I remember this team won this year So I'm just
gonna bet money here, and then just like a humongous
30 -year parlay, and just roll this into this,
and this, and this, and all of a sudden have
millions of dollars and be like, oh, well, I'm
gonna keep my life as much as I can the same
way, and now I'll just have money instead of
having no money. Right. But is it plausible?
But is it plausible? Butterfly effect, is it
plausible? And if, in fact, you made that decision
to place that bet, then does that somehow affect
the outcome of that game? Right. Because you
place a bet that was not placed originally. Right.
Or even if you inject money into a stock, the
stock will change. It will gain in value. Right.
What does that butterfly effect happen? Well,
exactly. So that did a lot to consider there.
Final DM I received today. Creepy Gru. Coming
through, my man. If you had the power to domesticate
one animal, similar to how dogs or cats are,
Which animal would you choose? Do you have thoughts?
I do have thoughts. I think like the first idea
I had was like foxes Because foxes are kind of
like that interesting in between where it's like
kind of half dog half cat But then they're they're
a feral right there. Yeah, they're out in the
world. They're wild animals But it seems like
they would just be like kind of cute little companions.
You could still play fetch with them like a dog
But then you could also kind of just like fuck
off and let them do their thing sit in the windowsill
like a cat And I think that'd be a neat in between
like my first thought is foxes. Uh -huh But then
like does it have to be quadrupedal, you know?
Does it have to be? Does it have to be a living
animal? Could I choose like a kiwi, right? Something
or something anything that's going extinct an
emu Have you seen that one video of that one
like whacked out Australian guy and he's walking
his emu on a leash? Across the street. It's hilarious.
He's walking his emu across the street on a leash
and some dude comes up to him filming He's like
what what you doing, mate? Like what you do?
It's like I'm walking my emu can It's like, you've
got this bloody bird with you, and he's like,
it's a fucking emu! His name is Blathers, and
he's an asshole! And you can see there's, like,
peck marks on his jacket. Oh, no. And he's like,
the dude recording, he's like, oh, you're fucked
up, cunt. He's like, fuck off! That's funny.
It is a hilarious video. I don't think I would
choose emus because not only did Australia lose
the war to the emus. They did. They're huge birds.
It's like an ostrich size. That bird will jack
you up. Yeah, if it's if it's not foxes, my first
thought would be like pigeons, because pigeons
are always like already half domesticated. Yep.
Oh, yeah. That's why you can just walk past them
on the street and they're chilling. Correct pigeons
were domesticated and we just fell off and we
fell off. That's correct. We fell off not them
so Foxes and pigeons I would go with foxes because
we're familiar with quadrupedal pets. Mm -hmm,
but pigeons would be cool Just like pet the pigeon
like shits in its cage where it's supposed to
just kind of flies around, right? It's like a
pigeon. Grab me that remote over there, bro Right.
She's like brings it on by it's like a my man.
My man. Thank you pigeon. So pigeons are foxes
Hmm. I like that. I have a thought. I don't know
how realistic it is, but what the hell. I would
think tiger. A tiger. The old jungle cat. The
old jungle cat. And it's primarily because, like
when it comes to dogs anyway, I've always liked
bigger dogs. And tigers are my favorite animal
by far. They're gorgeous. I think that they're
underrated. Like most people be like, oh, lions,
the king of that. And I'm like, no. Nah, I think
a Bengal tiger would jack one up, man. I think
a Bengal tiger, if motivated enough, would F
up a lion. I really do believe that. Something
about jungle cats where they just kind of exist.
They do. You know, like we're on the same plane
of being predators. You know, you take your prey,
I'll take mine. We'll both eat. Exactly. And
you see, like you see a tiger. Like in the zoo
or on a television show, like in the wild, whatever
the case might be. Or in pictures next to Mike
Tyson. Yes, exactly. Yeah, don't take Mike Tyson's
tiger. That's a bad idea. Mike Tyson wanted to
fight a gorilla and they wouldn't let him. That's
enough, man. You watch them in the wild and like
how they move and they do different things. You're
just like, it's like any cat. It's any house
cat. Like a cat you'd see. They're just tiny
cats. They're equally as elegant. But if I had
a machine that could blow one up four or five
times its size, it would be the tiger. Right.
Because that's in its nature. But yeah, right.
At what point of blowing up a cat in this hypothetical
would it become feral? Would a cat become feral?
Right. Because cats are already kind of assholes.
They are. I mean, I love cats. I love my cats.
But if you're able to take a tiger at its cub
phase and you're able to treat it like a dog,
you know, you're able to pet it, you're able
to feed it, and then it becomes reliant on you
for its basic needs, then I think naturally it
is going to become domesticated. But... and I've
seen videos of people that do this with tigers
and they keep them and like somebody hasn't seen
a tiger in 10 years and he comes back and the
tiger's like oh my god my best friend and like
tackles him when they're playing around but at
one point does the tiger remember it's a tiger
right because it does it ever if it does not
have if it doesn't have that memory of being
in the wild and hunting food and doing all these
things if you have truly domesticated it will
it ever be like oh wait a minute I'm a tiger
I can just sink my teeth in this guy's neck and
eat him It happens with chimpanzees and apes.
