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Jun 2024
56m 4s

Disco Demolition

Go! My Favorite Sports Team
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Led by your elegant host Markiplier, we travel back in time to meet our Master of Balls in Holes, Tyler Scheid, in 1979 Chicago. Disco takes center stage as we attend a doubleheader between the White Sox and the Detroit Tigers... What could possibly go wrong with a night that is known today as Disco Demolition Night?? Grab your best disco outfit, sport your dancing shoes, and boogie down with this episode!

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