Hey there, everybody. Welcome to the Mark Mo
Show podcast. I'm your host, Mark Maloney, and
this is season five, episode two, rah rah blah.
You can find us on all podcast platforms and
YouTube. I'd like to introduce my co -host and
producer. Aidan Maloney. Aidan, how are you today?
I am fantastic as of right now today. And that's
what matters. That is indeed what matters. That
is what matters. A strange week, a really weird
and disheartening start, I would argue, to 2026.
But the year is still young and it's the weekend,
so what do I have to complain about? Right, exactly.
And, you know, You know, I have to say for myself,
like, I've been going through a lot. That you
have. A lot. The world has tossed upon you a
lot. It really has. I'd argue. It really has.
You know, I'm not much of a religion -y guy.
If you want to know the truth, if you feel you
need it, whatever, I don't. But, if there is
some sort of supreme being, I would like for
that supreme being to stop sitting there going,
I'm going to keep testing this bugger. It'd be
great to just be like, let your foot up off the
gas a little bit. Right. Would be much appreciated.
God gives his strongest battles to his lowest
paid employees. Yeah, oh God, isn't that the
truth. I have to say that... You know at least
have a couple of good things coming this week.
I went out with a lot of friends and hung out
and You know this weekend looks like it's gonna
be you know and that's When you have so many
things that are down in your life You do your
best to counterbalance that sure and if that
means just spending time with good people good
friends Then that's exactly what you do It's
almost something we brought up on our last Gaming
episode we did a handful of quizzes and some
of them were fairly introspective which I didn't
Expect so much agreed, but yeah a lot of our
answers kind of revolved around like Staying
present. I resolved this year to stay present,
you know yester years stresses to let them go
and Tomorrow's worries. Well, it's not tomorrow.
It's today. So right. I'm gonna live because
I'm here today Right, exactly. I mean, you can't
be like, oh my god, this is next week and next
month, and oh my god, how about just today? Right.
I'm not there yet. I'm not there yet. Yeah. Deal
with today, and you know the things that are
in the future, but worrying about that and dwelling
on the past are two things you do actually have
control in. You can just fuck it and stop it,
and just worry about today. Like today, it was
like, hey, let's record our podcast today. That
sounds like a lot of fun. Yes. I think that would
be great. And then I found out I have an interview.
So I went to the coffee shop, did a few things
on my computer. And so I feel really good about
that. It would actually be a job where I get
to use a lot of my communications and writing,
which would be absolutely unbelievable. The skills.
Right. Stuff I like doing. Yeah. I mean, I'm
not going to go into it. because that could be
another, that would be intro part one and then
intro part two coming out, right? Has nothing
to do with rah, rah, or blah. But, that being
said, there's good things on the horizon, I feel.
And it's a battle, man, trust me. It's the world
we're living in, more specifically the country
we're living in, there's a lot of BS right now.
And just bad, bad stuff. It's hard waking up
every day and just trying to be positive and
happy, shiny people. I mean, it's really hard
to be on that bus, you know? Because it's disingenuous.
Right. You don't want to be disingenuous. Life
gets hard and you can't always let that be your
face. That's tiring and it's exhausting. There's
so much other shit that's exhausting. Don't add
that to your list. If a good friend comes up
to you and has been like, how have you been lately?
It's okay to be like, not so hot. Can I lend
you your ear for two minutes? That's totally
fine. It's what friends are for. That's what
friends are for and then you feel a little bit
better at the end of it because you're able to
get it out and perhaps even get a little bit
of communication back to maybe... help your mood
a little bit, brighten your day a little bit.
Maybe they can relate, maybe they have advice,
maybe they're just a good ear to lend on. And
they'll just listen. So whatever that case is,
that's important, like I said. Absolutely blessed
to have the friends that I have and a lot of
new ones for that matter That are just genuinely
good people. They're good people. They're fun
people and you are the people person I am the
people person between me and I've got a friend
her name is Jess She's a she's a bartender extraordinaire
But she also works for the courts here in Valparaiso.
Double dude. She works like 60 hours a week.
It's unbelievable between her and I, we're like,
yeah, we might know everyone in town. Right.
Between the two of us, we might know everybody
in town. So it's it's kind of kind of interesting
and funny. But, you know, that that being the
case, it's it's I've told this before, too, on
the show where I often think of others before
I think of myself. I would rather be that empath,
I would rather be that person that sees someone
else struggling, regardless of my struggles,
sees someone else struggling, and I have five
bucks in my wallet, that's all I got, but they
need it, I'm giving it to them. And maybe I'm
an idiot for doing that, but that's how I made
it. It's how I made it. And if it's somebody
that's just like, oh, I've had this terrible
thing, all right, well, tell me, tell me about
it. At any rate, you know, that's kind of how
it's going, you know? It is how it's going. I
think you've made this joke before of like, damn,
I kind of passed that down onto you, hey? Like,
well, you know, in most situations, that is the
case. But I don't really find it as... Don't
know there's there's something in my brain that
doesn't tell me that this is or should be an
atypical behavior you would imagine this you
know empathy should be the bare minimum for an
intelligent communicative species correct yeah,
and yet just the the the wrath of What seems
to be the mass is really it's just the wrath
of a few that control the media right that everything
seems negative, but God damn if if most people
aren't good people most people are good people
and And that that is the standard empathy is
the standard sympathy is should be the standard.
Yeah. Oh, yeah so yeah, not that this is how
I thought the intro would go but you know 2026
off to a rough start uh and we're we've got a
great show planned for you but hey you know reach
out to a friend today yeah just say hello if
you haven't said hello yeah i would do that and
and we'll probably we'll probably discuss things
like this over the next few episodes just because
so much is going on uh and as i said we we tried
to get away from the politics stuff a little
bit because i know that can be You know, for
some people listening to our show, maybe some
of the things that we say might be a bridge too
far. Now, I'm not going to apologize for the
way I think and the things that I believe, but
in the same sense... I'm going to say them because
it's our podcast. Right. We have that ability.
Right. But in the same sense, it's like, all
right, let's let's take a break. And we have,
you know, for the for several episodes where
we've we've done some different things, things
associated with the holidays for some intros
just to kind of lighten the mood a little bit,
which I felt we needed to do. And I think it's
been good. Yeah, I agree. And we're doing that
again today. You know, we're staying away from
politics thing. But there's enough going on right
now that I think. You know it demands our attention,
and I think in the next episode or two. We'll
we'll get to some things some cliff notes Yeah,
yeah some things that are going on that. I think
we just once again to get off our chest and do
I feel Most of the people listen are probably
like -minded individuals. I think so But you
know there's gonna be folks out there that might
be on the other side of the aisle that don't
necessarily believe everything And you want to
know something that's okay It's completely fine.
And I tell people that. There was a quick story.
There's someone I know, her name's Sandra, and
she's a friend of mine. And she's right. She's
been on the right forever. And when the story
came out about everything that happened in Minneapolis
with the shooting, which is something we'll get
into later, she had a different view. And it
wasn't like... Republican talking point she just
kind of shared the video and was like yeah I
think she tried to hit the guy and that was that
was just her take on it and I was very polite
back because it's a friend of mine and I was
just like mmm you know I said we disagree and
I just stated my reasons why I'm like I've I've
been on this thing all morning right there's
a multiple I've got nothing else to do folks
so I've been on this thing all morning I've looked
at different camera angles I'm like dude was
out of the way he just murdered her Right. Plain
and simple. Right. And she, later on in that
day, she agreed with that. And I think that's
fine, but some people jumped on my thread and
were just going after her. And I'm like, okay,
you can disagree with her. I disagreed with her.
We disagree on things, but it doesn't mean I
dislike her or hate her. We disagree. And for
them to jump in as harshly as they did, I'm just
going to say off jump, it makes you look weak.
It makes you look weak to attack someone. I do
agree with you to a point where the point I would
disagree with you on is the burden of education
does not fall on anybody in particular. If you
only see one angle of a particular story, and
of course the way social media works, it will
skew said angles towards the content you viewed
previously. So you only see the one angle. You
only see the talking points that social media
decides to provide to you. Your first instinct
is to believe what you see. Sure. But the burden
of education falls on you to make sure you know
what you're talking about. That's my only counter
argument is there's other angles of this woman
getting murdered by government employees. You
could have just looked up More about the story
and come to that conclusion yourself. Oh sure
and and yeah as as a friend or an acquaintance
sure you you could feel it in your heart to to
provide further context and and links and sources
to To properly show the facts, right? Mm -hmm,
but for the common individual it's so Easy to
be like, oh fuck you. You're wrong, right? Thing
is you don't have to say that. No, you don't
have to say that you can choose not to engage
Correct. You're like, well, this is that not
my circus. Not my monkey died. I'm not I'm not
gonna engage with this post because right it's
it's not my business to educate this person on
what the facts are Yep, so it's it's I don't
know if two sides of the same coin is the right
simile or metaphor I'm looking for but it's Social
media is so tiring already. Yeah. To go onto
social media and have to educate people on what
they're missing post after post can feel like
a lot. Oh, for sure. And it's not a burden everyone
has to take. It's a burden you can take and be
like, okay, X, Y, and Z, here's links and sources
and posts you should look into, and this is why
I feel you're wrong. Yeah. You can do that. But
here's where it gets interesting, in this particular
case, is that that should have been my job as
this person is my friend. Sure. If I chose to
go hard on her, or if I chose to be like, well,
I don't know about that, or if we chose to have
a private discussion off that thread. That would
have been perfectly fine sure but for someone
that has no idea who this person is They knew
who I am because obviously they're seeing my
post But to jump in on someone What what what
if I was dating her and you're jumping into my
thread going hard on her? Oh, I I see the contact
now I know I got to turn around on you and be
like well now I have to kill you right. It's
this this was You can say you disagree. You can
say why you disagree. You can be intelligent
and professional about it and not attack because
you don't know that person. I feel it different
if you have some sort of relationship or you
know someone, you know, like I have a buddy named
Mondo. If we disagree, I'm going to go hard on
him or he'll come back at me. But it's like we're
friends and then we're going to have a beer in
10 minutes. Right. Same thing with Steve. Even
with you, but we share the same brain, so it's
freaking rare when you and I disagree on something
like that. But it happens, and it's okay if you
have that interpersonal relationship. If you
don't, on social media, and I think this is where
we just run into trouble as a society, where
you just jump into these things and you don't
know these people, it's one thing if somebody's
being an outright fascist, Nazi, violent, asshole.
Go get them. But if it's just a matter or difference
of opinion, or someone's like, hey, I see this,
to just automatically be like, brah, brah, brah,
now I've had enough of these maggots, and I'm
like, okay, you need to... Well, first of all,
you and me both. Secondly, wrong thread, you
don't understand the context. Right, right. It's
so... And that brings it back to the point you
were making a moment ago of it's so easy online
to see a name and to see a face and to not see
the human being. Correct. It's so easy to miss
the fact that that's... Well, granted there's,
I mean, most of the internet is bots now, but.
