The Dark Mark Show

Today is Gary Garver's birthday. He is of course best known as the reporter for the Howard Stern Show and for his long running radio show Controlled Chaos. He is also responsible for The Dark Mark Show actually existing. So we are rebroadcasting the very 3rd DMS from way back in 2013 featuring him and eventual DMS cohost Josi Kat.

Controlled Chaos is an understatement for this show!

For the 13th (!) Anniversary of The Dark Mark Show we turn back the clock to 2013 and replay the very first show.

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...

Friend of the show John DiResta is getting a kidney transplant today. We wish him all the best for speedy recovery. 

Mark and Nicole welcomed NYPD officer turned sitcom star turned reality TV star John Diresta to the lighter side of the dark side.

John grew up in Queens and did some NYC bonding with Mark. He talked about his days in the homeless division or Uber before there was Uber as he puts it, working as a transit cop which meant phone calls in the middle of the night to identify bodies run over b...

Our friend Jeffrey Damnit was in the news this week as he was in Mardi Gras and ran into an apparently inibreated Shia LaBeouf which did not turn out well for Mr, LeBeouf. This is a great time to revisit his appearance on the DMS in 2021

Actor/Host/Creature of the Night Jeffrey Damnit and filmmaker "Zombie" Dave Reda joined Mark and Nicole for a horrifyingly hilarious show

Jeffrey grew up in Chicago, where he was conquering the goth/industrial club scene as an underage teen, which led to him performing in a local freak...

Debbie Dutch throws the best New Year's Eve parties. In wishing everyone a Happy New Years and a wonderful 2026 we are replaying her first appearance on the Dark Mark Show from 2020

This week Mark and Hannah interviewed legendary scream queen Debbie Dutch. She talked about her dancer beginnings, turning down the opportunity to be Korea's biggest movie star and what it was like to work with A listers such as Tommy Lee Jones and Goldie Hawn, getting cast in Sea of Love with Al Pacino and how ending up not getting that role was a blessing in disguise...

Mark and Nicole welcomed Natalie Denise Sperl, the star of the cult horror classic Succubus-Hell Bent and author of the new book Elemental Book 1-The Bond Xavier Axelson to the lighter side of the dark side

Natalie grew up in rural Minnesota, but soon graduated to the modeling runways of Europe and then to Hollywood where she has meditated with Courtney Love, had her face licked numerous times by Gary Oldman, was told not to look at Britney Spears while appearing in her Slave 4 U video, serenaded Quentin Tarantino, picked Steve Coogan's pocket and had her Andy Warhol...

6 years ago today Mark welcomed 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 bound and having a ball gag in her mouth and she told the story about how she became the first Virtual Reality webcam girl which involves Dungeons and Dragons.
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Holiday cheer (and vegan Egg Nog laced with Fireball Whisky) was in the air as Mark and Nicole welcomed Elisa Jordana and Santa Claus to a fast paced and fun holiday party from 2022

Elisa was engaging with her fans on Livestream while the show was going on and her fans were typically unpredictable. She cleared up previous claims that she was asexual and detailed how she fell for Gabe Saporta the lead singer of Cobra Starship and ended up as the keytar player so she could be in front. She met Benjy Bronk on jdate and ended up...

Today (December 5) is Krampus day and to celebrate we are replaying the time Rissa Miller returned to The Dark Mark Show in 2022 to share holiday stories straight from the dark side with Mark, Nicole and you the listener.

These aren't tales of holiday cheer that you are used to, get ready for tales of cannibalism, orgies, whipping, pickled children and monsters such as the newly popular Krampus and Belzsnickel, as well as the giant Yule Cat, the Yule Goat, Christmas Werewolves and Vampires as well. Rissa also delves into the controversial tradition of Zwarte Piet, the decadence of...

Mark and Hannah hosted an epic holiday special with comedians Maggi Mayfield and Rotten Kitty and the one and only Santa Claus

Maggi reminisced about travelling cross country as a teenager, her radio career which led her to meet and roam the halls at iheartradio with Rod Stewart and Val Kilmer, how moving from Los Angeles to Austin has led her to get paid more for her stand up comedy and release her first comedy album "Pandemic Girl" and she sang her holiday anthem "The Naughty Christmas Song" live in studio

Kitty talked about chasing unicorns...

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.

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Dark Mark is having a birthday November 4 and we are replaying his drunken zoom birthday pary from the apocalyptic days of 2020,

It was Dark Mark's Birthday this week and Hannah threw him quite a birthday party. The guests included podcast hosts Dakota the Bearded Lady and Morgan Jaffe, comedian Jamie Gendron and author and former Dark Mark Show co-host Nicole Sixx. Everyone had quite a fun time watching Mark finish off a bottle of cinnamon whisky while they talked about the appeal of older men, why you should never let someone borrow your staple gun, whether it is...

