Hey there, everybody. Welcome to the Mark Mo
Show. I am your host, Mark Maloney. And hey,
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good stuff. And most important, Lee, important,
Lee, Lee, we'll add that on, sure. I would like
to introduce my - Make it the adverb. Make it
the verb, adverb. I would like to introduce my
co -host, producer. All -around amazing dude,
Aidan Maloney. How are you, man? Oh, doing pretty
alright. Chilling. A lot of rain. Yeah. In the
old Midwest U .S. of A. It's become a problem.
I've had about enough. Yeah. Had about enough.
My backyard, which, hey, gamers out there with
clay soil. You know what's up. It's bad. My backyard
has become a swimming pool that I didn't want
installed. So that's kind of a problem. Oh, for
sure. But this year I'll put one of them fancy
French drains in there. Oui, oui. Oui, oui. Yeah.
So that hopefully will alleviate the issue because
it's like flooding by the garage, which can be
a problem because it's just like a concrete slab
that houses the garage, right? Right. You know,
water can be el problema if you let it. So that's
anti -bueno, as we say in the biz. Regardless
of all that, chilling. I would say, chilling.
I like that. Yeah, I got off to a rough start
today myself. You were telling me this morning,
you're like, hey, I'm heading over. Please tell
me you have caffeine. I was like, of course I
have caffeine. I, too, am an addict. Yeah, oh,
for sure. We had the idea that we would kind
of get an early start. We're going to be recording
several things today. So I was like, yeah, about
eight o 'clock. Now, to be fair, I was definitely
up in time to make said eight o 'clock time.
But there was an elephant that was sitting in
the middle of my head. Sure. And I was like,
ah, this is brutal. Probably no. And I thought,
OK, I didn't drink that much last night. I didn't
sleep weird. Nothing else hurts. I'm like, ah.
Oh, caffeine. Caffeine, yeah. Because I've been
weaning myself. And it's a problem. Yeah. At
least you're not cold turkeying, because that
can actually be dangerous in certain aspects.
Oh, sure. But yeah, that's tough. I was talking
with my coworkers, a couple of them on different
occasions, because I'm always out there. I'm
bringing two energy drinks a day just to get
through the shift. And they're like, hey, when's
the last time you didn't have one? And I was
like, I think I've had coffee or an energy drink
every day of my life, probably since I was 17,
16 or 17. There's not been a day I've not consumed
caffeine since then. Oh, for sure. Yeah. I would
agree with that. I cannot remember up until just
recently. Like I've been doing a lot of grocery
shopping. Money's a little tight, so you know,
you have to, you can only buy certain things.
And this last time out, I didn't get Diet Pepsi,
which is usually, I mainline that shit. And so
I really had like one pop one day, and then the
following day, like another pop. I usually do
three or four cans a day. Sure. And that doesn't
even include maybe a stop at the coffee shop
or whatever. So that's kind of my intake usually.
You're talking like 200 mils. At least. Of caffeine
a day. And then you're cutting it back to 30.
Yeah. It was it was an issue for sure. So I think
that was the biggest issue. I typically don't
take like ibuprofen or anything for a caffeine
headache. OK, just caffeine is what will make
this go away. But today I had to. I was like,
man, this hurts too much. I got I got to, you
know, get some ibuprofen in there. Well, we pull
around. We pull. We did. Yeah, well, we often
find that when we do this show and we've done
this podcast and before it was a podcast, it
was a radio show. Here in lovely Valparaiso,
Indiana and So years yeah eight years just shy
of a decade. Yeah, we've been we've been making
content in general and what I tend to find is
When we're in rough shape either hangover hungover
tipsy or in pain somewhere, right? just in a
vulnerable state. And it tends to be some of
our best content. I can't explain it. It just,
we just kind of, maybe we just kind of screw
in more because we're like, oh man, you know,
I don't want this to sound bad. And we either
focus or we just take the gloves off and we're
like, whatever. That's what I was thinking. It's
like, because it's tougher to lock in when you're
already dealing with something else. Sure. Going
on. Yeah. So I think it's one of those things
where your brain is like, a percentage of it
is focused on like, I'm either in pain or I'm
uncomfortable. So there's less filter. And it's
just more stream of consciousness, just like,
okay, I gotta be funny right now. Exactly. Can
I make this happen? Can this happen? You know,
can we use my pain as part of this comedy bit?
Right. Right. And we do. We try to. We do. We
try to. Yeah. But anyway, we're so glad that
you are with us. We've had people so far listen
in from all 50 states have tuned in a time or
two and a couple dozen countries. Yeah. So that's
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and India. Shout out Ireland and the UK. Yeah.
God bless your souls. Yeah. Canada. What was
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Yeah. Yeah. Philippines the islands. Yeah, they
seem beautiful out there. They do they do and
Shout out to our military. I know you guys are
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Things will change here so things can change
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please send us some blue Curacao Oh my god, that'd
be amazing. I would love that I mean, like, original,
from the source. Yeah. Not what we can get on
the shelves here. Exactly. You know, I want what
they have. Right. I want, like, Bob's... But
not, like, not, yeah. Not in, like, a selfish
way. It's, like, in a respectful, like, I know
you got the good shit. I know you got it, yeah.
Don't make us come down there. Don't... If you
fund us coming down there, though... Now that's
an idea. That's a tremendous idea. Plant the
seed, maybe it grows. Maybe it grows. Yeah. I
think that's fair. At Curacao. At Curacao, let's
go. But hey, so let's do this. Let's talk about
Aidan's gaming channel on YouTube. Aidan spelled
the right way. So number one, spelled the right
way. Spelled the right way to find it, yeah.
Yeah, spelled the right way to find it. He's
got PC, gaming content, GeoGuessr, PolyBridge,
Observation Duty. Much much more every week a
lot of horror games that he was in that horror
horror Come on get get clear your ears out. Yeah
mind out of the gutter mind out of the gutter
golly Like any of our listeners would have their
minds. I only play horror games on my own time
on my own So in what what's coming up well this
the last two weeks. I've only had two uploads
on my main channel because We took some time
off for St. Patrick's Day. I've rearranged, redecorated,
redone the A &M studio. The studio looks awesome.
And I'm super happy with how it looks, which
is fantastic because that was my goal. I want
to make it prettier and more functional, which
I believe has... Gone fantastically. I think
so so we will be getting back to the regularly
scheduled program of two to three uploads per
week I played this game Went up on Tuesday this
past Tuesday. It was called liminal exit. Oh,
so it's like this horror experience Yeah, if
you will of like liminal spaces, right if you're
familiar with those. Mm -hmm, and it's anomaly
hunting within these Weird liminal nonsensical
kind of spaces that just kind of feels like a
dream hinting at nightmare Sure, which I I love
the concept of so then yeah, that's probably
one of my longer uploads in a while I think I
played for two hours and the cut down video was
like an hour 20 or something like that Super
fun though, and then of course we've got Geo
guests are always coming up. I never finished
poly bridge But I was doing like the the low
stress challenges rather than the low budget
challenges Which I really like I'll return to
those at some point, but yeah, just trying to
mix it up and keep it fresh I love that yeah,
and it's a lot of fun, and that's the that's
the whole point of a lot of these gaming sites
You know whether you're on YouTube or twitch
or anything else is that you know it's fun to
see the gaming content I like A lot of the content
you do, I also like gamers that do kind of the
RP kind of gaming that take, for example, like
a GTA V map and they're able to mod it. And those
are a lot of fun, too. Being able to watch that
and just all the crazy things that they incorporate
into their mod. It's so much fun. That's like
one of my favorite upsides, too, of PC gaming.
Granted, I grew up. We both grew up on consoles,
right? But that's kind of the freedom of PC gaming
is you're so much more unlocked. Right? Because
you own your PC. Sure. Whereas if you have a
console, sure, you can jailbreak it. Yeah. Oh,
yeah. And it would kind of function more like
a PC. But it's just a it's a Microsoft product
or a Samsung product. Correct. You know, or not
Samsung, but Sony. You know what I'm saying?
And the mod scene on PC gaming is just so fascinating
and fun. Yeah. Like the crazy even. Even like
offline games like Skyrim, like the modding scene
on that is so nuts. Like they're a creative like,
cause you're like a magician and you're running
around this fighting dragons and shit. And there's
just little mods where it changes like your power
shouts to like fart sounds. And it's like, that's
something we never get on console. Sure, it's
not true. Yeah, but you know what? It's fucking
funny Yeah, oh, yeah, it's silly. That's goofy,
and I like it absolutely I would agree 100 %
And if you like gaming content in addition to
Aidan's channel. We have done a collab We thought
hey why not take all this great gaming action
and all of the goofiness silliness Outright comedy
yeah of the Mark Mo Show. I love anti -punch
lines. Oh my god. Yep. Oh yeah. So we have a
little something called A &M Gaming. So imagine
like Texas A &M, we just took the Texas out.
Or A &W, but you flip it upside down. But you
flip it upside down and the logo is kind of cool.
So you should go there to look at the logo and
then consume all of our... Maybe subscribe. Maybe
subscribe and... We're on the long road, marching
towards 100 subscribers on each channel, which...
Absolutely. Hey, be a part of history. Be part
of history. Yeah. Be that number 100. Be the
100th. Be the 100th. So yeah, so we do a lot
of games. that Aiden does on his gaming channel
as well. We like to do games where you don't
have to be so screwed in because then we can't
have that back and forth. Sure. It's just kind
of fun and funny and whatever. So we do a lot
of games where we can kind of have casual conversation
as we're playing them. It's like GeoGuessr is
a good one for that. Yeah. There is, I'm trying
to think... GeoGuessr, Observation Duty. Observation
Duty. We've been playing Dream Daddy. Dream Daddy.
Yeah, we're getting back to that. matter of fact.
So if you tune into A &M gaming next week, you're
going to find some new content up there for Dream
Daddy. We got to find out what our guy's up to.
Damn right. He's kind of all over the board right
now. So I think we're going to be making some
choices for him soon. Some tough decisions. Some
tough decisions, I think. And if you listen,
you know exactly who that is, for sure. Because
the Dream Daddy, as it were, is a Kind of a storyboard
game. Yeah, yeah, yeah kind of like this role
-playing game Yeah story yeah as as it were a
visual novel right yeah daddy single now, and
we're trying to get him number one trying to
get him a life Yeah, clearly does not have one
But also kind of maybe trying to get him to hook
up at some point exactly with the fellow dad,
but we have been we have been picky This is true.
We have been picky, but I think - We stand by
our laurels. We certainly do, we certainly do.
There's definitely one character who was a little
rapey as he kinda was very aggressive on a set
of stairs with us, and I think we bailed out
of that one. Yeah, we just - we bounced. Yeah,
that dude - Stunned on principle. Yeah. Plead
his cards too quickly, and uh - He was borderline
creepy. Yeah. Us, Garcon McGinnis, decided -
I'm not really the one night stand type of guy.
So we just bounced we bounced we got out of there
Yeah, that was that was a bit much for us And
then just a lot of other really interesting characters
that we voice and so we've that's the fun part
That's the challenge was as these characters
came, you know developed and came onto the screen
We immediately had to come up with a voice and
sometimes you see their voice line before the
character shows up Cuz you and you don't know
and you have to give them a voice we have decided
That once a voice is said it's committed. It's
committed So I had a voice for the teenage daughter.
