The Dark Mark Show

It is the one year Anniversary of the reboot of the Dark Mark Show and Mark and Hannah celebrated with quite a wild show featuring legendary scream queen Deborah Dutch, sideshow madman Dangerous D. and sword swallower Cyrus Pynn

Deborah talked about how a cheerleading accident led to her not pursuing a life as a ballerina (though she still can do the splits as she demonstrated), having her grandmother’s friend Agnes Moorhead of Bewitched fame see her in a high school play, how dating a soft rock star (and smoking weed with a Beatle) led to her relocating to LA, where she got the lead in Bruce Lee Fights Back from the Grave. She did her own stunts and was dubbed badly in that movie and moved on from there to share the screen with Goldie Hawn, be in Miami Vice, and work with Roger Corman and get dubbed an official “Scream Queen” in the 90s. She is now working on her own sword wielding series of films “Hollywood Warrioress”

Dangerous D may be married and has a newborn son, but he is by no means any less outrageous. He claims to swing his son from his ears, offered to give Mark a tattoo on the air. He also talked about his journey from Baltimore where he hit LA with $100 to his name, how he got on Ozzfest, what it takes to impress him and land a spot on his “Shock Show” troupe of performers and why he is producing Cyrus’ one man show as a one-time only performance.

Cyrus is also known as Cydeshow Cy and Cyrus the sword. debuting his show “Down The Hatch” in February in Los Angeles. He started juggling, fire eating, sword swallowing and doing all sorts of sideshow acts in Virginia and came out to audition for Dangerous D during a performance at Ozzfest and ended up moving in with him. He talks about all that can go wrong if you make a mistake and demonstrated swallowing 2 swords and eating a lightbulb.

The first 10 people who send a message to @darinmalfi on Instagram get to see Cyrus’ sword swallowin

It’s the first Dark Mark Show of 2019 and Mark and Hannah are talking sex all night long with adult film star Ophelia Rain, sex educator Anne Hooder-Shipp and very special guest the legendary Ron Jeremy!   Ophelia talks about how she wants to get butt implants to match the breast implants which took her from an A Cup to D Cups, talked about how Troma films got her kicked out of school, only for her to get her revenge when she starred in one, how her new scene with Brazzers has the most ad revenue on PornHub of any scene, the bias in the industry against heavily tattooed women and her “arty” erotic and surreal new scene the “black shower”.   Anne talks about how she was became known as the “sex toy queen” and what is not quite right with most sex toys, how she overcame a debilitating medical condition which caused her to faint and curl up in a fetal position at a Pleasure Chest party, what it is like working with sex for her entire adult life and her new accreditation program EDSE which stands for Everyone Deserves Sex Education and their Sex Education Certification Class   Ron came in about 40 minutes in and kicked the show into overdrive with his wit and undeniable energy. Everyone in studio had a story about meeting Ron for the first time and he explained how he has never not been able to get an erection and explained to Mark (and you) his technique which Ophelia admitted got her squirting the first time she met him   Make sure the kids are out of the room and enjoy all this dirty talk

It's the Holiday Season and Dark Mark wanted to celebrate them in the weirdest way possible; by having the notorious Stanton LaVey and witch comedian Renee Watt join him on The Dark Mark Show There was good cheer all around as Stanton Renee and Mark talked about Stanton's grandfather Anton LaVey who founded the Church of Satan, how to celebrate winter solstice as a witch visiting a Christian household, Father Frost, Kate Bush, Dolemite, the blasphemy of Christianity, turning comedians goth, who really wrote The Satanic Bible, Alistair Crowley, Barbara Bush, Hillary Clinton, spirit cooking, Sammy Davis Jr, and so much more…

Amazon Eve, Dakota The Bearded Lady and Vida Ghaffari joined Mark for a surprisingly deep hour of conversation Eve wanted to meet Vida because of their mutual martial arts backgrounds, she talked about self-defense being a necessity after she transitioned even though she is 6'8'.It also came in handy financially as men would pay her for the privilege of getting beat up. She talked about the struggles she has had pre and post transition and how she has triumphed and become an inspiration to all genders and even fought the devil on American Horror Story Apocalypse. Dakota talked about prejudices she has seen as a bearded lady, how she had to shave in the middle of the day working the makeup counter at a department store, her pansexuality and what it is like working with Patrick Stewart and women with fake beards. Vida talked about bullying she received as a Persian woman in America, how red carpet interviewers have been unkind to her due to body hair, doing a weekly show on XM radio and compared fight scenes with Eve.

Sergio Varela of the band Thorns of Sin and makeup artist X joined Mark and Hannah for a very metal show.