Director Dustin Ferguson returned to the lighter side of the dark side just in time for Halloween. He told Mark and Hannah about his upcoming Stephen King adaptation, as well as his trilogy filmed during the pandemic including Arachnado and his upcoming Amityville in the Hood. Then he Mark and Hannah go over their respective lists of the top 10 horror movies of all time and talk about what they like (and occasionally dislike) about those movies

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Mark and Josi had a Halloween party with scares, candy and 3 hilarious comedians Maija Digiorgio, Joey Gaynor and Virginia Jones a/k/a Bloody Bloodmeadow. Maija talked about her dislike for candy corn, how her dog was so frightened by a ghost he couldn't bark and what it was like to be the last person to interview Richard Pryor. Joey talked about how one size fits all costume are misleading, doing seances with Sam Kinison, hearing voices in an empty bathroom and the legendary cursed script "Atuk". Bloody told how she became a vampire even though no one wanted to...

Mark and special guest host horror director Dustin Ferguson welcomed the star of Halloween III : Season of the Witch Stacey Nelkin to the lighter side of the dark side.

Stacey candidly talked about everything in her extraordinary life and career from dating Woody Allen, Warren Beatty, Bill Wyman, Barry Bostwick and Perry King to acting with Malcolm McDowell, Martin Mull, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Ron Liebman, Bette Midler, Mick Jagger, Tony Danza and Danny Devito, what it was like to act with a chimp and smoke weed with Cheech and Chong, as well as answering all sorts of...

Psychic/Medium/Akashi Reader Raven Willow joined Mark and Nicole for a wild show which included Raven picking up energy and giving Mark a reading.

Raven saw ghosts at an early age, including a scary night playing with a K-Mart Ouija board, she has always been in tune with things we can't comprehend and even went to India to study and get accredited as an Akashic Reader which entails access to libraries of past lives, other dimensions and even alien lives. She picked up all sorts of energy around Mark and tried to get to the root of...

LA Comic Con is this weekend so it's the perfect time to replay our show with Cosplayer Faces By Rachie

Mark and Nicole welcomed cosplayer/model/influencer Rachel Hollon to the lighter side of the dark side.

Rachie as she likes to be called talked about having a Harley Quinn personality at a young age, which led her to dress up as HQ leading to her catching the eye of a comic bookstore owner which led her to being one of the most sought-after cosplayers in the convention circuit. She has dressed up as Vampirella, Red...

The Dark Mark Show took a look into the future as multi-hyphenate L. Faunt (then known as IrinaXara) gave psychic readings to stand up comedian Mia Mars as well as Hanna and Mark in a quite metaphysical show

IrinaXara did 2 types of readings...one with playing cards (explaining why they don't use Tarot Cards) and what they call a "cyberpunk" reading since we are in a post Blade Runner age. They looked into Mia Hannah and Mark's love life and found some very interesting things for all 3.

Mia talked about growing up rich, her father's unusual...

Karma Said, the author of Surviving Master Joshua-The BDSM Memoir of an Unfaithful Wife donned a mask and joined Mark and Nicole for a very provocative chat.

Karma initially got her interest in kink from reading 50 Shades of Grey and was working for a religiously conservative publication when she was assigned to to a piece on religious figures in the New York BDSM scene, and ended up falling in love and being a collared slave to Master Joshua which opened her up to hardcore sexual desires and a world she never knew existed. She gradually lived a double...

Figure skating prodigy/USFL cheerleader/model/Playboy Cover Girl/Centerfold/actress/VJ turned successful business woman/life coach and now author Deborah Driggs talked with Mark and Nicole about her extraordinary life.

This life has taken her from Orange County to Hollywood to Japan to acting with people as diverse as Mickey Rourke, Bob Hope and DEVO (!), to being part of a power couple with an Olympic champion, hit rock bottom due to her struggles with alcohol, only to rise again and thrive as one of the top insurance agents in the country and now is a life...

Emery Emery and Heather Henderson from Ardent Athiest and Skeptically Yours podcasts joined Mark and Josi for a fun show.

Heather talked about her start on Dance Party USA, which generated her mountains of fan mail, how Facebook led her to meet and date Emery and meet Penn Jillette, her burlesque act which featured knife play, how she becane the lead singer of Penn’s No God Band and how she saw the movie Noah and kind of liked it.

Emery talked about his early radio career, the indisputable advantages of crowdfunding, how persistence led him to...

Adult film star Kacy TGirl and director/producer of Fetish Film Festival and Nylon Girls Michael Simmons talked dirty with Mark about numerous things from making money, how to properly tuck, foot festishes, cannibalism and so much more...

It's Richie Ramone's birthday so we are rerunning the show with the legendary drummer for The Ramones, the fabulous art curator Lenora Claire and cohost Josi Kat from 2015

Mark and Nicole welcomed singer/violinist extraordinaire Lili Haydn to the lighter side of the dark side just as Lili's new album More Love comes out.

Lili talked about her unusual upbringing as the only child of groundbreaking comedian Lotus Weinstock in a commune, being a child star and starring with Rodney Dangerfield and playing Columbo's daughter, which paid for her first violin and an Ivy League education. A chance encounter on stage with her mother led to a musical career that has led her to play with Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, The Rolling Stones, Parliment-Funkadelic, Roger...