I made Aiden play the dad. Yeah, which is Funny
and so I'm like, okay, I'll do the teenage daughter
But then she had a line come up without her being
on the screen and we didn't know who it was,
right? So I the says to play a drunk person and
then she pops up I'm like, alright, so she's
been she's been she's been hitting the sauce.
She's been hitting the sauce She's under a lot
of stress. So we're and she's a teenager. So
we'll give it to her. Yeah But yeah, we do a
lot of fun stuff like that. So I think it's it's
a fun watch. Yes It definitely is. So make sure
A &M Gaming, Aiden Spell the Right Way, those
are both on YouTube. So definitely check those
out. Like, subscribe, all that kind of good stuff.
Now, last show, which was season six premiere.
We had a guest on the show. our friend Castile,
known as Kast, and she helped us with our March
band -ness. So we kind of did like a basketball
style bracket, but we did it with bands from
different genres. And so we started out with
64, we got down to the Sweet 16. So the Sweet
16 is today. Yes. It is today. So the categories
are hip hop, metal hard rock, alt slash grunge,
and top 40. Got 16 left. 16 tough ones. There
can only be one. There can be only one. So this
is going to be interesting. This is the big one.
This is the big one. So let's go to that. Should
we review who is left in each bracket? Sure.
Give the people a little context. Yeah. You want
to fly through those? Yes. So in our hip hop
bracket, we have number one seed Eminem. Killer.
Number five seed Mac Miller. three seed future
and two seed kendrick lamar blue bloods man all
good stuff oh yeah in the metal slash hard rock
we've got one seed metallica four seed foo fighters
six seed tool and two seed iron maiden Now, let
me clear this out, because I didn't say this
in the intro to this. These are bands that are
active. They're making music, they're on tours,
they're doing stuff like that. So for example,
if we're doing this and somebody's like, where
the hell is Black Sabbath? Well, there is no
more. I mean, there is Black Sabbath. They're
not active, they're not touring, they're not
making music. So that was kind of what we set
up when we did this. As the standard. As the
standard. So I just wanted to clarify that for
people. Yes. The alt rock slash grunge, we've
got... Number one seed Green Day, 12 seed Alice
in Chains, little Cinderella story. Definitely.
Six seed 21 Pilots, 10 seed Highly Suspect, and
the top 40 slash pop genre. We've got eight seed
Dua Lipa, four seed Chapel Rowan, six seed Bad
Bunny, and seven seed Lady Gaga. No one, no two,
no three. Yeah. I know, right? That was a shocker.
But hey, Kast was here. She was our... The tie
break. She was the tie break. We're here without
a tie break. Yeah. So away we go. And to be fair,
Bad Bunny might have been a bad seed as a six,
but even so, well, he's got a match up. So we'll
have to get there. So let's start out with the
hip hop category. Number one Eminem, number five
Mac Miller. Oh, man. Oh, man. And this and the
alt rock slash grunge, that's mostly what I listen
to is like hip hop, alt rock, grunge rock, punk
rock. That's my Mount Rushmore of genres, if
you will. So this is tough. I mean, rest in peace,
Mac Miller. Dude was a G. Always surrounded himself
with very talented, good people. But come on,
you can't overtake the goat. You can't overtake
the goat. It's got to be Eminem, hey? Yeah, you're
not really going to get much of an argument for
me. I think his, since day one, I mean, he's
just been unique. Real. Real. And nobody really
rapped like him. when he came out, regardless
of whether he was a white rapper or anything
else, right? I mean, just, it is what it is.
But even in his song, 20, what is it, 20 million
other white rappers emerge. They've tried. They've
tried. But they're not him. And there's a lot
of rappers that try his rhyming schemes, his...
The intelligence of the English language. Right.
And also being able to not only rap as Eminem
slash Marshall Mathers, but to be able to rap
as Slim Shady and being able to distinguish both
of these characters from each other. Yeah. That's
just talent. It's talent. It's talent. He's so
good. He's so good at what he does. And yeah,
he's the GOAT. So now it's going to be... Super
interesting. It's gonna be tough This this one.
I don't know as much about this one artist. Okay,
I've heard him a little Cast is of is educating
me. Yeah, especially on Mac Miller. We've been
listening to a lot of Mac is great But future
I've only heard a little bit of I've heard a
lot more of Kendrick Lamar Yeah, even even prior
to this last album, which was just killer. Genex
is so good. Yeah, but like because Aidan would
play his stuff even before that album came out.
I was just like, wow, that's really interesting.
And then he did the one Super Bowl show with
Eminem and Dr. Dre and Snoop and Mary J. Blige.
I'm trying to think who else might have been
there. But he had that set in there. And I was
like, oh. He's good. That was good. That was
really good. So Kendrick Lamar, Future, what
do you think? First of all, I'm not. I'm just
going to rip the band -aid off. It's got to be
Kendrick. It's got to be. It has to be. Future's
great. Future is great. A lot of people, even
Kendrick Lamar, rapped about it, which on a track
called Like That, I believe is what it's called,
and it's a future Metro Boomin' Kendrick Lamar
song, and that was kind of the intro to the Kendrick
Drake beef. Which of course Kendrick won handily
because Mr. Degrassi Aubrey Graham Fucking fucking
Chodester. Yeah Why would you pick a fight with
Kendrick? That's a terrible idea. It was a terrible
idea terrible idea, but I mean futures great
futures great I mean at least from the the 2010s
through the 2020s. He's Probably in my top five
rappers of the 2010s and 2020s But you gotta
go Kendrick. I mean from from GNX to to pimple
butterfly To good kid mad city section 80. It's
just all gold It is it really is and I I thought
his halftime show No disrespect to bad bunny
or prince or any of the other great halftime
shows I thought his was maybe the best ever.
Yes, I agree and just the way he did it. The
symbolism, the shots fired. Right, to me it was
like, yeah, you had a lot of that symbolism and
Samuel L. Jackson and him doing his thing, just,
it was perfect. Uncle Sam. Uncle Sam, it was
great. It really was great. Like, I loved all
of that. And to me, like in the whole Kendrick
Drake thing, like that was the knockout punch.
That was it. That was it, and that's why those
lights at the very end of what he did said, game
over. Oh, yeah. Because that was it. Yep. How
can someone sit there in this beef, this dis,
and then go on in front of millions and millions...
150 million people. Worldwide. To go worldwide
like that and do that. And it's just like...
So good. Drake, just let it go. Right. Just let
it go. Right. Pretend. Take your L. Right. And
get out of here. Right. Because he even had a
concert, I guess, weeks later, and he came out
with this shirt that looked like it had bullet
holes in it and tried to kind of play it off.
And it was just like, no, no, that was accurate.
Yeah, he took you out. Right. No doubt. You're
donezo, big man. So if he was trying to be comedic
about it, like, yeah, he got me good. Great.
Just leave it. Right. Right. Just leave it go.
All right. Hip -hop, we're down to two. Yes.
Jesus. I know. It's not going to get easier coming
forward. I know this. Metal and hard rock. Number
one Metallica, number four Foo Fighters. Damn.
I mean, damn. Yeah. Now, I have always held a
little grudge against Metallica. Oh, okay. Because
of them turning down their own bassist on their
recordings because they were salty about something
out of their control, the passing of their former
bassist. Right. Like, all of your records sound
like fucking dogshit. I'm sorry, Metallica. I'm
sorry. If I'm listening to something on my phone
or on a CD, it sounds like ass because you turned
down the bassist. You did. The only way to hear
a good Metallica song is to go to a show. And
that's fine. Touring's great. Live music is awesome.
But you sabotaged your own discography. Right.
And Jason, that's the thing about Jason Newstead
too, is he's a good dude. Yeah. So this is like
what they, like he took a lot of shit early on
because they were all pissy and drunk and high
and upset. Yeah. And granted. You know, Cliff
Burton was the heart and soul of that group.
Oh, sure. And so, you know, Dave Mustaine leaves
the band, then Cliff Burton dies. That could
have been the end of that band. Could have ended
it. Because that was the heart and soul, but
it stuck together. So I just thought the way
they treated Jason was horseshit. Yeah. But I've
seen them live. They're great live. I think Master
of Puppets... possibly the best hard rock metal
album of all time. It's up there. It's up. Oh,
yeah. Top five. Easy. So that's great. And Justice
is good. There's so many good albums. Death Magnetic
was a newer album, but Death Magnetic is excellent.
Yeah. Well, well, well produced. And quite frankly,
the black album. Right. And kind of after the
black album, they it got a little weird for a
bit. Not that Load and Reload are Bad per se
but like st. Anger and like I just I didn't like
a lot of what they were doing Sure, but I felt
like death magnetic they got back to their sound
Yeah, and it was so well produced and I thought
man. They're they're back. This is this is it
But all that being said Just The the thrash band
yes, right if you can define a genre, right?
Yeah, it's the same argument you make with Chicago
Bears Devin Hester. Right. You define what it
meant to be a returner. Yes. It's gotta be Metallica
or Foo Fighters. Bless the Foo Fighters. I think
they're great. Dave's great. Dave is really great.
Somebody was doing some beef with him recently.
He had a scandal. I guess he cheated on his wife
and had a kid with a different woman. Yeah. So
he has a scandal, but I mean, it's a good band.
Right. And as scandals go, I mean, not great,
but not terrible either. I mean, quite frankly,
like every fourth or fifth basketball player
does the same thing. Right. Right. You know,
so it's kind of like, while not ideal and not
great, and I'm sure he's had to do his own situation,
relationships are private, you know, and short
of him doing something physical to someone, which
You know, if you do, then F you. Right. But that's
not what this was. This was something different.
And it's like, to me, it's like that is kind
of his business. Yeah. And he's got to deal with
it. And when you're a celebrity, your private
life is thrust into a public life. Right. And
as a fan, you have to make that decision. Is
that a bridge too far? Sure. You know, for me
as an actor, Kevin Spacey, that was hard because
he was my favorite. Okay, Al Pacino, but probably
my second favorite actor at the time. Just a
tremendous actor, but what he did was kind of
a scumbag. Yeah, kind of a scumbag. And so when
you look at that, then you're just like, can
you still watch Baby Driver? You know, freaking
love that movie. Yeah. There's like I said, there's
a lot of so I think you can. try to separate
the art from the artist a little bit. But, you
know, so once again, I think with Dave, it's
to me that that is not a deal breaker. I still
love the Foo Fighters. They just came out with
a new song. It's a banger. Yeah. And, you know,
they're right up there. They're number four seed,
of course. Right. Right. But Metallica just I
think they have a grander catalog. Yep. I've
only seen Metallica live, but it was great. So
yeah, I think I think they they take care of
fighters. I agree. Yeah, I agree. Metallica moves
on. But keep in mind what I said about you, Metallica.
Yeah. Keep in mind. Well, and they pissed me
off because earlier in their career, before Aiden
was a thought in my brain, they the early metal
scene thrived because they played a lot of house
shows, okay? A lot of smaller ones, a lot on
the West Coast. And the way they were able to
succeed was through... people's recordings of
those shows and people would share tapes. Sure.
And people would be like, oh, yeah, this was
Motley Crue at Whiskey a Go -Go. Cool. Yeah,
I was up at Cow Palace, man. Check out this Metallica
show. You know, and that's how they would do
that. So then when Napster came along. Yeah.
