Aunty Donna Podcast - Triplets: A Twins Saga Feat. Gareth Reynolds

Episode Date: September 17, 2024

Mark has gone to death but turns out American Mark is the best Mark. Only one Mark will live.  LINKS  Listen to Gareth’s podcasts The Dollop and We’re Here To Help If you're in the US you should check out Gareth’s upcoming tour dates https://www.garethreynolds.com/events  Follow @theauntydonnagallery on Instagram https://bit.ly/auntydonna-ig Become a Patreon supporter at http://auntydonnaclub.com/   CREDITS  Hosts: Broden Kelly, Zachary Ruane, & Mark Bonanno  Guest: Gareth Reynolds Producer: Lindsey Green Digital Producers: Nick Barrett, Jim Cruse & Tanya Zerek Audio Imager: Mitch Calladine  Supervising Producer: Elise Cooper   Managing Producer: Sam Cavanagh   Join The Aunty Donna Club: https://www.patreon.com/auntydonnaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A listener production. Welcome to this week's episode of the Auntie Donna podcast, where we feature another Mark in the Markiverse. We're very excited for you to meet him. If you want to see the video and some other very and I'll use the word cool stuff. Head to the Auntie Donna Club powered by Patreon to see the video version of this, but also

lots of fun shit we do. We work really hard on that and we want to make good content. So we hope you enjoy it and we hope you enjoy this episode with superstar Gareth Reynolds from The Dolip, one of the biggest podcasts in the world who was lucky enough, was lucky enough to have him come hang out with us. He also does a podcast called Here to Help, which is awesome as well. Enjoy this episode. Chat soon. Well, the Only Donna podcast, folks, earlier this year, at some juncture. At some juncture, sometime in the past. Oh, you and I know. Six months.

Could be a week. Could be a week. Doesn't matter. But we're not banking them. We'd never. And Merry Christmas. Now this, well you met earlier this year Big Thick Mark. Big Thick Mark.

Because Mark who is the... And this year Big Thick Mark. Big Thick Mark. Because Mark who was the- And we loved Big Thick Mark. Now if you didn't hear that episode, he was the fetal twin of Mark who ate Mark in the womb. Mm-hmm. And, but then Mark came back, canonically. With no explanation, we didn't address it. But luckily for us, we've-

Sadly for us, because Mark has gone away again, he's dead again. But luckily for us, there was a third fetal twin. We've now found out it was triplets, Much like the long gestating film starring Eddie Murphy alongside... Twins? Yeah. Oh, they're the third twins. They were working on a third one called Triplets starring Eddie Murphy as the triplet. Much like that film.

That didn't happen. That didn't happen. I'm trying to use it as a metaphor to paint an image in people's heads. But that film doesn't exist. It doesn't help. Well, it exists in the mind of a number of Hollywood executives. And a script. The one that got away.

Yeah, there's probably a couple of scripts. We found the third twin. With the triplet. I'm trying to explain the concept of triplets to people. Oh, yeah, because a twin, yeah. So much like the... Would it have been called triplets? I believe so, yeah.

Yes. Or would it have been called Triplets? I believe so, yeah. Or would it have been called Twins 2? Twins plus 1. Twins 2, Triplets. Twins 3. Triplets a Twins Saga. Yeah, I reckon it would have been called Twins... ...something. Because of the branding.

Yeah, that's true. What about triplets? Triplets are a twins adventure. That's good. We found a third twin. Please welcome American Mark. Hello. Hi. Hey, American Mark. Awesome to keep the franchise going.

Yeah. Do you think of yourself as a triplet or a third twin? I think of myself as the third twin. Okay, I really thought I had that one in the bag there. Triplet is not, I'm not gonna get too pronoun-y, but yeah, triplet is not the preferred term. Okay, okay, yeah, sure. Do you like twins, a twin, a tr- a twins, what is it? Twins.

Twins. No, triplets. A twins saga? Yeah. Yeah, I like that. I mean, are you asking me for my branding or for the branding of the twins franchise? Because for the twins franchise, I think you're right. The twins colon something is the way to go.

But for me, I don't mind triplet a twins saga. See, I think what you get there is you get Triplets, you get the creatives are happy because that is the natural extension of the series. It should be called Triplets. Yes. But the execs are happy because Twins is in the title. I think everyone wins out with Triplets a Twins saga. And we've all seen recently Jenny Nicholson, wonderful YouTuber, breaking down the way

that Disney has moved away from simple names for all of their IP to being these The Star Wars Adventure World Circus adventure ride. Right, leaves you more opportunities. That was months ago. Oh, totally, but that's the thing with YouTube is I can click on it right now and watch it again. I see your point. Sorry, we should explain American Mark. We've been accused in the past of banking podcast episodes of doing them months in advance.

And do you understand you're betraying your audience by doing that, right? Absolutely. Which is why we don't. This is why we need... This should be a focus every week for you to be fresh. They want our podcast as fresh as possible, as close to radio as possible. Podcasts are like produce. Yes, absolutely.

Yes. Yeah, we are the Baker's Delight of podcast. Yes. Now, what do you look like? Well, I look a lot like Mark. Yeah. Yeah. But, okay, so if you look at the twins franchise.

