Marko has been on Reddit, and the news isn't good. Are we in for some real climate fuckery in the imminent future? And should we be channeling our inner preppers?

Highlights:

[0:00] Bad news! El niño is about to fuck us all up!
[30:25] Corrigan has a book recommendation and a life recommendation to take away some of the dread (The Story of More by Hope Jahren)
[54:30] What we watched: RoboCop, Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III, Punishment Park, They Will Kill You, Ready Or Not 2, The Vourdalak, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (Blue Rose Cut), Project Hail Mary, The Lost Boys

We're joined by author Lauren Bolger to talk about her spooky, genre-bending book "The Barre Incidents," and its connections to everyone's favorite sexy cryptid: Mothman! This book has everything: Ghost miners, Norse gods, Indrid Cold, and even a little romance for good measure!

Highlights:

[0:00] Corrigan tells Lauren and Marko about John Keel, the Mothman, Indrid Cold, and the superspectrum theory
[44:18] We chat with Lauren Bolger about her books, her writing process, and her horror backstory

Stuff we referenced:

• Lauren Bolger | Website | Recommendations: Dear Stupid Penpal by Rascal Hartley; If I Had Legs, I'd Kick You
• John Keel: The Man The Myths and the Ongoing Mysteries by Brent Raynes
• The Eighth Tower by John Keel
• A new demonology : John Keel and The Mothman Prophecies
• Local Lore: Woodrow Derenberger and the Legend of Indrid Cold
• Some reflections on John Keel's "superspectrum" theory

Marko tells Corrigan the very iffy story of a woman who may or may not have had a strange form of amnesia. You decide.

Highlights:

[0:00] Marko tells Corrigan the strange story of journalist Jody Roberts... or is it web designer Jane Dee?
[38:26] Corrigan's lasagna hack raises a conversation about the merits and pitfalls of taking shortcuts
[01:05:40] What we watched: Project Hail Mary, Your Monster, Bodycam, Death Wish, Logan, Scream 7, Nuremberg, Whistle

Marko reads the 1893 short story "An Alpine Divorce" by Robert Barr before Corrigan tells some real stories about the phenomenon everyone's talking about on social media. Plus, Marko discovers Ruby Frankie. Ooooh boy.

Highlights:

[0:00] Marko reads "An Alpine Divorce."
[11:58] Corrigan talks about women being left in the wilderness by angry men
[50:58] Marko finds a mysterious mini-DV tape, we chat about social media, mailers are coming, and we've got meet-up updates.
[01:15:30] Marko just found out about Ruby Franke and wants to know more about Mormons
[01:39:40] What we watched: The Night Digger (The Road Builder), Hoppers, Cold Storage, The Addams Family, Crime 101, Evil Influencer, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die

Stuff we referenced:

• Climber Faces Homicide Charges After His Partner Dies. When Does a Bad Decision Become a Crime?
• Austrian Man Found Guilty in Girlfriend’s Death on Mountain Hike
• Climber who left his girlfriend to die on mountain ‘had done it before’
• The Art of Empowering Yourself Against an Alpine Divorce
• Alpine Divorce - Reddit
• The Consequences of an “Alpine Divorce,” and Why the Term Is Trending
• Men are allegedly abandoning women on hikes, sparking discussion of the “Alpine divorce”
• Alpine Divorce – An old story, a new case, and a viral social media moment
• When a Hike Turns Deadly: Understanding “Alpine Divorce” Through a Legal Lens
• An Alpine Divorce by Robert Barr (story)

We're back after two epic episodes in a row apparently crashed Corrigan's immune system! This week Marko tells Corrigan about one of the most horrific bastards we've ever discussed -- Marcel Petiot, a.k.a. Dr. Satan! Then we catch up on the month of movies we haven't discussed!