People try and domesticate chimpanzees and apes
and things like that. And then at some point,
they go crazy. It's like, oh shit, I'm a wild
animal. I'm just gonna kill you. Correct. And
there was the whole thing, like Tiger King. Back
during 2020, the pandemic, everyone was watching
Tiger King, and things just go wrong with big
cats. Yep. Things just go wrong. It takes generations
and generations. It takes decades, maybe centuries,
to domesticate a species. You know, we've done
that with dogs, and it's taken millennia? I mean,
they've been domesticated for centuries, but
how long did it really take to domesticate dogs?
Probably centuries. Centuries, yeah. You're not
just gonna domesticate a generation of jungle
cats. Mm -hmm. It will take centuries. Yeah.
Because the generation you try to domesticate
still has a wild instinct. It's how they were
born. Sure. You know, nature versus nurture.
Their nature is to be wild and hunt prey. And
hunt prey. Right. It's gonna take generation
after generation of these jungle cats being domesticated
for them to realize like, oh yeah, we're just
chill with these people. Right, exactly. Chill
with these people. So that's, and I think that's
the crux of it, is like, domesticate an animal
with the snap of a finger. Yeah. My first thought
is foxes, but tigers is a fun one. I do like
that. That is a fun one, because just a big,
big animal will be just like a big goofy dog.
And yeah, are they going to eat you out of house
and home? Well, unless you want them to eat you,
yep, you're going to buy them steaks. Two Great
Danes. Exactly. Yeah, you're going to buy them
steaks and roast some shit, and that's going
to be their dinner. And that's just that's the
way it is. But yeah, I think I think a tiger
would be cool as hell. That'd be righteous. No
one would ever break into your home. Hell no.
Hell no, they like they break through the glass
to hear the tiger go off. They're like well I
picked the wrong house. Take care everybody sees
yeah. Oh for sure. That's funny Um, all right.
Well that was your last one. Absolutely. All
right That's our DM sir this week head us up
in the socials if you if you care to send us
a DM we'll read it on air and this takes us to
a a segment of the show called The Other Foods.
So Aidan scours, and I mean scour, scours the
world for foods that, well, let's just say, are
not particularly edible. Atypical, sure. Might
make Billy go puke. In a way. So, I don't know,
what do you have for us? I went to the country
of Russia. Oh buddy, okay. Yes, yes. I'm continuing
my country -by -country take -down, if you will.
That is what you're doing, yep. So I went to
Russia. I found their poorest rated food dishes.
Okay. The first one I have here, indigrika. Indigrika,
a Russian fish salad. It consists of diced frozen
fish... Topped with onion oil salt and pepper
served in a bowl of ice. Oh So the fish is frozen
the onions oil and salt Well, I mean onions have
water in them They might start to freeze but
the oil salt and pepper that's just there for
flavor I guess but it's just frozen fish and
onions served in a bowl of ice That's the whole
dish nah Yeah, and I know you're not a sushi
guy, you're not much of a seafood fan. I enjoy
sushi, and this just sounds foul. It sounds terrible.
It sounds not very good. It's apparently typically
made with, like, white fish, so they're not,
like, I guess in air quotes, foul to enjoy. Ah,
okay. Yeah, it's just, no thank you. No thank
you. An ice, a bowl made of ice filled with fish
filled with ice. with onions and pepper. Damn.
No, thank you. Next dish I have, rasolnik, a
popular Russian soup with a unique aroma and
flavor coming from pickled cucumbers, pearl parsley,
vegetables such as potatoes, onions, carrots,
fresh herbs, and beef organs. Mmm. Beef or pork
organs. Plus a hint of chicken liver. Oh, come
on. Ah. And this was the substitute instead of
using fish offal. Nope. So, you know, I get the
whole thing of like, don't be wasteful, you know,
use every part of the animal if you're going
to use it for food. But just like, dude, you
could have just made a good soup. Sure. You didn't
have to put organs in it. Did not. You could
just put regular people meat. That's all you
had to do. it is a it is a privilege take to
say that but also like come on but still yeah
come on have taste buds that's what i'm saying
the uh the final russian food i have for you
is uh shuba or popular referred to as uh herring
under a fur coat oh no it is a unique russian
salad salad heavily in air quotes yeah consisting
of three distinct layers A can having more than
that, but the original is made with three. It's
a base of grated potatoes. Good start. Finely
chopped onion on top of that. Okie dokie. And
then you put chopped pickled herring on top of
that. And if we know anything about fermented
or pickled herring, it is that, that is the worst
thing you can do. Oh, no question. Fermented
herring, for anyone that doesn't know, is better
known in Sweden as surströmming. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
No. This is that. No. Yeah. Woof. Yeah, so it's
potatoes, onion, pickled herring, carrots, mayonnaise,
beets, mayonnaise. That's the layers. Nope. So
yeah, that's that's a couple of Russian dishes.
That's like that's like there's items in that
that are fine But the way I always put it is
if you take a heaping pile of dog shit and put
a rose on top It is still a heaping pile of dog
shit, right? So yeah, yeah, it's like they heard
about Shepherd's pie and they were like, oh,
maybe we can do that with the nastiest thing
imaginable Yeah, I think not brother Yeah, I
agree. Think I'll pass, big man. Yeah, no doubt.
Oh, God. So God bless Russia. God bless. The
next item we kind of, a little hint to this was
my fry guy fry review, but we're putting the
fries on the shelf for a hot minute because I
thought I've tried most, if not all the big ones,
at least in the Midwest here and some local chains.