Lars Ulrich was kind of a dick about it because
it's like you got to be who you were by people
exchanging music for free. Right. So while he
has a point and like it's my art, we should be
paid for that. Sure. That's true. But it could
have been handled better. Yeah. Because the way
he did it made everybody go, oh, you piece of
shit. You are who you are because your fans exchanged
all that music and hundreds, if not thousands
of people have never heard of you guys before.
Listen to some tape that this surfer dude gave
this bikini chick, gave this bartender and gave
to you. And you went. wow these guys are great
yeah so be that as it may that's that's kind
of my experience with Metallica yeah yeah i i
do recall the Napster issues was a thing it was
definitely yeah um and now they and now what
do they do now they share their music worldwide
on Spotify and everything else for what two cents
a click or not it's a fraction of a penny per
fraction of a penny yeah Okay This this one and
maybe it's hard for you. It's I know Obviously
who I'm voting for because it's my favorite band,
but it's kind of my other favorite band. This
is really a problem Number six tool number two
Iron Maiden. I It's it's easy for me. It's I'm
voting Iron Maiden. I've not listened to a lot
of tool myself I love their mathematical approach
to music, I always found that fascinating. I'm
pretty sure I've annoyed every single person
I know, showing them different songs and being
like, oh, did you know Hey Ya is an 11 -4 time?
Or the transition listening to White Room by
Cream goes from 5 -4 to 4 -4. And it's fascinating
to me. I love that. Music is math. and Tool does
it in such a fascinating way, such skill and
precision, but you wanna talk discography, you
wanna talk about banger after banger, hit after
hit, it's gotta be Iron Maiden. It has to be
Iron Maiden, and Bruce Dickinson is a ridiculous
man. He's amazing. And once again, it hurts me
not to pick Tool, because I think they probably
have the best drummer. I'm going to say, currently
active. Sure, because then you get in the Neil
Perrett argument, and then you've got all of
the amazing jazz. Stewart Copeland, and just
so many other great drummers. He's so precise,
and his time changes are sick. Clean, clean.
I just like, you have to listen. You have to
listen to Tool. do yourself a favor just hit
the YouTube hit the Spotify whatever and just
hit tool and just listen to a lot of their music
and the changes they make during these songs
blow your mind right you're like I would have
never done that but it sounds amazing it's one
of those things that like put your phone down
put your like nice set of headphones on and just
listen oh yeah like feel it feel the the time
changes the time signature is changing mid song
Yeah. Like feel how clean that is and how difficult
that would be for a human to do. Yeah. Oh, yeah.
It really is. It's unbelievable. And, you know,
Maiden, they've got they've they might actually
get in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which
I call the Music Hall of Fame because there's
like so many non quote unquote rock bands in
there. This is true. But. you know, to have all
these hard rock and metal bands that are currently
in that looked up to Iron Maiden. And Iron Maiden
is still sitting there like, hey, can we come
in? It's so stupid. And it looks like they're
going to get in, which is great. And I hope they
do. But you look at Maiden and first off, Steve
Harris, anyone that learns to play bass will
learn how to play bass listening to Steve Harris.
Sure. You just do just that galloping bass line.
It's awesome. And They had an original drummer
Clyde Berha was good and then Nico comes in all
McBrain is speaking speaking of Metallica like
they showed all of these rock legends Excited
to go to the LA Arena to watch Iron Maiden right
that says it all and Lars Ulrich's like he's
so tiny It's like his kit is so big you can't
see it back. It's it's hilarious to see that
But he's so great and then the dual guitar Which
I always found it amazing. Yeah They're amazing
and now it's it's triple. Yeah, really. Yeah
Because Yana Gares who came in after Adrian left
for a bit And then Adrian came back, and that
just shows you how awesome these guys are. They're
like, oh, you're not going anywhere. You're in
our band. Yeah. I love that. Such a good band,
good people. And as you said, the shows. Oh my
god, the live shows. Bruce is like, he has an
edge. If he's pissy about something, he is going
to share it. And then the show is that much better
because he has all his piss and vinegar built
up. But he's like, he's so good. And I love the
fact like a lot of these hard rock and metal
bands today, especially when you see them live,
they're all clean now. You know, they're not
total drunks. They're not doing coke. They're
not doing all the stuff they used to do back
in the 80s and 90s. They're clean. And so like
Bruce is is well into his 60s and he sounds amazing.
Yeah. And do guys like him and Halford have to
kind of come down an octave because they can't
necessarily hit the super high pitch anymore?
Yeah, but. They just adjust the music. Right.
So it still sounds great when you can sing along.
I love it. It's so good. And their music is great.
They have a mascot, Eddie. He's awesome. He's
awesome. He screws with the band on stage. I
love it. It's so good. Their album cover artwork
is second to none. And every song like has a
story to it. These guys are into sci fi. They're
into history. They're into so many things. Flight
of Icarus. Yep. You go back into these old troopers.
Yeah. It's such great stuff. Run to the Hills
is a commentary on the US of A. Oh, that it is.
That it is. The Klansmen. Oh, yeah. Do yourself
a favor. I don't know if I have it on VHS or
DVD. VHS is like this cassette thing. And never
mind. I'm not going to explain it. But I had
it. It was the Rock in Rio. One of the best live
performances captured. that I've ever seen. It's
just amazing. A hundred grand people there, right?
Over a hundred thousand people in Rio. Just as
many as you can see. Check out the Klansmen from
Rockin'. I'm getting goosebumps right now talking
about it because the first time I saw that blew
my mind. And my one friend, he introduced me
to Maiden a lot later. than I normally would
have found them in the 1980s. But he had explained,
he's like, yeah, the Klansmen was actually a
song, when Bruce had left the band to do solo
stuff, they had a different singer. And it was
kind of during that run that they did this song,
the Klansmen. But when you listen to a lot of
the stuff that they did while Bruce was away,
you listen to that song, it's like, oh man, yeah,
that's for Bruce. Like you can hear Bruce singing
it. So when they did the Klansmen, it's just
like, yeah, man. That's just Bruce all the way.
And he does this. And there are certain parts
of the song where it's like, oh, and the hundred
thousand people are all doing this. And you have
all these Brazilian kids out there. They're like
10 years old. They're 80 years old. That's the
amazing thing about an Iron Maiden concert. It's
like they transcend time. They transcend language.
They do. You got these Portuguese speakers knowing
every word to it. English rock band's song. Right.
They're going to go into an English restaurant
and be like, I don't know how to order any of
this. But they know the trooper. They know the
Klansmen. They're singing to it. Right. That
says everything about that band. Absolutely everything.
So they move on. They move on. Sorry, Tool. I
love you. You're amazing. I've yet to see you
live, which is an absolute crime. So I'm hoping
sometime this year or next to resolve that situation.
There are two bands I've not... I've seen most
bands live, well over 100 concerts. I've not
seen U2, I want to see them, and I've not seen
Tool. Once that's done, I've seen everybody I
want to see. Yeah. I'm like good. I can retire
from concert going. I'm a happy man. But yeah,
Maiden moves on. Now, we are on to Alt Rock and
Grunge. I think this one may be tough as well.
Number one Green Day, number 12. Alice in Chains.
They were the 12 -5 upset, and they just kept
on going. They kept rolling. And that's tough,
too, because they're distinctly different genres.
Technically, yes. You're right. You've got grunge
rock, and then you've got alternative punk rock.
But people that like one usually like the other.
I think that's why we group them. Yes. Yeah.
And that's so difficult for me, because you can
go as far back as like... Dookie on Green Day
to American Idiot, which is kind of a fascinating
story that they had recorded a Completely different
album. Yeah, like I think it was like Valentine's
and cigarettes or something like that Yeah, and
it either it got destroyed somehow like the Masters
Oh, wow master recordings of the album either
through like a fire or through theft or something
like that Mm -hmm, and they were just like oh
well I don't know why we're gonna re -record
it, let's just do something else. So that's how
American Idiot happened. And that's such a fascinating
story, and as an artist, that's gotta be so tough
that you have made something, it gets destroyed
or stolen, and then you're just like, ah well
fuck that, let's just do something else. Like
how crazy is that? But then you've got Alice
in Chains just grunge legends. That's tough for
me. That's really tough. It is tough. I'll be
honest. When Green Day first came out, I was
not a fan. I didn't hate them, but I just like
I didn't get it. And so like I would I would
hear Billy Joel's not Billy Joel, Billy Joe.
I would hear his voice and I would think that.
They're just trying to pretend to be a British
punk band like I would hear it in his voice Don't
wanna be in the baby cut and I'm like, is he
trying to be English? I'm like, I don't I see
doing up there. What's he doing? And I'm like
I as I said, I didn't hate it, but I was just
kind of like Alright, are they a punk band? Are
they an alt band? Like what are they trying to
do? Like I couldn't figure it out rather than
just enjoying the music I was I think initially
I was confused. I was just like, I don't think
I get them. Yeah. So, meanwhile, Alice in Chains,
just phenomenal. Dirt, Jar of Flies. Dirt is
amazing. Dirt was a killer album. Yeah. But Jar
of Flies came out and I don't think it got the
public support that the first one did. Until
much later. Until much later because then I think
people realized This might be a better album.
Yeah, this is there is some heavy shit in this
album And they they they sing about some very
heavy stuff nutshell Might be one of my favorite
songs it it speaks to anybody Who's ever been
in a dark place? Just I mean, I'm almost getting
emotional over now. It's it's just such a Masterpiece
and I don't use that lightly sure some people
say That even the better version of that song
was the unplugged that they did on MTV It's a
great version on frickin real. I mean, how can
you not get the feels from listening to that?
because like Lane staley is like telling you
exactly how he's feeling right and which we all
knew because unfortunately he passed away and
when they found him he was like 80 pounds and
just Passed to her just withered away and they
they couldn't get to him in time but Yeah, I
mean Alice in Chains is one of those bands that
came along and in that grunge like I loved Soundgarden.
I loved Pearl Jam. Pearl Jam is great. So many
bands. STP. STP is awesome. So many bands from
that genre that were so good, but none of them
sound like Alice in Chains. Right. Jerry Cantrell
is brilliant. They just sounded different than
everyone else. It's like dirty and real. Oh,
just so dirty. Exactly. Dirty and real. And I
love that. And so I look at this and once again,
nothing against Green Day because I grew to like
them through you, I think, kind of because you
listen to them a lot. And so I started listening
to them. And then I was kind of like, all right,
I'm still not sure I love his vocals, but I get
the music. Yeah. And so like that. I definitely
respect that. I like what they did at the Super
Bowl. I thought that was super cool. Yeah. But...
Where are you leaning? I think we might be leaning
in different ways here, but... I'm torn. I don't
even know how I'm leaning. I'm still leaning.
The Cinderella's slipper, it's still... Is it
off? Is it on? What's the... It's lost, right?
It's lost. We got to find it. And then... what
old boy finds it, he's like, what foot does this
go on, mate? Yeah. Oh, I found this glass slipper.
And then he puts it on Facebook Marketplace.
And I don't know. $5 ,000. Exactly. Has Cinderella's
slipper. Who wants it? Got to be local cash only.