Highlights:

[0:00] Marko tells Corrigan about the MacDonald Triad & truly fucking depraved serial killer Marcel Petiot.
[29:26] Corrigan has been sick, Marko is hooked on Too Good To Go,
[37:50] We debrief the prison abolition episode
[47:00] London meet-up update!
[49:30] What we watched: The Bluff, Bugonia, Malcolm X, The Bad Seed, Predator 2, Rhymes for Young Ghouls, Crime 101, Falling Down, Send Help, Anaconda (2026 & 1997), Atroz, Southbound, The Ballad of Wallis Island, Sisu: Road to Revenge, Dracula

In an episode years in the making, we finally tackle the question of what prison abolition is and whether it would actually work, with the help of "The Leftist Lawyer" Sheryl Weikal! But first, Corrigan tells the true story behind the legend of John Henry and how it ties into the modern prison industrial complex.

Highlights:

[0:00] Corrigan tells Marko and Sheryl the true history behind the legend of John Henry
[39:52] We learn about Sheryl's work as a Pay-What-You-Can lawyer and talk about prison abolition

Stuff we referenced:

• Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, The Untold Story of An American Legend by Scott Reynolds Nelson
• The Muddled Distinction Between De Jure and De Facto Segregation
• Racial covenants, a relic of the past, are still on the books across the country
• When Authorities Dunked Outspoken Women in Water
• The Legend of John Henry: Talcott, WV

Boffin Eileen is back! This time she's perfectly adequately (read: AMAZINGLY) answering Marko's burning questions about what the nukes can do to us, and addressing Corrigan's skepticism about regulating our nervous systems! Plus, an impromptu tribute to Catherine O'Hara.

Highlights:

[0:00] Eileen talks about the truly horrific effects of radiation sickness
[58:40] Eileen explores how much we can regulate our own nervous systems, and what it really means to be "dysregulated"

Stuff we referenced:

1. Harry Daghlian - Nuclear Museum

2. May 21, 1946: Louis Slotin Becomes Second Victim of “Demon Core” | American Physical Society              

3. Scientist of the Day - Harry Daghlian

4. How a careless slip killed a physicist

5. The Slotin Accident: Inside the Archives – Los Alamos Historical Society

6. Medical Studies of the Demon Core Victims

7. The Los Alamos Accident, 1958

8. The Cecil Kelley Criticality Accident9. https://www.epa.gov/radiation/radiation-health-effects

1. 
   Autonomic Nervous System: What It Is, Function & Disorders
2. Sympathetic Nervous System (SNS): What It Is & Function
3. Parasympathetic Nervous System (PSNS): What It Is & Function
4. Stress, Adaptation, and Disease: Allostasis and Allostatic Load - McEWEN - 1998 - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences - Wiley Online Library
5. The Window of Tolerance: What It Is and Why It Matters
6. Expanding the Window of Tolerance: 6 PDFs & Worksheets
7. What We Get Wrong About the Nervous System | Psychology Today
8. Allostatic Load and Its Impact on Health: A Systematic Review - PubMed
9. Allostatic load biomarkers of chronic stress and impact on health and cognition - ScienceDirect
10. Generalized Unsafety Theory of Stress: Unsafe Environments and Conditions, and the Default Stress Response - PMC
11. Selection on the regulation of sympathetic nervous activity in humans and chimpanzees - PubMed
12. Stress and Health: A Review of Psychobiological Processes
13. Neuronal regulation of immunity: why, how and where? | Nature Reviews Immunology
14. Unraveling the Plastic Peripheral Neuroimmune Interactome | The Journal of Immunology | Oxford Academic
15. Psychoneuroimmunology: An Introduction to Immune-to-Brain Communication and Its Implications for Clinical Psychology
16. 20-Year Journey from Axonal Injury to Neurodegenerative Diseases and the Prospect of Immunotherapy for Combating Alzheimer’s Disease | The Journal of Immunology | Oxford Academic
17. Hypertension and its correlation with autonomic nervous system dysfunction, heart rate variability and chronic inflammation - PubMed
18. Dysregulation of the autonomic nervous system predicts the development of the metabolic syndrome - PubMed
19. Autonomic nervous system dysregulation in neurodegenerative diseases: Bridging brain and heart - PubMed
20. Heart rate variability (HRV) as a way to understand associations between the autonomic nervous system (ANS) and affective states: A critical review of the literature - ScienceDirect
21. Autonomic nervous system dysregulation in neurodegenerative diseases: Bridging brain and heart - ScienceDirect
22. The efficacy of stress reappraisal interventions on stress responsivity: A meta-analysis and systematic review of existing evidence - PubMed
23. The Autistic and ADHD Nervous System | NDI
24. Effects of slow-paced breathing and humming breathing on heart rate variability and affect: a pilot investigation 
25. Humming (Simple Bhramari Pranayama) as a Stress Buster: A Holter-Based Study to Analyze Heart Rate Variability (HRV) Parameters During Bhramari, Physical Activity, Emotional Stress, and Sleep 
26. Breathwork for Chronic Stress and Mental Health: Does Choosing a Specific Technique Matter? 
27. A randomized controlled trial of a multicomponent online stress reduction intervention in inflammatory bowel disease 
28. The role of yoga in inflammatory markers 
29. From Dysregulation to Coherence: Exploring the HeartMath® Approach to Emotional and Physiological Regulation - PMC
30. Acute effects of different Tai Chi practice protocols on cardiac autonomic modulation
31. Mind over Matter: Reappraising Arousal Improves Cardiovascular and Cognitive Responses to Stress