Okay. One of them was great looking and one of them was the crap left over. And are you saying that Schwarzenegger is the good one? The winner. Famously good looking compared to Danny DeVito. Now I don't think that's a controversial take. No, I think, and I think that take, even if this is a banked episode, will age okay in like a few months.

I don't think any, I think everyone loves Danny DeVito, but I don't think anyone's... It's in the script. In the script he's called The Crap Leftover. think anyone's... It's in the script. In the script, he's called the crap left over. So I was... Is he really? Yes. He had to be okay with... So he's signed off on calling him the crap left over. I know that beauty standards are evolving at a rapid face now with TikTok. Absolutely.

Like very quickly evolving. I don't think even if... Not that this is banked, but even if this is banked, I don't think the beauty standards are going to get to a place where Danny DeVito is more attractive than Arnold Schwarzenegger by the time this comes out. So if you were to call, if you were to do the same thing with the Marks, I would be the crap left over from the crap. So I'm the craps crap. Right. As far as the Mark.

But like, if I was to pick two things that define Mark visually, one is big beard and the other one is wears his shoes. Now, do you have a big beard? Huge beard. Big, much, much larger. I laugh at OG Mark's beard. To me that's a clean shave. Is that an American Mark thing? You know the whole cliche? Everything's bigger in the United States It's bigger. It's better, and I laugh at those inferior because it's American And I don't think it's wrong to say we're the best no everyone knows we're the best No, I don't think that you think that's wrong to say I agree with that okay. That's lawyerly, but yes

Yeah, yeah, and then the shoe thing. He never wears shoes. Yeah. I Don't acknowledge shoes Wow What's a shoe? No, I won't I won't wear them. Okay, I won't wear them knowledge No, and I won't acknowledge that others have them. Do you like my shoes? I don't see them see that was a test. It was a test American Mark. Those are bare feet to me. Wow. But mine are better. This is hard for me because I don't know if these are Americanisms or I don't know if these are Mark fetal twinisms. So what I believe and please correct me if I'm wrong here American Mark, is that what's happened here is American Mark is a fetal twin, third fetal twin of Mark and is American, born and raised. Yes.

And... Springsteen kind of thing. Yeah, yeah. Bandana in the back pocket. Are you a bit of a Springsteen's type American? Absolutely. Yeah, right. Blue collar.

Best musician of all time. No shoes, which I love about the guy. Okay, cool. Yeah. Never worn shoes. Look at pictures. Show me a picture of him. Yeah. Oh, well, there's no internet here.

Yeah, well, I have to take your word for it. Yeah, no, he's never worn shoes. Nor would anyone. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, okay. I wear shoes. Have you seen the cover, like the poster for The Devil Wears Prada? Yes.

And the book cover and stuff? Yes. What do you see when... A foot. Yeah, right? There's a foot. Yeah, okay, cuz I see a shoe with a heel. Yeah. Yeah, there's like Might be in the print here, but no, that's not something I do. You think the boyfriend is supportive The way that entourage boyfriend is aged has changed in in society. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's true. I haven't seen it since

Since since it came out. So I was there being like you go. I don't know. I don't remember He's aged poorly. Oh, yeah people are like an entourage boy. He needs to be more supportive Yeah, that's for the mentalist. He is he's evil Yeah, the mentalist horny evil but mark the other twin was wrong to call best mark Is that crazy to be asked your best mark? Yes, I like to be called best I think I'm the best mark out of all the marks. I think we might discover more marks I'd love to be back and I'd love to try to hold on to the title. I think I'll prove to you I am the number one. You have to answer these questions three one being Hold on to the title. I think I'll prove to you I am the number one. You have to answer these questions three. One being, what's the best lunch? Oh, that's a great question.

The best lunch is a burger. Okay. You take pizza and you wrap it around the burger. And then you sort of skewer it like toothpicks with fries. You dip it in ranch. Wow. And then you have a big, big soda with beer in it. What I love about a big soda with beer in it. Yeah. Yeah. See what I love about this answer is not only is it correct, but it's American mark. Yeah. It's the best. You're not gonna beat that. This is really the test here was like was he gonna say like a pasta

Ollongle? Ollongole. Ollongole. No. Cause Mark's Italian. Mark's Italian and he loves pasta Ollongole. Yeah, well he would I mean That's what makes him kind of the lowest mark on this totem. Well he's the Italian mark, isn't he? That's what we're learning in the in the Mark universe. Are you Italian American? No. Or are you just straight up? That's what we're learning in the Mark universe. Are you Italian-American? No. Or are you just straight up? I am better than the Italian, but I'm fully American.

You're fully, full American. Yes. Yeah, like we invented pizza. Oh, OK. Yeah, cool. Wow. Yeah, wow. He's more American than he is Mark.

Yeah, but that's what we're learning. Yeah. Do you know what I mean? His big, thick Mark was Mark, but big and thick. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, and you've had that we've had that You probably thought it was okay. He was pretty fun Yeah, you got the best yeah, you got the best around. Yeah, remember that lunch answer. Do I need to like it?