So yeah. How do we get there? Alice in Chains
Cinderella, right? Got it. Yeah. I gotta go Alice
in Chains. I have to. I don't. And it's hard
for me to do that because Green Day is the number
one seed. Yeah. But I don't disagree because
I'm torn. I'm torn because I like them for different
reasons. I think Alice in Chains, as you were
saying, speaks more to emotional realness and
vulnerability. Yep. And Green Day is more like
macro, like macro socioeconomic commentary. Yeah.
If you will. Sure. On most of their songs. So
I'm fine with that. I'm fine with that. Are you?
Because I was torn. I knew this one and eventually
the return to hip hop are going to be the toughest
ones for me. Are going to be hard. So I'll give
you Alice in Chains huge 12 -1 upset. Okay. This
was like a last second buzzer beater right there.
Yeah. Because I was willing... to give you Green
Day begrudgingly. Yeah. But no, it was more just
body work, man. I just and those two dirt and
jar flies are so great. So so good. Now, this
one could be it could be a thing, too. But I
definitely like one more than the other. But
that's not saying because I like them both. Yeah.
Twenty one pilots a six seed. Highly suspected
time. Crazy. They both moved on as they did.
I know being kind of mid rank seeds. Yeah. I
think Highly Suspect, in my opinion, got further
than I thought they would in last episode. Which
I'm glad they did. I love their... I like their
body of work. Yeah, I agree. That being said,
Blurryface is probably one of the best alternative
rock albums of the 21st century. Yeah, I can't
disagree with that. I've got to put my vote in
as 21 Pilots here. Okay. Not to undersell how
excellent, highly suspect he is. Right. As a
band, I think they sound incredible. Right. But
I got to lean 21 Pilots on this. I would agree.
I kind of came to the party late with these guys.
There was a bartender friend of mine that was
really into them and I started listening to them
and I was like, and this, I'm sure it happens
to many of you out there, but I... was listening
to their music and I was like how the hell did
I like miss the last 10 years of these guys and
the thing that amazes me is it's not like a band
can change its sound like Metallico do an album
and they just sound different on that album these
guys can have three or four songs that all sound
different on the same damn album yeah it is so
impressive to me how they do that and their use
of synth in their music, and tone, and timing,
and everything. It's just so good. I really like
it. I really like it a lot. If you listen to
Stressed Out right next to Lainboy, you would
not assume those two songs were both on Blurryface.
I would agree. I would agree 100 % with that.
So, 2 .1 Pilots moves on. Oh man, these... This
is tough. It's a lead eight, it's gonna be tough.
We got a top 40, a lot of mid -range upsets here.
We have number eight Dua Lipa going against number
four Chapel Rome. I... And I'm just gonna come...
I'm just gonna come out here and say it. I've
never been a huge fan of pop music, necessarily.
And I know pop is kind of a weird genre anyway,
because it just means... like what's popular
right now. But it's never been my forte necessarily.
Yeah. Which I think is fine. Everyone has their
tastes. So I'm not super familiar with Dua Lipa's
discography or catalog, but I gotta lean Chapelrone
on this one because I'm simply more familiar
with their work. So I might defer to you on this
one, but I'm leaning Chapelrone. Yeah, you know,
I was maybe slightly leaning Dua Lipa. I just
tend to like her music more. Very poppy, very
catchy. She had the one song in the Barbie movie
that was really good. She's had a lot of good
songs. But Chapel Run arguably had one of the
best years of pop. Artist has had in a long time.
Yeah, you can't go to a bar and not hear that
song pink pony No, I'm not I like pink pony club.
I think it's a good song. It's a good song. It's
overplayed There's a you know You know you could
you know Maybe this unfair comparison because
it's one of the greatest bands and maybe one
of the greatest songs of all time But stairway
to heaven from Led Zeppelin. I know a lot of
people You know, they hear that and they're like,
oh god, you know or got the one Leonard skinner'd
song Oh, God. What is that one that's incredibly
overplayed as well? It's not simple, man, is
it? No. No. Free Bird. Oh, yeah. So you and like
those songs are almost like a joke now because
it's like they got so overplayed. And I think
Chapel, it's kind of like in that. But it's also
kind of it's there's a reason. There's a reason
people want to hear it. Right. And that's. Honestly,
I love defending Nickelback. I like Nickelback.
Oh no. Nickelback got overplayed to the point
where they made it number one on the charts with
What's what's the one song? Remind me who I really
am. Look at the photograph. Not photograph. It's
the it's the other Nickelback song. I love Rockstar
by the way. Yeah, it's got a catchy hook man.
I agree Yeah, it's it's all which one is it how
you remind me. Yeah from 2001 That's it yep,
so you're gonna get you'll get copyright strike
Number one on the charts and that is the last
rock song that has made it to number one on the
charts But it's for the same reason. It's not
a bad song. It was overplayed to the point where
people were like, please fucking get Nickelback
off the radio. Yes, correct. Yeah, I agree. So
same argument, but it's like Nickelback didn't
do that. Radio stations did that. The music labels
did that. Right. Yeah. That's true. All right.
Chapel Rowan moves on. The last one, Bad Bunny,
Lady Gaga. Six and seven seed six seven six Six
seven now we're past that apparently we are It's
come full circle. It was like It was like cool
hip weird gen a thing right and then it became
uncool And now it's come full circle to like
oh now. It's ironically cool now. It's ironically
right. I remember six seven. Yeah I wonder how
many football players change their jersey. Right.
It's like, oh man, I can't be... I can't be 67
anymore. It's like a lineman. It's like, I guess
68 works. 68's fine. I... Bless Bad Bunny. I
thought his halftime show was incredible. It
was great. And I don't want to sound ignorant
saying this, but when I'm listening to music,
I love lyrics. I love the message of songs. I
love the tone of songs. And I only speak English,
and that is my own fault. I never took the time
to fully learn Spanish. I can simply like find
my way around like, oh, donde es el baño, you
know? Yeah. So I have to lean towards Lady Gaga
on this one, but that's just because I don't
speak Spanish. Correct. I'm sure a Spanish -speaking
person would probably argue a bad bunny, and
that's totally legitimate. That's totally valid.
Right. English is the language I speak. It's
the only one I speak fluently. I gotta go leggy
-gag on this one. Yeah, I'm kind of the same
way. And let me just say, as a performer, as
a dude, like... I would want to have a beer with
Bad Bunny. He just seems like a really cool dude.
He seems super chill. I loved his little thing
he did like when he was first on WWE. Right.
I was like, who's this little guy? I was like,
who's this chode, right? He's got little pom
-poms in his head or something. I was like, I
don't know about this. And then he started fighting
and I was like, oh, he got moves. He clearly
put the work in. This man, train. Yep. I was
like, okay, this is cool now. He's kind of cool.
Yeah. And as a performer, he's amazing. Oh, I
agree. I agree. And going up against Lady Gaga,
you're going up against pop royalty. She's like
this generation's Madonna in my... The 21st century.
The Madonna of the 21st century. I really kind
of feel that way. And quite frankly, more talented.
Her range is incredible. Her voice is amazing.
Incredible. Yeah, her voice is amazing. Once
again, she just... She has such vision. for what
she does and how she presents it and the vocals
and the music and all of that. And I just don't
say that because she's a huge Metallica and Iron
Maiden fan. That's great. I love that. Game respects
game. Game respects game. But she also did a
song with Tony Bennett. And this was just a couple
of years before he passed when Tony was like
pushing 90 and still out there doing concerts
and stuff and just still sounded great. And the
two of them did a song together. And I I love
that like she'll work with anyone. She'll she'll
work with anyone good and I give Lady Gaga props
on this She she has called out Kanye when Kanye's
being a piece of shit Yeah, she has called out
music producers and writers when they are manipulative
or abusive Refuses to work with them and you
have to respect an ethic like that. I think you
do I think you do and once again It kind of like
Green Day when Lady Gaga first came out. I didn't
get her I'm like, that's kind of a weird chick.
You know, kind of like Bjork. Bjork's kind of
weird, but it's still kind of fun. Like the first
time I heard Poker Face, I was like, I don't
know if this is for me. Yeah. But then again,
that's a radio thing. They played Poker Face
every 15 minutes. You know, but then like she
did applause and she did. There's so many other
songs are so catchy and good. And yeah, I mean,
she's she's moving on. Yep. She is definitely
moving on. Down to the Elite Eight. The Elite
Eight. Jesus God. Look at this. This is crazy.
It's oops all bangers. Yeah. And we've been deliberating
for almost an hour. Almost an hour. Holy. Okay.
Hip -hop. Finals. Eminem and Kendrick. Fuck.
Right? Right? Oh no. Oh no. Do you take the underdog
out of Detroit or do you take the underdog out
of Compton? Right. Holy shit. And you can argue
they're both goats. They are. They are. They're
number one and number two for a reason. Oh no.
I can't. I can't. I don't know. I don't know.
This is really hard. That's what she said. Boy
oh boy oh boy. I don't know. How do you weigh
this? How do you weigh this? I don't know how
you do it. I really don't. Both have their connections
to Dre and Snoop. Yes. They always work with
incredible, talented people. They themselves
are incredibly talented. I mean... Wow. Can we
just not pick? Can we just leave it? Can we not
pick? I know. Where's cast when you need your
cast? Pick one for us. Oh my god. Man. Right?
Right? I lean Kendrick. Yeah. I'm leaning number
two seed, Kendrick Lamar. And it's hard to articulate
why. Yeah. Because you can argue their discography
slash catalog, they're both, both of them have
legendary discographies. Yeah, oh yeah. They
both put on remarkable performances. They both
have social commentary in their songs that is
important. I don't know. I don't know. It's hard
to articulate why. I cannot figure it out. Me
neither. Me neither. Should we actually flip
a coin? I can flip a coin right now. Is there
any way you can go to like Google or AI and just
put in Eminem or Kendrick who's better and see
what they say? We're gonna we're gonna go to
our we're gonna let our phone make the decision
and see Okay, top result from Google Eminem and
Kendrick Lamar are considered two of the greatest
lyricists in hip -hop often debated for their
technical skill versus artistic depth Eminem
is widely viewed as superior in battle rap cadence
and rhyme schemes. Okay, which I can Understand
and agree with Kendrick is acclaimed for his
storytelling introspective albums and social
commentary, which I can also agree with right
So are we agreeing that Google was no help? Yes.
Jesus. Oh, man. Oh, man. Wow. You know, OK. I'll
articulate why I'm leaning Kendrick. OK. And
I don't please Eminem. God, if you listen to
this. If you listen to this podcast, we do love
you. Please don't write a diss track about me.
I'm leaning Kendrick because I don't think Kendrick
has missed. Knock on wood, I don't think Kendrick
has missed. You've got GNX, Good Kid Mad City,
To Pimp a Butterfly, Damn, Section 80. There
have been Eminem albums where I've listened to
it and I'm like, this just isn't it. Oh, okay.