A miscommunication leads to us having to wing this episode, and it sure goes all over the place! Corrigan revisits the claims of the Killer in the Code podcast, Marko discusses nuclear war, and we preview the next two REALLY COOL episodes we've got coming.

Highlights:

[0:00] Corrigan gives an update on the Killer in the Code podcast
[32:08] CoRri was a pukey child and we discuss pukey Garbage Pail Kids,
[41:50] We preview some incredible episodes we have coming up the next two weeks!
[58:28] What we watched: Feast, Man Bites Dog, Taxi Driver, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Train Dreams

The snow in New Jersey this weekend is magical... so Corrigan brings the mood down by talking about a field trip that turned deadly during a blizzard on Oregon's Mt. Hood.

Highlights:

[0:00] Corrigan tells Marko about an ill-fated field trip to Oregon's Mt. Hood
[53:34] We talk like youth pastors, discuss this week's current events
[01:08:40] Book club things and don't forget to mark the weekend of August 8th on your calendar for the UK meetup!
[01:21:00] What we watched! (A House of Dynamite, Chain Reactions, A Hole in the Head, The Rip, Beast of War, Phantom of the Paradise)

Stuff we referenced:

• Deadliest Avalanches In History
• Mt. Hood Climb Observance Day
• Mount Hood's Deadliest Disaster
• In 1986, 9 died on Mount Hood. Now, Oregon private school irked that parent wrote about it
• TWO CLIMBERS MAY HAVE SURVIVED BECAUSE OF POSITIONS IN SNOW CAVE
• Improper Decision — Failure to Turn Back, Fatigue, Exposure, Hypothermia, Inadequate Equipment, Weather, Failure to Follow Route, Oregon, Mount Hood
• Peace and pain 30 years after Oregon Episcopal School's Mount Hood disaster
• A Hole in the Head (1998)

Hard to believe it's only the 10th of January after the week the U.S. has had. We have a talk about it, but not before Marko talks about a people who revere death, we discuss death in kids' media, and we dig into whether there's a conspiracy to make people scared of normal weather in the U.K.

Highlights:

[0:00] Marko tells Corrigan about the Toraja people of Indonesia, who have an intimate relationship with death
[29:57] Mark thinks the UK media is making everyone freak out about the weather, which leads to a discussion of the attention economy and studies on what short form video is doing to our brains, and questions about why the Daily Mail has it out for deadly Asian hornets
[54:30] Marko tries to understand American field sobriety tests
[01:05:40] What we watched: Poltergeist, Man Finds Tape, 9-1-1, Aliens, Predator: Badlands
[01:33:35] What the fuck is going on in the U.S.?

Why not start out the year inspired? This week Corrigan tells Marko the story of Hannie Schaft and the Oversteegen Sisters, teenage badasses who seduced and killed Nazis. Plus, for good measure, we answer some burning listener questions!

