The Dark Mark Show

Singer/songwriter/soon to be podcaster Jacqueline Van Bierk and stand-up comedian Franchie San Pedro joined Mark this week and the conversation just would not stop. Jacqueline just got back from France and talked about what it's like to compose music for Oprah Winfrey how to get a live crowd up and dancing how she motivates people on her YouTube channel and her new podcast The Stories That Build U...

10 (!) years ago today former WWE NXT Diva Skyler Moon aka Buggy Nova who was then known as Invexi Li, comedian David Burger and Scone from the internet show Pinkgirl & Scone joined Mark and Josi for a battle royal of a show. Invexi talked about changing her name from her independent wrestling name of Buggy Nova, which was changed to Skyler Moon when she was in WWE, though she did not explain...

After just over 2 years and counting, Dark Mark's weight loss journey continues. He is now down 85 lbs and 10 inches in the waist. How did he do it and how is he sustaining it? It's because he was coached by bodybuilder, nutritionist, personal trainer and coach Paige Sandgren who was on the show in 2022 to tell you how you too can get Food Freedom and talk about her extraordinary life... Paige gre...

Tommy Chong is turning 86 (!) today. Mark and Nicole had the honor of speaking to the comedy legend and hero twice. Here is the first time we spoke to Tommy in 2021 Legendary comedian Tommy Chong joined Mark and Nicole for an epic supersized show. Chong talked about everything from his being a clubowner in the 60s, being on Motown Records and discovering the Jackson Five and performing with Ike an...

10 years (!) ago this week David J. and Sasha Grey were Mark and Josi's superstar guests for a great show.   David talked about being one of the creaters of goth, how Bauhaus was influenced by dub and funk, how he wrote the lyrics to Bela Lugosi's Dead, how he just found out Love and Rockets was founded on a lie his bandmates told him, how Peter Murphy thinks of himself as Mr. Moonlight, even thou...

Rockstar Cheri Rockafella and comedian Brandon Black joined Mark and Nicole for one of the wildest shows we've had in a while... Cheri made sure to clarify that she came up with the Rockafella name way before Jay Z, She started singing in her native Houston and sings one of her first songs "Punk Slut" on air. She made her way to the Sunset Strip in the 80s where she was cut out of a Ratt video for...

Singer and Influencer Ayoka shocked the world with her apocalyptic Tweets about the solar eclipse then murdering her boyfriend and one of her children (another child having miraculously survived) and then killing herself. You can read more about it here: Who Was Ayoka? Astrology Influencer Suspected of Gruesome Killings (newsweek.com) It turns out Ayoka was on The Dark Mark Show in 2019 for a much...

Happy Easter and Trans Awareness Day everyone. Here is a classic show from 2018 with comedian and fan favorite guest Jamie Gendron and actor/writer/singer Michael Lee Gogin This podcast is sponsored by Eddie by Giddy FDA Class II medical device built to treat erectile dysfunction and performance unpredictability. Eddie is specifically engineered to promote firmer and longer-lasting erections by wo...

Mark and Hannah celebrated the 5th Anniversary of The Dark Mark Show with a magical show as they welcomed 80s teen dream girl Diane Franklin and magician Michael Vile to the lighter side of the dark side. Diane had so many stories about her roles in Better off Dead (including stories about the notorious Dan Schneider), Last American Virgin, Amityville Horror II and Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventu...

The Dark Mark Show got in touch with its inner nerd as Mark and Hannah welcomed Julia Montgomery who played Betty Childs in Revenge of the Nerds and actor/cosplayer Brett Gustafson to the lighter side of the dark side. Julia recounted growing up in New Jersey where she was a teenage model and acted in high school alongside classmate Jason Alexander quite a bit. She made some forgetful films before...

It is tasseographer, journalist and historian Rissa Miller's birthday this week so we present this classic Dark Mark Show from 2022 where Mark and Nicole first talked to her and she became one of their favorite people and guests. Rissa grew up in York, Pennsylvania and was fascinated by the vintage architecture and the ghosts within, after studying screenwriting at NYU then photojournalism at West...

Beth Lapides as a new home for her legendary alternative comedy show Uncabaret and Savannah Pope has released a new single Melancholic Goddess so in that spirit here is a classic Dark Mark Show featuring them both from 2019 It was a fun sized show this week as Mark and Hannah welcomed the queen of Alternative Comedy Beth Lapides and powerhouse singer/songwriter Savannah Pope to the lighter side of...