Sadly. Yeah, take that with a grain of contacts
next time you go into a Twitter thread. Yeah,
next time you're arguing with a set of binary
numbers, you are brave. You are brave, man. But
it's just, with empathy in mind, it is important
to note that whether in person, or online, for
the most part, the chances of you interacting
with another human being are high. Correct. And
you have to recognize that's a human being. Yes.
If they seem like some neo -Nazi, fascist, white
supremacist piece of shit, guess what? They could
already be lost. Fuck it, it's not worth your
time or energy. You're right. They're not gonna
hear your points because their brain is fucking
fried. Yep. Period. But if it's a friend of a
friend, or it's an acquaintance, and they say
something where you're like, oh, whoa, whoa,
whoa, wait a minute, wait, wait, wait a minute.
Right. Guess what? You can have a discussion.
Yeah. You can have a discussion with them. And
if it's a thread where you weren't invited, you
just got the notification of like, a friend of
a friend commented on a friend of a friend of
a friend's post. Right. You don't have to chime
in. You can choose not to chime in. Correct.
That's OK. Sure. You can click a dislike button
and be on your way. Homegirl ended up seeing
the right side of the story. Yeah. Great. Grand.
Yeah. The other comments didn't help. They didn't.
Providing context and sources and human empathy
of, hey, this person might simply be misled is
so important in today's day and age where...
Fucking CNN and Fox News and CBS. We are in a
post -truth world. Yes. Where the biggest names
in media just share and promote bullshit. That's
all they do. Just be kind and courteous. Empathize
and sympathize with your fellow human beings.
Right. The fact that an associate or a friend
of a friend of a friend might be misled. That's
gonna happen. Correct. You can provide sources,
you can provide context and content that could
sway their mind, and guess what? At that point
you've done your part. Yeah. You don't have to
engage further. If they continue down their path,
hey whatever. Right, exactly. I agree with that.
Hey whatever. Right. That's it? Words to live
by, man. Yep. It's the equivalent of, it is what
it is. Right, yeah, no doubt, no doubt. And I
think it's just, it's really important to know
that not everybody on the other end is gonna
be this crazy whack job, mega person. And you
need to slow your roll a little bit, unless you
really know. Because in a way, what good are
you doing if you're like, blah, blah, blah, you're
wrong, I'm on the left and I must be right, blah,
blah. And now you're doing nothing but being
belligerent and being a bully. So you've gone
from being like, well, I'm gonna take the high
road and I'm gonna say my point to being belligerent
and a bully. And I'm like, to my point is like,
how is that better? Because now it's like oh
this person's coming in and they're wrong, but
they're carrying kerosene well hell I'm gonna
bring the match right well why right why what's
the point right the most you the best you can
do is is facts cited sources Context and and
associated content with the previous three things
yeah, if they don't interact with any of those
they continue down their way Whatever you did
your thing Yes. Leave it alone. Leave it alone.
You know, you say your piece, and I literally
did. I said one thing to her, where I just say,
you know, I disagree. I've been looking at her
all morning, blah, blah. To which she didn't
reply. So she probably went and looked herself
and whatever and went down the rabbit hole or
whatever. Because then later in the day, she
chimed back and she's like, yeah, that was awful.
Yeah. There you go. And she came to that conclusion
on her own without you having to be a complete
asshole. Right. Yeah, you didn't help. Right.
Oh, man. Be a human being and treat your human
beings around you as if they're human beings.
Because they are. They are. And you never know
what people are going through. Right. You never
know. Right, everyone out there, it's tough because
we're all trapped in our own minds. And it's
tough to understand the fact that everyone out
there, the person you drove past, the person
that had road rage and flew past you on the highway,
or the person that took too long ordering their
Starbucks in front of you, they're all living
the same vivid and dense human life that you
are. Yes, correct. Just have that empathy that
idea in your brain of just It's okay if I have
to wait an extra 30 seconds in this subway line
Yeah, whatever dude. Yeah, whatever. It's fine.
There are bigger things. There's bigger problems
to tackle Capitalism corporatism fascism Those
are big things to tackle right the person in
front of you that took a little too long to order
Dude chill. It's fine. Dude chill Real retail
workers get the raw end of the stick if you interact
with a retail worker. That's a little short with
you Hey, man, they probably have already had
it. They've had a shit day already. Hey dog.
Sorry to bother right? That's that's it exactly
human empathy. Yeah Yeah, that's it. I mean it
should come as first nature right stuff simple
as holding a door for someone something as simple
as Someone being in line to get a cup of coffee
and they're like, oh my god I left my wallet
at home or whatever. I gotcha. It's four bones.
Yeah, I'll grab your coffee. I gotcha. It's totally
cool. Just pay it forward sometime. Right. And
you know the stuff like that that that gets you
a little bit back to humanity and just seeing
a person as a person and as I said everybody
is kind of going through different things and
Yeah, do I have a negative view of people on
the very far, right? I do. I just I think they're
wrong. I guess that they're on the wrong part
of history. And I'm going to do what I can to
educate them if and when they want that information.
Sure. I'm not going to beat them over the head
with it because it's not going to do any good.
A lot of them are in a cult, so to speak. Right.
But my hope is that some of them find their way
out. Yes. That's my hope. And I've seen it a
little bit already, which is good. We're going
to need more of that. But that's what I hope
for. By being a good person and being a good
human and doing good things, I can help with
that? Great. Imperative. Yeah. We just have to
get back to being empathetic humans again. Right.
We just have to. Because if we don't, then what's
the point? What's the point of any of it? Right.
You know, you might as well just push all the
big red shiny buttons and we'll just exterminate
80 % of all humans and just let the roaches and
the mice and the bumblebees fix everything. Right.
They'll be the new future. intelligent species,
and there'll be little cockroaches in congressional
meetings. Exactly. Should we raise the minimum
wage? Hmm. Mr. Bumblebee, I don't agree with
you. Ask the wasps. Well, that's a show. Thanks,
everybody. Anyway, for the pre -log before the
opening dialogue, Right, exactly. You'll be getting
more of this in coming weeks. So consider this
maybe foreshadowing of what's to come. But yeah,
I want to mention that Aiden has a gaming channel.
It's called Aiden Spelled The Right Way. PC gaming
content like GeoGuessr and PolyBridge, Observation
Duty. I think you just did another... PolyBridge
one, if I remember correctly. That's correct.
You know, and he does so much more each and every
week. So, tell everybody what you got going on
out there. It's been a new venture. I am starting
a new venture in PolyBridge, like you mentioned.
Typically, when I play these PolyBridge or any
type of mechanical or engineering type games,
my goal is always to be like under budget, unbreaking,
and in the top 50 % of... players yeah that's
my goal but I started a new thing where I tried
to get the lowest stress possible when making
bridges mmm which means like sure you could take
these three hatchbacks and throw it on there
but I also want to make sure if you'll put three
semis on there that's gonna last Right. That's
the goal is like low stress. That's my new goal
in Poly Bridge recently. And it was fantastic.
I had so much fun with it. And that will be a
continuing going forward. Usually I do two or
three uploads a week. This week was only one
with some 2026 drama, which... I'll get back
to my three uploads a week, worry not. But yeah,
that series will be continuing. Observation Duty
8 will be continuing. A couple one -off video
games I'll throw in the mix as well. It'll be
fantastic, and I'm looking forward to it. That's
awesome. Looking forward to the people enjoying
it. Heck yeah. I know I do when I check it out.
So everybody, once again, that's Aidan spelled
the right way. Make sure you check it out on
YouTube. Also, we had a collab channel. Of the
two of us doing gaming together, so it kind of
combines Aidan's gaming and Some of the craziness
that you've just heard So the right so the craziness
and madness and fun and an improv and everything
that we do here and kind of put You know basically
the peanut butter the chocolate and the peanut
butter what you know the pickle in the mail whatever
whatever We're the Ghostbusters crossing the
streams. They didn't think it was possible. We
we did it. We did it we did it but A little bit
of a brand change, if he will. So I'm gonna let
this guy talk about it a little bit. Yes, what
everybody out there knew and has probably heard
a couple dozen times as AK -219 was named that
based on my initial A for Aiden and my former
co -host's initial K for Kevin and our area code,
219, the region, which a part of Chicagoland
has that area code in the Indiana side. And that
was the name of the channel. New name of the
channel is A &M Gaming. That's the change. A
&M Gaming, which is, of course, me, Aidan, my
father, Mark Mosho of the Mark Mosho Mark Gaming.
And that's what we do. That's what we do. So
it's the content you've gotten at least used
to on the... the previous AK -209, now A &M.
And the reason I came up with that name and the
new logo and channel banner you'll see when you
visit there is I thought about it the other night,
because I'm like, okay, you know, big life changes.
I'm not going to get into any drama, but to keep
it succinct, I no longer associate with my former
friend Kevin. I'll keep it at that. And I was
thinking, okay, so how do I make Aiden and Mark
into a cool new name? It could be AM -219, but
that's too similar. I don't know if I like it.
And I was thinking... Because otherwise it's
AB -A and it's MA. Yeah, MA -219. And I was thinking,
A and M. Why does that remind me of something?
Oh, A and W. Which is delightful, by the way.
It's fantastic. I wish they would sponsor us.
But I was like, oh my god, that's a great idea.
I could like make up like a satirized parody
of the A &W logo make it A &M and Then I came
up with this great tagline of like chug down
some great content like I was like, oh, this
is gold I have to remember it for tomorrow and
that that change was made today for us which
is also today for all you lovely listeners, of
course. So yeah, check it out. Previously known
as AK209 is now A &M Gaming. Anyone that was
subscribed is still subscribed. Anyone that's
not can go and check it out. I love it. It's
a lot of fun. So essentially, other than the
brand change, everything that we're doing is
going to remain the same. And some new technology
that we have in the studio too. So that's going
to be that's kind of going to be fun too So now
you'll see as much clear and every blemish and
default and defunct. Yes. Yeah, you're welcome
for that one pros and cons of a new camera Exactly.
So yeah, a lot of good stuff happening on that
end of stuff You know, so we'll be doing collaborative
gaming a lot on the GeoGuessr stuff and observation
duty. We just did some BuzzFeed quizzes, which
turned out to be a lot more fun than I thought
they would be, because a lot of times when we
pick these games, we're picking games that we
can play that are fun to play, that are interesting,
but that allow us to communicate and make jokes
and things like that. Right. And these particular
games that we play allow us to do that. And I
wasn't sure about the quiz. I'm like, I don't
know about that. Sure as shit, man. That was
really fun. I thought it was great. That was
good. So that gives us another game, a quiz,
if you will. Yeah. So yeah, I'm looking forward
to it, man. I love it. It's a lot of fun. Damn
right. And so other than that, you have about
two more weeks for After Hours, which is my radio
show on wvlp .org. Tune in app on your handheld
device. And I'm going to do two more. It's the
end of it for now. Okay, so it's not permanent.