Highlights:

[0:00] Corrigan tells Marko the story of Hannie Schaft and Truus and Freddie Oversteegen
[39:50] Momentous occasions in what we watched! (A Nightmare on Elm Street, Greener Grass, Gremlins, Anaconda (2024), Fantastic Planet
[01:10:06] Answering listener questions!

Stuff we referenced:

• Seducing and Killing Nazis by Sophie Polderman (book)
• As Teenagers, These Sisters Resisted the Nazis. Here’s What They Taught Me About Doing the Right Thing
• Hannie Schaft, the redheaded girl
• Meet Hannie Schaft, The World War II Resistance Hero Who Terrified The Nazis
• The Most Want­ed Woman in WWII Nether­lands: Han­nie Schaft
• This Teenager Killed Nazis With Her Sister During WWII
• The Fascinating Story of The Teenage Girls Who Killed Nazis: Freddie and Truus Oversteegen
• Remembering a Dutch Partisan

On our last JoAG of 2025, Marko explains the corporate playbook for profiting off stuff they know is bad for us, Corrigan sees a volcano, and we discuss the credibility of the recent revelations that the Zodiac and Black Dahlia murders may have been committed by the same guy!

Highlights:

[0:00] Marko tells Corrigan the corporate playbook for profiting from our misery and poor health
[51:30] We chat about practical effects and learn some Marko marriage lore, and Corrigan saw a volcano erupt
[01:09:54] What we watched: Keeper, The Running Man, They Live, The Void, Scrooged, Shaun of the Dead
[01:41:45] Have the Black Dahlia and Zodiac killings been solved??

Stuff we referenced:

• The Zodiac killer and Black Dahlia murderer were the SAME man: Explosive investigation unmasks single suspect behind two of America's darkest murders
• Killer in the Code (podcast site w/ details)
• The Zodiac and Black Dahlia killers may have been the same person, Marvin Margolis, according to a new decoding of a Zodiac code (Reddit)
• An amateur codebreaker may have just solved the Black Dahlia and Zodiac killings

This month’s film was 2020’s The Wolf Snow Hollow written, directed and starring Jim Cummings and before you ask, no, not the voice of Winnie the Pooh Jim Cummings. The other one. The movie follows the small town police force of Snow Hollow as they are hit with a slew of super violent murders that come with a lot of blood and a lot of missing body parts. 

[0:00] Marko solicits your questions
[01:47] We unpack Death by Lightning on Netflix and the Apple podcast Unicorn Girl
[44:00] We talk about The Wolf of Snow Hollow and a brief history of lyncanthropy

This time of year we always have a ramble episode or two, so here's one! After Corrigan explains why she can't tell Marko about the Portuguese Inquisition and instead tells him the strange story of the maybe-kidnapping of the founder of the Four Square denomination, we unleash a stream of consciousness episode about nothing and everything.

Highlights:

[0:00] Corrigan tells Marko about early megachurch pastor Aimee Semple-McPherson, who may or may not have been kidnapped off Venice Beach
[44:30] We wonder if there's a proletarian cure for enshittification and media consolidation
[01:03:15] What we watched: Pluribus, 9-1-1, Bugonia, Daddy's Head, If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, The Thing
[01:29:20] Corrigan has questions for everyone, including "does your esophagus make that sound?" and "did British people take out their teeth in the '70s?"

Stuff we referenced:

• The “Lady Preacher” Who Became World-Famous—and Then Vanished
• Aimee Semple McPherson dazzled Angelenos with flamboyant sermons. Then she disappeared
• On This Day in 1926: The Scandalous Disappearance of Preacher Aimee Semple McPherson
• The Fall and Rise of Aimee Semple McPherson
• The American Experience: Aimee Semple McPherson

Marko continues his quest to find out if pain can be quantified objectively by diving into the McGill Pain Questionnaire, and Corrigan has questions about food, memory, and final meals.