Did I bank that answer? Do you remember that? The mentality of being best potentially is an American ism of American mark Do you see what I'm saying? Like the idea of it's less about being the best Mark and more so about being an American saying, we are the biggest, we are the best. But we are the best. And the biggest. Exactly, see what I'm saying?

We're big, yeah. And the best. I don't need to ask the other two questions. You don't, no, I'm pretty confident I understand who this American Mark is. Now if you were to ask original Mark, or big, thick Mark three questions, you'd probably get through all three of them to try to evaluate.

But notice that my one answer was so good that you don't need them. There's an efficiency, a clarity. Yeah, I really respect that. Do we tip him? Do we have to tip you, American Mark? It would be great, yeah. I'll leave a little survey at the end and then yeah, I mean it would be great to get a little tip.

And if you have American dollars. I know you guys tip the dollar which is such a strange little move but in American dollars the best dollars. I don't know what's Mark about him now. There's very little Mark. The beard. Look at the beard. And the no shoes. Yeah no shoes. Do you do sketch comedy? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. The best sketch comedy. But what, yeah, okay. So, when you do sketch comedy. Big characters. Yeah, go ahead.

Yeah, what do you do when you do sketch comedy? Big characters, big songs, fireworks, just big, big stuff. Long things, but people get their money, people are like, whoa. It's a lot of pyrotechnics, but the characters are developed too. This is American. It's not just kind of like, you know, you're a little like, hey, I'm a wild guy. And some guys are like, hmm, I'm talking nuanced,

in depth, like really, we go deep. Little plays. Yeah, little plays is a great way of putting it. I actually avoid the term sketch. What's the best night for a sketch comedy? Friday night. Okay. But you can make every night Friday night when you're doing a show good enough

That's what we say. That's what they say on Saturday Night Live. Yeah, they do. It's so good. It feels like Friday That's so good. It feels so Friday. Yeah, not a lot of people know that. Yeah, but that's that's a good insider tip. That's good Do you do character comedy? Yeah, I can do that stuff. If I was right Do you know like do you do the same characters as Mark? So if I was to say Silly Boy- Yeah. You do Silly Boy? The silliest boy. Yeah.

And whatever you like about Silly Boy, it's better. Well, we don't like Silly Boy. But silliest boy you'd like. Oh, okay. Yeah, it's to the nth degree. It's I push it, I get it there, you know what I mean? Like, in a way, Mark is there. Mark, original Mark crawled-

Yeah, G Mark, yeah. So that best Mark is there. Mark, original Mark, crawled so that Best Mark could run. Yeah, wow. I like Best Mark. I like Best Mark too. And I like you guys. I feel good about myself. Like there's more salads here as well with this. You like, we don't have the variations of healthy food surprisingly.

No. Because people think of like, you know, America's the fat, you know, big food, but you also have more healthy options. Absolutely, well, I think, of course, whatever you want, like if, let's say you want like a tempura, we invented that. Yeah, I like that. So we can get you a tempura.

I think Japanese Mark invented that. As American Best Mark, I don't wanna get into that because I don't wanna get any controversy. Californian Mark Roll, yeah, like the sushi. Yeah, there's the California Mark Roll, which is great. Also, if you're looking for healthy options, we made tomato paste on pizza a vegetable. You did, that's true. So, that's pretty cool.

That was it, counts as a vegetable. Can I see Silly Boy? Your silliest boy? Sure. Highest silliest boy. Silly Boy! That is good. Yeah. Do you want on board with that? Well, it's silly, but it doesn't make me feel sick like Silly Boy.

Yeah, see? And what, would you not say that that's an upgrade? Well, absolutely. I mean, I hate Silly Boy. Yeah. Whereas I quite, I don't dislike Silliest Boy. Yeah. You know, and that's it. That is an upstroke. Silly Boy's palatable. Yeah, he's palatable and that's- And Silly Boy isn't, and I'll even say that as a boy. Yeah. You know? And that is an up-stroke. Silly-est boy is palatable. Yeah, he's palatable and that's a thing you do. And Silly Boy isn't.

And I'll even say that as a Mark. Yeah. And I like Mark. He's just not where we need him to be. Yeah, that's a very good point. You know what I mean? And you guys are with him and that's fine. You're the Mark the world needs.

We may not like you, but we need you. You need me. I'm the hero you need. And by the end of all this, you're gonna go, Wow, he was doing, he was ahead of the game. Yeah. Yeah. He was banking episodes that I didn't know I needed. Yeah. You know what I'm saying?

Yeah, that's pretty cool. Can you never leave? I don't wanna leave. And I can be here, and I can, if you're talking Replace, that's possible. It is in the mix for me right now That is possible. You've got to understand we grew up We're sort of of a generation. We grew up with a lot of men American culture. We got space jam You're welcome, and we got the Chicago Bulls. Yeah, very similar to the

Yeah, yeah. We've got early edition. You know, I cannot, and I talk about this a lot on my other podcasts, whenever I see Kyle Chandler in anything, all I can think of is early edition. Like all I can think of. He's now, he's one of the most established character actors. Friday Night Lights? Yeah, Friday Night Lights.

He's coach. Argo? Argo. He always plays like a sad dad. But all I'm thinking is that newspaper's just through that door. He could be saving people right now. He's got today's newspaper. That guy, well he's here dealing with a young Al Fanning who just saw Aliens.