Kamikaze, I think. Had good songs. I think it
had songs that were just misses. Okay, they're
I don't I forget what the one Album of his was
called that was kind of acclaimed as like bad
Eminem album. Oh Okay Let me see here Go through
and the death of some shady by the way excellent
album. Yeah charted number one. Yeah kamikaze
was kind of a mess then people always thought
I think I know if it was revival or Yeah, there
was one other one that that people really didn't
connect with and that's not to say Everything
else he's done isn't legendary it is right But
I got a lean Kendrick on this one because I don't
I think he just has not missed okay Kendrick
moves on I will I will go with you Metallica
versus Iron Maiden in the metal hard rock category
damn Yep Hey, remember those things I was saying
about Metallica a little bit ago? Yeah. I think
I'm leaning Iron Maiden. I am too. And here's
where I'm going with this, because I think their
discographies are both epic. I agree. But like
you said, with the Eminem, I think in the middle
of their discography, I think there's just two
or three albums that were misses. Yeah. Or it's
like, we're going for this different sound. And
everybody was kind of like, meh. That ain't it.
And the thrash community really kind of was like,
where you guys go? And this is like, it's almost
pop rock in some of their songs or whatever.
Whereas Maiden's been Maiden. Yeah. Maiden doesn't
try to be anybody else. Just Maiden is Maiden.
Yeah. So I really like and respect that. And
from a live show perspective, Metallica does
this thing called the round. So there are stages
in the middle of the stadium. So they really...
Minimal pyro minimal effects all that kind of
stuff And they just play now the upside to that
no matter where you sit in that stadium. You
got a good seat Yeah, you're gonna see and then
the stage stage stage kind of moves around and
stuff. So like that part is good But there is
not a better stage show and rock or metal than
Iron Maid. I'd agree I mean, when you sit there
and listen to Aces High, and you have a British
Spitfire, an actual British Spitfire plane hanging
above the stage, dodging, bobbing, weaving, all
that shit. It's like, I don't know how anyone
on this planet cannot sit here and be in awe
of what we're looking at right here. It's so
cool. You know, the whole intro to that song
with Churchill, it's just, it's unbelievable.
So, from that perspective, I would give Maiden,
I think, the advantage. I agree. Okay, this is
gonna be interesting. So we've had two, two seeds
move on. Two, two seeds, yeah. And that is about
to change. That is about to change drastically.
Alt -Rock Grunge, Alice in Chains, 21 Pilots.
A 12 seed and a 6 seed. Yeah. Oh no. Oh no. This
is really super hard because I was an Alice in
Chains fan from day one. Whereas I joined the
21 Pilots. fandom very late into their discography.
But doesn't mean I don't appreciate everything
they did. And I do. Alice in Chains, mind you,
they don't have a lot of albums. This is true.
They're that epic, and they don't have a lot
of their own original music floating out there.
Right. You've got like the big three, right?
You've got, what is it, Dirt, Jar Flies, and
Facelift. Yes. And I would take that... It's
tough to say. I think I would take that over
Blurryface and Trench. Would you? I think I would.
I lean Alice in Chains. Are you? I lean the Cinderella
story. Are you really? Bless the 21 Pilots for
their amazing music. I would listen to Alice
in Chains first. Man. See, that's the thing.
It's with... Them not producing a lot of music
currently. They're still on tour and they they
do all that which is why they're in the in the
You know in the tournament. Yeah, they fit the
standard they fit the standard but 21 pilots
are still making music they're still going on
worldwide tours and As I said, it's I just find
it to be very unique and fun and They're there
in my opinion. They're they're the kings in the
alt rock genre sure They're definitely the biggest
name. Biggest name. Yeah. Yeah, I think that's
fair. Boy, oh boy. Do you have a... Are you leading
21? I am. You can move them on. Are you sure?
I think they fit the standard better that we
set. I think rest is soul. I think losing your
lead singer is always tough and that's always
hard to come back from. I know Linkin Park...
who we did have in this set, or no, they were
in the first set, I think. Right, they got bounced
early. Yeah. And they have a new singer now.
I think she's amazing, but it's always - But
they're different. It's always tough to come
back, and they're different. They're different
band now. Yep. They really are. 21 Pilots move
on. All right, they move on. They move on. We're
now - Succeed. To number four, Chappell Roan,
number seven, Lady Gaga, in the top 40 pop category.
And so you're talking a newer artist that just
shot into the stratosphere. That album is pretty
great. Yeah. She won a gazillion awards for it
for a reason. Yep. And then someone who has just
sustained this amazing career. Incredible career.
Yeah. Yeah. And this is a heavyweight boxing
match. It's a boxing match. Yeah. I had four
seed Chaperone, seven seed Lady Gaga. Oh, might
be late in the game. I'm feeling upset city.
Are you? I'm feeling upset city. I think if you
were to ask anyone in the streets who is the
bigger pop artist in their career, they're going
to say Lady Gaga over Chaperone. And that's not
to discount Chaperone's accolades or talent.
But that's just to say Lady Gaga has been incredible
for a decade and a half. Sure. So... And if not
longer. One could argue one of Chappell Rhone's
artists that she looks up to would probably be
Lady Gaga. Would be Lady Gaga, sure. I would
think. Gotta go Gaga. Okay, we're moving her
on. So, yeah. The final four. Oh my god, how
are we doing this? I know, right? So... Just
because of where we place them. It's hip -hop
against metal and hard rock. God, that was stupid
for me. Kendrick Lamar versus Iron Maiden. Holy
shit. Oh my god. Yeah, once you go in between
genres and start comparing his work, it's even
more difficult. Yes. Oh yeah, for sure. Because
you've got Iron Maiden who, God, what do they
have, 20 albums? Yeah. under their belt, give
or take. And then you've got Kendrick, who off
-jump has just been remarkable. That's not to
say Iron Maiden hasn't. They also have. I think
what was their first one or two albums were without
Bruce Dickinson? That is correct, yeah. And that's
not to say they were bad. No, they were different.
They were different. They sounded, because Diano
had more of a punk sound to him. Which was very
interesting because Steve Harris hates, like
I do not joke, all caps, hates punk music. But
you had to be alive at that time to understand
the punk metal rivalry as it came out of London.
Like these guys got in fights and it was like
they hated each other for what they were. Could
not stand them. So Diano had more of a punk sound
to him. So when you listen to those first two
albums, they do sound a little different. but
Steve Harris doesn't and Adrian Smith doesn't
like they still sound how they sound but they
also had Clyde Burr who was a good drummer but
not a great drummer so those first two albums
still classic great songs i love hearing Bruce
do some of those songs yeah yeah but then when
it came to you know peace of mind and power slave
and somewhere in time and it's just like just
amazed, like talk about albums you can listen
to the entire album. Right. And I often say that's
the sign of a great band or a great artist when
you can just, you know, you're just not hitting
something for a track or two. Like, it's like,
I like this whole album. Right. Yeah. Right.
And you could argue the same with Kendrick. I
mean, you want to talk about lyricism. Lyricism
goes in between genres. It's just what is is
wrote down for the singer to say. Mm -hmm. And
both Iron Maiden and Kendrick Lamar are in the
upper echelon of lyricists ever. It's just what
they're singing about is different. Yeah. Oh,
yeah. And this is so tough for me. Yeah. I'm
leaning towards Maiden simply based on I've been
a fan of theirs longer than his, although I'm
a fan of both. And I've seen them live, I've
even seen Kendrick live. I'm sure that would
be an amazing show. That would be incredible.
That would be an incredible show. So I'm just,
I'm kind of just giving Maiden the edge over
Kendrick. Which is hard. Yeah. To do. I think...
I'm gonna have to roll with you because I was...
I don't know. Half of me was just like, I think
I have to abstain. Right. I think I'm going to
be like the average congressperson and no vote.
No vote and leave it all up to me. Yeah, right.
Come at me, Kendrick fans. Yeah, great. So now
we have Eminem and Kendrick going to be writing
a diss track about us. Oh, great. Awesome. At
least we're not Drake. We'll be known. Yeah,
right You know whether that's good or not Okay,
we're down to all rock grunge versus top 40 pop
21 pilots Lady Gaga. That's also tough I know
that's also tough and I I'm gonna do it again.
I'm gonna let my my genre flag colors fly and
just say in my opinion subjectively Yeah. I enjoy
listening to Twenty One Pilots more than Lady
Gaga. Yes. And we've talked extensively about
their discographies and their talent, but pop
is just not my genre. Yeah, I get it. It's not
my genre. I lean Twenty One Pilots. I do too
from kind of the same reason that you have as
well. And that is as talented as she is. Incredibly
talented. And just seems to be good people. Yeah.
Yeah, I would agree. But I don't know. And this
is just personal preference, right? I enjoy bands.
I enjoy more than just like, you listen to Lady
Gaga, you're listening to Lady Gaga. Sure. For
me, it's, you know, you listen to 21 Pods, you
listen to Maiden, or you listen to Metallica,
or whoever. I'm listening to the singer. I'm
listening to the bass. bass player. I'm listening
to dual guitars going back and forth. Yep. I'm
listening to the drummer. I'm listening for those
time chains. Like, that's the shit that gets
me going musically. Yeah. And with most pop music,
it's just kind of formulaic. in their signatures,
I think, largely. Like, there was a story one
time that I read that there are actually three
people responsible for, like, 4 ,000 pop songs.
And it is because, like, the sound to it, you
can go song to song to song to song and go, oh
my god, these are all the same. And so that's
why, you know, pop music, in all of its importance,
from Michael Jackson to Prince, to Madonna, all
the way to Dua Lipa and Chapel Run, Lady Gaga.
I mean, they all have played that important role
in music without a question. But if I'm looking
for straight up musicianship and lyrics and everything
else, I just, I more often go with great classic
bands than I do like a pop performer, you know,
for me. So I think we agree. I think it's 21
Pilots versus Iron Maiden. Yep. Yepers. Well,
I have my answer. I do, too. And it's not fair
to this other band who's been so impactful and
influential in the last 10 to 15 years. But you're
talking about a band who's been around since
1987, 1980? Right. And it's just banger after
banger after banger after hit after hit. Yeah.
And 21 pilots would probably agree. They'd probably
vote with us too. Yeah. I think I have to go
Iron Maiden in this. I agree. I think Iron Maiden
wins. And the part that's making my brain go
like, wow, how strange, is how much more difficult
the Elite Eight and the Final Four were to decide.
They were. Than this matchup. Yes. Like it was,
it ended up 21 versus Iron Maiden, and I'm like,
oh, Iron Maiden. Well, it was, right. Yeah. Just
because of how that matchup was, but quite frankly,
if we look at Maiden, and if it were Maiden in
Lady Gaga, or Maiden in Chapel Rowan, or Maiden
in Alice in Chains, it would still be Maiden.
Yeah. For me. I mean, it really would. They're
just a different stratus. A different breed.
They really are. They really are. Well, hopefully
you like that. There's probably some of you.
I'm sure everyone's bracket is broken. Bracket's
broken. I'm sure there's some of you, especially
maybe, you know, Gen Zers or Gen Alpha, there's
just like, who's Iron Maiden? Chances are you
know who Iron Maiden is. You're probably wearing
their t -shirt and you don't even know who they
are. But I do have to say, like, when I go to
Maiden shows, I do see 10, 11, 12, 13 year olds,
because... grandparents who are Maiden fans have
their kids who are Maiden fans that have their
kids who are Maiden fans. And it's almost like
the Grateful Dead of this era. It's like people
understand Maiden and they love the music and
they love the lyrics and they love the theatrics
and everything at the shows. And I mean, they're
under like a third, maybe a fourth generation
now. It's unbelievable. I think Iron Maiden is
one of the few artists, period. I'm talking artists.