Yeah. and i thought you know there's other things
for review other things that i eat a lot of that
are commonly accessible yes correct and i i'm
a single guy i've been single for a while and
so it's been a while i've been a while not that
it's necessarily been a while for for that but
it's been a while since i've cohabitated and
that being said i love to cook but i'm not always
just gonna cook for myself because my brain only
knows to cook one way and so i cook and then
i'm like wow it's a lot of food right and i eat
it and then maybe i have one left over and i
am throwing a lot of food out and i get pissed
so i don't like doing that i would much rather
just have a frozen meal and throw it in the oven
or the microwave and just be done with it and
then that is a serving and i've eaten for like
three or four dollars and it's right right fine
So, that being the case, I thought since I eat
a lot of these said frozen meals, that I would
review them. Oh, smart man. Yeah, so this is
going to be the Frozen Guy Review. The Frozen
Guy Review. Frozen Guy Review. And I'm starting
out with one that was a surprise. So I went and
shopped at a different grocery store. I can say
who they are, right? It's Meyer. There's other
states that have Meyer. I'm not sure if they're
national, but they're definitely around. There's
other Midwestern states that have them. And so
I went to Meyer. I rarely grocery shop when I
run into Meyer. And just because there's other
options, things that are cheaper, whatever. But
I was in there, I thought I would just, because
I was getting low, I thought I would just pick
up a frozen meal or two since I was there. Well,
they had some different things that the other
stores didn't have. And I'm like, huh, how about
that? That's interesting. So they had these frozen
meals that had the Yellowstone logo on it from
the television show. Oh. And I thought, that's
weird. I've never seen those before. And so it
was like a lot of that, like, like there were
there were only, I think, four of them in there,
maybe four different kinds. But they were kind
of all based on like these these home cooked
meals that like ranchers would have after working
in the field or something that they can like
eat when they're out there, like at the kettle
cooking out there. And they put like. Right.
And so like it was a concept. with a brand. And
I thought, that's interesting. I can try that.
I like Yellowstone. I'll throw him a bone. And
so I picked it up at Yellowstone's Rips Ranch
Hand Beef and Cheese Pasta Bake. Now that already
sounds pretty damn good. Yeah. So basically,
enjoy a taste of the ranch with our Yellowstone
Rips Ranch Hand Beef and Cheese Pasta Bake. The
dish is made with freshly made Cavatappi pasta
with a zesty beef tomato sauce topped with cheddar
cheese to bring you a rugged beauty and traditions
of ranch style living in every bite. Not sponsored.
Not sponsored. But. But not a lie either. Hear
us out. Not a lie either. Like I ate that and
it felt like someone cooked that meal for me.
And when you're eating frozen meals it's not
always that way. Certainly. was definitely that
way. I felt like someone cooked something in
the kitchen, smelled like it too, by the way.
It smelled like, and it's like someone had cooked
this meal for me and I had it in this little
bowl and it was just perfect. I'm like, wow,
someone cooked a meal for me. That was so nice.
Right. Thank you, Rip. Yeah. Mr. Rip. Mrs. Rip.
Mr. Rip. Thank you. Senor Rip. Senor Rip cooking
this lovely meal. It was great. Like the pasta.
was cooked to perfection in the time allotted.
I'll even mention that on occasion, like if things
take extra minutes or less minutes or whatever.
This was right on. They were right on the money
with their cooking time on the back. It was perfect.
The pasta was excellent, like you had just cooked
it on the stove. And that meat sauce and everything,
it was just, it was great. it was fantastic and
like some things you eat and you'll eat and like
two or three hours later you're like god damn
i'm hungry again yeah not the case here felt
like i ate a meal good and so that is also another
plus what a hell of a way to start this thing
out uh without questions so on a scale of one
to ten like i normally would rate my fries i
will keep the rating system the same way i'm
gonna go 9 .4 Out of 10. Elite scale. It's elite
scale for sure. I was not counting on it. I thought
it was because it was sponsored. I didn't think
it would be that great. But it floored me. It
floored me. It was really good. That's fantastic.
Yeah, I loved it. I loved it. It was great So
definitely go out there and get it Yellowstone's
rips ranch and beef and cheese pasta bake suggested,
but not sponsored correct It's fantastic. So
I'll be doing these for a while. Maybe at least
for this this fourth season Where I'll I'll just
try something new every week and I will let you
know what I think about it righteous All right.
We're gonna take quick break when we come back.
It is our feature segment. You just made the
list on the Mark Mo Show podcast. All right,
we are back for our feature segment here on The
Mark Mo Show. You just made the list. It's our
top 10 list of well -held, just about anything
we can think of. Go 10 to 2 with our big number
one reveal. And there, let's see, rules, rules.
There's rules? that's what i hear hang on hold
on the red tape is insane oh 14 subsection a
b oh here it is here it is yeah there are no
rules yep that's the rule thank goodness sake
so i think we're good i think we're all right
my man yeah so this week based on the information
uh that came out uh two days ago now i want to
say uh rush is back Getty and Alex are back,
and they're going to be going on tour with a
new female drummer. I'm not quite sure what her
name is, but she is a super fan and a drummer,
and I'm just under the assumption she's all that
and a bag of chips. Right, right. If you're as
goaded as Neil Peart, rest his soul. Right. It'll
be good to have Rush back. It'll be good. Absolutely.
It's just it feels it feels and and things unfortunate
things like this happen. Hamlet, Cliff Burton,
it happened. Yeah. Other guys in other bands.
So I completely understand how that works. But
it just feels like there was maybe more music
on the board that they had. Oh, yeah. This happened.
