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... doing cool shit with carbon bullets.

It was revolutionary to me as a kid.

I say kid, I was 20 at the time.

I was exactly the right age, exactly the right age for this show, and it boggled my mind.

And I remember subsequently playing Buffy the Vampire Slayer at the role-playing game.

I basically played a martial artist equivalent of Jack Davenport's character, and I put a lot into gun-fu, and he'd made his own carbon bullets, and yeah, it was absolutely ripped.

And what about you, Mark?

And I'm just curious how it is down there.

This event tomorrow gives us a chance to do the two things that we love the most in Australia.

One is watch sport, and two is not do any work on a Friday.

Nice.

So, yeah, the game kicks off.

But honestly, yes, I mean, there's a lot of excitement.

I think the MCG is nearly sold out.

he'll say it in the perfect the perfect timing whenever he says it it's the perfect statement for what's happening in that moment he'll just look at me and say tony what a time to be alive in the fantastic hey mark but we've talked about before you came on the show and we've talked about this for a How do you feel, or do you not even give a shit, about the halftime show being the Jonas Brothers? Do you have any take? Do you care at all?

And I'm just curious how it is down there.

This event tomorrow gives us a chance to do the two things that we love the most in Australia.

One is watch sport, and two is not do any work on a Friday.

Nice.

So, yeah, the game kicks off.

But honestly, yes, I mean, there's a lot of excitement.

I think the MCG is nearly sold out.

he'll say it in the perfect the perfect timing whenever he says it it's the perfect statement for what's happening in that moment he'll just look at me and say tony what a time to be alive in the fantastic hey mark but we've talked about before you came on the show and we've talked about this for a How do you feel, or do you not even give a shit, about the halftime show being the Jonas Brothers? Do you have any take? Do you care at all?

It's a really good season of television as well.

Fringe season two, pretty much any season of Fringe was great, but Fringe season two kind of like redirected the entire series.

But Fringe is...

And like for anybody who hasn't seen Fringe, that is a fantastic, phenomenal show that everybody should watch if you like sci-fi.

True Detective season one is just a masterpiece, an absolute masterpiece.

Because there's some series that are just, like, they're fantastic throughout.

And then... you know and they do have standout seasons you know i guess i could argue lost season two was pretty good as well i know that you know again that one's a little rough for some people but i enjoyed uh season two a lot because it helped expand a lot of you know the really good lore uh that was going on in that i like a lot of jj abrams

Yeah.

And I...

If I have to show someone an Epic Rap Battles of History, if they've never seen it, they've never heard of it, without a moment's hesitation, there is only one episode that I will always show them, and it's this one.

And every time I watch it, it sends goosebumps up and down.

Like This is one of my favorite things the internet has ever had.

I can't emphasize how incredible I think this is.

I've watched it...

Yeah.

People that, if you've watched True Grit, if you've watched the Effie's Big Gay Brunches, over the last like especially last year's like you've seen sammy and you've seen evan and you've seen them kind of really develop into people that are have a different level of confidence than like the first time that i saw them and they're still both really young in their careers

already so so for me it was important two twofold important one budget and two

because i really believe in bringing in less experienced queer talent into these kind of events so having people like them coming along and gracie lecter who is an up-and-coming trans woman wrestler from liverpool so it was important to me that i got a good balance i wanted you know i wanted my headliners so lana and adam and priscilla

And

Aiton, I suppose.

They're all big names, and they all provide something different.

I wanted to make sure I covered as much when it comes to our queer community with whatever letter they are on the LGBTQIAAP, etc.

You know, and you've been around wrestling for for so long now at this point, like you had to have like some of some of that, you know, some of that knowledge and skill from from the people that you're around, because, I mean, you're around some of the better promoters in in the country on a regular basis, you know.

Matt, it's been eight years and you've reached 200 episodes.

That is, well, that's dedication, persistence and patience.

Well, not all that surprising because it's you.

How do you feel about

Yeah,

but you will have done by the end of the week.

Possibly.