I've had a lot of people checking into my socials
for after hours so obviously the rumors out there
that this thing might be going away or whatever
so people are Maybe going there for information
or whatever the case might be so I I need to
be better about updating that So I'm gonna do
that soon and but at any rate Now is the time
to leave the radio station It was that it was
definitely the time to leave when I left Originally
to do this podcast right? Which is what, we were
gonna do this anyway. Some situations sped up
the process. But I think it still, it allowed
us to really hit the gas and get going on the
podcast. I left my music show, which is like
alt rock and Celtic punk and stuff, I left that
alone because I had a lot of advertisers. I had
people that were supporting my show and I'm like,
you know, if I pull everything, they're getting
the short end of the stick. So I kept it going
for a while. But I've kind of I've gone above
and beyond on that and it's getting to the point
where it's not fun anymore and There's a lot
of reasons for that which I will not take it
public just like sure didn't take things public
But it's it's time to move on and I will have
other opportunities There are other people that
have internet radio, which is not covered by
the FCC So once again for a lot of the reasons
we brought the Mark Mo show over to the podcast,
same deal's gonna apply for the internet radio.
It's just gonna give us a lot of freedom to do
whatever the hell we want, we need to have guests,
studio access, all that kind of good stuff, and
not have to worry about other things. Right,
right. Other things. That is the best way I can
put it, and that's how I'm gonna leave it. Fair
point. But anyway, now onto our actual real intro,
32 minutes into the show. You know, I'm a sports
guy. This used to be a sports show originally.
Yeah. Yeah. A while back. It used to be called
Coach's Corner, and we had a great time with
it. And for those that listen to that and maybe
now listen to this show, huge college football
fans, right? But even though we're onto the championship
and all this other stuff, College football is
a problem. They have a lot of problems, actually.
So the challenges in college football involve,
like, navigating name, image, and likeness, which
is called NIL, managing the transfer portal,
which is a shit show. Oh, yeah. Significant conference
realignment, maintaining competitive rosters,
ensuring player health and safety balancing,
academics with athletic demands, and issues with
parity and bowl system, creating complex issues
for coaches, athletes, and the sports structure.
A lot going on. Right. And so I'll mention some
of these as I just went through them so quickly.
So there's administrative and structural challenges,
conference realignment, so there's constant shifts
in the conference alignments that create instability
in new competitive landscapes, NIL and Transport
Portal, which we talked about. So that's like
managing player compensation. So for example,
Michigan... or the wealthy donor people of Michigan
can sit there and throw six million dollars at
some young kid that can throw a football. Whereas,
can Indiana State do that? Can Troy do that?
Right. Can Northern Illinois University do that?
North Dakota State? Yeah. It's just, yeah, it's
not. Even though maybe that coach or maybe that
coach or that system or whatever might even be
better for that kid. He's gonna take that cash
right because even if he flares out in one season.
He's gonna be like I'm done. Yeah, I made some
dollars. I'm I made dollars I'm gonna sit on
the interest the rest of my life right and I'll
be fine So that's a problem so Managing the NIL
and free movement of players via the transfer
portal makes roster building extremely difficult,
especially for the smaller programs, as I mentioned.
Parity, the gap between elite programs and others
widen due to resources and talent acquisition,
leading to uneven competition. For those that
watch the playoffs, Notre Dame was not allowed
in, which is the dumbest shit I've ever heard
in my life because by the end of the season they
were easily the second or third best football
team in the country. How are you not involved
in a 12 - team playoff when, who was in it? Tulane.
I'm trying to think of the other small school
that was in it. It was Tulane and who gives a
shit state. And Alabama, who had three losses,
who got their asses handed to them by Indiana.
And I thought immediately three teams that should
not even have sniffed a 12 team playoff. And
here we are. And Notre Dame's out. when Notre
Dame would probably be playing. Because they
would have played Indiana last week, they would
have kicked Indiana's ass, and they would have
been playing Oregon tonight. That's plain and
simple. And it's not being a homer, it's not
being anything else, it's just being the truth.
Notre Dame beat Indiana last year, they would
have beat them again this year. Notre Dame had
a better team. They had a better team. Love would
have ran all over them. All over them. And Carr
was becoming a much better quarterback. Than
he was at the beginning of the season when they
lost two games by four total points, right? And
you're gonna tell a team nah, you're out because
of that right bullshit if you're telling a team
They're out after two games. Why am I playing
anymore? What's the standard? How about the other
teams you let in? Correct, right? It's the way
I'm looking at it. So governance and rules Evolving
NCAA rules and the pressure to professionalize
the sport while keeping it amateur create governance
challenges, that is so true. Bowl system, debates
continue over the value and structure of the
bowl games and playoff expansion. Player and
team challenges, so health and safety managing
player fatigue from frequent play, like there
have been teams that have played like, I'm like,
they've had like four days rest or five days
rest. What are you doing? You need a week. You
need a week. Your body needs easily three days
to recover from football. Yeah. And then you
add on top of that retraining, reconditioning
every week. Like it's a brutal sport. It's a
brutal sport. Yes. Yep. You know, it's going
to take you five, six days. Yeah. Yeah. Because,
you know, teams on seven or eight days rest and
they're playing teams on five. Ninety five percent
time. the team that's had that extra rest is
gonna kill them. Right, even if they're fairly
balanced. Yeah, agreed. Yeah. It's that time
off is, you know, so once again, managing the
player fatigue, frequent play, chronic injuries,
concussion risk, all that stuff should be paramount.
Academic demands. Student -athlete balance demanding
coursework, athletic schedules, and managing
the athletic identity leading to stress and potential
burnout. Roster management. Coaches constantly
battle. to build competitive rosters with high
turnover due to transfers and recruiting pressures.
Right. And then of course, and we've talked about
this so many times on this show, mental health.
High pressure environments contribute to significant
mental fatigue, stress for athletes. A fan of
media challenges, so the gambling integration.
The rise of sports betting. Right. Definitely
brings complexity to the situation the fan experience
issues like perceived greed and complexity of
rules and sports becoming too much like the NFL
Huge concern for fans one of my top concerns
without question right couch football is not
couch football anymore. Yeah, it's just not It's
primarily why I've watched almost none of these
games of the bowl games and things like that
this year because it's just it's broken and Well,
we'll get to it. I have a couple more things
and then I'm going to vent as you can as well.
Yeah. So coaching and development challenges.
So recruiting the compressed timeline and increased
competition for high school recruits are more
challenging than ever. And player development,
effectively developing talent while managing
roster turnover and NIL expectations is a constant
struggle. Now. No, go ahead. Quickly, I was just
going to talk about the NCAA. Gutless leaderless
punks. Oh, yeah Basically what I was gonna put
it in a succinct fashion. That's absolutely accurate
I wanted to go back to the point you were making
about NIL specifically and the student athletes
making money I never saw that as a problem necessarily
because This is a multi -billion dollar Association
the schools and coaches are making in Unbelievable
quantities of money. Yep Where in most cases
the highest paid State employee in most states
is a football coach is the college football coach,
correct? There's no reason that these student
-athletes shouldn't get a cut of that and you
could argue all while they're getting scholarships
Well, guess what if if the heads of these associations
and conferences and coaches are making millions,
if not billions of dollars in revenue and profits,
the kids should make money. Yes. The issue that
you were specifically bringing up is how lawless
and chaotic it is, where there's no rule about
like, hey, like, no quarterback should be compensated
50 % higher than the lowest compensated player
on the team. Like, no... Sure. No... Teams total
compensation should be 200 % higher than a same
team in that conference's lowest compensated
team total. There needs to be balance with all
this. And that's something that this gutless,
cowardly association that you were talking about,
they haven't done. They haven't done. There's
too much fucking money. I don't know if there's
bribery going on. I'm not... insinuating that
there could be. There could be there's big players
with a lot of fucking money making choices that
are deteriorating the sports of these college
athletes. Correct. And that's highly problematic.
It's good that these kids are making a fraction
of the revenue that this massive association
and these conferences make. That's good. The
problem is it's lawless it's it's uncontained
and it's leading to all of the problems you've
mentioned yeah oh yeah it really is and to be
able to sit here and say oh i have a solution
i i i kind of do but it involves blowing the
whole thing up right because i think you have
to and as I said you have these gutless leaderless
punks running the NCAA and the power brokers
are those running the conferences more specifically
the SEC and the Big Ten right and Thinking they
could just get their way with a can't Regardless
they shouldn't be able regardless of the conference
the conference is part of the NCAA it's part
of collegiate athletics right so The NCAA has
to take a leadership role and bring these guys
in and say, look, this is no good. SEC, how many?
20 teams or whatever they've got? That's stupid.
There should be no conference size more than
12 teams. Just should not. And to have smaller
Div1, like your Tulane and your Northern Illinois
and your Troy and Ohio and all those. they should
have their own division and their own championship
should not be in a playoff bracket where they
do not belong. Right. Just do not. And in the
same sense, like everything used to be geography
back in the day. There's Pac -10, Pacific Coast.
Supposed to be. So USC and UCLA, Washington,
Oregon, what the hell are you doing in the Big
Ten? Right. Like it's absolutely crazy and obscene.
And I don't get it. And as I said, everything
should be 10 to 12 teams. And I think that would
make things much more competitive. It will bring
back the rivalries that people used to enjoy.
Now it's like, what, we're expecting UCLA versus
Illinois to be a new rivalry? No. Right. I mean,
you know, Texas, South Carolina, that's going
to be... No. Right. What are we doing? So I think...
As I said, it's got to be blown up. And that
may be with the creation of two or three new
conferences. And as I said, like 10 to 12 teams
per conference, I think that's the way you go.
And every one of those conference champions is
in. Right. And if you have eight conferences,
well, that's eight spots. Now you have four open
spots. Right. You know, and no conference can
have more than two. I just it seems balanced.
It seems fair. You know, Notre Dame's independent.
and everybody that's in a conference gets their
panties in a bunch about them. But Notre Dame
always does its best to have a competitive schedule.
Right. If a couple teams fall off, that is not
their fault. They tried to put together a competitive
schedule. Right. And they play three, four, five
ranked teams every year, which is no different
than most other teams. Sure, yeah. And they don't,
rarely, rarely, super rarely do they play Mississippi
Valley State or Grambling. Right. They don't.
But once again, that's why the system's broken,
because a lot of times Florida State's like,
okay, cool, we'll play Grambling, because then
we get to share the TV money with Grambling,
because otherwise Grambling can't keep their
sports program going. Right. Well, if that's
the reason this happens, and those kids at Grambling
have to get their ass beat for three hours to
do that, that's messed up. How is that fair to
those kids? It's not fair to those kids. Right.
How is that fair to them? to get their ass beat
up and down the field for three hours. Just to
be like, oh yay, I'm glad I'm gonna hurt for
three weeks, now we get to keep the swim team.
Just obnoxious. Just obnoxious. As I said, until
the NCAA, how's the best way to put it? Finds
their set of balls. Sex the fuck up. Until they
do that, then it's gonna still be broken. I was
a die -hard college football fan. And I've watched
almost no bowl games this year. Yeah. I've drifted.
Oh yeah. I have a really hard time supporting
something that is broken that they don't give
a shit about because there's just too much money.