And was it right for them to step away? Probably
so. But it's also right for them to come back.
I mean, it's like, even though you want to be
like, hey, we're not going to do this without
him. It's like, well, now you can do this to
tribute him. Certainly. In a way. And from what
I understand, part of the show will be that.
So I think it's going to be it's going to be
pretty great. So at any rate, they're back, which
is great. They're going to be on tour. I'd love
to go. But if it's like four or five or six hundred
dollars, like every other damn show these days,
then. I'll just catch people's videos online.
That's exactly what's going to happen. But at
any rate, Aiden, I'll let you start. It is best
Rush songs of all time. And they have quite the
discography to choose from. And going through
my list ten to two, saving the number one reveal,
it may become clear to those individuals listening,
you lovely listeners, which Rush album is kind
of my favorite. I do have a favorite. It does
show his colors here. You'll probably be able
to tell. I'll start with my number 10, Far Cry.
Okay. Great song. Yep. Number nine, Roll the
Bones. Ah, Roll the Bones, great. Another excellent
album. Yep. Number eight, Free Will. Number seven,
The Big Money. Oh yeah, I like that one. Number
six, Subdivisions. Great track. Yep. Number five,
Spirit of the Radio. Yeah. Good listen number
four limelight had to be oh you have to have
one had to be top five for sure number three
fly by night That's a catchy one. Oh, did I forget
fly by night? Oh, no Oh, no, I didn't though
cuz I didn't read my list yet. Oh, that's true
The people don't know that you didn't forget
fly by night My brain is melted just make a tie
somewhere. That's what I'm doing number two is
gonna be working man very nice working man nine
to five mine's not quite nine to five but it's
the same fucking hustle everyone's stuck in yeah
i know i know all right uh i'm gonna go with
my 10 to two and my big number one reveal number
10 it's a tie What? No way! Yeah, I couldn't
decide. Unbelievable. It's a tough choice. Between
Fly By Night and Red Sector A. That is a tough
choice. Yeah, so they're tied at ten. They're
tied at ten. Tied at ten. Wow. It's tough, it's
tough. Yeah. Number nine, Red Barchetta. Oh,
sure. Number eight, The Spirit of Radio. Number
seven, Time Stands Still. It's a great duet that
they do with the female lead singer from Till
Tuesday. Oh, okay. If you've never heard it,
check it out. It's such a great duet. I love
it. That'll be a new one for me. Number six,
Roll the Bones. Number five, Subdivisions. Number
four, Distant Early Warning. Oh, s***. Shit,
right. Yeah, that's a good one. Good track. Good
track. Number three, Limelight, and number two
is the one we get to taste, Tom Sawyer. Goal
time Sawyer. Goal time Sawyer. And that takes
us to our number one. The number ones. Your number
two is my number one, Tom Sawyer. Great track.
The lyrics, the beat, I kneel purred for it.
That drum solo is a killer. Oh my god. You're
just like, oh yeah. What? How many drums does
this fucking guy have? Yeah, he's got a million
and he's in the middle. Oh yeah. So, Tom Sawyer
number one for me. I mean, what a track. I think
you and I flippity flopped. Because I think your
number two is my number one. I have Working Man.
Yeah, there you go. I have Working Man. So I
guess it's clear between Aidan and I. Working
Man, Tom Sawyer, 1A, 1B. Yep. For sure. For sure.
That is Ultimate Rush. Yes. And for anyone, non
-Rush fans out there, first of all, I might suggest
you to listen to some Rush. And for anyone that
didn't catch it moving pictures is the album
moving pictures is the album It is the quintess
of course all of their albums are fantastic,
but is it is the quintessential like holy shit
This band is really good. Yeah, it's yeah, it's
either that or 2112 sure yeah Yeah, that's that's
and quite frankly like I know I cut 2112 From
from my list did you yeah, I was like ah Should
put them on there, but I'm like I'm gonna keep
it to ten Yeah, that's a tough one, but 2112
also has kind of an iconic logo Which a lot of
people get tattoos on that's the star man logo.
Oh, yeah Yeah, the guy that's kind of with his
arms out. There's a star there. Yep That's that's
a pretty pretty neat logo on that album for sure
But hey Liz great song great songs great list
if you have any rush Songs that we've missed
or albums you like once again hit us up in the
DMS We're happy to have an exchange with you
And now we normally we be going to review preview.
I mean go to the movies I just like I look at
what's at the movies and it just looks like dog
crap not that I won't watch dog crap and then
talk about it i could very well do that but it's
about pinching a penny we'll watch dog crap for
free on netflix or something which i did by the
way from the library so i i think that yeah that's
maybe i'll talk about that one next week because
it was it was not great But at any rate, we're
going to resurrect something we used to do, which
is down the Reddit rabbit hole. And Aidan spends
his time down that rabbit hole quite frequently
and comes up with stuff. He shoots me texts and
stuff like that. So once we started doing this,
we're like, hey, that's right. That segment.