Highlights:

[0:00] Marko tells Corrigan about the McGill Pain Questionnaire
[25:49] Thanksgiving is coming, Marko's got a Santa thing happening in his house, and we wonder if Mark has had a fantastic idea or a really distasteful one
[45:59] After an epic gaming sesh, we implore you to hang out with each other online (http://www.ko-fi.com/jackofallgraves)
[54:49] What we watched! (Sweet Home Alabama, Ick, Hot Rod, Abruptio, Revenge)
[01:34:14] Corrigan wants to talk about food and death

What do the creators of all those AI chatbots and therapists and essay writing apps really wants from us? We're talking that out today, after Corrigan tells Marko about the Great Boston Mooninite Panic of 2007, and we share lots of cultural exchange.

Highlights:

[0:00] Corrigan tells Marko about the Great Boston Mooninite Panic
[34:26] Marko has an iffy idea for corporate gatherings, CoRri finds out Spotify has comments and people have been commenting, there's new Fancave on the Ko-Fi, and we need your suggestions for the 2026 book club schedule
[01:02:38] What we watched: Predator: Badlands, Life of Chuck, ANOES 2: Freddy’s Revenge, Shin Godzilla, Hearts in Atlantis, Ghost Ship, Death By Lightning, Devil in Disguise, Depraved, Black Phone 2, Frankenstein
[01:41:05] We talk about the research that exists about what AI does to our brains, anecdotal stories about AI's impact, and ultimately why the people who create AI platforms are taking advantage of a broken society.

Stuff we referenced:

• Adult Swim: How an Animation Experiment Conquered Late-Night TV
• 15 years ago, the Mooninites from Aqua Teen Hunger Force shut down Boston
• Remembering the ‘Aqua Teen Hunger Force’ bomb scare that shut down Boston
• Remembering the Mooninite Panic of 2007, tapping into something great at The Lilypad
• It's been 17 years since Aqua Teen Hunger Force marketing campaign sparked panic in Boston

[0:00] Lake Lanier
[25:00] Lake Nyos (featuring Hollywood Steve of Hellrankers!)

This week Corrigan prompted Marko to tell a story about isolation, so he brings us the tale of Man of the Hole -- the last member of his Amazonian tribe.

Highlights:

[0:00] Marko tells Corrigan about the lonely life of the Man of the Hole
[31:27] A YouTube video CoRri watched causes us to discuss Marko's inscrutable list of potential JoAG topics; make sure you listen to CoRri on The Crumbling!
[49:30] We discuss CoRri's perfect Halloween
[53:22] What we watched: Muppets Haunted Mansion, Over the Garden Wall, The Haunted Mansion, Casper, Death Becomes Her, Good Boy, Ghost Ship, Anything for Jackson, Army of Darkness, Coyotes (Eddie Burback's AI delusion video), Being Frank

Halloween week is here! As such, Corrigan brings us a suitably gory story of historical axe murder, Marko goes on a ghost tour, and we talk about allll the October spooky movies.

Highlights:

[0:00] Corrigan tells Marko about axe murders
[49:50] Mark is struggling with Halloween, but his fam is going horror mazing and went on a ghost tour
[01:06:41] A conversation about viking weaponry leads to Corrigans weird fear of sliding doors moments and other philosophical thoughts
[01:16:00] What we watched: Hocus Pocus, Savageland, The Tingler, The Deeper You Dig, Ghostwatch, The Long Walk, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, The Fog, The Conjuring: Last Rites, Hubie Halloween, Star Wars pre-quels, Return of the Jedi
[01:47:00] We unpack The Long Walk

This week Corrigan asked Marko to tell her about some "culty Brits," and he came through with lovable crank George King and his band of interplanetary misfits, the Aetherius Society!

Highlights:

[0:00] Mark tells CoRri about the Aetherius Society
[44:55] We allow ourselves to celebrate ONE death in violation of Deadpool rules, CoRri's getting fit, both hosts have maybe stolen things, and Marko has questions about trump and Gaza
[01:03:00] Mark's son wants a movie to "shit him up" and we need your help
[01:10:20] We finished Ed Gein and it did not get better
[01:18:35] We recap the watch-along. Toxie was a hit!
[01:23:35] What we watched: Toxic Avenger (2023), Practical Magic, The Borderlands, Dog Soldiers, The Righteous, Sinister, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Sleepy Hollow, Trick 'r Treat, Arachnophobia, Hell House LLC, OVerlord, Found Footage: The Making of the Patterson Project, Annabelle

Video version on the Ko-Fi! http://www.ko-fi.com/jackofallgraves

This week Marko wanted to hear a story of cursed love, so Corrigan recounts the tragic mystery of the Mayerling Incident, which inadvertently led to WWI. Cursed indeed!