Melrose Larry Green, Sin Fisted and Nik Sin joined Mark and Josi for a wild classic Dark Mark Show from 2014 Melrose talked about being an accountant to such stars as Andrew Dice Clay and a Hollywood tour guide. He said he finds it a huge compliment when Howard Stern plays "cookoo" sounds when he talks, inferred that Mark was gay a few times, talked about his experience with the fetish and S&M...

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 Letterm...

It is  co-host Hannah's birthday this week and Dark Mark threw her quite a birthday party in 2021 including some of her BFF's and favorite past guests such as stand-up comedians Jamie Gendron and Nikki Wantz, pinup model and fashion designer Tamera Von Tart, her Vegans Uncensored podcast co-host Mary Zaint, her then boyfriend the lead singer of Motorbone Josh Tripp, magic by Michael Vile, a psychi...

Academy Award nominee and star of the new HBO show True Detective Night Country John Hawkes and horror movie icon Rodney Eastman joined Mark and Hannah for some spirited conversation and music in this classic Dark Mark Show from 2019. John is someone who has been in so many big movies, but says he can walk the street and go unnoticed much of the time. He describes how he was able to stay awake whi...

Master Arcane and Kat Byslka joined Mark for a wild conversation about BDSM and all things S & M Master Arcane talked about his journey which started at age 5 as the only boy in the neighborhood, continued through being a teenager playing with an older woman, to the Amsterdam fetish scene in the 90s to now teaching people the ropes (no pun intended) with his online school The Crow Academy. He...

In this classic Dark Mark Show from 2018 Mark and Nicole welcomed dating coach Marni the Wing Girl and the most interesting person in the world Sin Twisted to the lighter side of the dark side. Marni's journey to being a dating coach started at a singles mixer where she helped men approach women, which led to her being approached by pickup artist Ross Jeffries, which has led to her making appearan...

Enjoy this Dark Mark Show classic from 2015 That Chris Gore, Tessah LaCoyle and former cohost Josi Kat joined Mark and Nicole for the 2nd Anniversary Special Dark Mark Show. Chris talked about his proposed Fan Fiction panel at Wondercon being misunderstood and attacked by a Twitter mob, that he does not own as many action figures as you might think, how he turned down replacing Roger Ebert on tele...

In a Christmas classic from 2019 Mark welcomes Ela Darling, the Marketing Director of ViRo Club and Adult Film performer and Santa Claus who took time out of his busy schedule to stop by. Ela talked about how adult film stars tend to be deceptively smart, and how she got her Masters Degree in 2 years and became a librarian, who turn out to be freedom fighters. Mark complimented her acting while bo...

After 10 years of outrageously hilarious shows The Dark Mark Show comes to an end with a bang as Mark and Nicole threw a holiday special like you've never seen before with contortionist/burlesque dancer/cosplayer Sin Twisted and Santa Claus. Sin talked about how Andy Dick once tried to bum rush her while she was onstage inside an R2D2 shell, talked about her experience with swingers' clubs and how...

Mark and Nicole brought back 2 of their favorite guests Pro Dom, Life Coach and Sex and Relationship Guru Orpheus Black and comedian/actress Vanja Renee for a wild supersized show. Orpheus described himself as a “big nerd” but has been helping men, women and couples get in touch with their kinky side for a long time now and talks about his current poly relationship with 4 women, finding kinky wome...

Dakota the Bearded Lady returned to The Dark Mark Show (as did former cohost Hannah) to talk about her move to Las Vegas, some scary and dangerous stunts she and her fellow performers have pulled off lately, how she deals with jerks who think her beard is fake and to talk about how her mother lost her house in the hurricane and the upcoming benefit she is producing with Mark. As a bonus, stay tune...

Writer/Director/Cinematographer Colin Bressler joined Mark and Nicole for a lively discussion which tickled the film nerd in Mark. Colin has been a cinematographer for years and finally defines what that is and gives examples of good and bad cinematography. He has worked on projects as diverse as the PBS science series Nova as well as My 600 pound life and describes the disparate challenges of bot...

Mark and Nicole welcomed Nancy Narayana and Krista Kira to the lighter side of the dark side. They both perform at parties and definitely brought the party to the studio as they talked cosplaying, DJing, tarot card reading, The Doo Dah parade, Sybil Dannings potty mouth and so much more! Nancy also gave Mark a sexy belly dance for his birthday. Get some Dark Mark Show gear Go to www.teepublic.com/...