Anyway, right.

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What are you up to these days and where can we find you?

We did quite a dark episode today, which isn't my norm.

I normally do the dumb shittery, but I have been looking at a lot of dark stuff recently in my relatively new podcast called The Nastycast, which is a kind of hybrid British history, film history podcast about the video nasties in the 80s.

And for those of you that don't know what that is, there were 72 films banned in the UK via a ridiculous fucking regime where it just made no sense.

And you were getting films that were clearly horrid banned, but you're also getting films that got caught up in the controversy.

Like there was a film with the wonderful Dolly Parton in called The Littlest Whorehouse in the West that got attacked, even though it was a PG Western.

Tell us a little bit about it.

Yeah.

It has been a long road, a- about 30 years that he's been waiting to get in, and it's long overdue.

He...

It's well-deserved.

But you are one of the big reasons why he's in, because when I reached out to you and said, "Hey, I heard, uh, in that pregame show, I heard the, the stats, the case that you made.

Can I get a copy of that? Because I wanna write an article on it." And you gave me...

I know you put together a video, like an extensive video, and then what happened with that video? Where did that video go?

Tell us a little bit about it.

Yeah, it has been a long road, a- about 30 years that he's been waiting to get in, and it's long overdue.

It, it's well-deserved, but you are one of the big reasons why he's in, because when I reached out to you and said, "Hey, I heard i- in that pregame show, I heard the, the stats, the case that you made.

Can I get a copy of that? Because I wanna write an article on it." And you gave me...

You know, you called me and said, "Here's, here's the case." And then you kinda challenged me, "Hey, don't just write an article.

See if you can get some guys on board, because, you know, you're a writer, you're a fan, that's great.

But if you can get some guys like Joe Montana, Steve Young, and Ronnie Lott, if you can get those kinds of guys behind you, then this, this could go a, a long way." And, you know, I, I said, "Okay, yeah, I'll give that a shot," thinking, "How in the world am I gonna get, you know, in touch with these guys?" But I ended up, uh, had a contact with the team who put me in contact with somebody else, uh, that was with the team back from the glory days.

So tell us a little bit about this because you, I know you put together a video, like an extensive video, and then what happened with that video? Where did that video go?

So first of all, I just want to thank you for coming on and hand over to you to give a bit of background why you wanted to come on the podcast.

Well, first of all, I'd like to say I'm excited to be here and thank you for having me.

That's a very nice introduction.

Thank you.

Not many people describe me as interesting, but so I'll take that one on the chin as a feather in my cap.

So yeah, who's Mark Adams? So I've spent nearly four decades split pretty much 50-50 between being an entrepreneur and also working in corporate.

So I started years ago in telesales, then sales, then management, then marketing, then marketing management, then running regions, then running bigger regions, and sort of moved up to sort of VP, senior VP, CEO positions, mainly in the tech and financial services space, running P&Ls for companies like Thomson Reuters of between $30 and $80 million per annum.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm

...

in the itinerary.

The third choice, which is the one I, I followed when I got to Alaska, is there's a thing called the Alaska Marine Ferry System, which is essentially Alaska's Greyhound.

Because Alaska has so few roads because of its crazy size and crazy topography, you can get all along the Alaska coast from the state border near Ketchikan all the way out to the Aleutian Islands in Dutch Harbor, going from town to town on these marine ferries, and that's how people move large things like cars and trucks as well as themselves from, you know, say, if you're bringing a car from Seattle out to Anchorage or Homer or a place like that, you can take it on the marine ferry.

Mm

... as the guy who's, who's paying for them to be tracked down 'cause he's got so much money.

So the more I looked into it, the more I realized that, you know, this was one of the most important expeditions in conservation history.

So-

Yeah.

Well, a big part of that community happens in a different way.

Um, first of all, we, uh, I know it says Mark Adams School of Woodworking, and that's terribly unfortunate.

Um, and, and unfortunate in two, two respects.

First of all, I, I wish my name wasn't in it.

I, I...

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