Any piece of art. that could or will ever be
created. Iron Maiden is one of the few artists
where you can have octogenarians and eight -year
-olds at the same concert. At the same show.
At the same show. Yep. I think that's so rare
and insightful as to their influence and talent.
Well, the one, and I think Ghost was in here,
I think. I'm trying to think of Ghost. That sounds
right. I thought Ghost was in there somewhere.
Yeah. They got bounced kind of early, but I went
to see a maiden show and Ghost opened for them.
So naturally, there's a lot of kids who are Ghost
fans, but they're not necessarily metal fans,
although Ghost has a very unique sound. Sure.
Different. And they're kind of hard to describe,
but... Ghost open for maiden. So for me, I was
really excited to see ghost and I was like this
is really gonna be really cool We had these kids
in front of us. They're all ghost fans They were
talking about how they were just gonna bounce
after ghost was done playing Yeah, and me and
my friend Tom and Steve were just looking at
each other like no, yeah kids cannot leave so
we just got talking with them because we Liked
ghosts. So we talked to him about it and they
thought it was cool We're in the ghost and I'm
like man open your mind You open your mind when
you listen to Ghost, right? And they're different
and whatever and weird and cool. Yeah. Stick
around for me. Yeah. And they did. And their
minds were blown. Good. And I love it. I love
when that happens. Educate the youth. It is.
I love it when people give it a chance. They'll
just be like, I'm not really a metal fan. I'm
like, but you might be. Yeah. You might be. Give
these guys a chance. They're catchy as fuck.
And they did their imagery and all of it. I think
you're going to like it. Yeah. And most people
do. Yep. Most people do. It's actually kind of
cool. I have a new roommate. Her name's Cass.
She's an amazing human being. The one from last
episode. The one from last episode. I'm sure
down the road you'll hear from her again. She
was really funny. But... She has different style
and different taste in music, which is okay,
because I listen to her stuff. And I'm becoming
fans of other music I didn't even know existed.
But in my kitchen, over my stove, I have this
band poster from an Iron Maiden tour. And I told
her, because she has a lot of stuff to hang,
I'm like, yeah, you know, if some stuff has to
come down or whatever, you know, I'm like, if
you want me to take that Maiden out, she's like,
oh no, that's staying there. I'm like, yep. Yeah,
she gets it. So I'll have to share some Iron
Maiden with her at some point, and I'm sure I
will. That being said, I hope you guys enjoyed
this, and we're going to take a quick break.
Yeah, let us know your opinions. Let us know
your opinions, and we're going to fly through
the last 30 minutes of the show. This is going
to be Warp Speed, baby, but it's a challenge
now. We're going to do it. So we'll be back.
All right, we are back. And as I said, first
segment ran kind of long, so we are gonna light
speed through some of this, but hopefully it
will be fun anyway. That's the goal. We got Carpe
Diem. You guys send us your DMs. Magically, they
appear right here on this podcast. The internet
does feel magical sometimes. Sometimes it does.
So let's see how magical it will be. I have a
DM from... at Bernice Q. Tuffington. Bernice
Q. Tuffington. Indeed. After my beans on toast.
Delightful. Some Spotted Dick. Don't mind if
I do. I love Marmite. Do you? I mean, if you
got Spotted Dick, you should probably get that
shit checked. I'm just going to say. Yeah, at
least they have health care. Yeah, thank God.
Must be nice. What is that? Bernice says, good
day. Why is it so many classic names have gone
the way of the dodo bird? For names like Tucker,
Xander, and Dakota. Tucker, I hardly know her.
Xander, I hardly know her. And Dakota, which
should be one state and not two. Right. Dakota,
I hardly know her. That's awesome. That's great.
Now I'm all for it bernice bernice you guys had
great names You know george and george and all
kinds of others funny bernice is great Yeah bernice
and george and I feel like tucker carlson ruined
tucker for me because he's such a little cuck
But I like zander there's so few x names. That's
true zander xenon How cool is that? xenon is
pretty great. Yeah And Dakota, Dakota's fine.
Dakota feels Native American. Kind of does, yeah.
Coded. Which I think is great. That is cool.
Bring it back around. Bring it back around, Bernice.
At they killed Kenny. I have long pondered the
existence of Kenny from South Park. Kenny has
been killed several hundred times, yet there
he is. Is Kenny some kind of demon or is it possible
he is an angel or perhaps even God? Well, if
you've ever watched Supernatural, the old CW
show from forever ago. Classic. Amazing show.
Sometimes God writes themselves into the show.
They do. Because that happens in Supernatural.
I know, spoiler, but you won't know until you
know and then you know. Maybe Kenny is God. Maybe.
I think he is. Yeah. Every week he gets thrown
in a wood chipper, run over by a semi and...
There he is, the next week. Brian the dog came
back from death on Family Guy. Ooh, he did. That's
true. But does that mean that every immortal
or regenerating character is a god? Or does this
just mean they have powers? They could be demigods.
They could be demigods. Good call. Yeah. Good
call on that one. Hopefully we helped you out,
killed Kenny. Yeah, we just made him ask more
questions. Nah, he's really going to get philosophical
next time he sends us a DM. Good scientists always
make sure you have more questions than answers,
so you never stop wondering. Never stop wondering.
At Goofy Goober. Are you a Goofy Goober? Yeah.
I love that, by the way. That's awesome. First
of all, Goofy Goober rock. probably one of the
best soundtrack songs to ever come out of an
animated movie, bar none. And I believe Twisted
Sister actually performed it. Oh, they did not.
I believe they did. Oh, that's amazing. I believe
they did. Someone out there may have to fact
check me because I'm not doing live research
when we're on a time crunch. Right. But I'm pretty
sure Twisted Sister actually did Goofy Goober
Rock. That's amazing. From the first SpongeBob
SquarePants movie. Oh, my God. I love that. And
I think I'm a Goofy Goober. I'm an ice cream
enjoyer. I'm a little whimsical here and there.
Sure. And I think that counts me in. Yeah. I
mean, do I want to grab a net and chase butterflies
around with a friend named Patrick? Yes, I do.
Right. If we had flying jellyfish, I would be
afraid. Oh, for sure. I would be afraid. But
maybe I'd try to catch one. Yeah. You know, what's
a squirrel doing under the sea? I'm not asking
that question. Why is the crab this late -stage
capitalist? Well, because sometimes art reflects
life. Sometimes it does. And why does he have
a daughter who is a sperm whale? Or... Well,
sometimes because art reflects life. Sometimes
art reflects life. And perhaps she really isn't
his daughter. Maybe it's a sugar daddy situation.
I have often said that. Yeah. And the first time
I saw SpongeBob's parents, I thought they looked
like cookies. Oh, no doubt. Yes. They look like
cookies, but no, that's just actually how old
sponges look. That's true. They look like different
species. Yeah. Yeah. And if you actually, there's
a documentary or something with the originator
of that show. Steven Hillenberg? Yeah. And where
he actually, like what you see in that show.
He was a marine biologist, right? Right. Yeah.
Yeah. And so like a lot of those different characters,
they actually are a secret. That's cool. Isn't
that great? I love it. A marine biologist. A
marine. Oorah. Oorah. That's right, man. That's
insane. Steven's turning over in his grave. I'm
sorry. Rest in peace, brother. Yeah, he didn't
appreciate that. I did, for the record. Oorah.
The last one here, at stonerstanley420, our buddy.
Hello, Momo and Alan. That's us, for people that
don't get the stoner stanley thing yet. Eezer
to you. Wasn't he the guy from A Christmas Carol?
I think so. I think he was. Happy Eezer to you.
Bunny brings the rainbow eggs and jello beans
because Jeebus is magic. Oh no. I am dead. Poof.
No, I'm not. Have a ham. Bye. Well, I'm going
to have a ham for you, buddy. Wow. He must've
got a strong strain. That's crazy. Yeah. Yeah,
he's feeling away. Maybe it's the Jell -O beans.
The Jell -O beans. I want a Jell -O. What's a
Jell -O bean? I want a Jell -O bean. It's probably
Spike with some. That's likely. That is, that
is likely. Oh bless you Stan. Bunny brings the
rainbow eggs and jello beans because cheap is
his magic. Happeneezer. Happeneezer. I love that.
Oh no I am dead. Poof. No I'm not. Have a ham.
Poof have a ham. That's great. I want that to
be a typical like sayonara instead of like ah
take it easy. Yeah. Have a ham. Have a ham. If
I start cracking that out at work, they will
drug test me. I think so. I think so. All right,
supervisor. Have a ham. And you find beautiful
folks can decide on this. I've been thinking
about like a store for the Mark Mo show and featuring
maybe like, you know, number one, our logo, because
I think it's kind of cool. But in addition to
that, like. Kind of like, maybe just other shirts
that are fun. Maybe some of Stoner's quotes.
Like Stoner Stanley's quotes with some of our
funny shit. Bruce Bixby. Have a ham. Have a ham.
There's so many. I rate this frozen meal a 6
-7. 6 -7. So yeah, so let us know what you think
if you would wear a hoodie that says The Mark
Mo Show or a t -shirt. And you have children
and I have siblings who have made shirts before.
That's true, yeah. So this is an idea. I think
it's an idea whose time has come. Yes. Alright,
what do you got for your DMs? I got a DM here
from Chad Chattington. If you were bound to only
travel between five US states for the rest of
your life... Which five would you pick? Okay
question. Does he mean any five states or they
have to be five states all interconnected? I
believe any five states. Any five states. Okay
Well, we currently live in one. So does that
have to be one of the five? I would imagine so.
Okay. Well, I'm disqualifying Indiana Fuck them.
No, there's I'm yours truly will be leaving Indiana
Down the road here. So At some point so I'm good.
That's why I will leave them off I would have
to say Illinois because that just happens be
where Chicago is. Yes, so they're in it for sure
I would have to say the state of Washington because
that's where Seattle is true Great. I have to
say Nevada because that's where Vegas is So as
you see my favorite cities, that's kind of the
way this is going leaning. Yeah, it's leaning
heavy I would say Florida, and I say that begrudgingly
because I don't very much care for the politics
of the state or how it's run. Sure. But I do
love the coasts, and there's a lot of transplants
down there. There's a lot of good people. Gulf
Coast is beautiful. Oh, it is. So I would have
to put that one on there. A lot of nature too.
The Everglades are so cool. Boy, the fifth one.
I would say... Ooh, that's a tough one. Yeah,
that is definitely a tough one because like if
I don't put Wisconsin That means I can't have
spotted cow and we love song go devastating It
is devastating up, but people can bring it to
me. So this is true. I oh man, I would have to
say Massachusetts cuz that's where Boston is.
I like that. So there there we go. There's your
five. Yeah, how about you? Indiana, Illinois,
Minnesota Washington. Yeah Those four are because
friends and family. Yeah, I have to I got to
put those four on there and also Seattle and
Chicago are brilliant. So yeah, Indiana, Illinois
Minnesota Washington I Think my fifth state.
I think I'm gonna go with California because
I haven't been I would love to experience LA
I love the quantity of just national parks and
cool nature that is out there So yeah, California's
gonna be my five. I love that. Yeah. That's cool.
I respect that. Next DM I got here is from Moneypants.
Would you rather get 50 % off any food you buy
for life or 50 % off any fuel you buy for life?