Right. Right. Fine. Well, you're not getting
mine. Yeah. That's the way I look at it. So I
don't know how many of you feel the same way.
Yeah. Let us know your thoughts on the socials.
Yeah. Let us know your thoughts. But it's frustrating.
It's sad. And I guess, well, no, I'll correct
what I was about to say. I was about to say,
I can't wait till baseball starts. Even though
that's a true statement, the Bears are still
in the playoffs. As are the Broncos. As of today.
Those are our two favorite teams. So as of now,
one is the number one seed, one is the number
two. That makes us happy. Yes. So we'll see how
that goes. Damn right. Anyway, we're going to
take a break. after all that and we'll we'll
be back all right we're back everybody and it
is time for Carpe Diem that's right you fine
beautiful people send us your DMS and we read
them on air and if this is a form of a question
we might answer it sure we have the capability
to do so we do we do and quite frankly if you're
like oh I really wish they would answer my question.
Gosh, I so dearly want that. How is this going
to happen? Well, joining your bank account will
help. Right. Like every Supreme Court justice
just bribes us. We can be bought. Yeah. Yeah,
absolutely. We can be bought like the American
justice system. Yeah. So if some Benjies end
up in my hand, then I'm going to go, whoa, Aidan,
check out this awesome question. That's crazy.
What a crazy, cool question. Capitalism, baby.
It's fine at its finest. That's how it works
Alrighty, I'm gonna start with at had enough.
Hey get in line buddy get in line. Hey guys I'm
from Minnesota and the woman killed by ice lived
ten minutes from me fuck these guys How have
we not disbanded this Gestapo? I fear America
is gone Fair points no notes Yeah, fuck those
guys fuck ice right I mean there's There's not
enough negative adjectives in the English lexicon
to properly describe this despicable murderous
behavior. Yeah, one thing that I love and You
know for whatever reason the Midwest Just usually
has no fucks to give. Oh, yeah, whether it's
Michigan or whether Chicago at definitely, Minnesota
When the federal government wants to screw with
us Like they they should just know better right
there are so many dystopian novels and movies
We're like the freestanding society is always
based in Chicago, and that's like for a reason
right yeah, we're not messing with these crazy
motherfuckers because and So today I heard a
bunch of protesters showed up in Jack boots blue
jeans flak jackets Yeah, just like the ice guy.
Oh, it's funny literally cosplaying them and
they have apparently they have very friendly
oh god what do they call it to be able to carry
your weapon oh yeah open carry open carry apparently
they're very friendly open carry so showing up
with their ars and they're showing up with everything
else and it's like well now now you've done fucked
up now now you've pissed off people enough oh
my goodness am i actually seeing for the first
time in my life the second amendment at work
Being used as it was intended. As it was written.
Right. How about that? That's amazing. A tyrannical
government. Yeah. I remember that being in the
fucking amendment. Yeah, how about that? That's
amazing how that works. That you're gonna have
hundreds if not thousands of protesters showing
up and it's like, oh wait. Now they look like
a malo - oh. A well -regulated militia. Oh my
goodness. How about that. I'm gonna stop cosplaying
this. I'm just gonna - I'm gonna go back to working
at the gas station. Right. And whatever. Fucking
tools. Yeah, America might be gone. I'm gonna
give them two years and it may be over before
then but I'm gonna give them two years To set
this straight. We may have to do our part. Whatever
that means, right? I leave it up to you to figure
that out and Hey, all I know is Do do I have
switchblades in my truck? I do do I have a golf
club in my truck? I do do I have a baseball bat
in my truck? I do I know bringing those to a
gunfight's probably not gonna help. But they
gotta get their shot off faster than I swing
a bat. Right. And I swing a mighty bat. Yep.
So that's all I'm gonna say. At Gerbilman. Gerbilman!
Gerbilman! Sup, Mark Mosho. I love gerbils. No,
really. Really. They are my favorite. I have
23 of them. That's a lot of gerbils. I know them
well and have named all of them. Damn! Some of
my friends think it is weird. Do you think it
is weird to own gerbils or other animals that
aren't dogs or cats? I'll start off by saying
no. Like exotic animals or illegal to own animals,
near extinct animals, I would argue. Let them
be in the wild. Let the scientists try and help
them the best they can. Right. Gerbils? Cats?
Dogs? I mean, there's a lot of... Animals that
are legal and ethical to own and and and give
your love to and your attention to To have here's
my here's the caveat to have 23 of them That's
that's a bit much. I would say if you're happy
and Your pets are happy then that that is a matter
of personal taste and you should not take my
words as gospel They're under my roof. There
are seven pets and that's that's too much for
me But luckily for me my partner can can handle
that. So I just I Pet whoever's around me and
that's that 23 is a lot man 23 is a lot if you're
happy and they're happy then fantastic gerbils
are gerbils I mean, I think they're part of the
rodent family. So Yeah, they they're probably
playful little tiny guys that like to poop a
lot. That's my guess So, I mean, God bless you,
Gerbilman. Yeah. That's all I have to say. No
doubt. God bless you. What's your take on 23
Pets? Did I cover the basics or do you differ?
I'm glad you handled that. Okay. I had no idea
where I was going with Gerbilman. I really didn't.
Would you maybe have been a little less understanding?
Well, Gerbil's maybe not your thing. I'm not
going to judge. I mean, I could. You're not a
gerbil man, per se. Nope, and I have not been
paid for my judgeship, so. We've not been paid
by Big Gerbil to approve this statement. That
is correct. Big Gerbil. With all the problems
in this world, owning 23 gerbils is not high
on my list. If it makes you happy, dude, whatever,
just keep them out of your anus. Oh no. Just
saying. Maybe that's not a thing. He's the pee
-pee -poop -a -man. Yeah, well, could be. At
honey baby girl 22. Hi mark mo show. I have a
guy friend who's 33. He's dating a 50 year old
woman I am 27 and think about going on a date
with this hot 44 year old guy about my sister
thinks it's weird But I think she's a bitter
lonely bitch These Boy these guys really match
the vibe of the show today. Do you see anything
wrong with it? The only thing I see wrong is
interfamilial turmoil. That is apparent. I think
everyone here is a grown -ass adult who can think
for themselves. And if you make each other happy,
great. Right. The thing that, especially about
the age debate in relationships, is I think approximately
age 25 is the age of full mental maturity. in
adult human beings. Anything above age 25, that's
fair game. You do what you want to do. My hang
-up is I don't know if that would be me. I think
I don't know how, if I were to date older, which
of course I'm a taken man, so these are all hypotheticals,
but if I were to date older, how much do I really
have in common? as a 26 -year -old man, how much
do I have in common with a 50 -year -old woman?
Right. How much life experience or interests
do we legitimately share? Right. And that opinion
may vary. Sure. Depending on if you were single
and you were out there and maybe you're dating
20 -year -olds and you're just like, oh my god,
you know, either it's a maturity thing or it's
whatever, but just say it bugs you. Now, all
of a sudden, you might be like, Maybe I look
a little bit older. Sure. You have to look into
the 30s. Yeah. And be like, hey, you know, here's
someone who's a little bit more mature. They've
lived some life. Maybe this is the way to go.
Right. It could loop back to Gerbil man being
just a discussion of taste. Yep. Oh, yeah. The
issue I take is the Leonardo DiCaprio's of the
world. Right. Where you're a 50 or 60 something
year old man that only dates 19 or 20 year olds.
Now, by law, that's not predatory. Correct. But
in my opinion, I find that to be in poor taste.
Sure. Because those are not mentally mature women.
Women, rather. Yeah. That's where I draw the
line as like, okay, you're in your 40s, 50s,
60s. Anything below 25, I would add a question
mark. Put a question mark there. I'd put a question
mark there where it's like... What are we doing?
What are we doing, boys? What are we doing? I
mean, we're all consenting adults here, but I
have questions about the motive. Sure. Anything
above 25, do what you're doing. Yeah. That's
kind of what I think, too. There's both a legal
and an ethical debate to be had about age, but
I think post 25 is fair game. Yeah, I think that's
fair. You know, because I think in my perspective,
I haven't tried to date a whole lot since being
single. Tried it a few times here and there with
people close to my age, with several of those,
and I have to say, and it's a relatively small
sample size, so I can't, you know, it's not like
it's 20 or 30 dates and I have all this data,
I don't. But for the data I do have, I can say
that I would rather sit in a dentist chair and
have my teeth extracted than have to go out with
another woman in her late 40s or into their 50s
and hear about 401ks and hear about their arthritis
and hear about this and hear about that. I'm
just like, just shoot me in the face right now.
Just end this right now. Life's got to be more
fun than that consisting of casual conversation.
And at heart, that's who I am. I mean, I'm a
fun dude. I like to go and drink, you know, people,
I can't say half my age, although I can half
my age and drink them under the table because
I have skills. But to be able to go and to play
darts and to hang out in karaoke and all that
kind of stuff because like that makes me feel
alive. It keeps your spirit high. It does in
a relatively shitty existence in this world right
now. And you should do the things that make you
happy. Yeah. And you should be around people
that make you happy. Not just relationships,
or as I call them, relationships. But even just
friendships. You should keep people that match
your vibe. Sure. And I think that's super important.
Rather than, oh, I have to date someone that
is my age. Because then that way, I'm just miserable.
Right. And what's the point? Now, does that mean
there isn't someone out there that is my age
that has? that vibe or likes the same. With the
shared interests. Shared interests? Yeah. She
might be out there somewhere. I sure as shit
haven't found her. Yeah, right. And I'm tired
of looking, so I'm just gonna have like a bunch
of friends, which I recommend to you. Stop looking.
If it happens, it happens. Get yourself a good
group of friends and enjoy your life. Yeah. That
is my best suggestion to all of you. Right. That's
totally a fair point. Last one here, at stonerstanley420,
our guy. God, what a way to wrap that up. Stan.
Hey, Momo and Alan. super fun when you do it
that way oh Stanley my van is so smoky that I
giggle clearly I lost my vape and I think it
is that squirrel they are the ones with that
furry tail yeah thief they are the ones with
that furry tail yeah that's that's fair and true
stoner Stanley my guy It's rare. Yeah, I would
say it's rare when a rodent or Any type of little
being has the ability to steal a Potentially
devil's lettuce vape from you. Yeah That that
requires and then maybe not requires but could
imply functioning Thumbs right? I would think
so like raccoons have those little grippers.
They do and we've we've seen what they do in
the liquor store and they maybe have fluffy tails
like he was talking about. Oh, maybe a baby raccoon.
Can Stan differentiate a squirrel from a raccoon?
Or is he too - In a smoky van? In his giggly
smoky van? No, there's no way. I'm thinking a
raccoon got his little chief juice. That might
be a good call. Check on that raccoon situation
there, Stan. I think that is probably in your
best bet. Do you think Stan's okay? I don't know,
man. We need to... You know what's crazy? Stan
might be happier than any of us. I think he is.
He's off the fucking grid! He's so disconnected
and high all the time. All the time. I almost
envy him. I just wonder where he gets his food
and water from. Right. Well, he lives by the
river, so he probably just drinks out of the
damn river. Right. But as far as his food goes,
I'm going to assume if he catches the squirrel...
