VIncent Pastore who played Big Pussy on the Sopranos passed away this week. In his honor we are replaying out show with playwright/actor Brad Forenza who worked with him on his award winning podcast Around the Sun

Mark and Nicole welcomed Brad Forenza, the creator of the award winning radio play Around The Sun to the lighter side of the dark side for a wonderful conversation.

Brad talked about how growing up in Jersey City has made him identify as a New Yorker, even though he is in a different state. He was able to turn his short plays to a serious of audio plays called Around the Sun which features such acting luminaries as Vincent Pastore, Robert Funaro and Maureen Van Zant from the Sopranos, Marsha Mason (the Goodbye Girl), Austin Pendleton (My Cousin Vinny), Sally Struthers (All In The Family), BD Wong (Father of the Bride), Piper Laurie (Carrie), Richard Kind (Mad About You), Richard Kline (3s Company), Mindy Cohn (The Facts of Life), Bruce Villanch (Hollywood Squares) who apparently has a crush on Brad’s stepfather and many many more. Brad details how he was able to work with such illustrious actors, discuss his writing process, what it is like to win podcast awards (Mark is so jealous) and what is in store for Season 3 which takes a departure from previous seasons and features 95 year old legend Estelle Parsons (Bonnie and Clyde) Francois Clemens (Mr. Rogers Neighborhood), comedian Judy Gold and another all star cast.
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In response to fan requests, Mark and Nicole were joined by artist and goth trendsetter Queenie Black for a fun show which truly takes you to the lighter side of the dark side.

Queenie talked about growing up as a "Valley Girl" who transitioned from being a punk rocker to loving Adam and The Antz (with a Z) to loving the emerging Death Rock scene as it was known then. She gives her own definition of what is goth and what is gothic, talks about her impressive 190 pound weight loss and how she deals with having vitiligo. She has become an impressive artist, with her dolls fetching big numbers on ebay, offering all sorts of unique creepy fun things on her etsy site and she details the story of how she was courted by Hot Topic and how a corporate takeover led her to manufacture a significant number of dolls with now distribution.
She also describes her online following which has accepted her as royalty from the chat rooms in the 90s to TikTok and beyond today...

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Blogger and model The Strange Goth and comedian Dave Carter joined Hannah and Mark for a fun show and found that they had a lot in common. The Strange Goth talked about her parents recognizing the darkness within her at an early age. How she initially found he goth scene in the Bay Area but has now found a home in the Los Angeles scene. She talks about what it was like to be on the cover of LA Weekly’s goth issue, why she doesn’t wear black all the time, what it is like being a woman of color in the goth scene and set the scene for her future wedding where she will walk down the aisle on fire. Dave talked about how he discovered death rock and darker music while serving in the Air Force (where he was assigned to play volleyball), his beginnings doing improv in the hallowed halls of Second City in Chicago, his work as a voice over actor as the voice of dramas on FreeForm among others, how his wife reacts to him making jokes about her in his stand up act and how he is at a point now where his 5 year old daughter gives him advice on how to audition and survive in show business. And we discussed the eternal arguments…are The Smiths, Marilyn Manson and Depeche Mode goth?

In this classic episode from the dark pandemic days of 2020 beautiful adult film star Crystal Rush joined Mark for an uncensored one on one interview.
Crystal talked about growing up in Russia (though not St. Petersburg as reported) how she learned english and of course the dirty words first, How Russians get porn even though it is forbidden. How her bisexuality was forbidden and punished in unfortunate ways, How she became a MILF superstar and starred in so many stepmother videos at such a young age, is very honest about her plastic surgery and commitment to fitness, how she loves a bald head on a man and is in many ways now following her wildest dreams.

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Mark and Nicole welcomed TomiRae Brown, Sin Twisted and Martin McNeil for a 4th of July party in this classic Dark Mark Show from 2015

TomiRae reminisced about being a teenager on the Sunset Strip, living with Guns N Roses (all of them), what its like to have a business meeting with Madonna, to her marriage with James Brown. She went over everything about JB from the definition of a Sex Machine to how he styled his famous hair.

Sin talked about how she will be performing in Dubai and how she took Pogo of Marilyn Manson to see James Brown at the Hollywood Bowl and how everyone was dancing in the aisles.

Martin talked about starting out in a band in England in the 90s and the road that has taken him to where he is now as the #1 British artist on Reverb Nation.

Martin and TomiRae sang 2 songs live and Sin brought out her grinders and let sparks fly in the studio.

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In another Pride Month classic from 2022 legendary drag queen and host of the talk show Amber Live! Amber LeMay joined Mark and Nicole for a fun and flirty show,

Amber was zooming from Vermont and had lots of positive things to say about the state, from its lush scenery to its "live and let live" attitude (though it seems to be behind on its marijuana laws. She described growing up as a gay man in Ohio as not exactly as Glee depicted and Oprah Winfrey gets some credit in how she came out to her parents. She talked about founding the drag troupe House of LeMay who came directly from the "Hot Damn Trailer Park", raising money for many worthy charities (which included repelling down a 9 story building !), and starting Amber Live! which has given her the nickname "The Larry King of Drag" and given her the opportunity to interview several cast members of the Sopranos, Hal Sparks who showed Amber his thong and none other than Tiger King's Carol Baskin!

Amber also flirted with Mark and reiterated that there is nothing "straight" about her

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Mark and Hannah welcomed comedian and author Aidan Park to the lighter side of the dark side. Aidan talked about growing up working in a video store in South Korea where he discovered a love of musical theater by watching Sister Act, how he had a tough time when he went to the USA as a chubby child who did not speak english, having to find work on (ahem) Craigslist, and experiencing truly hard times but through hard work, studying NLP, and a change in attitude became the star of Jeremy Lin The Musical, the YouTube show my life on the F List and a top stand up comedian producing one of Hollywood's top LGBTQIA+ showcases Rainbow Pop, falling in love and writing his new book The Art of Being Yay! complete with a forward by Margaret Cho. This is truly a funny, emotional and inspiring show.

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Comedy legend Tom Dreesen passed away today at the age of 86. He was one of the all time stand up comedy greats and one of the nicest guys in show business. In honor of his passing we are replaying his appearance on our show in 2020.

In this Dark Mark Show classic from 2020 Legendary comedian Tom Dreesen joined Mark and Hannah as he talked about his extraordinary life and 51 year comedy career.

Tom grew up poor on the southside of Chicago and became part of the first (and last) interracial comedy team Tim and Tom with Tim Reid of WKRP and Sister Sister fame. He talks about then going solo, meeting and befriending David Letterman, going on The Tonight Show for the first time, performing comedy on American Bandstand and Soul Train, how Sammy Davis Jr. made his Las Vegas debut a smash, how being in the right place at the right time got him is longtime spot opening for Frank Sinatra, how special a performer and generous a person Frank was, what it was like to guest host for David Letterman for a night and stories about other famous friends like Joe Pesci, Smokey Robinson, Clint Eastwood, Kevin Costner, Dean Martin, as well as great learning lessons in life and comedy.

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