Uh, well... I think that fuel one is gonna be
more the bang for the buck, especially as it
increases in price because the United States
is stupid as shit. And you're not only talking
gasoline slash petrol, you're talking natural
gas. Sure, yeah. You're talking, I mean, electricity
is a fuel. It's a fuel. So if I could get 50
% off a solar panel, that's kind of baller. That's
baller. You know, and you go to the gas tank,
20 bucks doesn't even give you half full. Not
even close. You know, but now you make it 10.
Especially if you drive a lot, that one's worth
it. Granted, food is also becoming expensive.
It is, yeah. Hey, what a fucked up country we
live in. Right, so if you're sitting there and
you're looking at a steak and it's 25 bones,
and now it's 13? Yeah, it's not bad for a steak.
Not bad for a steak. I think I'm lean in fuel
though. Gotta lean in fuel. Especially with all
the... dogshit monopolies we have for utility
companies in this country. I gotta go fuel on
this one. I think I shop at Aldi. I know I've
mentioned that a million times, but I love Aldi
and I mean, you want to talk about generic brand,
store brand, whatever else. It's the same shit,
but a better price. Right. Now I can't really
speak on great value because I always found Walmart's
brands to be pretty dog shit. Yeah, largely.
Aldi just does it good. So food prices have never
been a huge issue for me. But yeah, I'll take
fuel. Yeah, I would too. Yeah. The final DM I
received, Gumbo Steve. Gumbo Steve. Check that
in. From forever ago. What is a fairly useless
skill that you have? Oh. A fairly useless skill.
That's... Well, you know, I'm going to say, because
I used to do this as a profession, I would say
fairly useless skill that I currently possess
would be probably rebuilding computer boxes because
I did some IT. OK. And I think And granted, not
long ago, we upgraded Aiden's computer and we
had to put chipsets in there and processors and
all that. And I had that ability to know how
to do that. Yes. I bought it pre -built and I
think after four years, everything needed upgrading.
CPU, GPU, PSU. What else we do? RAM. Yeah. I
got SSD. Yeah. Yeah. So we upgraded all of that.
And so I possess that skill to be able to do
that. But the reason I bring that up is because
that was the only time I've done that since 2012,
2011. So I guess that could potentially qualify
as a skill. The old skill come through, though.
But it did. It did come through. I have this
very useless skill of, I'll be specific here,
music editing. Yeah. Because I find my music
production skills and my audio editing skills
to be useful. Yeah. But music editing I find
to be a useless kind of skill because you can't
upload things like that on YouTube or anything
due to copyright claims or strikes or anything.
But a couple years ago, my girlfriend had this
idea. What if that Christmas song that's like,
all I want for Christmas is my two front teeth.
Right. And she's got this obsession, a little
background, she's got this obsession with like
teeth and the macabre and skeletons, things like
that. Her previous phone case, she'd put like
glued acrylic teeth all over it and made it look
funky and cool. And she was like, wouldn't it
be funny if that song went like, all I want for
Christmas is teeth. Oh no. And I made it a reality.
I edited the song. So it said, all I want for
Christmas is teeth. And it sounded the same the
rest of the way through, except for the chorus.
And I'm like, there's nothing I can do with this.
I just made this for us. So that is your skill.
Yeah. That and then my momentary abilities of
finesse, physical finesse. Because sometimes
I just do things and it's elegant and precise.
And I'm like, whoa. That's awesome. I didn't
know he had that skill. Yeah. And then like I
take two steps and I stub my toe. So it's like
just momentary moments of finesse where I'm like,
oh dude, I got this life thing down. Oh yeah.
And then life is like tap, tap on the shoulder.
Hey buddy, no you don't. No you don't. So I think
that'd be my answer. That's good. That's good.
I dig it. Is that the end? That is the end. The
end. That is the end of Carpe Diem. If you have
DMs, thoughts, questions, whatever, send them
to us every week. We will read them on this very
podcast. What podcast? The Mark Mo Show. I'm
Mark. That's Aidan. Hi. Hola. We're now on to
the other foods. That's where Aidan finds all
of these incredibly weird, strange, bizarre,
terrible foods from all over the globe. It's
got a little globe. He looks at it. That's really
all he does. Almost every hour of the day. Almost
every hour. Boy, wouldn't you? Yeah, I would.
It's pretty cool. Mm -hmm, indeed. Anyway, back
to the other foods. Aidan finds weird ones and
he talks about them on this particular segment.
Got a weird food for us? I do. I in fact have
a twofer. Oh, a twofer? I got a twofer. All right.
I went to Serbia. Oh, congratulations. God bless
Serbia. But I found two of their lowest rated
foods ever. Oh. Out of Serbia, this is called
Kravavice. Uh -huh. Spelled K -R -V -A -V -I
-C -E. I'm hoping. Sure. Did I pronounce that
right? Kravavice. Sure. They're blood sausages.
Produced mostly throughout continental Croatia.
Of course, Serbia being a part of that. They're
made by cooking pork blood skin. and awful, meaning
organs, with rice and buckwheat. Sometimes barley
and corn flour, if you're feeling crazy. There
are numerous varieties of this. Each cook has
their own recipe, as they're called. They're
often consumed during the winter, accompanied
by sauerkraut. Now, that just sounds nasty. I
don't know, like, I understand people want to
get their iron intake, you know. You can do that
without having to eat blood and organs. The second
one I found, from Serbia, also a pork dish. This
is called pitie. Okay. P -I -H -T -I -J -E. Pitie.
Oh, okay. That's... I would not know how to say
that. Okay, that's interesting. Like, I don't
know if the J is pronounced like a Y or if it's
pronounced like an H. Over there. It is a Serbian
dish made from the cheaper parts of pork such
as the head, shank, or hawk. The meat is often
cooked together with pepper, onion, carrots,
and bay leaves until it becomes so tender it
falls off the bone. Can you imagine eating...
head meat as it's falling off the skull in a
tender fashion. No. Yummy, yummy. Together with
the stock, the meat is placed into bowls, left
out on the counter to cool, and the dish is only
ready when it's fully congealed. Ugh. It is served
sliced cold as an appetizer. Nope. I'm showing
a picture of it. To mark that's that's uh, that's
disgusting. Yeah, it's like the jello of the
meat world Yeah, that looks like if you bought
fudge and left it out for eight years Maybe even
longer. Maybe even longer. Maybe like a decade.
I Unfortunately, we can't do we can't do visual
gags here on an auditory podcast, but if you
look pi h t i j e Yeah an image of it Yeah, it's
gross. That's disgusting. That's gross. So that's
two Serbian pork dishes for you that you can
never get out of your brain now. No, that's really...
Oh, God, that looked disgusting. You're welcome.
Thank you for that other food presentation. We're
going to finish this up with the Frozen Guy review.
Lean cuisine ravioli. Oh, I'm eating over here.
Yeah, I'm eating over here. Definitely better
than creviche and pete. However you pronounce
it. It's like how often is the H before the T?
Not often. Pete. Patej. Patej. Potatoes. Potato.
Now that's foreshadowing. That's foreshadowing.
So lean cuisine ravioli. Good. The raviolis are
good. Sauce kind of mid. Quantity. Could have
used one or two more raviolis in there. Was still
a bit hungry later on. Was it like a runny kind
of sauce? Little bit. Little runny. Little bit
runnier than I typically like. But flavorful.
Flavorful is good. Flavorful, just a little runny.
And like I said, you probably could have used
a couple more ravioli in there. Too few in there.
Yep, I think so. Overall, pretty good. 7 .9 for
the Lean Cuisine ravioli. That's not bad for
a big brand. Lean Cuisine is pretty well -known.
Yeah, and I think that was $3 .29. That's not
bad. Which isn't bad. That's not too bad. Even
if you have to get two of them, you're still
under seven bucks for a meal. Right. So that
isn't bad at all. So just maybe tighten up that
sauce a little bit, be into the eights for sure.
Was it just like a marinara? Yeah, just kind
of runny. Marinara. They just didn't treat the
they didn't treat the tomato with respect. They
did not. Yeah, they did not at all devastating
indeed Yeah, so we're going to take a break indubitably
eat a crumpet Or have some tea a spot of tea
or spotted dick All right, we are back here on
the Mark Mo Show. I'm Mark Maloney. This is Abe
Maloney, and we are on to our feature segment.
You just made the list, and we did. We made a
list. 10 through 2 with our big number one reveal.
Only rule? No rules, baby. That's how we work.
Good. Yeah, I know, right? Today's top 10 potato
dishes. Dishes or things made with potatoes that
we all love. Well, I love. Maybe you love them.
You should love them. Potatoes are amazing. Potatoes
love you back. They do in many ways. Aidan, want
to start us out? I'll start my 10 through 2,
saving my big number one reveal for later. Number
10, loaded baked potato. Oh, that's a good one.
A simple dish, but the sour cream, the cheese,
the bacon, the butter. Yeah. It's classic. It
is classic. And a baked potato is very easy to
make. You can put beans in there. You can't.
Why not? Why wouldn't you? Beans, beans, magical
fruit. Number nine, loaded hash browns. Oh, especially,
oh God, whose loaded hash browns are amazing.
Waffle House. Oh yeah. Yeah. Little bacon, little
cheese. Love it. Get in there. Get real. Yeah,
buddy. Number eight, garlic mashed. Like, get
real. Get real. That's tasty. Number seven, latkes.
Oh, God. Bless it. Oh, no, did someone forget
lot keys? I did do it, but I haven't gone yet.
So this is true I fix it in post. We will fix
it in post. Yeah. Um, it's like the hash brown
leveled up Yeah, you know fried mashed potatoes.
Yeah in a way. Yeah potato pancakes. Yep They're
amazing. Some people eat them with applesauce.
That's not me sour cream sour cream Yeah, so
good number six creamy potato soup Because that
can also that's good. Yeah that can also have
cheese and bacon in there it can Number five
chili cheese fries. It is a simple pleasure,
and it's a good one number four Al Groton like
the thinly sliced with the cheese on it. Oh my
god That's where it's at number three, and this
is one. I just found out over the last year existed
baria nacho fries Okay, so like the the Mexican
burrito. Yep Type beef piled with queso on top
of a bed of fries Okay, unbelievable. Oh, you're
talking like this shit's crazy. I I'm hungry
right now Oh God, they're so good number two
the simple humble breakfast skillet. Yeah It's
so good. You can do it on a bit of hash browns.
I like to do it just on like skillet potatoes.
Like skillet potatoes, eggs, bacon, sausage,
cheese, chives piled into a nice cast iron skillet
that you just eat it out of. I love that. Yeah.
So good. That's my number two. I'll save my number
one. Okay. I have an honorable mention. It's
Locky's. Whoa. How about that? Convenient. Number
10, diced potatoes or home fries. They'd be called
either one. Home fries are great. Those are yummy.
Number nine, gnocchi. So it is technically a
pasta dish, but it is made with potatoes. This
is true. So gnocchi does definitely qualify.
It's very tasty. This is good. I like gnocchi.
Yeah. Number eight, baked potato. Yeah, there
you go. You can do so many styles with the baked
potato. You can. That's what I love most about
it, I think. My favorite, probably just like
a little bit of butter and some sour cream and
bacon bits. Yes, there you go. Tasty. I would
say number seven, corned beef hash. Oh god, that's
a good call. Corned beef hash is really, really
good. Number six, potato salad. I love potato
salad. I do too. And I didn't when I was younger,
and then I had like a really good potato salad.