Sergio grew up in Colombia, where he got a taste of hot chocolate with cheese and Metallica, and got in trouble in catholic school for having his hair long. Inspired by classic metal, black metal and death metal he recorded the 2015 album Destroy The Light by playing all the instruments himself and inspired by classic shredders he is gearing up to tour and record another album in 2019.

X (not X the punk band or X Japan) talked about meeting Hannah for the first time and bonding over classic rock, her passion for makeup, which led through some wild digressions including Mark’s experiments with Rasberry Splat, how all eyebrows can be improved (except Hannah’s) and how her customers see her concentration and commitment to excellence as off-putting, as she’s too cool to fake a smile….

There was some talk about guilty pleasures too and who everyone’s favorite Spice Girl is…

Actress/Host Vida Ghaffari and singer/fashion designer Jacqueline Van Bierk joined Mark on The Lighter Side of The Dark Side

Vida is the daughter of a scientist so famous in Iran that he is known as the "Persian Michael Jordan", she details how she started out wearing a hijab on Mind of Mencia and on the Universal lot while filming The Mindy Project, how she has transitioned into horror movies and is now known as "The Persian Linda Blair", what it is like to interview celebrities on the red carpet like Martin Short and the Iron Sheik (in Farsi no less) and her upcoming movie Robowoman

Jacqueline grew up in a small town in Germany (with umlauts in the name) but couldn't wait to move to New York where she formed the industrial band Otto's Daughter whose music was featured in several TV shows including The Vampire Diaries. She reminisced about the fetish club scene where she initially met Mark and talked about her solo music which is more EDM than her band and being selected the 2nd worst dressed at The Grammys in 2017 by USA Today (Cee Lo was #1)

ARTivist Jil Love and witchy comedian Renee Watt joined Mark for quite a metaphysical show

Jil talked about the epiphany she had in 2012 which led her to combine her art with activism which has let her to cover herself in blood, oil and recently sitting on a golden toilet on Donald Trump's star on the walk of fame and bloodletting for the children of Yemen. She travelled from her native Spain to Hollywood where she got into a fight with a Transformer in order to promote peace.

Renee talked about her own epiphany 2 years ago which led her to explore her psychic abilities, get into her own spirituality and embrace being a witch and start performing stand up comedy. She talks about starting a coven as a teen and how she took a detour in the punk rock scene in Phoenix.

Oh and Jil and Renee started communicating telepathically during the show, which didn't slow down the terrific stories about their lives

This week guest co-host Nicole Sixx and Mark 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 appearances on shows as varied as Fox and Friends, Dr. Drew and Sway in the morning as well as her own show Ask Women Podcast. She talks about her experiences in the pickup community, why the old school pickup methods won't work anymore, how energy is more important than looks and gives Mark advice on his dating life after hearing the horror stories he has to tell.

Sin recently travelled to Mexico City where she performed contortions, grind core and blood spitting (!), the different restrictions on performing in Mexico as opposed to Dubai, the ups and downs of her newly split tongue, how judgmental and cruel men and women can be, and how happy she was that she can still contort her body to fit in a tiny suitcase even after she got breast implants.

It was Mark's birthday so he celebrated with cohost Hannah and 2 of their favorite guests: Dakota The Bearded Lady and magician Michael Vile

It was quite a party as topics discussed were the Halloween movies new and old, record stores, Vanilla Ice's underrated 2nd album, Danzig's height, getting injured in a Venom mosh pit, a Tim Burton themed restaurant, Venice Beach, the sideshow N-word, mentalism, balloons, card tricks, the dangers of drinking Absinthe and so much more!

Blogger and model The Strange Goth and comedian Dave Carter joined Hannah and Mark for a fun show and found that they had a lot in common.   The Strange Goth talked about her parents recognizing the darkness within her at an early age. How she initially found he goth scene in the Bay Area but has now found a home in the Los Angeles scene. She talks about what it was like to be on the cover of LA Weekly’s goth issue, why she doesn’t wear black all the time, what it is like being a woman of color in the goth scene and set the scene for her future wedding where she will walk down the aisle on fire.   Dave talked about how he discovered death rock and darker music while serving in the Air Force (where he was assigned to play volleyball), his beginnings doing improv in the hallowed halls of Second City in Chicago, his work as a voice over actor as the voice of dramas on FreeForm among others, how his wife reacts to him making jokes about her in his stand up act and how he is at a point now where his 5 year old daughter gives him advice on how to audition and survive in show business.   And we discussed the eternal arguments…are The Smiths, Marilyn Manson and Depeche Mode goth?