He could be off saving people. Early edition. Yeah. That never has a role star with an actor more. It's a good concept. It's a great concept. It's a great concept. So much so that it's ruined Kyle Chandler for me. Would you bring it back and he's getting a digital newspaper now, like on his iPad?

Yeah, but it's all just weird opinion stuff. It's like, bright party. It's just really like, he's like, okay, I guess people are going to like turn on this guy tomorrow. Which brings me to my next point. American Mark, America has never been more divided culturally. Or better, or better. Go ahead.

Yeah, and politically, there is a great divide between the red and the blue, and almost these factions of these extremes. Wow, this is really political, bro. And the extremes at either spectrum. What's your thoughts on that? That is the way to get the best out of somewhere you do your best work When you're getting the hardest notes, yeah, and that's what we're doing to each other

We're running a diagnostic on ourselves If you look at America right now, you might say it's never been more divided but answer me this has it ever been better? And the answer is no it hasn't been Gonna say a different word, but then you convinced me exactly Exactly. It has never been better. And you might be... You might see us... I didn't love that. You might see us shedding our previous skin right now. So right now you might be watching going like, It's a little gross. It's a little slimy. It's a little icky.

We're gonna come out being the best butterfly we've ever been. Yeah! Okay, I hear that. Butterflies started in America. Really? Yeah! I think they started as caterpillars, but did they... Are you saying the...

Yeah, they started there then. Yeah. I think you're just like... I don't want to throw... Go ahead. ...baseless accusations here, but I think you're just sort of saying something started in America and then like even when we challenge it, you're just adjusting, moving the goal goalposts and isn't it really impressive how we do that? No, no, no go ahead follow what I think he did it again or did I or are we just kind of like celebrating?

What happened a little bit? I'm enjoying the hell out of myself. Yeah, yeah. My boys. Back to early edition. Was the cat bringing the newspaper? The cat was just there with the newspaper when he got the newspaper. So it was just he would open the door and the cat was there. I don't think it was a magic cat.

It was a magic newspaper. So for anyone listening, who is under the age of 30? 40? Sure. Early Edition was a short-lived show. It went for about three seasons starring Kyle Chandler in which he would get the early edition of the newspaper. Now, I know what you're thinking.

Well, that's just the one that... What's a newspaper? Yeah. What's a newspaper, firstly. So a newspaper, basically, for anyone listening, a newspaper is basically how we used to get the news. It was a sort of large, big piece of paper. They printed the news on it late at night and then they would distribute it throughout

the day. I think we're good on newspapers now and what he got was a newspaper that, the early edition was a term and an early edition was they would print different ones throughout the night as news got updated. But this was a very special early edition. This early edition told the future. He got tomorrow's newspaper. Today.

Today. And he would use this power of tomorrow's newspaper to, you know, maybe I remember the one humorous opening scene before the titles. He knew that someone would fall from a tree. So he was there to catch the child because the newspaper must have said the exact time that the child would fall. By the way, catching a child from a tree, possible? Yeah, no, you'd just hurt yourself, really.

It just would seem, yeah, like a couple arms would get broken as well as a child would die. Cynical from you, American Mark, but fair and scientifically probably. Well, I want the best. Yeah, absolutely. So I think it's okay to give that note to say, hey, if we're gonna redo it or something like that, well, let's get a robot involved or something, you know? A robot? You like robots? Yeah, I love robots. We invented those.

I love robots. I love robots. We have great robots. I don't know if you've seen them. We've got little dogs that shoot fire at them. They're robots, I should point out. You got little dog fire robots. Little robots. Have you heard me? You got little dog robots. Little robot dogs that'll shoot fire out of them. Alright.

Are you okay with that? I don't know. I'm starting to sour on best, man. Whoa, whoa, whoa! Come on! You're on best mark. Whoa whoa whoa! Come on! You're very sugary. Come on! You're like sugar. When you came in and you were like... Oh stop this. I'm the best one.

I am! I was like yeah. You are the best one. I'm just starting to feel a bit tired and sleepy now. But we had like a great thing going. You guys were... we were vibing. But where's the other... The robot fight though? Well I'm just trying to show you that we- look, forget I said that.

Come on. Come on. Remember when I answered Broden's question about the division? How great was that? That was- he didn't answer that very well. You know what I mean? Don't forget- look at this beard! Look at the length of this beard.

It's huge! I'm starting to think it's a little bit too long. No, come on. Well I'll trim it a little bit. My beard is big but it still has a bit of structure to it. It's a gross beard. I can structure this a little bit better and still beat OG Mark. Okay. Guys, come on. Don't jump ship yet. Don't forget to invented the caterpillar.

Yeah, but I just think you're getting a little desperate. No, no, no, no, no, no. I'll do anything. Come on. Let's... Come on. I'm really not. I feel like we're... Broden, don't jump. Zach, come on, guys. No, I... Hey, hey, hey. I'll wear a shoe. You want me to're Broden. Don't don't jump Zack. Come on guys. No Hey, hey, hey, I'll wear a shoe. You want me to put on a shoe? I don't give a shit I just think I put on some shoes and my help. Yeah, but I don't want him to put on shoes I'll put on shoes. I'll recognize your shoes and then I won't put any on. Okay, does that sound good? Zack it's not like I want you to come on. Stop Come on, stop this. Stop. I'm, please. Alright, guys. I just, I love you guys.

