The Hard Drive Podcast

Comedian and writer MIKE DRUCKER (Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, The Tonight Show, a billion other things) joins us for a very special episode where we break all the rules we made up and reach ahead to an episode of the Super Mario Bros 3 cartoon....

My life fades. The vision dims. All that remains are memories. I remember a time of chaos... ruined dreams... this wasted land. But most of all, I remember the Toad Warrior. The man we called "Toad." To understand who he was, you have to go back to...

Didn’t like the finale of Game of Thrones last night? Well check out the Game of Thrones of 1989… the Legend of Zelda cartoon! This episode, Link gets cucked hard by the gorgeous Prince Facade, who seems super cool and there’s definitely nothing...

A trend continues this week, as the boys discover a new favorite episode. In the live action bullshit, Cher comes over and then Mario accidentally switches bodies with her dog, prompting Mark and Jeremy to discuss a lot of dog related topics,...

This episode is a doozy! Mario gets his brother Luigi break dancing lessons from the legendary(?) Shabba Doo, star of Breakin’ and Breakin’ 2: Electric Buggaloo. And in the cartoon, the gang gets lost in the Amazon, where King Koopa (regrettably...

Mario and the gang go on a space odyssey, as they crash land on a Mars-like planet and wind up as members of Moonman Koopa’s intergalactic chain gang alongside a double snouted alien race known as the Quirks. Mark and Jeremy concur that this is a...

There’s a bounty on Toad’s head after he owes a fryguy 60 gold coins so Mario and Luigi enter into a Mad Max: Fury Road style BMX race through the desert to win his freedom. They might even win the dang thing too, if they aren’t foiled by that...

Hall of Famer Magic Johnson stops by the Mario Brother’s apartment in this week’s live action segment to, you guessed it, show off some actual magic tricks. On the animation side, in just our second installment of The Legend of Zelda,...

Matt and Bill are joined by Noi!se member and US Soldier Matt Henson. They talk gun control, racism, stabbing, armed forces and all sorts of breezy, easy listening content that you expect from The Hard Times. 

The hilarious Maffew from Botchamania joins Mark and Jeremy to discuss Rowdy Roddy Piper’s appearance on the Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Roddy lent his prized bagpipes to Mario and Luigi who turned it into a goddang vacuum cleaner. In the cartoon,...