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  • 340: It's Shakespeare You Dick!

    340: It's Shakespeare You Dick!
    Apr 27 2025
    Since the revival of Othello with Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhall is tearing it up on Broadway and the Los Angeles Rennaisannce Faire in full swingit seems an opportune time to replay our Shakespearean episode with Lisa Ann Goldsmith and Owen Thompson of the award winning podcast "The Bardcast: It's Shakespeare You DicK"

    Podcasts collide this week as Mark and Nicole welcome actor/directors/scholars Lisa Ann Goldsmith and Owen Thompson of the award winning podcast "The Bardcast - It's Shakespeare You Dick!" to the lighter side of the dark side.

    Lisa Ann and Owen discussed the amount of dick jokes and sex in Shakespeare's work, how technology is proving he wrote his plays and also that he likely was a stoner and a bit of a thug. They break down the good and the bad in the new Tragedy of Macbeth and other Shakespearean films. Lisa Ann talks about starring in the show "Chicks with Dicks" (the dick is not where you would think) and Russell Crowe being a bit of a diva until you stand up to him. Owen talked about directing immersive theater, what it was like to cast legendary author Quentin Crisp in drag and how their podcast got its provocative name from bikers at a Renaissance Fair and more...

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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • 339: Happy 4/20 with Tommy Chong

    339: Happy 4/20 with Tommy Chong
    Apr 20 2025
    In the spirit of 4/20 ending up on Easter Sunday we are rerunning the show with legendary comedian and weed smoker Tommy Chong from 2022 which was reported in Variety, Yahoo, Deadline and all over the internet news sites at the time

    Mark and Nicole welcomed back Tommy Chong who was apparently so high he forgot who they were but had a great conversation about breaking up and getting back together with Cheech, almost going broke while filming Up In Smoke, discovering Pee Wee Herman and Michael Winslow, how Robert Altman inspired Next Movie, what its like to smoke weed with Willie Nelson, Gary Busey, and a celebrity you would never expect, how he became the squirrel master in prison for real after playing one in Half Baked, how he is planning on adopting Dark Mark and many of his fans, how Matrix actor Marcus Chong adopted him,if he will be in That 70s Show's new reboot, how proud he is of Rae Dawn Chong's success and how much he met his wife and still loves her after all of these years and so much more...

    We talked about smoking weed too....

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    1 hr and 37 mins
  • 338: The very first Dark Mark Show from April 1, 2013

    338: The very first Dark Mark Show from April 1, 2013
    Apr 2 2025
    It was 12 years ago today that The Dark Mark Show taped its first episode from The Jon Lovitz Club at Universal Citywalk. Here it is in all its unedited splendor.

    In his premiere episode Dark Mark shares some absinthe with his guests and watches the mayhem ensue. News Anchor/Activist Bree Walker gives her wildest interview ever as she reminisces about interviewing Sid Vicious and Mick Jagger as well as being a sexy "Puma". Her BFF comedian Susan McIntosh brings her New York attitude and very unusual "green" hat. Magician Michael Vile of A&E Freakshow literally pulls smoke rings out of the air and makes objects spontaneously appear
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • 337: Dante from 2022

    337: Dante from 2022
    Mar 21 2025
    Comedian Dante who has known Mark since they were both teenagers joined Mark and Nicole for a fun and very funny show 3 years ago today

    Dante has been a force in front of and behind the camera for many years. Starting to perform at the Comedy Store before he could legally drink he helped Jamie Foxx get on stage for the first time, lived with Amy Schumer on Last Comic Standing won the Funniest Black Man in LA (!) ran for Mayor and now manages celebrities and up and comers as CEO of Golden Artists Entertainment

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    1 hr and 19 mins
  • 336: Dread Persephone and Micah Cover from 2023

    336: Dread Persephone and Micah Cover from 2023
    Mar 10 2025
    Micah the Magician and singer/songwriter Dread Persephone joined Mark and Nicole for a magical good time

    Micah talked about how he landed his appearance on Penn and Teller Fool Me in a very unusual way and what goes on in such a performance (in his case he had to purchase jumbo cards for Allyson Hannigan to handle) his appreciation for Edgar Allen Poe which has led to his annual variety show in tribute to Poe, how difficult it really is to juggle blindfolded while in a wind tunnel, how lucrative his residuals are for his recurring role as "buffoon #1" on Dawson's Creek and goes in depth on the legacy of Houdini and how every magician aspires to be in a straightjacket.