Can I talk to you in the kitchen? I'd love to go there. Hey, speaking of kitchen, remember the lunch? The burger, with the pizza, with the fries, with the soda, with the beer. I didn't want to say it then, but I don't really like ranch sauce. We don't need the ranch. You don't have to dip it. It's an area to dip in if you want the option. I'm giving you options, buddy.

It's just you didn't say that then. Yeah, but you don't have, it's not,'s an area to dip in if you want the option. I'm giving you options, buddy. Ah, it's just you didn't say that, man. Yeah, but you don't have... It's not... I never said you're pouring it on there. I love you guys. I never said you're pouring it on there. Okay, man. Alright? Very good. Very good. Yeah, we'll dip it. Do you mind if I just talk to Broden in the kitchen for a moment?

I do not mind at all, but I also think that maybe we should all go to the kitchen at some point after that too, and have a little bit of a hangout. Yeah, sure. Would love that. Would love that. Ah, man. Excuse us. Yeah, sure. Would love that. Would love that. Ah man. Excuse us. Excuse us for just a moment.

All right. Walking. Hey man, what's up? Hey, how are you feeling about American Mark? I'm a little off him, if I'm being honest. He's very full on. I love him, I love America. He's lying.

I love America. Can I be really honest with you? Yeah. I don't like that he's compromising so much. I really liked he had integrity, he stood by what he stood by and that was something I really liked about him. He is bending in the wind, isn't he? I didn't like one thing about the robot dogs and now he's dropped everything. I saw you emotionally just when he said the fire you I saw your eyes drop.

I'm willing to give him another shot. Yeah. If you are. What would what would he need to do? He would need to really pull it out of the bag you know. He would really need to impress me. He would need to have season tickets to basketball or something. You know, that's what they do in America.

Season tickets. What is season tickets? It's tickets to the basketball for the whole season of basketball. So he would need season tickets to the basketball. For you or just to have them? For me. You understand? Do you want to go to the basketball?

No, but I mean this is to illustrate, he would need tickets to a premiere at the TCL Chinese Theatre. Okay, season tickets to the? Season tickets to the Chinese Theatre, every premiere there. Is that a thing? No, but this is why he would need to get me on board. I like Mark. I have a strong history with OG Mark. American Mark is better, but to make up for the depth of feeling and you build up a relationship with the man over 12 years. So he's really gonna have to pull it out of the bag.

Okay, great. Well, How do you feel about America? I don't know where original Mark stood on most things, to be honest. And he, you know, he was a man of no conviction. Yeah. So you like American Mark? You're on board? At least he... At least I can feel something with this man. You understand, though, if we do this, we do this. There's no more OG Mark. Yes.

He's not coming back. By the end of this episode We will definitively have chosen American Mark or OG Mark. Should we get back in there? Yeah Hi, America How was the kitchen? Yeah, it was great How are you made? Oh really good. I'm glad you guys had that time to go do your thing, and I'm fully comfortable with that. And yeah, it's just awesome, you know? And I hope, what did you guys do in there?

Did you eat? I think it's important to tell you. Sure. Only one Mark may live. Oh my God. Oh, wow. So this is super high stakes. Just to be upfront with you.

That's great. I love that. Now, OG Mark is dead, but he's returned before. If he returns again, we're gonna have to make a choice. Okay. Yeah, well, I really think that, I mean, look, OG Mark was great. You're right. You had a great run. But, uh... We're gonna have to kill one of you.

I think that's super right and fair. And, you know, capital punishment on that level, I mean, who do you think you're talking to? But I think that it would be nice if both lived. I agree, both should live. But one could probably service us and work for us. Maybe that's what OG Mark could be great for. You know? I mean, think about it. I think that we... Look, he's been great for you.

He's been great. But let's get into the next generation of what this could be. Sure. I mean, you know? And I'll trim the beard. Like I said before, I don't mind trimming the beard at all. Okay, you don't have to trim the beard. I'll lose it. I'll shave the beard. Okay. Here's what what I could do I could shave it and have a fake beard and I think that would be great. Mm-hmm. Okay, sure Yeah, that's what you want to do man. It's not really about the beard or yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, I'm not trying to make it so Yeah, you know, you're focused. Yeah, it's not an easy thing to have to kill a man You know, no, but I'll carry it out if we need it. I'll do it. Yeah, you'll kill mark without question Yeah, I'd love it. We could get it. No problem. Oh, you'll kill Mark for us? Without question, yeah.

I'd love to. Maybe we could get them to do a little like, you know. Like a duel? Like throw a knife in the, you know. Sort of a Heath Ledger in The Joker. Oh, we throw a knife. Yeah, great. Throw a little knife and see what happens. Sure, I'm down for that.

