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So, while jogging on the beach, Marcus Plizinsky III is watching some guy doing magic tricks and throwing fireballs from his hands like Super Mario… wait, let’s back this up a bit.

1970’s: John McEnroe demands for a computerized judging system to replace line judges.

1980’s: Pong is invented to replace tennis and maybe appease John McEnroe.

1990’s: Nintendo developers continue the video game explosion by making Super Mario a fireball shooting champ.

Late 1990’s: Street perfomer/pyrotechnician/video gamer figures out way to throw ‘fireballs’ using a latex balloon filled with gunpowder.

Even Later 1990’s: While jogging on the beach, Marcus Plizinsky III is watching some guy doing magic tricks and throwing fireballs from his hands like Super Mario. His portable CD player often skips while jogging, so he invents the MP3 player and names it after himself.

And as John McEnroe would say “You CANNOT be serious!”