Maybe. I mean, I hear they're high in cholesterol
from Christmas movies, but... That is true. As
long as he's a healthy man. Right. Maybe fishes.
I don't know. God bless his soul. Yeah. Bless
you, Stan. As you say, he's probably the happiest
of all of us. Right. Right. And... He's blissfully
ignorant. Yeah. Oh, no doubt about it. But that's
the end for my DMs. What do you got? I got DMs
here. The first one I got from The Doctor Strange.
Checking in hit me up out of nowhere. I haven't
talked to him in years. Wow. Hey, it's been a
slow day. I'll offer you a treat. If you could
link any two cities permanently with my portals
for your own personal use, which two cities would
they be? Wow. That's tough. It's it's like teleportation,
but you only get two places to work from Yeah,
man with the blessing. God bless you. Dr. Strange
Like first thought comes to mind is like my My
sisters who are in different cities, but the
problem with that is they're all in different
cities in different cities How can you pick one
right? So my next thought is like where would
I want? to go, to enjoy time, or to visit, that
I would do such a thing regularly. Like, would
I connect our current hometown of Valparaiso,
Indiana with Dublin, Ireland, or, I don't know,
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, like, put me somewhere
warm when it's cold here type vibe. That's really
tough. So, I'm kind of torn. where I'm like,
I'd love to link my whole family back together
with these portals, but I only get two. And there's
one, two, three, four, five cities that the six
immediate family members live in. So that doesn't
pan out. I think I would choose to link my hometown
of Valparaiso with... I'll just say Los Angeles.
Okay. So when it's 30 degree windchill here,
I can hop out the portal and just enjoy a beach
for a little while. There you go. Just enjoy
the warmth and the LA vibe. Yeah. If I'm having
a down day here in brutally cold Chicago land.
I was very tempted to put Dublin as mine. Yeah.
Cuz I think that'd be pretty great. How's my
first thought? Yeah, I think that'd be good.
But like you say at some point You're gonna want
to break And I I think I would probably pick
Key West Yeah, because it's kind of out the islands
even though it's technically part of Florida.
It's very on Florida like it's more like Caribbean
Sure, and it's just the vibe is cool And they
have fun things to do right they got bars They
got restaurants, but they got the water and they
got chill parts. So if you just want to go in
the water or yourself a houseboat or just chill
by the water for a while. You can do it. So yeah,
I think I'd probably do that. That's totally
fair. Yep. Got a DM here from at hung like a
slider. Well, okay. Questions. Would you prefer
to get with someone you find super attractive,
but they smell like garbage juice? Oh. Or get
with someone that's 100 % not your type. But
they smell like a lovely bed of roses. Ooh. Now
I'm a taken man, so this question may be for
Mark Moe of the Mark Moe Show. Might just be
for me. Okay, no, that's fine. I would have to
say, based on movies that I have seen where they
work on cadavers. Oh yeah! There's shit you can
rub in your nose and your nostril. Where you
really can't smell you could dump like duct tape
but a stick of old spice to your face Pretty
much like don't mind this baby. It's it's just
a me thing It's either like this Vic shit, or
I don't know what it is that they actually put
up their nose So they cannot smell rub some like
rotting carcass just rub some like tea tree oil
on your beard or something your mustache Just
rub it in there. You know and if they smell like
10 day old sliders then So be it, I'm not gonna
know it. Yeah. So you're going with the former.
I am, because I think there's a solution. There
is a solution. I totally hear that. Yeah. I think
what would bother me so much is not that I have
a good nose, like most of the time I'll, like
someone around me will be like, oh, you smell
that weird thing? And I'm like, I didn't, no.
It's my sinuses or something. My olfactory sensors,
I might be slightly anosmic, but Scent can be
so strong, like there's some days, especially
in the summer, where I get home from work after
a hot day sweating, taking kegs up and down stairs.
And I get home and I'm like, wow, I smell like
fucking garbage. I cannot wait to get in the
shower and smell like a regular person again.
And that's such, especially in a situation like
that, that's such a turn off, where it's like.
If you smell like dumpster juice, that's a tough
sell. That is a tough sell. That's a tough sell.
It doesn't matter if you look like the most gorgeous
celebrity out there. Yeah. But if you've got
a solution, then you've got a solution. You do.
Absolutely, I agree. No doubt. Final DM I received.
Evil Genie. Again. Checking in. Quote, since
2026 has been such a shit show so far, I figured
I'd put my name in the proverbial goblet of fire.
Do it. I curse you. But it's your choice how.
Would you rather A. Sweat Dijon mustard. Ooh.
B. Cry hot sauce. Oh, that's fun. Or C. Piss
vinegar. You are disturbed man Evil genie has
been hot and cold. He's like some days. It's
like hey you want $10 ,000 Yes, and then other
days. It's like oh you know your peepees gonna
hurt It's like no, please you know I have to
be honest I I Be it that I drink beer and eat
chicken wings on the regular. I probably piss
vinegar I'll say this I'll say this is that right
I To be honest, I piss excellence, but if we're
talking vinegar, pry damn close to it, it's probably
somewhat toxic. I should probably pee in those
big barrels and ship them off somewhere. Wouldn't
it feel like a UTI every time you have to urinate,
though? Would it be painful? I don't know what
the urethra is like. I'm not sure. I'm the guy
that drinks Malort and doesn't flinch. That's
true, that's true. I probably can handle it.
I'm guessing. Yeah. So based on the other choices,
I think I'd have to do that. You're gonna piss
vinegar. Dude, I'm not gonna smell like I'm a
dish at a German beer hall. That's true. It's
like the second it gets warm outside, he's like,
oh god, why does he smell like Dijon? I'm gonna
eat his bratwurst, yeah. No fucking way. She's
gonna be the one putting the Vicks on her nostrils.
Exactly. Oh jeez, how about you? I... I'm worried.
I like your thought process of pissing vinegar.
I just don't know how something so acidic would
feel coming out of my sensitive parts. Yeah,
not so bad. First of all, I'm not going to...
I sweat every day. My job is physically laborious
and that would be a problem if I sweat and I
smell like bratwurst. I think cry hot sauce.
Because it doesn't say... my natural tear production
to moisten my eyes is hot sauce. Like when I
cry, it's hot sauce. Which would still sting
like a bitch. But I cry so rarely. I don't know
if that's just... I've seen these memes, right?
That's like, oh, what is it like being an Irishman
or having Irish heritage? And it's like, well,
you bottle up all your emotions and you die at
the age of 55 from a heart attack. Okay, cool.
Right, it's good times. Epic. But yeah, I cry
so rarely, where I don't think that would be
a problem. Yeah. So I think I gotta pick it.
Yeah, no, that's fair. I can't risk my urethral
health. No, that's fine. It's not that important.
It's what they say. It's what they say. No, I
see that, but then I just think, even if you're
not a guy that cries a lot, or is in touch with
their feelings, or you're just a typical Irishman,
as we've just discussed, On occasion, you still
sit on your balls. So, you know, those are some
sensitive guys down there, and I guarantee you,
if you take a shot there, your eyes are gonna
squirt. It's just guaranteed. Or if you do what
I do sometimes, which is you're on your phone,
you're lying in bed, social media, social media,
doom scroll, social media, falling. Falling asleep
falling asleep some Mac your phone hits the bridge
of your nose. Yep. That is some painful shit
Oh, yeah, the nose is so sensitive so painful.
Yeah, and then that's clue like a fuck. I gotta
go Yeah, that's my phone. Just told me I should
go to sleep. Yep, but yeah, so I think there's
still opportunities for you to cry That's true.
And that is that shit's gonna hurt not from emotional
pain, but from physical like right? Well, exactly.
Yeah Yeah, Frank's red hat is coming out your
eyeballs, man. And then it's like, yeah. And
then it's like a closed cycle of like, my eyes
are so painful from the hot sauce that don't
continue to dry. Exactly. And then you need like
a professional eye wash. You would. At that point,
yeah. I think you would. Interesting. Indeed.
Interesante. Well, that was a very interesting
DM. All of them were, to be completely honest.
Sometimes they're off the rails, and that's what
we like. Oh, yeah. Yeah, so if you have DMs,
send them our way. We're happy to read them,
as we just did. And we have a segment called
The Other Foods. That is where Aidan scours the
planet, and maybe others. I don't know. And he
comes up with some of the most disgusting. meals,
foods, whatever, and shares them with all of
us fine folks. I would love to know what Aiden
has come up with this week. I found a North American
speciality. Ooh, okay, so it's from home. It's
from home. Gotcha. It's a little thing called
Rocky Mountain Oysters. Go ahead. As they're
known in other parts of the North America's Prairie
Balls. Now you might be thinking, What's a Prairie
Ball? Well, let me tell you. It's a dish made
of bull testicles. To put it simply, the organs,
which is a polite way of saying bull testes,
are often deep -fried after being skinned. Because,
of course, you got to skin the testes before
you fry them. Coated in flour, pepper, salt,
sometimes pounded flat. Oh, no. Sometimes served
as an appetizer. Nope. This dish is served in
parts of Canada where cattle ranching is prevalent
and castration of young male animals is common.
Uh -uh. Yeah, they're... That's a nopitizer.
Another couple terms where these are known by,
quote, cowboy caviar, Montana tender groins.
Dusted nuts, swinging beef, or mountain oysters.
No, this is all of them, no. The dish, purportedly
cowboy fare, is most commonly found at festivals,
amongst ranching families, or certain specialty
eating establishments and bars. They're found
at public venues sometimes, such as Coors Field.
or during Rocky Colorado Rockies baseball games,
which I didn't know and I'm happy never going
to now. Yep. Oh, yeah. Rocky Mountain Oysters
are sometimes served, all of these quotes, by
the way, if anyone's wondering about more information,
I'm getting all these quotes from the Wikipedia
page about Rocky Mountain Oysters. So you can
find more information about these from there.
Rocky Mountain oysters are sometimes served as
a prank to those unaware of the origin of these,
quote, oysters. Uh -uh. Which, by the way, if
you're my friend and you pull this prank on me,
you will become, quickly, a former friend. Or
possibly deceased. Quote. Yeah, possibly deceased.
Quote, they are considered to be an aphrodisiac
by many people. Now we'll use other means. Yeah.
Couldn't be me. Couldn't be me. The primary goal,
this culinarily speaking, the primary goal of
the testicle is not necessarily culinary. Castration
in a veterinary practice and animal husbandry
is common and serves a variety of purposes, including
the control of breeding and the growth of skeletal
muscle suitable for beef. So, there's the scientific
take on it. But if you eat this shit, you're
still eating bull balls Right. Yep. Couldn't
be me I'm safe saying couldn't be me So Rocky
Mountain oysters, that's your other food for
the day. Oh for sure yum I actually I sometimes
I take notes as as we go through our show. I
literally wrote down Yuck with like with lots
of five wise ten use Three C's five K's. Yeah.