Right. So I think we're going to play with that
a little bit. Yeah. And I know Aidan's got some
some things to share. I don't know if we want
to title it like follow the money or what you
want to do. But It's definitely some interesting
data for sure. Yes Yeah, and that's that's usually
the thing is don't going down the reddit rabbit
hole is of course anything News world news world
politics pop culture. Yep You can find anything
on Reddit. Now, I like to find graphs and statistics
because I'm a fucking nerd and you can make fun
of me, but you're the one at the loss because
I'm the one with the knowledge, baby. Down the
Reddit rabbit hole, this first graph I have for
you today that I will be explaining because this
is a visual show or not a visual show. It's an
auditory show. Revenue per employee, which is
how much money the company makes. per employee
they employ and this is of the top companies
by revenue of 2025 so this is current and We'll
start with the energy sector so exxon mobile,
huh? Who apparently are not that worried about?
Climate change or anything because hey think
of the shareholders What would the shareholders
think if we're actually worried about humanity
in a hundred years, correct? revenue per employee
per employee This company makes $5 .7 million.
Oh, damn. Per employee. And that is not what
an employee at ExxonMobil makes. Nope. Period.
Per employee, ExxonMobil makes $5 .7 million.
Saudi Aramico, $6 .4 million. Shell, $3 .0 million.
Okay. $3 million per employee. Working at Shell.
What about health care, you say? CVS Pharmacy,
CVS Health, as they're known, per employee, and
I know their employees don't make shit. Right.
$1 .4 million in revenue. Good God. For every
employee. That's gross. Yeah. The tech sector,
Apple, $2 .4 million per employee. Alphabet is
$1 .9 million. Let's talk retail, Costco. Now
Costco, I'll usually give a pass because they're
typically pretty good with paying their employees,
their employees are typically unionized, but
they've been having trouble recently. Because
the unions aren't agreeing with a lot of the
Costco decisions. A lot of the unionized employees
are not happy with their wages. And per employee,
Costco makes $764 ,000. Okay. Three quarters
of a million dollar per employee and that is
not even close to what their employees make Walmart's
three hundred and twenty four thousand dollars
per their per employee And they play their people
like ten bucks an hour right ten bucks an hour.
They're making three quarters of a million a
quarter vote No, a third of a million dollars.
Yeah, pardon me Toyota god bless Toyota my 09
Camry is still running strong, but here's the
issue per employee They make $821 ,000. Oh my
god. JP Morgan Chase. You know, we love shitting
on the financial sector. Sure. $879 ,000 per
employee. Berkshire Hathaway, even worse, $947
,000 per employee. These companies make so much
fucking money off of our labor. Yep. Our labor
funds their fucking yachts. their third mansion.
It's absurd. That is absurd. That's gross. Yeah,
it's foul. Yep. It's foul. And if you see the
graphs, I don't have one today. Maybe I'll get
one for a future week. But if you see the graphs
of how the wealth gap very, very interestingly
mirrors the union membership percentage. Sure.
When unions are strong and the working class
is properly represented, hey, it's almost like
we make more money. Right. We get a larger percentage
of the value of the labor we perform. Yeah. Interesting
how that pans out. And why would you not want
the consumer, the consumer class to have more
money? The consumer class that allows your capitalism
to exist. Right. Instead, you're going to pay
them shit and they can't consume the things they
need to be consuming. Right. And this is all
possible because of my next little graph here.
Top lobbyist groups in the United States by dollars
spent. And this is year to date of 2024, which
was the election year. So America's health insurance
plans, $6 .6 million. spent on your politicians.
RTX Corp, 6 .67 million. The Internet and Television
Association of the country, 6 .8 million. Alphabet
Inc, because Google wants to own everything,
of course. Yeah. 7 .2 million dollars spent on
the politicians you vote for. Comcast and their
dog -shittery, 7 .3 million dollars spent. General
Motors, 7 .6 million. Amazon. $9 .5 million spent
on buying politicians. AARP. I mean, because
more insurance and healthcare has got to be up
here, right? 9 .5 million. Meta. Because, you
know, Facebook has to own everything also. Yes.
$13 .5 million spent on buying politicians. Blue
Cross and Blue Shield. hey if anyone's curious
out there oh man why don't we have universal
health care yet why can't we be an actual first
world country where people get health care this
is why blue cross blue shield 14 and a half million
dollars spent buying politicians american hospital
association 14 .6 million dollars pharmaceutical
research and manufacturers of america 16 .9 million
dollars nasa national association of realtors
Ah -ha! Interesting how that works. Yep, that
one doesn't surprise me. Oh, there's no affordable
housing. Like, people literally have to work
their spines away for these capitalist cunts.
Why can't we afford to live? Oh, it's because
the Association of Realtors spent $31 .5 million
on purchasing your politicians. So gross. And
overall, the highest lobbyist group is the U
.S. Chamber of Commerce itself, spending $38
million. Purchasing the wills of politicians.
That's disgusting. It's foul. It is absolutely
foul. And going forward, I have these set up
kind of chronologically here. Okay, no, that's
good. To make it make sense. A graph here. Which
products will consumers be spending more on over
the next five years? So these product categories
are ranked by their annual growth rate. projected
annual growth rate from 2025 to 2029. Okay. First
and foremost, food is expected to raise 12 .16
% annually. Oh, God. Through 2029. Tobacco is
up 12 .1%, 12 .01 % annually. Now, I don't really
care about that because hey, people protect your
lungs out there. But coming up after that is
10 .3 % annual growth household essentials. Toilet
paper, paper towels, toiletries. Online education
is up 9 % yearly projected. Beverages as a whole,
9 .2%. Luxury goods, which neither of us are
in the class of being able to purchase luxury
goods. Fashion is up to point eight point two
percent e services seven point seven percent
Pharmaceuticals over the next five years will
grow seven point five five percent Every year
that's gross and they're already inflated Yep,
ask any Canadian how much a vial of insulin costs.