    Erin aka Dread Persephone talked about her love of Greek mythology, was surprised to learn of a British band with the same name (who of course will have to change it now) went into detail about how to build a homemade synthesizer, why she doesn't consider herself goth but goth adjacent, why she is a one person band and the challenges of playing live without a band, how even though she has a more electronic sound how she is mainly inspired by Tom Waits and Nick Cave and recites a lyric she was surprised she wrote

    Oh, and Nicole does a little magic as well...

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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • 335: RIP Aaron Rossi

    335: RIP Aaron Rossi
    Mar 10 2025
    Aaron Rossi who drummed for Ministry, Prong, Rob Zombie, John 5 and many others passed away in January 2025. In his rememberance we replay his appearance in The Dark Mark Show in 2014 with then Ministry guitarist Sin Quirin…

    Sin Quirin and Aaron Rossi of the band Ministry joined Mark and Josi to talk music and enjoy some peanut butter cups and juggling.
    Sin talked about recording the latest "final" Ministry album From Beer to Eternity, how hearing Ministry on cassette tape changed his approach to music, the pitfalls of playing guitar in front of a fence, referred to Mark's Ministry hockey jersey as a "onesie", reminisced about being in Society 1 with a few future Ministry members and talked about his new band Supermanic and teaching guitar at the Grammy museum.

    Aaron talked about exceeding Al Jourgensen's drum expectations at his first rehearsals as he played the parts that 2 drummers usually play, how John 5 practices guitar in the bathroom, confirmed there is no beef between Rob Zombie and Al Jourgenson, how Al reacted to getting a bottle of Marilyn Manson's absinthe as a gift, playing in his new Brazilian band Black Oil fronted by Tony Campos of Static X and explained how to attain that uniquely powerful Ministry drum sound.
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    55 mins
  • Carl Crew from 2021

    Carl Crew from 2021
    Feb 24 2025
    Friend and frequent guest Carl Crew passed away yesterday. In tribute we are replaying his appearance from 2021 with legendary comedian Joey Gaynor

    Carl Crew the star of Blood Diner and The Secret Life of Jeffrey Dahmer and comedy legend Joey Gaynor joined Mark and Nicole just in time for Halloween

    Carl talked about his club California Institute of Abnormal Arts, which is now displaying an exact replica of The Elephant Man's bones in addition to 3 embalmed dead bodies including an amazingly preserved over 100 year old dead clown, and has been the home of Bigfoot wrestling. Carl comes from a family of Bigfoot experts and he has an interesting theory of what BIgfoot might really be and he gave a preview of his unlikely upcoming Jeffrey Dahmer movie sequel and so much more

    Joey talked about how he became friends with Richard Pryor, after being a fan, which led to him opening for Pryor when he played in LA, he talked about paranormal activity he witness at The Comedy Store in Hollywood and Westwood, which landed him on Unsolved Mysteries, his experiences working at Famous Monsters magazine and it's eccentric owner J. Forest Ackerman, how he is an unlikely star in Greece he time he motorboated Brigitte Nielsen (!) and so much more
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    1 hr and 32 mins
  • 334: RIP Carl Crew

    334: RIP Carl Crew
    Feb 24 2025
    Friend and frequent Dark Mark Show guest Carl Crew (he was on the 2nd show which is now officially lost media) passed away yesterday. In tribute to this one of a kind person we are replaying his appearance in 2019 with legendary comedian Joey Gaynor

    Mark and Hannah welcomed cult horror movie icon and the P.T. Barnum of Burbank Blvd Carl Crew and legendary stand up comedian Joey Gaynor to the lighter side of the dark side...and did they both have some great stories to tell.

    Carl talked about how he got the role in Blood Diner and how he made The Secret Life of Jeffrey Dahmer...the only movie about him that Dahmer actually saw. He talked about the history of his club the California Institute of Abnormal Arts which features 3 corpses on display and is now being converted to Chinatown East and how his family are the utmost experts on Bigfoot

    Joey talked about starting out with Garry Shandling and how they did bar gigs together, being inspired by the fearlessness of Richard Pryor and Paul Mooney, what it was like to party with Sam Kinison and seeing the fabled Atuk curse firsthand, what it was like to wrestle women with Andy Kaufman and finishes the show with his Sinatra style version of the Addams Family Song that was featured on Elvira's Haunted Hits.
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    1 hr and 12 mins
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