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On this Episode of the Q, Andy Echele comes back and discusses one of his oldest bits from 5 years ago when the two discuss the FIRE TAX some people pay in different cities across the country and what andy's view on that is. Also, the US government decided to revamp some of their currency and their decision to remove Andrew Jackson from the $20 bill. They Replaced it with Harriet Tubman on the $20...

Producer Bobby and Mark Bland fly solo on this show.  Mark is having a week and it shows in the conversation with the on again/off again Producer Bobby.  First up Mark and Bobby discuss the biggest story in the USA currently which is Donald Trump explaining that it is alright for women to be punished for having an abortion.  Of course, this set off the entire country pitting liberals and conservat...

It's been a bit but Andy Echele, the former co-host of Absolute Wrestling Radio, brings his unique and direct brand of opinionation back to the Q.  And what a perfect time for it too.  Mark dusts off the old Tournament of Pop Culture and decides to break down the BEST DRUG MOVIE EVER for your listening enjoyment.  Of course the classics make the list like Goodfellas, Scarface and Cheech and Chong....

For the third time in our shows history, ED REGGI decides to bring all his flamboyant opinions and thoughts to the listeners of the Q.  Oh, but he is not the only blast from the past.  Matt Krueger joins in to mix it up with Mark and Ed. First up, Matt breaks down his upcoming wedding and Ed lets us know whether he is a purveyor of the herbal spirits that some are into. This ofcourse leads into a...

Well Vitaly has been in the country since December and its time for him and his wife to make that fateful trip back to the USSR here in a week.  But before he goes, Mark decides to bring him onto the show one more time to talk about Donald Trump, The Brussel's Attacks and the value of living in 2016.  But he forced us to have Proucer Bobby on the show too if he came on...begrudgingly we said OK. F...

Oh its the 255th ep. of the show and there are so many things going on, its impossible to figure them all out.  First up, Marco Rubio has dropped out of the Primaries (for now) and is watiing till the convention comes along to see who walks out of the convention as the Republican nominee.   Next up, St. Louis Comedian Jon Maddy joins to wax poetic about the STL comedy scene.  He and Mark discuss h...

First we had Evan Gelistico and now his Tag Partner Pierre Abernathy decides to sit down with Mark Bland and discuss the world around us. Pierre breaks down how he got into wrestling and the people that he met along the way.  Which eventually leads to his owning and running Anarchy Wrestling.  It definitely was not a easy transition for the wrestler whose been performing for 10+ years, but a neces...

DEYEMOFO is back on the show and ready to dive into all the heat that came out of the last show he was on two weeks ago.  First up, Mark decides to lead off with some hate mail because....well because he gets a ton of it! This letter chastizes him AGAIN for the SCOTUS discussion a few weeks back and that leads right into the first topic being the Super Tuesday Primary results. Mark wasn't paying a...

Producer Bobby makes his return to catch up and discuss all that is right and wrong with the world.  Mark is immediately set to making the record straight regarding some things he said in the previous show because many angry conservatives (its always just angry conservatives) were mad he didn't detail the SCOTUS situation regarding the 2000 election out enough for their liking.  Not that what he s...

Antonin Scalia has passed away and the candidates and the conservatives are just besides themselves with fury and anger over Obama possibly appointing a successor. Mark is joined on the jaunt to discuss this issue with none other than former Q co-host and visitor Justin Deming!  Justin also has a couple choice words for the conservatives of america that have decided to become a obstacle for the Le...

Do you know Evan Gelistico?  Well get to know him on this episode of the Q.  Evan is a pro-wrestler and pop culture afficianado that decided to jump on the show to talk with Mark.   First up, Evan discusses his early days learning to be a pro-wrestler and wrestling in trailer parks and inclimate weather to perfect his abilities. Evan jumps through tons of stories about his early days and some of h...

  Producer Bobby is back and chocked full of NFL talk since the SuperBowl just happened.  But lets not get ahead of ourselves. First up is Phillip Andrew Morton, the director of Spanish Lake, a documentary on Netflix about White flight and re-zoning in a blighted area of St. Louis County that used to be a typical area for people to raise their families in. But after the Pruett-Igoe housing project...