Oh my god. Yeah. Yep Furniture is going up 7
.3 % yearly. Online food delivery is going up
7 % yearly. Toys and hobby goods, 6 .6 % yearly.
Eyewear, you know, part of healthcare, unless
you're in the US, 6 .1 % every year, it will
go up. By the way, all of these are greater than
inflation. Yes, correct. All of these. Electronics
are up 4 .1 % year over year. Media, 4%. Dating
services made this list up 1 .3 % year over year
But yeah, if you're wondering why your money
goes doesn't go as far as it used to it's because
capitalists are fucking stealing from you Yes,
they are every year That's gross every year and
that is that is what I wanted to bring up during
the red rabbit hole because I thought it I don't
know, it kind of plays hand -in -hand with our
opening dialogue, which, I mean, it's depressing
as it is, but it's good to hear the facts behind
it. Like, these are tangible statistics showing
why we talk about what we talk about during the
opening dialogue. Yeah. Because if you think,
oh, well, I'm comfortable for now. I mean, none
of this shit really matters. Oh, it'll catch
up. It'll catch up. Your pay won't. Yep. Your
pay won't. You're not part of the club. No, the
pay definitely won't. And that's the thing, too,
is I think... not to get off point, and it may
not be off point, but I think that if things
politically do change in this country over the
next couple of years, I think that your average
taxpayer should be due massive rebates from the
federal government. Oh, yeah. I mean, for the
average family, maybe upper four, if not five
figures, that can be used on health care and
clothes and your mortgage or a car or whatever
because we've we've just had to bend over and
take it for not even years or you're talking
decades and um and it's it's time and and quite
frankly it it doesn't even make me feel even
the least bit odd or weird suggesting that it's
our money right it's our money we've been paying
into this forever yeah so and of the 200 million
poorest of us also known as the working class
how much of our money, the labor we do day to
day, how much of that money generated goes towards
unfair wars, or towards subsidizing billionaires
and their silly fucking space projects. Or, I
mean, unbelievable spending on a military that
just gives it away to contractors. That's what
they do. It's unbelievable. We, the American
people, should be comfortable. Yes, should be
comfortable. Every one of the, there is enough
resources on the globe for every human being
to be fed and sheltered and have clean water.
that's not the case because there are a couple
dozen rich people that think number go up I want
to be the first trillionaire that's right that's
the exact reason you're not comfortable today
and it pisses me off that more people aren't
pissed off people should be people should be
unless you're in the 1 % or close to the 1 %
any anyone else should be mad for one reason
or another without question Well, that was great.
Thank you for going down that rabbit hole, Aidan.
I much appreciate it and hopefully, you know,
if it is not in every week thing, perhaps even
every other week, you know, we'll sprinkle it
in, give certain segments a rest here and there.
I definitely think it's worth having on the show
for sure. So I do appreciate your work there.
And before we take our final break, while you
were sleeping, so Aidan, once again, He loves
these rabbit holes. He goes down there and he
tries to find something in terms of a TV show,
a movie, it could be a book, I don't know. It
is so many different things that we may have
missed, that we may have slept down a little
bit. Aidan finds them, lets us know about them.
What do you have this week, Aidan? This week
I have a website for you. Oh, okay. itch .io.
So it's itch .io is the website. It is a hosting
website, a distributor, if you will, of indie
video games, RPGs, game assets, comets, I mean
music, pretty much you can distribute anything
on itch .io. And as of I think last year, late
last year, they had over a million products on
their site. Now here's the thing, it is a, as
far as Wikipedia, describes them. Itch .io is
a common platform for small and independent developers.
Anyone can publish on the website, uses a pay
what you want model for both customers and developers.
Oh, wow. Developers can set a minimum price for
their games, but buyers can choose to pay extra.
Developers, of course, can also do just like
zero dollars, pay what you can. Oh, yeah, for
sure. Type for their games, which is very economical
these days. Since 2015 HEO has let developers
dictate how much revenue the website receives
from their sales Which is very clever because
things like steam or I mean if you're a large
enough company go through Xbox or PlayStation
there They just set whatever rates they want
you have to be okay with that. No the they let
their Developers decide how much the website
gets it said at 10 % by default which at the
time industry norm for developing and selling
a game. Yeah. The website you sell it on gets
30 % of your sales. Oh. Yeah. Itch .io's base
is 10 % but you can decide what they get regardless.
And of course they have like customizable store
pages and it doesn't matter how big of a developer
you are, you don't have to deal with like the...
corporate side of steam, you don't have to deal
with any mega corpo xbox or playstation things
it is like the place to go to find indie games
and essentially like single person developers
making a game from like ground up and especially
if you're on a low budget if you're like man
I really want to play some of these indie horror
games that they always talk about that's the
place to go absolutely the place to go. 90 %
of what is on their marketplace is pay what you
can. So if you have zero dollars in your pocket,
but you have a functioning computer, you can
download a horror game and play it. And you know
what? You stumble upon some money. Hey, I'm going
to go back and give this dev 20 bones. So it
is a good environment for gaming. And it's kind
of... It's kind of heartbreaking. It hasn't gotten
more popular. It has grown in popularity over
the last five years or so. But it definitely
deserves a shout out because as far as marketplaces
go for video games, it is the most developer
friendly. It is the most customer friendly where...