Oh, yeah, just look just gross Okay to finish
up this before we take our next break frozen
guy review. That's right I used to be the fry
guy fry review Now I'm under frozen guy reviews
have been for some time cuz hey, I'm a single
guy a Single guy, which means I eat a lot of
frozen foods because grocery stores does not
know how to run sales for single people that
eat smaller portions of things. Yeah. Which is
kind of stupid, but anyway, I found this, I didn't
even know this brand was a thing, it's called
Devour. Whoa. Ooh, Devour. And they had, I don't
know, they had. Devour I hardly knower. I know,
right? So there were like six or seven different
kinds. Six, seven. Oh Jesus, mother, God. You
keep saying it. Ladies and gentlemen. I don't
even find the meme funny. I find the fact that
you don't find it funny funny. I thought it makes
me angry It makes me angry I don't know if it's
schadenfreude, but that makes me laugh. I And
I respect that it's like a total son to do it's
fair To me I have a vision And this vision is
something we always used to make fun of and we
gave it a name and the name is Gamer Kid Tim
Oh, yeah, so yeah come up with Gamer Kid Tim
and he say marks and I just play video games
for ten more minutes. I just wanna play Fortnite
for a little longer. Hey Jimmy and Billy I snuck
out of bed to play like I can't stand it Gamer
Kid Tim is the very definition of 6 -7. Yeah,
exactly So. I heard the funniest thing playing
Fortnite. Six seven. Six seven. Hee hee. Hee
hee. Hee hee. No, no, no. That kid's getting
drop kicked. That kid's getting disowned. Oh
yeah. Oh man. Anyway. You're gone? Back to the
point. So Devour has approximately seven different
meals. They have many, they have many different
types. Several. Several. I... picked Cajun -style
Alfredo with smoked sausage and grilled chicken.
That sounds wonderful. That shit was fire. Was
it baller? Dude, I... How was the sauce? Sauce
is fire. Good. It was so good. Peppers in there,
little bit of a kick. Like, it was... perfect.
The pasta was perfect. The chicken was like real
chunks of real frickin chicken. And the sausage
was money. I literally I finished it. Number
one. Once again, the whole idea is not to eat
this with the assumption you're gonna be hungry
in two or three hours. Right. Like it was my
meal. And I knew until the next meal I was good.
I felt that way. Good. Just eating one. We've
been through this. There's some brand like Michaelina's
You gotta put two together to make it a meal.
It's just kind of the way it works. But when
you figure in pricing, Michaelina's are what,
$1 .99 or whatever? So you're still three or
four bucks for a meal, it's fine. It's fine to
put two together. This was money. To the point
where I couldn't get it, like literally, I ran
to the kitchen, found a piece of bread, came
in and sopped that shit up. Like that sauce was
that good? It was that damn good. What's the
price point on Devour? The price point was four
bucks. Dude, that's not bad. $3 .89, $3 .99,
something like that. Shit. Yep. Because usually
with these, you try and take like price point
over filling divided by sauce quality. Correct.
Yeah, because if you have one of the $3 .89 meals,
but you look at it and you're like, I'm probably
going to have to put two of those together. Well,
now you're at eight or nine bucks. Yeah. And
now it's like... You know now that you're near
nearing fast food pricing so at that point. It's
like okay What is it? What's the benefit here,
right? But if I can spend four bucks and get
a full meal and get a meal and my belly's happy
and it tastes good as hell Yeah, I gave it a
9 -5 Damn give it a 9 -5. I think it's my highest
that might be the highest yeah, it's all I'm
gonna put together a spreadsheet just because
why not And I'm gonna see where they where they
all rank Because I think that'd be fun to kind
of go back on and of course so I'm not doing
things more than once Yeah, yeah, but it was
so good. That sounds so I can't wait. I can't
wait I may have another devour in my freezer,
so I may have to do another one next week But
it was good damn right so damn good Yeah, so
we ended all of that craziness on a high note.
Hell yeah, as we should. As we should. We'll
be back with a little You Just Made the List.
All right, we're back everybody for our feature
segment here on the Mark Mo Show with your host
Mark Maloney and Aidan Maloney. This top 10 list,
You Just Made the List, 10 through 2 with our
big number one reveal. And the only rule is,
well, no rules. Thank God, no rules. How about
that? I love that. For top 10 lists. crucial.
Oh yeah, no doubt about it. So Aidan, I'm interested
to hear your top ten in things to do in Northwest
Indiana. Now that is where we reside. We are
in a town called Valparaiso. Northwest Indiana
is considered Lake Porter and La Porte counties.
And Lake and Porter are considered Chicagoland
for anyone curious. Yes they are. This is for
all of you who may or may not ever come through
Northwest Indiana. You may if you're going to
watch the Bears in the future. Suck it, Chicago.
Anyway, top 10 things to do in Northwest Indiana.
I'll run my 10 through 2. Best stuff to do in
Northwest Indiana. Number 10. Deep River Water
Park. Oh, good one. Missed on that one. Right
off Route 30. Merriville -ish, Winfield -ish.
It's not quite Porter County. I believe it's
Lake County. But it's the closest thing you'll
get to Six Flags without having to drive all
the way up to fucking Gurney, Illinois. It's
a great little park. I have many fond memories
of going there. Very fun place whether or not
you're in your teens or 20s or you got kids.
Great place to go. Number nine, the Region Cat
Cafe. If you are into cats at all, if you like
petting tiny little cute animals, and you enjoy
coffee, it's such a quaint little place. It's
right in Maryville, once again near Route 30.
A couple blocks off Route 30, US 30, for anyone
curious. Very, very quaint, very fun. Number
eight, Deep River Vintage Baseball. I have fantastic
memories of going to that little park near Deep
River. I think that's also Lake County. Lake
County Parks and Rec puts on these shows of people
playing this 1910s style baseball. The rules
are a little different from modern baseball.
They don't wear mitts, but they put on a great
show, and it's a fun season, and they're all
wearing old, tiny uniforms and everything. There's
a lot of history with that area too with the
old watermill and all that yes. Yeah a little
gift shop nearby Great time over there if you're
interested number seven I wrote down the semi
-annual dive bar bus tour. Hey, how about that?
super fun, it's there's a Fellow podcast from
from the region called tasty 219 that puts on
said bus tour Super fun because they're they're
just a lot of like fun divey Kind of bars around
here that just have a lot of spirit to them.
That's right They're like, hey, we understand
you're drinking. So we're just gonna rent a bus
and you guys can go do your thing Very fun number
six the gabus arboretum once again right off
route 30. This is a Purdue Northwest local University
Purdue One of their affiliates Purdue Northwest
has this just beautiful arboretum in the region.
Number five, Zeo Island slash Up Your Alley slash
Ziggy's Funland. There are several like, quote
unquote, family fun centers, but I'm sure you
can be a 30 -year -old dude with your homies
going out there. 100%. And have fun with it.
Laser Tag, they all have some form of fun, whether
it's bowling. Because you can sit out on a deck
and have a beer and stuff, too. Oh, yeah. I believe
they all have bars. Yep. laser tags or go -kart
rides, arcades, bars. They all have food. Batting
cages. Batting cages, yeah. Very fun. Number
four, brewery tours. Northwest Indiana has a
lot of fantastic breweries, all of which I believe
have some associated restaurant or do brewery
tours. Off Square, 18th Street, Three Floyds,
New Oberfall, Shoreline. The list goes on. There's
a lot of great places up here. Good call. Number
three, I've got the Dunes National Park slash
the Dunes Pavilion. It's beautiful. It's beautiful.
I think the only reason it's not higher in my
list is because of how soured I get due to the
fact that the local industries pollute the lake
and kind of befoul the scenery yeah, but it is
beautiful nonetheless and my number two ooh Popcorn
Fest in Valparaiso, Indiana. Let's go Well, we
put on a good show as much as I clown on Valparaiso
to veil a paradise That we put on a good show
felt popcorn fest is great. Yeah, I agree. That's
awesome Home of Orville Redenbacher. Home of
Orville Redenbacher. You've seen the microwave
popcorn. You know that shit tastes good. I wish
they'd sponsor us. We gotta work on that. We
gotta work on that. Alright, my top ten, ten
through two. Number ten, Beer Fest in Valparaiso.
If you love beer. Yes, it's your place. It's
your place number nine apple picking and apple
donuts at County Line Orchard. Oh, that's a good
one Yeah, that's a good day get yourself some
good apples and then they're fire number eight
the European market in Chesterton and that's
a good call to go up there you get some food
you get some bread you got all kinds of clothes,
plants, vegetable, like everything you could
imagine. Number seven, the Hard Rock Casino in
Gary. It is really nice. It's a cool looking
casino, and they have good shows. Right off the
highway. We no longer have the Star Plaza Theater,
so you gotta go there to catch a show. Yeah,
it's convenient too. It's right off the highway.
Right off the highway. Oh yeah. It is convenient.
That's a good point. Number six, the Pride. pub
crawl in crown point good call i went to that
i had so much fun i believe that's an annual
event right it is yeah it is hopefully you're
available to go to the next one it was so much
fun uh number five the gary rail cats baseball
damn that's a good one i missed that uh it is
minor league baseball uh it is downtown gary
So there's not a lot to do around the park, but
for the park itself inside the park. It's enough
to do very cool Yeah, it's right off 12 and 20.
Yes, so that's pretty easy to get to yeah. Yeah
Number four the tasty 219 dive bar bus crawl.
Yeah, there we go. I've had that one It's great.
If you were a fan of beer if you're a fan of
quite frankly supporting small business, because
that's really what this is. That's true. A lot
of dive bars that, you know, they're not, they're
not your B -Dubs or your Hooters. They're these
tiny little dive bars in these small towns. Locally
owned. That probably normally get, you know,
five to ten people a day, and they're sitting
in their corner drinking their beer. Right. And
a bus with 60 people shows up. We bring the party,
baby. We bring the party. We definitely bring
the party. Number three, popcorn fest in Valpo.
There it is. We've been going to this since we
moved to the region in 2004? 2004, 2005, yeah.
It was right there. So we've been going ever
since, and Aidy marched in a couple, and we are
the voice of Popcorn Fest. Yeah, we've had our
own booth out there a couple times. Corner speaks
to me. Yes, the corner, we speak to the corner.
We do, I'm a peacock, you gotta let me fly. The
corner, a great track by Common, by the way.
Ooh, there you go. And number two, the St. Patty's
Pub Crawl in Crown Point. is so much fun. Aidan
met one of my friends Gail at 113 North. A lovely
person. She's great. She is so much fun. There's
That Bar, Zombie, Tavern, Public, the ramen place
ramen district oh sure yeah yeah so they're usually
part of it too which doesn't make sense until
you get hungry and you're like oh this ramen
is fire it's kind of genius it really is but
that patties pub crawl i did that with a friend
of mine and we just had a great time that's awesome
it was so great and i'll leave my number one
my number one is is vague but it's meaningful
a food tour of Valparaiso and Hammond and Crown
Point where you just go around and try different
foods. We might be homers in saying this, but
it is true that Chicago is the best food city
in the United States of America. Easily. Easily.