An amazing show in store for everyone this week!  First up is John Lee Dumas.  Mark and JLD have been trying to get together on the air for a little bit and were finally able to pull it off.  John is a respected and influential social media and podcast host who talks with entrepeneurs weekly on his show.  After 6 years, JLD has amassed over 1700+ interviews and worked with some of the top people a...

Last year, the Academy Awards turned heads when they seemed to nominate no people of minority background for their Academy Awards. Immediately the world took notice and Mark's guest April Reign was the first to social media with the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite .  Well it happend in 2016 too.  And the hashtag re-emerged too bring attention to the travesty at hand.   Mark discusses the situation and hash...

Well it wsa a rough week for the St. Louis area as they lost their NFL franchise, but fret not....Mark decided it was time to bring an old friend of the show back from obscurity. Vitaly jumped on a plane in mother Russia and cruised over here to the US of A to sit down with Mark and Producer Bobby to discuss the Stan Kroenke NFL decision.  Mark discusses how this type of decision making applies to...

Well for the second Q-view interviews, Mark decides to sit down with Moe Rock, a producer and music artist.  But Moe goes deeper than that.  Moe is also founder of one of the most influential hip hop websites of the past few years called NowHiphop.com. Moe discusses his early years in the Twin Cities before jumping out to the west coast to pursue his music career.  Mark finds out about his fanbase...

Well the lunatics have taken over the asylum again and this time around Sam Richardson a noted Pro-Wrestler and Trainer from the St. Louis area joins in to discuss all the fun. Sam and Mark go back a few years and Sam explains his love of comics and all things geeky, as well as his involvement in prowrestling and beginnings to his career.  Sam is also a comic book author and he discusses his backg...

St. Louis film maker and documentarian Jim Dreyer joins the show to discuss some of his recent documentaries.  Jim produced an award winning film on the rise and fall of Ozark Airlines, a midwestern airline that was eventually purchased by TWA 20+ years ago.   Jim is currently producing and directing a new film regarding the sport of Disc Golf called "Game of Throws".  The documentary focuses on t...

Josh Gilbert, a producer and radio guy from 550 KTRS, joins Mark on this weeks show.  Mark discusses the amazing time he had at the Missouri Botannical Gardens glow chirstmas walk and how many others need check it out and make it their yearly go to from here on out. Plus Mark talks about the Richard Grenell show and how well it turned out. Josh and Mark start talking about their early days in radi...

An action packed show is what is in store for you.  First and foremost, we are joined this week by friend and talking head Matt Thomas who brings his unique personality and focus to the current events of the day.   Right off the bat, Mark sits down with Videogame professional and legend TriForce Johnson to discuss his career in gaming.  Mark caught wind of TriForce from a well known documentary ca...

The Q is taking a week off for the holiday break, but that doesn;t mean the world of radio does.  Mark welcomes noted FOX NEWS contributor and outspoken conservative Richard Grenell to the show. Mr. Grenell was a memeber of the Mitt Romney campaign in 2012 and has had an illustrious career in politics.  Mark and Richard started this whole thing off with a wars of words on Twitter when Mark called...

Paris was attacked.  It was horrible and horrible people need to be punished for it. But there is more to it than that.  Andy Echele joins again to discuss the Paris attacks, it's implications and everything surrounding it. Should we fear ISIS?  This is a major question brought up in the show and discussed at length.  Is Obama to blame for any of it?  This is discussed in detail to. This all leads...

The University of Missouri is up in arms currently cause the students feel that they're complaints about racial issues are not being taken seriously. This has thrust the University into the national spotlight regarding racial issues and the state and country are split.  But there seems to not be a lot of examples to hang our hats on and Mark welcomes Adny Echele on the show to illuminate these rel...

Shane Presley of the Rock Paper Podcast decides to sit in with Mark and Producer Bobby to talk about his love of podcasting and the formation of his show. Shane explains his background of what got him involved in the local scene and his love of music and comedians.  This sends Mark down the path of bringing up the background of comedians (not all, just many)and how they tend to be people that are...

Producer Bobby comes back for a spell to discuss the lack of professional courtesy the Q was shown recently regarding a PR company in the St. Louis Area. Mark and Bobby talk about how many giveaways the Q has done to benefit the fans of the show and how they have never been treated as disrespectfully as they were recently with a "haunted house" in STL. Then they switch gears to discuss a female st...