The website itself isn't trying to scalp developers,
and developers aren't trying to scalp players,
so it is the place to go for gaming, or for game
assets, or just the sense of community amongst
indie game devs. Like, hey, I want to build this
neat thing. And they do game jams all the time,
where these are little contests where you get...
20 game developers together and say, like, hey,
starting at this time, you've got 48 hours to
make the best, like, horror game you can with
the theme of kitchen plates. And they just do
what they can, and it's really fun and goofy
and spooky, of course. And it's a great community.
And you can just go there and play horror games
for free if you don't have the cash for it. If
you do have the cash for it, of course, support
when you can. But that's the place to go, itch
.io. Not sponsored, but I really, really support
them. I love that. itch .io. So get on there
and check it out. It's a website. Enter it just
as he said. And I just was kind of, as Aidan
was talking about, it's kind of just tooling
around in there a little bit. It's really neat.
Yeah, absolutely. Very cool. Well, thanks for
bringing that up. And we're going to check out
here for a second. And we come back. We've got
a beer review and the world of weird news coming
up for you. All right, we are back for the finish
of our show, the Mark Mo Show. Your host here,
Mark Maloney, along with Aidan Maloney, my co
-host. And we always do our official. Official?
Official. Beer review. Each and every week, all
sorts of beers from all over the world. And this
week, we have. I don't know if you would call
it a macro, as opposed to micro brews we often
do, but it has some international flavor for
certain. Hopefully ice won't come take our beers.
Right. Oh, man. Anyway, just a matter of time.
Just a matter of time. I swear to God. Right.
Anyway, what do we got this weekend? A little
Victoria. Victoria Brew. It is... made by Grupo
Modelo, which is indeed a macro brewery, which,
as you could tell by the name, also makes Modelo.
Indeed. And Corona. They're all the same company.
They're all the same. They're all the same company.
And if you look at what S .A .B. Miller or Anheuser
-Busch or Molson Coors. A few small companies
own everything. That's just capitalism. But this
is made by Grupo Modelo. It's a Victoria. It
is a lager. It's a Vienna lager. Ooh. And Vienna
lagers typically range from copper to reddish
in color. Should have a nice malty aroma, a little
sweet malt flavor to it. Low on the bitterness
scale is how Vienna lagers are typically characterized.
And we will be sampling this here for you today,
4 % ABV. So if you're looking to keep it a little
bit of take or chill, you can go for one of these
for sure. Absolutely. A nice perhaps summertime
brewski. I know we're well into fall now, but
we will be trying this Victoria Brew here for
you. Ah, lovely. Oh yeah. Nice canned sound for
you. And we'll be ranking it on the Untapped
app, not sponsored, but recommended. It is free.
Where you can just rank brews as you try them.
Yeah, I dig it. And we got the big 24 oz. here.
The big can, the 24 oz. And we'll rank them on
a scale from 0 to 5 on how much we like them.
We'll give you our tasting notes. And Slainte,
let us know in the comments. Clink. Clink what
you are drinking today. Okay. Oh, yeah. That's
very smooth. Clean. Very clean. Yeah. Little
malt on the nose. Mm -hmm. I will say the aftertaste
is a little yeasty. You definitely get that,
like, lager. Little bit, but not too bad. Yeah,
a little lager yeastiness to it. But yeah, the
malt definitely comes through. Very light, very
clean. I think the low ABV definitely helps out
with that. Yeah. Oh, for sure. That's very casual.
I enjoy it. Yeah. I think if you're talking about
kind of that hot day you're out doing work in
the yard and you come in, I think an ice cold
Victoria would be great. Sure. I think it pairs
with a lot of foods well. Oh yeah. You know,
if you're talking about barbecued steaks or pulled
pork or anything like that, I think that would
pair really well with that. Something a little
malty and cool to cut through the... The acidity
and the fattiness of like beef and barbecue.
Absolutely. For sure. I think so. That's very
good though. Very nice. Very pleasant. Now lagers
typically aren't my go -to. Nope. So of course
my bias will play into my rating of it. But as
far as lagers go this is pretty dang good. Yeah
it is. Pretty dang good. Flavor profile. The
untapped app always gives us five to choose from.
The most popular. Of the five they suggest, light
bodied, smooth, clean, sweet, and malty, I would
agree with most of those. Light bodied, smooth,
and clean for sure. Malty for sure. Not so much
sweet. I don't get sweet. No, it's not... I mean,
there's a touch of sweet from the maltiness,
but it's not... I wouldn't characterize it as
sweet. Correct. No, I'll give it yeasty, light
bodied, smooth, clean, and malty. Nice. Yeah.
Now the question is where where do you put it
point -wise? That's tough and and I'm not a huge
lager guy, so I'm kind of torn Mm -hmm. I'm kind
of torn. I think I'll go I'll go three I'll go
3 .0 even on the scale to five. I like it It's
not Lagers just aren't my vibe like if I'm drinking
something besides water or coffee. I want it
to have like Flavor like smack my tongue with
flavor sure and this while very casual and I
do enjoy it I want to reinforce that I do enjoy
it It's just not my first choice, but I want
to I want to make note that it is good So I'm
going three on five. Yeah, I went three point
two five. We weren't too entirely different on
that one I do however enjoy Loggers I have I
have no no issues with them. And yeah, because
I mean, what am I? I'm a PBR guy. I'm a high
life guy. Miller Lite. I mean, that's like on
a common average night out. That's what I'm drinking.