I mean. Maybe from both, would you like a knife each? Or do you want like a knife in the middle? Go. I think a knife in the middle would be good. It's fine. There's a theatricality to it. I agree. Exactly. Do you have basketball tickets? Do I have basketball tickets on me? Yeah do you have a... well I don't want to... I don't

want to... you know he has to offer. Oh okay. There's something you have to offer. Okay I feel like it's basketball tickets. Well not just any basketball tickets. 76ers. Well it doesn't matter the team. Broden likes the 76ers. WNBA. 76ers. It doesn't matter the league. It could be 76ers. Can I just say it could be 76ers.

How many games? How many games you want buddy? What do you want? We could go, what do you want? Seven games? Ten games? Thirty games? Twenty games?

82. 82 games? Sure. You're talking season. You want season tickets? How about this? Season tickets to the 76ers games. Zach has sat up in his seat. How about this? Season tickets to the 76ers games. Zach has sat up in his seat.

How about this? 76ers basketball games. 76ers basketball games and road games. So I'm talking home games and road games. And road games, you two will be riding in a little car that says the 76ers on it. Like a couple of little 76er boys. How about that? And some Wendy's burgers. And you guys have Wendy's burgers. And if you want to wrap it in pizza with some french fries,

pretending they're toothpicks, with ranch, then it's not poured on it. It's not poured on it, my man, Zach, because I know you're looking at me with that. But Broden, you might like ranch, and I just want to keep that opportunity open. You could do that. We could do that.

I can make it happen. Let us go to the kitchen again. I really don't like when you guys are going to the kitchen. I feel like you guys go to the kitchen. And I'm all for it. But I feel like you guys go to the kitchen and then you come back with a handful of ideas that aren't- Yeah. You know.

One of these times I'd love to be invited to the kitchen. Okay. Go to the kitchen! I don't give a shit. Whatever. I'll make a phone call. I got a bunch of emails to bang out, so I'll reply to emails. Okay. Yeah, a lot of people email me. Excuse us. You sure it's okay for us to go to the kitchen?

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Mm-hmm. Where are you sitting? Well, I mean, he has season game tickets to the basketball games so for me I think that was, look I don't feel good killing Mark and and I don't really like basketball but I'm a man of my word and I said that if he had those those tickets then

I'd go with him. I'm happy to go with him. So you're a man of your word. Alright, great. Well, I feel the same. I think we're casting him. Okay, should we let him know now? Yeah. Okay, alright. My boy! Hi buddy, hey. Hug? What should we hug? Well, yeah, we can hug if you want.

Hello. Hello. Hello. We have news. Listen, obviously we haven't let everyone know yet. We haven't talked to the behind the scenes members of Aunty Donna yet. Sure.

Are you getting emotional? Well, yeah, a little bit. Because one of my friends has to die, which I think is a bit of a hint of what we're about to say. We do need you to keep this under wraps until we've told everyone. Particularly Mark, because he might go on the run if he finds out. OG Mark. OG Mark. Okay, I like how this is headed.

So we really do need you to keep this in house until we've killed who needs to be killed. But Broden, did you want to? We'd love you to join us in Aunty Donna as the Mark. Guys! So not even Best Mark, not my god. As the Mark. Guys. So not even Best Mark, not even OG. Mark. Mark, Mark. Mark, Mark, Mark.

I'm honoured. I do have to, let me ask you this. And I'm excited, so I don't wanna be, let's not go, let's not bank that episode and let's stay this way. But how important was the 76er part of the pitch to you guys in making that decision? Pivotal. Because I feel, okay, pivotal. Pivotal.

Because I just feel like we had so much going on before that and when you guys went to the kitchen I was checking my emails and I made a call and what I promised on some of that is harder to deliver Yeah, then maybe I initially thought well, I mean that was why we were so impressed when you said you had season tickets to the 76 And the away games and you get your car and all that. Yeah. Yeah all of those that was all a big part of your Well, I mean I knew how difficult that would be to get that. It turns out it's incredibly difficult, you know. So we're very impressed that you were able to achieve that. And I think that was a huge part of our-

Yeah, but I'm just saying that if that were to change a little bit, let's say it wasn't, let's say we didn't get the car and you didn't get the away games and it wasn't a 76ers car and the Wendy's part of that falls away. What does that do? Because I'm just telling you right now, I wanna give you the reality that that part is hard, as I was sort of looking into it. Again, if you guys hadn't gone to the kitchen, I don't know, maybe that reality wouldn't have hit me.

That is on us for going to the kitchen, I suppose. The kitchen trips have seemed to be pretty detrimental to this whole thing, if I'm quite honest with you. I mean, I'm still good to go with him. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, because up the up front It was a great sell, you know And just so you the actual full season home tickets to 76ers is also it is a it is a hard thing to get That's okay. That's fine. That's that part of it. I'm pretty chill. Yeah, you guys are You guys are awesome and I feel like I don't know if part of this is that you want to get rid of OG Mark or if I've hit home run after.

No, my biggest concern is you playing, you're Gareth and you live in Australia, so that's my biggest road bump. So yeah, sure. So for me, there are a couple of questions I do have still. Sure, sure, sure. You're Gareth Reynolds and you've done, you've already, so you live in the US? Correct. You're just here on a tour? For two more days, correct. For two more days.