Without question, undeniable. But fuck if we
haven't done well in northwest Indiana. We have...
Italian and French and Mexican cuisines. We've
got specialty places. We've got Japanese and
Chinese cuisine. We've So many unique places
Unique locally owned even unique chains to the
to the area. Yeah where there's so much food
to try I mean if if you're visiting Chicago or
you're driving through Indiana like on your way
to Chicago Take a day, try a couple different
spots. Like there's so much to see in each of
those downtowns. And I only mentioned three cities
there, but there are a handful of excellent towns
that have great food around here. Portage has
a couple good spots. There's just excellent food
around here. And it's one of the things I've
been blessed by is not only having two excellent
parents that cook great food, but also growing
up my early years in Chicago and then growing
up my later years here in Valparaiso, where I'm
also still surrounded by good food. Yes. So I
would implore anyone in the region or traveling
through the region, take a little food tour.
I agree. It's worth it. I definitely agree with
that. Just to throw a few out there, none of
these sponsor us in any way, shape or form. If
you love Italian, there's a place in... Valparaiso
called Albano's. Nick is a fantastic chef. His
Italian food is unbelievable. His short rib tortellini
will blow you away. He's got a lavender cheesecake.
The guy is, he's a whiz and it's a small place.
Probably gonna make a reservation. Keep that
in mind. Right next door. Mediterranean food,
La Mediterranean. Yeah. Awesome food. I'm not
a huge hummus guy. Their hummus is awesome. That
means a lot hummus is awesome So I would recommend
Those two off the top of my head. I could recommend
pizza places, but I'm a pizza stop So I won't
sure Although because well quite frankly if I
recommend a Pete's place just a Chicago Pete's
place that's actually that have come to further
Chicago idea So that's that would be we could
recommend loom all -notties because they're around,
but correct. That's not a Valparaiso rights That's
not a Northwest India loses in Sherriville, and
I think it's Sherriville Crown Point right and
also Giordano's Giordano's is in gels is out
here, but I don't know if that's a Chicago place
No, that's here. But it's not bad. Good pizza
nonetheless. You could definitely check that
out. The Bait Shop is local. That is definitely
some high -end stuff. You're gonna spend some
money when you go there, but the food's excellent.
So yeah, we definitely have places that you should
most definitely check out. Oh, I was thinking
about the One Bar. They often have a lot of really
kind of cool small plate stuff that they circulate
in and out all the time. They're upstairs. It's
like a library. A library? Yeah. It's really
close to Fluid Coffee Shop. Oh, Stax? Stax. Yeah,
yeah, yeah. Stax. They have a lot of really good
food there. And quite frankly, if you like dive
bars, hit up Frank's. Frank's food is low -key
good. And they have a chef there that puts some
specials on. And Northside for Detroit style
pizza. Yeah. Damn right. So there you go. We
got lots of, like you said, just make a little
adventure. Little food tour. Yep. Yeah. Northwest
Indiana holds their own for sure. And you could
catch a brew on the way. No doubt. My number
one is the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore.
Really nothing like it finally became a national
lakeshore. The dunes are... About damn time.
The dunes are pretty spectacular to see. And,
you know, if it's a little bit off season...
You can you can kind of walk up and down the
beach and stuff without you know a whole lot
of people Catching the spring and fall. Yeah
almost yeah, the fall. It's beautiful Watching
the sunset there in the fall. It's only you and
a couple people around. Yeah go cigar with you
Yeah, she and just chillin. Yeah, it is it's
it's pretty spectacular So yeah, that's my number
one and if you live here in northwest, Indiana,
and you're like, hey you miss this let us know
It is up in the socials. Damn right. And please
like and subscribe and share and all that kind
of good stuff. Anyway, we're gonna take a quick
break and we're gonna be back with our beer review
and the world of weird news. All right, we're
back everybody. We are in the home stretch. Time
for our beer review and the world of weird news
here on the Mark Mo Show. I'm your host, Mark
Maloney, along with Aidan Maloney. And, you know,
because we love you. we're not appreciate and
we appreciate you we're not doing just one beer
review today oh gosh we're doing two we're doing
two for you today Because we can. Not only we
can, but 2026 is tough. We don't blame you if
you're in the same boat. We'll need extra beer.
Yeah. We'll definitely need extra beer. 2026
needs more beer. That's the motto. Yeah, that's
2026. Hold my beer. And drink it. All of it.
Damn right. All right, so what is our first beer
today? Our first beer today comes from Dewclaw
Brewing Company, which is a regional brewery
out of New Jersey, believe it or not. This is
called Sweet Baby Fluffernutter. It is a white
stout at 6 .2 % ABV, as they claim, quote, From
lunch hour to happy hour, creamy peanut butter
and smooth marshmallow come together in a white
stout to capture the nostalgia of classic fluffernutter
without the crust. Fluff yeah! Now we'll be the
judge of that. We're using the untapped app.
You should be on the radio. I know, right? I
really dug that. Yeah, put a little, like, zing
on the voice and it's like, whoa, you might have
a voice for radio. Pretty great. I think the
fluffernutter people heard that. They were like,
wow. I've got a face for radio. We'll be rating
this on a scale from 0 to 5 on untapped on our
phones. Not sponsored, but recommended if you
are a beer aficionado. And we'll give you tasting
notes, let us know your thoughts, if you're trying
it at home, and we'll let you know ours on this
sweet baby fluffernutter. Yes. A sloncha to Mark
-a -moe. A sloncha. There we go. Man, that smells
like peanut butter. That smells like a roasty
peanut butter. Does? Tastes like it, too. Oh,
damn. That's, you know what? Huh. You know what?
I disagree with the can. I disagree with the
can. I disagree with the can. The marshmallow
is not showing up for me. Not very present. I
get roasty, malty, beautiful peanut taste in
my mouth. There's no marshmallow. You could argue,
if you were a connoisseur, you could argue a
hint of vanilla. I get the hint of vanilla. It's
not enough. It's not convincing. Tastes like
a peanut butter beer. It tastes like a peanut
butter beer. I'm not getting enough marshmallow
to confirm or convince my taste buds that it's
a fluffernutter. If you were to say this is a
white stout peanut butter, peanut butter white
stout, I hear you and I appreciate it. Oh, sure.
But they lied to us. They lied about the marshmallow.
Yeah. In my opinion. Yeah, no doubt. That's all
roasty and by the way the roasty notes are I
would say appreciated Yeah, I like a roasty peanut
butter. I like a crunchy peanut butter. I Like
peanut butter to be honest This is not a fluffernutter.
Nope. There's there's no marshmallow whatever
Hint, it's like the LaCroix equivalent of vanilla
Where it's like the essence of what might be
considered present, right? That's just not enough
No, and I switched it around my palette a little
bit to see if a different part of my tongue would
pick it up But it didn't know no, that's uh That
is a in my opinion a great Peanut butter white
stout. That is not a fluffernutter Marshmallow
we peanut buttery beer. Nope. Nope. I was like
we We were lied to. Deceived. We were deceived.
I'm unsure on how to rank this because as a beer
I enjoy it. It's hitting flavor notes, roasty,
peanut buttery that I enjoy. But we were lied
to. And I don't like that. No. I don't like that.
So should this have been advertised as a peanut
butter stout, I would like it. Yes. I'd probably
be in the three range, 325, 35. But unfortunately,
the Mark Mo Show was lied to on this one. They
were. I'm taking it down a half point. Okay.
I'm deducting a half point and I'm going 275
out of five. Okay. I went with a three. You went
with a three? Totally fair. Totally fair. We
were pretty close. It's enjoyable. Definitely
the peanut butter. Didn't really get a whole
lot else. Right. And my flavor profiles in the
app here. In the untapped app. Peanut butter
and malty. Like those are two things that I really...
Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Kind of picked up. Yeah,
I got peanut butter, roasty, toasty, and I added
vanilla. It's there, but it's really muted compared
to everything else. Yep. I would agree. So, that's
a 275 and a 3 even, I believe you said. Yeah.
Yep. That is what I said. And that's coming from
two people that like stouts. That is correct.
So, we prefer stouts. So, if it's a stout in
my fridge, and I have Guinness, and I have Murphy's,
and I have some other stouts, perhaps, this is
probably not the first one I'm grabbing. Right.
And it's not that it's bad. We both ranked it
above 2 -5, 2 -5 being the middle point. Yep.
It's the fact it lies. That bugs me. Yeah. Like,
not so much fluffernutter. No. If you say peanut
butter stout, I know what I'm expecting. This
does not hit what was advertised to me. No. And
quite frankly, they probably should have just
added some chocolate notes and called it, like,
peanut butter cup stout. That's genius. I think
that would have been a better play. That would
have been a great play. Roasty can affect both
cocoa flavors and peanut butter flavors. So they
could have kept the roasty and just put cocoa
powder in it or something. Correct. Yep, they
could have done that. Interesante. But we do
have one more brewski for all the people out
there. Yeah, let's hit up that second one. Alright,
so yeah, I guess that brings us to our second
beer then. And I will have you introduce that
dude. Pastriarchy. By the way, this is also by
dewclaw brewing out of New Jersey Pastriarchy,
I guess is a line that they make which kind of
a fun name Pastriarchy airplane cookie is the
name of the beer. It is an Imperial brown ale
eight and a half percent. Oh All right fairly
high for a brew ski as they say Thank you for
choosing Dewclaw Airlines. This Imperial Brown
Ale takes off with notes of warm cinnamon before
a smooth landing with a rich toasty notes of
biscuit malt and molasses. Now sit backs, relax,
and enjoy that sip. Which will be the judge of
course. That was such a Mountain Dew promo for
this. I love that so much. Mount Dew promo. I
love that so much. That was great. If you want
to go snowboarding to Mount Everest, drink Mount
Dew first. Not sponsored. I see. I love that.
I love that so much. So by the same standard,
we will be ranking this on a scale from one to
five. Airplane cookie. Now, when I... Sometimes
Marc Mosho of the Marc Mosho brings the beers
for us to try sometimes Aidan Maloney of Aidan
spelled the right way buys the beers for us to
try and This week I got these two for us because
I'm like fuck. It's been a tough week We'll try
to you do and I doing the Lord's work is when
I showed this can to Marc Mosho of the Marc Mosho
We both connected on the fact that airplane cookies
that molasses see beautiful flavor that you get
after such a shitty flight and the boarding process
sucks. It's like, it's the little treat you get
that's just like, God, that makes me feel so
good. Hell yeah. And I hope this beer tastes
so good. I hope so too. We'll give you our flavor
notes, ranking on a scale from one to five. Another
sloncha. Another sloncha indeed. Let's eat some
cookies. Oh, that's full bodied. Okay. That's
full bodied. I get molasses. I definitely get
molasses. There's something in there. I've had
brown ales before. There's something in there
that's, I don't know if contrasting or conflicting.
There's something within the brown ale that's
deferring my palate away from the molasses cookie
enjoyment. There's something in there. I'm not
sure it's molasses see and it's it's syrupy.