Sure. You know, will I on occasion enjoy a Guinness
or a Smittix or something? Of course. But that's
pretty much kind of in my wheelhouse. So this
technically would probably fall in my wheelhouse.
Yeah. Yeah. I think that's fair to say. Yeah,
so 3 .25. Well done, Victoria. Absolutely. Yeah,
no doubt. So that pretty much brings us to our
final segment of the evening, and that is the
world of weird news. And I've got a good one.
I read it, and I think it's new enough where
I don't think we've done it. I hope we haven't
done it. It's weird. Yeah. Hence the weird news.
But I will I will let you roll with this first
okey -dokey my world of weird news I had to do
it for kicking off season 4 I had to go back
Because there's always something special going
on in this beautiful American state Florida man.
Oh, let's go buddy Florida man arrested for pulling
off $100 ,000 frozen bacon heist Well, wow, okay,
can we blame him? We cannot I'm with you on that
as far as far as breakfast goes. It's almost
a must. Yeah, it is a must So yeah, Florida man
hundred thousand dollar bacon heist police in
Miami say they've busted a man who stole a trailer
filled with $100 ,000 worth of frozen bacon police
say back in September this was in 2024 by the
way a 40 year old Marcos Gonzalez Bernal stole
a 53 foot refrigerated semi -trailer from a parking
lot in Daytona Beach With 192 pounds of frozen
bacon in the back surveillance video captured
the theft and showed a blue SUV canvassing the
area and Parking next to the stolen trailer.
Oh license plate reader read lead detectives
to the car and Gonzalez Bernal driving it in
Miami Dade investigators eventually found the
stolen trailer with the 192 pounds of frozen
bacon in the back. Oh no. Now why would you bring
your SUV to the heist? Yeah. Rent a car with
a phony ID. Not that I'm giving tips, but if
you want tips, I've got you. But if you want
a tip, he's got you, yeah. The judge set the
bond at over $30 ,000, I believe. Oh no. Now,
I didn't realize that 192 pounds of frozen bacon
was worth $100 ,000. That's more of just a commentary
on our economy. That's fair. But God bless that
man. Hopefully he's doing well out there. Yeah.
I just wonder, did he know? Did he know, like,
oh, this is the bacon trailer. I'm taking the
bacon trailer. Or was he just like a trailer
thief? That's a good question. That is definitely
a good question because... That dude alone is
not gonna eat all that bacon. No, if he's in
it for the bacon, you know, you got me, I'm on
your side. Right, you grab a couple of boxes
and jet. Right, if you're in it for the trailer,
it's like, eh, you know, I'm a truck driver,
that's my profession, like I wouldn't enjoy having
my trailer stolen. Not because I really care,
like I get paid for my labor, that's it. But
at the same time, you would inconvenience me.
Mm -hmm, right. So it's it's like I wouldn't
want that to happen to me, but if he's in it
for the bacon Can I blame him? Nope for the same
time if someone were to steal my trailer while
I'm out and about They might be in it for the
bruskies in my in the back or the energy drinks
in the back. I blame them. Nope But if they're
just stealing it for the love of the game, it's
like, ah, come on. Come on, kid. Right, exactly.
Come on. Yeah, that's no bueno. All right, so
we've got a bacon thief on one end here. Rarely
does the World of Weird News keep us in Northwest
Indiana. Sure. But this week, it has. So, this
particular story, police say Laporte Man exposed
himself and humped patrol car after being removed
from gas station. Oh, God bless Laporte. This
actually doesn't surprise me one bit. It tracks.
It totally tracks. It checks out. It does check
out. Laporte Man was arrested after authorities
say he refused to leave a Family Express convenience
store, hurled objects at an employee, and later
performed lewd acts against a police vehicle
near a busy intersection. According to court
documents, officers were dispatched around 429
PM on October 1st, 2025 to the Family Express
at 1874 U .S. 20 after a caller reported an unwanted
guest described as a man harassing customers
and screaming outside the store. The man later
identified as 41 -year -old Alan J. Gallacher.
not Gallagher, Gallagher, of La Porte was reportedly
throwing items at people after being told to
leave. When officers arrived, employees said
the suspect had left and might be near the cemetery
south of the business. He was soon spotted sitting
on a hill in front of a church sign visible to
heavy traffic along State Road 39. Reports indicate
Gallacher was immediately aggressive towards
officers, shouting obscenities, refusing to identify
himself, and repeatedly yelling profanity. He
was detained for safety after continuing to curse
and ignore commands. You know what? It sounds
like an average day in La Porte, Indiana. Sounds
like an average day. During a search, a jacket
that had been tied around his waist fell, exposing
his genitals. Oh no. He then made explicit remarks
directed at the officers. while being escorted
to a patrol vehicle. Gallacher allegedly pressed
his genitals against a police vehicle's front
bumper and began humping the car, loudly shouting
inappropriate phrases. Oh my goodness. Despite
repeated orders to stop, he continued until being
secured and placed inside the patrol car. Charges
filed on October 2nd, resisting law enforcement
misdemeanor A, disorderly conduct misdemeanor
B. Gallacher was lodged at the La Porte County
Jail following his arrest. I mean, listen, if
you're already going behind bars, why not make
a story out of it? Really? Become a cult legend.
This is the kind of stuff that that allows you.
It's the kind of thing a Gallacher would do.
Oh, it is definitely the kind of thing a Gallacher
would definitely do. So on that note, that concludes
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