Highlights:

[0:00] Corrigan tells the story of the Mayerling Incident
[47:15] Marko wonders if any of our listeners are dead, Corrigan indulges her special interests, and Hades II is out
[01:02:40] What we watched: Lost Boys, Demon Knight, Strange Harvest, Night of the Reaper

Stuff we referenced:

• Crown Prince Rudolph And The Mayerling Incident: Suicide Or Murder?
• The Austrian Crown Prince's Tragic End: A Historical Mystery
• Morbid Monday: The Unhappy Prince and the Dead Baroness
• Mayerling Final Letter
• The Tragedy at Mayerling: Unraveling the Mysterious Death of Crown Prince Rudolf
• Grim Facts About Mary Vetsera, The Doomed Mistress

Highlights:

[0:00] Marko tells Corrigan about the horrors of space
[32:08] Apparently the Rapture is here! Who will saaaaave your soul?
[39:56] It's not a podcast, it's a record of the AI-pocalypse
[49:34] Some JoAG related stories listeners have sent us, including Capgras syndrome and parthenogenesis
[01:08:24] Mark shares some head canon
[01:22:05] What we watched: Sketch, Beyond the Poseidon Adventure, Bad Shabbos, Lost Boys, District 9, Red Rooms, Handling the Undead, Masking Threshold

Listen: We know you've googled it this week. So, today we're gonna try to get to the bottom of what the hell a groyper is and whether we should care.

Highlights:

[0:00] Corrigan tells Marko about the absurd and terrifying right wing posse known as Groypers
[56:20] Marko tells Corrigan about the joys of CEX, lizard parthogenesis, and the CoLD scale, all of which leads us to a chat about what we'd really like to see on the news
[01:26:16] Some Ko-Fi updates, plus Corrigan talks about Banana Ball and we just keep thinking about touching grass

Stuff we referenced:

• What the Heck is a ‘Groyper’?
• Groyper Army
• Pro-Trump conservatives are getting trolled in real life by a far-right group
• Why alt-right trolls shouted down Donald Trump Jr.
• Report: White nationalists turn focus to college campuses, with trial run at K-State
• Charlie Kirk's Culture War, Groypers, Nickers and Q&A-trolling
• The Far Right’s New Toad Mascot Is a Fatter, More Racist Pepe the Frog
• Nick Fuentes’ Pro-Trump Video Urging A ‘White Uprising’ Reminds Us How Racists Love The GOP
• Nick Fuentes: A White Nationalist Problem for the Right
• What are Groypers?
• Ladies' Man: An Autobiography by Paul Henreid

This week we talk about how religions define martyrdom, whether it reeeeeally counts according to their own texts, and how any group is convinced to go to war. Plus, CoRri closes out her thirties, we talk science illiteracy, and we bicker over some movies!

Highlights:

[0:00] Marko discusses warriors from Samson of the Bible to modern suicide bombers, and what it means to be a martyr
[39:35] Marko talks about dumb shit he's done, it's Corrigan's last day in her thirties
[48:40] We discuss health fads, science confusion, and WHO BENEFITS
01:03:42] Mark talks about rediscovering the brilliance of Metal Gear Solid
[01:13:00] What we watched! (The Omen, Together, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, Now Voyager, Dead Ringer, The Naked Gun

Holy smokes! We've been doing this thing for five years! To celebrate, Corrigan tells a horrific historical banger, we discuss some of our favorite stories and films from the last five years, and we make a big announcement! Thanks for sticking with us, friends!