So you leave in two days. Correct. That's a shitload of banking. You've got two other podcasts that are significantly more popular than ours. In every way. Are you willing to drop those podcasts, drop your name as Gareth Reynolds and also move to Australia permanently? And cut all ties with families and cats. That part is wild.

That's part of it. Yeah. You have to completely become Mark. Fully become Mark. You know, you have to I mean Let me let me ask you guys this quickly. Yeah, so the podcast I do the dollop and we're here to help they have hosts Would either of you be comfortable becoming the newer version of those guys? No, no, no, that sounds insane So you saying like we need to become you'd be Jake and you'd be Dave. Yeah, yeah, that makes

we need to become... You'd be Jake and you'd be Dave. Yeah. Yeah, that makes sense. Oh yeah, that feels right. You'd definitely be the Dave. I feel it feels right. Yeah, I was like, yeah, yeah, definitely the Dave, but I'm the Jake, yeah. I think I'm less the Jake than you're the Dave, but you're so the Dave that I become the Jake.

Yeah, I'm putting on the Dave now. Yeah. So, so you want to continue doing a version of like the dollop AU? I'm saying it sounds like we all need to kill a host we work with. People have to die. Three people would have to die for this to work, but if you're in. I'm saying it sounds like we all need to kill a host we work with. People have to die. Three people would have to die for this to work, but if you're in, I'm in. I feel like we're just talking about the details now. We are going to kill three people.

Mark is, OG Mark is gone. So OG Mark, with the grief. I think for the fans. That's done. Grieve him. Move on. He's dead. He's gone.

That's over. He's still alive now, but... By the time you hear this... The box. What, the cat in the box box Yeah, that was just a joke at the start. Yeah, that was just a joke at the start the the Schrodinger. Yeah. Yeah Um, he's Schrodinger's mark. Yeah. Yes. So right now is you're So yeah, but at the start when we said Mark was dead, that's not true But now now when as you listen to this will have killed him We've told the only question is do we want to kill your co-host? Jake.

Oh, so I kill Jake. Is that the idea of I have to kill whoever I take? Yeah, we'll do the same thing. Yep, nice fight. I'd better kill everyone. Broden would murder Dave. Yeah. Mmm.

I like this. And I also like there is an element of fairness. What we're essentially talking about is consolidating the three. Yes. Yeah, it's a vertical integration. Cons is consolidating the three. Yes. Yes, vertical integration. Consolidating all three. We're going to get to a place where you'll do, you know, maybe dollop on the Tuesday,

donner on the Wednesday, and then you've got this sort of situation. And we are saying, yes, I'm committed to that concept, but also, who knows who's going to win? Right. Between me and Jake, I mean, he's climbed the ranks of Hollywood. I don't want to get too cynical either as well, but the RSS feed would be awesome. It's going to be great. We just convert them all into one place. We're talking about cutting the fat.

And I think what we're really committing to here is like whoever survives the knife fights Yeah, yeah, the best the best will survive and I'm again I mean I don't not to bring it all back to America, but that's that's what's a lot of what's going on there I'm over the bit. I just want to ask you now Gareth You're Marin. You're in the show Marin. Yeah, we we had a house We're our house in Aunty Donna's Big Old House of Fun is the Marin House. Yes. We didn't realise until like after we made it.

That someone just owns a house that just makes tons of Hollywood money off of you. Yeah, exactly. And you felt like you had ownership over a place. Like, this is our house. We're like, this is the house. Did they build a set for Marin's house, like on a stand stage?

No, Marin was location. Yeah, because all in the house. In that garage at the back. Which was full of shit when we shot there. We put our video village in there, that's where like the director and shit's sat. That's his studio. Yeah. But the inside of our house was a set. The inside of our house was a set.

You mean actual shit? Like, no, no, no, like chairs and dust and things, yeah. That's the, that wasn't like that was actually just sit Yeah, I sit in mark, but it's not mark Maron's house It's mark now and the characters fake house fake house his real house is just like that though Right real setup is just like is it still like that or has he got like a fake? Mark cuz that mark Marin like a fake mark Yeah, you go when you Barack Obama's Mark, cause that Mark Maron, like a fake Mark Maron. Look at all those layers. Yeah.

Is that where you go when you Barack Obama's sat in his real garage thing. That happened. Yeah. That was cool. He sat in his real garage. Is that a fake house now that he has or is this a fake garage? Real house. All real.

Except on the show where it's a fake one. But we did the same house. Yes. And we built a house that looks like it would have the same frontage on a soundstage. Oh, right. But then when you went in the house, it was laid out entirely differently. Right. And also I put on weight because of all the yummy snacks.

Oh yeah, you just can't beat them. And we shot. Yeah, it was all those yummy snacks on the American production. And I ate them. And so on that show, whenever I step outside, I'm fatter. When I was that part of the character? Yeah, it's just like, well, I'll just step outside, then I'm just a little bit fatter each time.

Every time we're outside. That's the best. Just that tiny bit fatter, then I'll go back in, looking good again. That's so funny. And the weight gain is the hardest when you're shooting. You just do eat so much. And then you just really need to be aware if you're shooting all your location stuff

at the end of the shoot. Yeah. It could get a little weird. Yeah. For the super fans, like, I think this was a sack. Slow it down. Look how fat Zack is here. Skinny Zack?