Mark and Nicole welcomed the hosts of the tubi show Stars-Stunts-Action: Anthony DeLongis, James Houston and Jason McNeil to the lighter side of the dark side for a testosterone filled good time filled with great show business stories

Anthony talked about the time he was challenged to a death match by David Carradine, the rigors of getting made up as an alien when he was on Star Trek Voyager, what it is like squaring up with Jet Li and how he has become an expert at tomahawk throwing and bullwhips. James talked about his past life as a...

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...

Model, rapper and adult entertainer Face Tat Mami joined Mark and Nicole in 2021 for a wild show. Mami talked about the myriad of tattoos on her face and body and how she intentionally got them on the most painful places on her body. She just did a shoot with Alt Erotic where she had 15 tattoos placed on her face, which may or may not be a world record. She also talked about her appeal to men and women, how she can out party anyone, the fine art of twerking, her respect for Tekashi 6X9 (after Mark labelled him a snitch...

Mark welcomed back horror director Dustin Ferguson and former co-host Hannah Bakk to discuss one of Hannah's favorite horror movies...
Friday the 13th part VIII - Jason Takes Manhattan
So many questions to be answered such as:
Is this as gory as Hannah has hyped it up to be?
Why does it take so long to reach Manhattan?
Is Kane Hodder the best Jason of all time?
Why is this the last film to have Friday the 13th in the title?
How did they sail to Manhattan if they are docked in a...

It is writer/director Andrew PC Yevich's birthday today and to celebrate we are replaying the raucous show with Comedian Vanja Renee 

Hollywood hyphenates Vajna Renee and Andrew PC Yevish joined Mark and Nicole for a wild super-sized vodka infused party...

Andrew was came to LA from Wildwood NJ, where he made a lot of money with a rock and roll lifestyle store but was going through a divorce and ended up purchasing a home from a Laker, learning lessons from dating and acting coaches and writing and directing the upcoming movie Fake It Til U M...

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 the dark side.

Beth just celebrated the 25th Anniversary of her show Uncabaret with a star studded show featuring Bob Odenkirk, Sandra Bernhard, Patton Oswalt, Maria Bamford and more. She recounted insisting that Scott Thompson of Kids in the Hall not perform in drag, how Julia Sweeney now regrets her hit character Pat from SNL, how she felt when she saw her comedy nemesis Andrew Dice Clay...

Author/podcaster/Advocate Kelly J. Mendenhall joined Mark and special guest co host legendary anchorwoman Bree Walker for a fantastic show

Kelly talked about growing up in Flint, Michigan and finding the punk rock scene as a pre-teen.. She discussed her collection of tattoos, which inspired her book “Skin in the Game”. She was a successful marketing executive working for a non-profit when she had severe spinal injuries which went inexplicably misdiagnosed for years and left her unable to work. Rather than give up, she has become an inspiration to “spoonies” everywhere and finally got a knowledgeable and empathet...

It is former Dark Mark Show cohost Josi Kat's birthday and to celebrate we are replaying her birthday show from 2014.

It was Josi's birthday and Mark threw quite a party with a typically eclectic guest list. Actor/Model/Photogapher Eli Brooks talked about being in a Piss Ant video and brought Saariyah Syn who bellydanced for Josi. The fabulous Sasha Scarlett sang a sexy happy birthday song for Josi which entranced everybody, not the least of which Goth Republican Blogger Joseph Fein. Terrie Huberman gave Josi a "Water" psychic reading and former Piss Ant drummer Chuck Sapien recounted...

Mark and Nicole talked to the Chaotically Fascinating Burlesque performer, MUA, model and tarot reader Kira VonSutra on the latest Dark Mark Show

Kira talked about how haunted Tulsa, Oklahoma was growing up, leading to spirits pulling her off the top bunk of her bunk bed, how she was able to follow her dreams of being a makeup artist to Hollywood leading to her eating lasagna with Danny DeVito at his home, being creeped on by Chevy Chase and making up Dan Aykroyd for a Saturday Night Live sketch directed by Ron Howard, and how she became one...

Dancer/Choreographer Abi Anne Oliver and Pro Wrestler/Actor Author Ronnie Angel joined Mark and Nicole for a show so wild, even the studio couldn't contain it

Abi talked about growing up in Manchester and her love of Irish Riverdancing leading to her winning dance competitions at an early age which has led her to everything from the London Olympics, hip hop videos, reality shows, Late Late Show with James Corden and so much more

Ronnie talked about his wrestling career as "Greased Lightning" and stories about Canada, deathmatch wrestling and bonding with Rowdy Roddy Piper...

 Comeback kid and Multiple AVN award nominee Siri Dahl joined Mark on the lighter side of the dark side in this classic show from the dark pandemic days of 2020

Siri talked about being a late bloomer and student of sex before she ever made love for the first time, how her curvy body made her a "tweener" when she started as she was curvier than most porn stars but not BBW status, why she took 5 years off and debunks all the crazy rumors about her hiatus and confonts the trolls who question her getting a breast reduction (to a...

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 t...

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...

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...

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

This...

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...