I think Swanson's on the Southwest side. And
I was like, oh my God, what have I been missing?
Right. Yeah. They were one I omitted from my
list, not because I dislike it, but because just
the top 10 was too good. Right, exactly. But
I do love potato salad. Number five, hash browns.
And so that can qualify for the loaded. Sure.
From Waffle House too. Those are just so freaking
good. Although if you don't cook them right,
I'm not a huge fan, because if you don't cook
them right and there's kind of like a mound,
sometimes the potatoes in the middle of that
mound, they're still kind of semi -raw. Sure.
And then they're crispy on the other side. So
you got to cook them right. Yeah, yeah. This
is true. But once cooked right, they're great.
Number four, potato chips. There you go. There
you go. It's right up your alley. I love potato
chips. If I'm not hungry hungry, instead of a
meal, I'll just grab some chips. Something to
drink and I'm good. Later in life, I've come
upon tortilla chips more than potato chips. Yeah.
Which, I mean, it's all subjective, but I do
understand the chip obsession. I do. I love it.
Number three, french fries. I love fries. Mickey
D's fries are still goaded. Yeah. And, you know,
there's a lot of other fries out there that are
great. I used to be the fry guy, do the fry review.
Yeah, this is true. Of course, fries are gonna
be on there. Number two... There's so much you
can do with fries, because multiple dishes on
my list were fry adjacent. You had fries as the
base. Yep. Oh yeah. The base vehicle to get more
food into your mouth. Absolutely. And number
two, poutine, which is French fries covered in
gravy and cheese. Oh, God bless. God bless Canada.
Amazing. They have health care too. They do.
It's amazing. Crazy. Must be nice. It is nice.
My number one here. Yeah. Couldn't tell you.
My number one is your number two. I went poutine
number one. Love it. It's just like, and you
can do like there's Americanized versions and
like, oh, well, you just put shredded cheese
on blah, blah, blah. No, gamer, gamer, hear me
out. It's better with the curds. You can dress
it with shredded cheese if you want to fill gaps.
Oh, for sure. But you got to do the curds and
they do have flavored cheese curds, which you
can do if you feel a little spicy someday. Oh,
yeah. but just the gravy and the potato and it's
just like a nutritionalist would look at it and
be like what are we doing here boys yeah but
then your taste buds are like oh i know what
we're doing here boys oh for sure oh yeah poutine
is that guy pal poutine is for sure and that's
that's why it's my number one my number one mashed
potatoes I think they're just amazing. I can
eat like a pan of mashed potatoes. Oh yeah, full
pot. I can just eat them without question. Full
send. I love that you can take the mashed potatoes
on your plate and whatever meat you have, you
can take that meat, a little gravy, scoop it
like just all in one shot. Yeah. uh you think
of like the kfc bowls that's like a mashed potato
base get real uh you have like shepherd's pie
or cottage pie yeah that's like a base mashed
potato so i just i love the flexibility the versatility
is amazing yeah and they're just so good uh even
even mashed potatoes that aren't like Made that
well you do like a dirty mash. You can little
potato skins in there. That's flavor man Oh,
it is. Yeah, you can you can definitely do that
You can you can add so much to it vegetables.
You can add Ground beef all of it. Yes, so it's
pretty great. So we have learned that fries and
mashed are the two best bases Yes, maybe of all
time you could argue tortilla. Yeah, which I
give you. Yeah But maybe tortilla, mashed potatoes,
and french fries are the best vehicles for food
to enter a human body. Agreed. 100%. No doubt.
All right. We've got two segments left. We are
on to our beer review. The official beer review.
The official beer review. And we have, from Half
Acre, Summer Beer Reef Knot. Reef Knot. Which
we'll be sampling for you. Knot as in tie a knot.
K -N -O -T. Knot. Silent K. We'll be, oh yeah.
Oh yeah. That's where it's at. Beautiful. A cilantro.
Cilantro to you. We will be sampling this 4 .5
% ABV. Of course Half Acre is a regional brewery
out of Chicago, Illinois. Yep. Um, as they claim,
throwing a bullseye at an easy sunshine lager
designed to drop anchor on that forever summer,
feeling knotted up inside you. The floral lemon
and hay aromas paired with earthy spice from
noble hops are well balanced by lightly toasted
honey malt. Flawlessly clear gold under a white
foam cap, this squeaky clean cracker crisp lager.
Cracker crisp? The fuck? Anyway, coasts on -
I'm a cracker and I'm not that crisp, to be fair.
A little doughy, actually. Our comedy is kinda
crisp. Hey, hey, hey -o. Minimal Bitterness,
a moderate 4 .5 % ABV is how they claim it will
rank it on a scale from 0 to 5 on untapped the
free app on your phone that we're not sponsored
by, but it would be cool if we were. Indeed.
This lager, a sluncher to you. Sluncher, here
we go. Ooh, okay. That's tasty. Okay. That's,
uh, that's really good. Ooh, what is that roasty
note at the end? I caught that. I caught that.
That's pretty good. That tastes like, do you
know what that tastes like? Tastes like crisped
rice. Maybe. Do you, do you get that? Like rice?
I can see that. Rice, crispy cereal. Yeah. Just
like creeping in. In a can. Like, hola. I know,
right? I like it very much. Out here, it starts
off so clean. And then just like that roasty
rice creeps in and is like, hello, I'm also here.
Mm -hmm. That's good. Loggers are not my go -to
style of beer. But that's why we try everything.
We try IPAs, we try stouts and porters and loggers.
We try everything on the show. But as we're creeping
into warmer weather, slowly but surely, I figured
a summertime lager would be a cool thing to do.
That's good. I like it. Is this right up your
alley? It is. Very clean. Definitely something
at the end there. I really like that. Yeah, like
usually lagers don't have that roasty note. Almost
malty, but it's not malty. Right. But yeah, roasty
kind of rice flavor in there that I didn't expect,
but I do welcome. I do too. This is high for
me on a scale of lagers. Yeah. Because of course,
taste is subjective. I'm giving this a three
out of five. Which which for me is is high for
a lot of good score for a lager. Yeah. Yeah,
so three on five I went three and a half. Yeah,
I went three and a half on that. That's kind
of a solid score for a lager and I could flavor
profiles I did light -bodied crisp and clean.
Yeah, and of course we're drinking it out of
the can and As we sure know from experience and
from experts drinking it out of a cup or mug
does affect the flavor and smell of it. So take
this as our scientific duty to say how we're
doing it. I love it. Yes, exactly. A couple badges
through the untapped app. I have for the can
level 11. Let's go. And I did, hmm, this is interesting.
I unlocked a badge called cold one in Antarctica.
I just got that one too. Antarctica, known for
its frozen tundra and waddling penguins, might
not be the first place you think of when grabbing
a cold one. But on April 1st, anything is possible,
thanks to chicken on a cold one in early April.
Wink, wink, nudge, nudge. I love it. Yeah, it's
good, man. I like it. Well done. God bless the
penguins. Well, again, God bless penguins. All
right, we're going to finish up with a world
of weird news to close out this edition of the
Mark Mo Show. So let me let me not hesitate.
This new story is called Creme de la Weird. That's
not French Not that you know of anyway, you're
right so professional corn hone player and quadruple
amputee Dayton James Weber Oh 27 was arrested
on March 22nd in Charlottesville, Virginia, WBRC
-TV reported. Earlier that evening, Weber and
Bradrick Michael Wells, 27, got into an argument
as Weber drove in La Plata, Maryland. Witnesses
said Weber allegedly shot and killed Wells, then
pulled over and asked his backseat passengers
to pull Wells' body from the car. They refused
and left the vehicle. then called police. Weber
drove on with Well's body, which was later found
in a yard. Yo. When detectives found Weber, he
was at a Virginia hospital seeking medical care.
In Maryland, he's expected to be charged with
first degree murder, second degree murder, and
more. Holy. Weber plays in the American corn
hole league. which in 2023 called him a shining
example of our slogan, anyone can play, anyone
can win. Holy fuck. Okay. Let me start off by
saying the first sentence that came out of your
mouth was one of the craziest things I've heard.
That's a brand new sentence. It is a brand new
sentence. In my life. Yeah. Quadruple amputee
cornhole player. Right. Which by the way, it's
called bags. Um, that's insane. Man, shot a dude.
Shot a dude. Shot a dude in his car. Bro, just
play bags. So he's a quadruple amputee and has
the skill to excel in bags. And drive. And murder.
And drive. Wow. Holy shit. Is there anything
- Is there anything this man can't do? That James
Weber can't do? I guess stay out of prison. Stay
out of prison. That'd be a good one. Holy hell.
Something to shoot for. Come on. You're welcome.
You're welcome. Oh, man. All right, finish this
up, man. My new story is something we talked
about on the Mark Mo radio show years ago. We
had this segment called The Other Sports. Ooh,
yes. Just atypical, like ESPN, the Ocho type
sports, one of which was wife carrying, if you
recall that. I do. The Associated Press made
a story on this. Oh no. Finnish pear wins a barrel
of ale in annual wife carrying contest in England.
Wow, I love it. So this comes from the London
AP. To have and to hold took on a new meaning
for about two dozen couples who put their relationships
to the test on a grassy hill in southern England.
Wives and girlfriends clung on for dear life
as their partners carried them up and down a
hillside for the UK's wife carrying race, one
of the country's quirkiest annual sports events.
On Sunday, Timu Tuvinen and Jata Linonen from
Finland were crowned the winners at 1 minute
and 45 seconds. Their prize? A barrel of local
ale. Which, by the way, a barrel, I believe,
is over 30 gallons. Yeah, it is. That's a lot
of ale. That's so cool. The awkward foot race
in Dorking, Surrey. which is a real place, is
said to be inspired by a 19th century Finnish
legend about a gang of pillagers that steals
women. These days the emphasis is on light -hearted
fun, silly costumes are encouraged, racers can
be males or females carrying anyone over the
age of 18, weighing at least 50 kilo, which is
about 110 pounds give or take. Sure. Those underweight
need to wear a backpack filled with flour to
bring them up to the minimum weight. Oh no. To
make it all fair, right? Right. Quote the organizers
say, you do not have to carry your own wife.
It could be someone else's wife. Oh no way. They
should ideally weigh less than you do. Couples
choose their own carrying technique. Most of
them go with the Quote Estonian hold where the
wife hangs upside down Facing the carriers ass
with their legs crossed in front of the carriers
face. Oh my god, that's crazy Contestants racing
on these gently sloping hillsides over a course
380 meters. So you're talking about four football
fields for all the Americanos out there You're
talking four football fields in just a minute
and change for that finished couple that won
the barrel of ale. God bless wife racing. That's
great. That's great. See, I think here's the
thing. All right, so my new roommate, she weighs...
maybe like 20 pounds. She's a small lass. She's
very sprite -like. I feel like we could be contenders
and I'm not wearing a sack of sand or whatever
the hell they put in there. If she fits within
50 kilo, you'll be good. Yeah. So I'm going to
declare this right now. Yes. We are going to
go to England, and we are going to compete, and
we are going to win this thing. I swear to God,
we're going to take this thing, and we're going
to win. We're going to win the damn thing, and
we're going to take it. We're going to win that
ale. We're going to do the whole freaking thing.