It's not thick I mean, it's it's a liquid right
it comes out of a can sure yeah, but it's syrupy
and molasses see and then there's some kind of
Slight I when I say slight I mean slight, but
it's enough to to affect my palate slight almost
sour tart kind of background of a brown ale that
wouldn't have come through should this have been
a stout or a porter. True, true, I would agree
with that. Which is, it's my, I like it. I'll
come back and I say I like it, but there's something
about the brown ale that's like this should have
been a stout or a porter where that tart, almost
sour flavor is... retracting points from what
would have been a pleasant molasses cookie flavor.
I'll just be honest because I've done a lot of
flying in my years and so I've consumed a lot
of airline cookies which Aidan and I were both
saying I know they're just shortbread but they're
so damn good for whatever reason. They're molasses
-y and it's perfect for being up in the air like
there's a reason people drink like tomato juice
or Bloody Mary's on airplanes. It's because Shit
tastes different when you're up in the air. Yeah,
things taste different. Yeah and this I'm sorry,
it might be the fact that we're only 800 feet
above sea level But it's this this is not hitting
like an airplane cookie. No to me. I appreciate
that you said that because I'm not I don't get
a cookie in that beer at all. I don't. It's an
ale. Yeah, it's not multi or bready enough or
molasses -y enough. No. Like even the cookies
have like a hint of salt that's like, oh, my
palate's like lighting up on all fronts. Where
this is just like, you could have just said like,
hey, this is a tasty brown ale. And I'd have
been like, yeah, it's a tasty brown ale. Right,
because that's what I get out of it. It's a brown
ale. But it's another advertised lie. We were
told airplane cookie. We're told airplane cookie.
God damn it. I'm not getting it. I was so hype
buying these. Oh, I would have been too. From
stores with my job that I literally deliver to
when I walk in there afterwards. Weren't you
here delivering a couple hours ago? I'm like,
yeah, but I got a job to do Yeah, where's your
where's your craft beer? So sell me all the craft?
Yeah, exactly We have tastings to do and they're
like, oh well, we know about that and I'm like
well God bless if you guys didn't Misadvertise
this to me twice. That's what they did and not
only that dewclaw Misadvertised to us twice Yes.
Which is bothersome. Not that I want to call
out Dewclaw. I'm sure there's probably lovely
people behind their company. Sure. And there's
skilled brewmasters and everything. But I just...
Both of these have not hit. No, they didn't.
I was so hype looking at the labels and neither
of them have hit. Now, I... Flavor profile, I
just said Roasty. I don't know what else to give
it. Some of the ones that they suggest are cinnamon.
I didn't get that Biscuit II I didn't get that
no not at all sweet not at all no boozy all beers
boozy Some more than others, but yeah But yeah,
I just had Roasty and I will give my score. I
gave it a two and a half Yeah, I'm I'm I'm right
there with you I've had beers from Pastry Archie
before the line that Dewclaw provides, and they've
been fantastic, but the caveat is they're not
like brown ales or red ales. They're stouts.
Yes. I've tried Pastriarchy stouts before, which
was why I was excited to see what I saw. Yeah.
This is the first, I believe, ale or brown ale
I've tried from Pastriarchy. I'm not impressed.
Nope. I gave it the flavor profile of molasses,
roasty, and sour, and I gave it a 2 .5. It's
right down the middle for me. I would not...
The money I spent on a four -pack of these, I
would not spend again on a 12 -pack of these.
Oh, sure. Yeah, I wouldn't. This is... It's not
it. Nope. That's unfortunate, but as I said,
it's like... Is it terrible? No. Right. But is
it as advertised? It's not. Yeah, it's a no,
twice. It's a no, twice. It's a no, twice. Yeah.
Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Simon Cowell would not
send you to Hollywood. Yeah, yeah. It's a no
from me. It's a no from me. All right. That brings
us to the World Weird News. And mine, a little
international flavor to it. Dead Thai woman sent
to crematorium wakes up in coffin. What? If you
have you heard the story of why they put originally
put bells on the toes of like carcasses That's
where the term dead ringer came from. Oh, no
way Because if they moved and you heard like
a ding -ling -ling you like they weren't actually
dead. They're not they're not dead That's where
that came from and that just reminded me of that
fact of like oh my god Dead ringer. She's the
person Yeah, she's her She's her she's her staff
at what rat? Proc long Tom temple say again I
I just I could have stopped at what rat What
rat what rat they make milk any person in a restaurant?
What rat what rat? Temple near Bangkok said they
were alerted after they heard knocking from the
inside of the coffin moments before the cremation.
Oh no! They almost set this woman on fire. She
was just like, ting ting ting. Hello? Hello?
I think I don't where I need to be. Right, exactly.
Why is it warm? The 65 -year -old had been taken
to what rat prokong found. You can't keep saying
that. Hey, just because I can pronounce international
words. Beautifully. She was taking a what rat?
What rat? Oh, come on. Whatever, man. Who gives
a shit? Hey, Buddhist temple. A Buddhist temple.
The people who are the most chill in all the
world. And you're like, man, fuck them. What
rat? Fuck that people. They're the most peaceful
people in all the world! You're like, man, what
rap? Fuck them! This bitch almost died! They
need to be more careful be careful with your
wording you might end up On the outskirts of
Bangkok after she appeared to stop breathing
two days earlier her family had traveled hundreds
of miles with her body in the coffin and we're
preparing her to be crazy little did they know
she was just like god i'm so i'm so i'm so tired
i'm so sleepy oh god bless this sleep right here
however moments before the service began a shocked
temple manager Sudthup said he heard a fake knocking
coming from inside the coffin. I was a bit surprised,
so I asked them to open the coffin and everyone
was startled. No shit. Hey. I saw her opening
her eyes slightly and knocking on the side of
the coffin. She must have been knocking for quite
some time. That's devastating. The cremation
was due to be live streamed by the temple. What
the fuck? Yeah, yeah, you can have your peaceful
people. These fucking Buddhists. I'm telling
you man, fuck those guys. Thirath, the nation's
best -selling newspaper, named the woman in question
as, oh fuck you guys, Shanthra Rat Sakaluku.
That's the Midwestern pronunciation for you.
Yeah, whatever. And said she was brought in by
her brother. Fuck. Mankal Sakaluku. A good friend
and brother. What's wrong with a good name like
Steven? What's wrong with a good name like Mankal?
Fair enough. Besides, he's only Steven when it
is concerned with my warranty on my car. He only
put his live sister's... Body in a coffin. It's
Monk Hall. Hey Monk Hall makes mistakes sometimes.
The Monk Halls are guilty for Genghis Khan, right?
Oh for sure The brother said she had been bedridden
for about two years before health deteriorated
further and she became unresponsive appearing
to have stopped breathing according to Mr. Soodthoop
So the brother placed her in a coffin and drove
her 300 Did you get doctor's advice or just throw
her ass in the coffin? Jesus. So the brother
placed her in a coffin, drove her 300 miles from
their home in, oh fuck, Phitsanulok province
in the north of the country to the capital Bangkok.
I can read that one. The Bangkok - In America,
we know Bangkok. We know Bangkok. We're familiar
with that. The Bangkok Post, that's just funny.
Six -seven, right? Shut up. Bangkok is the six
-seven of Millennials, I guess. It really is.
It really is. Reported that the woman's brother
had been told by local officials that his sister
had died. That's a shitty local official, though.
That's a shitty local official. The woman, what
do you do? Walk up and say, hey, hey, slap, slap.
Hey, now she's dead now. She dead. I think she
stopped breathing. I'll take your word for it.
You damp. Okay sounds good to me heard Let's
let's set her on fire for the world to see let's
live stream it. No my think about the views think
about the views click like Click like on this
live woman burning The woman had wished to donate
her organs to well, how the hell she can donate
a sediment fire That's a fair point because they
were literally gonna toss her ass in were they
not in the fire They didn't take her organs at
the cremation place. I question this The woman
had wished to donate her organs to a hospital
in the Thai capital, but her brother was turned
away as he did not have the relevant paperwork.
So she couldn't donate the organs. Instead bang
cock in bang cock Instead he went to the temple
which offers a free cremation service must be
nice. Oh, yeah, that's that's bottom of the barrel
I Couldn't even cremate myself or free. I'd be
like just put me in a bonfire. They'd be like,
yeah, that's $10 ,000 Oh, yeah, right after the
woman was discovered alive. She was assessed
and sent to Bang Yai Hospital in Thiroth reported
where she was treated for hypoglycemia. What?
Before being released back to her brother. Jesus
Christ. You should have taken her to the hospital
first. She's like, oh no. It's like, mayhaps
she stopped breathing. Oh, she must be dead.
Let's burn her. Let's burn her. It's like, yo,
and you released her back to the person that
wanted to burn her without confirming? That wanted
to burn her. Oh, gosh. Can you imagine? She'd
have been like, hot, hot. That's just too, that's
too warm, bro. Oh my God, that's terrible. Is
that brother, please? She had output glycemia,
man. We had to set her on fire. Oh my god. Jesus
Christ. It's one of the better ones we've had.
Oh, man. Hopefully she has recovered well. I
hope so. And is stable. No doubt. And keep her
away from that brother that was just like...
Bad dude. You know what? Burn her. Right? You
want to take any vitals or anything? Nah. Just
burn her. Just burn her. Right now. Just burn
her. Just burn her. Set her on fire. Jesus. Okay.
I've got a story. Yes, sir. This one comes out
of the beautiful country of Germany. Ooh, okay.
50 sheep escape shepherd. Walk into grocery store.
That's your headline. I love it. January 9th.
Very recent story. A flock of about 50 sheep
escaped from their owner while being herded and
took a shopping trip to a nearby supermarket
in Germany. Oh my god. A video taken at the Penny
supermarket in Bergson shows dozens of sheep
flocking into the store through the front doors
causing chaos inside the store. Quote, leaving
a trail of disgr - destruction and poop in their
wake. Oh no. Local police confirmed the incident.
Shepherd Deter Mikler said the sheep had been
broken away from a larger flock he had been herding
through the area en route to the Sin River. Mikler
said the sheep had apparently been distracted
by acorns on the ground. distracted by the acorns
on the ground in the store's parking lot and
then went inside in search for more snacks. Oh
my god. He said the sheep were apparently safely
reunited with the rest of the flock. Quote from
Minkler, when I arrived or when I arrived they
were Already out of the store and they're back
with the flock He told to the main post newspaper
Wow, and yet the poop The poop and the destruction
remained End story. Wow, what a great way to
finish up. What a great way to finish up. Sheep
just walking in. Yeah, what is your kaopectate?
Where can I get that? You got acorns, right?
You got acorns, yeah. We're looking for those.
It's like 20 of the sheep broke off of the herd
and they're like... Y 'all see these acorns too,
right? I'm not crazy. Come on. Come on. The one
sheep racked with anxiety is like have you seen
our shepherd? Like please guys. Come on. Come
on. Let's go back. Let's go back. It's like brother.
Have you eaten good? Have you eaten good? Oh
these acorns. Oh my god, that is so funny. Went
inside the store like y 'all gotta have more,
right? Oh my god. well that wraps up the show
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