Fat Zack. Look. And then the fans are just like, I think this is them trying to do a bit outside of the bit. Fat Zack! Fat Zack! Outside Zack! Zack Snack! Zack Snack!

Well that's good, yeah, it's the same house. That's all I wanted to say. No, I wasn't in Marin very, I'm in Marin very briefly, but I just did his podcast, and it is... WTF. WTF. It's available wherever you his podcast. And it is- WTF. WTF. It's available wherever you get it. Wherever you get podcasts.

Check it out. Talk about banking episodes. And it is, it's still the same setup. It's the house and then in the back he's got his little podcast. He's got the best setup. You guys like cats as well. Love cats.

We had a long cat chat after the show. And that guy, he's playing 3D chess when it comes to cats. He had this like little cat house outside, that goes outside of his window, where his cat can like explore outside of his window without being an outside cat. Jesus. And I'm going, this is.

This guy loves cats. I was like, I love cats, look at you. I don't, I'm not a cat guy, but I love like fun shit. And I think the main reason I would want a cat is to do like a world. Make a world. a little cat world. Oh yeah, he really definitely shares his place with cats. That's amazing.

You gotta think about living in a house with your cats and how like, and then when you were moving, someone's like, and you'll get rid of the smell of the cats and you're like, what? It doesn't smell here. That was crazy. When I moved, I left my apartment and I was trying to get my security deposit back, and the guy was like, yeah, we'll give you like, whatever,

1300 out of the 1800. You know, there were a couple smudges on the wall, and then we obviously have to just get the smell of the cat out, and I was like, the kid most smells the smell of the cat, what? And he was like, the cat smell, the strong cat smell, and I was like, it doesn't smell like cats. And he was like, oh no, it really strongly smells like,

I was like, what does that smell even? And he was like, you know, like cats, it's gross. I was like, it doesn't smell like cats. And he was like, oh no, it really strongly smells like, I was like, what does that smell even? And he was like, you know, like cats, it's gross. I was like, what? It's like when you smoke, and you don't know, you smell like cigarettes, and then you stop smoking and you smell someone, and you're like, Jesus, dude. That was me with cats. And people were walking in my place, just like, eww.

It fucking stinks like cat. And I'm like, you want hummus? We're staffy guys. We're staffy boys. I think my house. And I'm like, you want hummus? We're staffy guys. Uh huh. We're staffy boys. I think my house smells like the, like old bones. But your house always smelled like old bones. I mean, that had nothing to do with the staffy. It's not even used to call you old bones, bro. Old bones.

Boden, bone-den. Bone-den, old bones, bro. Stink some bones! And that's when you get your security and we just gotta get the bone smell out of there obviously. That's why I got a dog. It smells so bad like old bones. When my dog were first walked into our house

he's like, this is gonna be great! We'll put bones over here? This could be the bone room? Yeah, you've already got that bone odor? Heads up bro, there's no bones in here. That's just my natural the bone room. Yeah, you've already got that bone odor. Heads up, bro, there's no bones in here. That's just my natural old bone stick. Dog torture. I'm gonna stick some bones.

No bones. What? Oh, wow. Well, thank you so much, Gareth, at slash American Mark. Thank you. Canonically. To everyone listening, we're not gonna actually kill people. Oh, no, that's important. That's important. Yeah, we don't want you off killing Mark. Okay. Yeah. Okay. So a lot. Okay. It's just like a comedy bit. Okay

Yeah, just doing comedy for the public. I wasn't sure how. Okay. You live in California? Yeah. Yeah, great Yeah, now you guys were on our show The Past Times. You were great. And you were just on our The Dollops Past Times the other day. What newspaper did you do? We did one, oh god, 1925 Adelaide. Really? When I heard 1925 Adelaide I was like, this is gonna be a good one. Was it the advertiser? Was it the Rupert Murdoch's father one? The Bunyip. What a great memory. Well it was all good. I was just like, I don't have to do anything. It was 25 Adelaide. What was the paper? It was hilarious. It was called the Bunyip. The Bunyip? And they talked so much about shark attacks. It was crazy. It was doing its own callbacks.

It really was. It was crazy. That's sick. It was great. I will listen to that. Yeah, but that was a lot of fun. Well, thank you guys for having me. Thank you for coming in. Thank you for coming to our wonderful country. Yes, you're welcome. You're so welcome to come here whenever you want.

That's very nice. If ever you want to come here and what do we do good better than America? Oh, this is tough. This is tough. We do great Southeast Asian food. That's right. Very good. What you could go to. Very good. There's actually great. Singapore or Thailand. Yeah, no, no, not better than Southeast Asia.

Seems far. And there is good Southeast Asia, Southeast Asian food. There's good Thai food in LA. Yeah. That one. I will say, this is the most American thing I maybe ever did was when I was in Thailand, I got a pad thai and I was like, I like America's pad thai. You were, say, Australians do that too.

Thanks, Gareth. Thank you, guys. See you next week, everybody. Bye. You've been listening to the Auntie Donna podcast. Thanks for joining us for another RIP episode brought to you by auntiedonaclub.com. See you next week. Listener.