Highlights:

[0:00] Corrigan tells Marko the story of the Great Hinckley Fire, which has haunted her since she first read about it
[01:04:40] We do some reflection on the last five years of podcast and whether we feel like it's been a net positive in our lives, and exactly how MUCH of our lives this show has taken up
[01:17:38] What we didn't foresee about the world five years from when we started
[01:33:00] Mark talks about the only video he's ever noped out of, and CoRri talks about an audio clip Marko sent her that she noped out of, and we talk about WHEN IT HAPPENS
[01:40:40] Our favorite movies and our favorite JoAGs from the past five years
[02:06:25] The big announcement!

Stuff we referenced:

• Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894 by Daniel Brown
• "Root Cellar Story"
• Survivors of the Fire - Hinckley Fire Museum
• The Great Hinckley Fire of 1894
• 125 years ago, the Great Hinckley Fire became one of Minnesota's worst natural disasters

Corrigan explains to Marko how Pizzagate and Q-Anon unmoored the United States, and we have a chat about the racism white men tend to perpetuate in their movies about racism.

Highlights:

[0:00] Corrigan tells Marko about conspiracy theories that have shaped the last decade of American politics
[01:02:20] We have a watch-along coming (Slime City Massacre) on August 23rd, we discuss our weird mortality thoughts as Corrigan is weeks out from her 40th birthday, and Corrigan tells a story of accidentally getting high
[01:18:50] What we watched:  Rockula, The Invisible Man, Eddington, Weapons, Rear Window
[01:40:00] We discuss why Corrigan found Eddington harmful

Stuff we referenced:

• Dissecting the #PizzaGate Conspiracy Theories
• It’s too late to stop QAnon with fact checks and account bans
• The Nexus of QAnon and COVID-19: Legitimation Crisis and Epistemic Crisis
• What Is QAnon? Everything to Know About the Conspiracy
• Rise of Conspiracy Theories in the Pandemic Times
• QAnon’s Victims
• QAnon Hasn’t Disappeared. It’s in America’s Bloodstream.
• George Floyd protests: Misleading footage and conspiracy theories spread online
• QAnon’s Coronavirus-Fueled Boom Is A Warning Of What's To Come
• Anti-vax influencers are using QAnon shows to spread misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines
• Even If It's 'Bonkers,' Poll Finds Many Believe QAnon And Other Conspiracy Theories
• The revelations of Q. Dissemination and resonance of the QAnon conspiracy theory among US Evangelical Christians and the role of the Covid-19 crisis

Recently it's become popular for economists to say we're in a "vibecession," and we're all imagining that everyone's broke and struggling. This week Marko lays out the hard numbers about societal collapse.

Highlights:

[0:00] Marko gives Corrigan some statistics about societal collapse
[48:20] We discuss other podcasts we may or may not listen to, anticipate the new Alien TV show, and talk about Shrewsbury
[01:00:26] Interesting listener things on our discord, and a reflection on the fragility of male gamers
[01:12:19] What we watched: The Game, The Naked Gun, Jurassic World Rebirth, Weapons, The Day After Tomorrow, Spider-Man: No Way Home

In 1965, AstroTurf was created. This has made a lot of people dead or maimed and been widely regarded as a bad move.

Highlights:

[0:00] Corrigan tells Marko about the happy little forever chemicals in the fake grass that covers our parks and sports facilities
[56:45] We unpack the implications of the cold open, Corrigan explains the Presidential Fitness Test
[01:13:30] What we watched: War of the Worlds, Apollo 13, The Exorcist III, The Fantastic Four, KPop Demon Hunters, Rope, La Haine, 28 Years Later, Cold Skin

Stuff we referenced:

• Turf Wars - Science History Institute
• Safe Healthy Playing Fields
• ARTIFICIAL TURF TRAPS HEAT, DOESN'T HAVE THE COOLING PROPERTIES OF GRASS
• "HIGH TEMPS ON TURF FIELDS SPARK SAFETY CONCERNS"
• Did Artificial Turf Give More Than 200 Soccer Players Cancer?
• Soccer players’ cancers ignite debate over turf safety
• Synthetic Turf and Crumb Rubber - Washington State Department of Health
• Position Statement on the Use of Artificial Turf Surfaces - Mt. Sinai
• Monsanto-Made AstroTurf Linked to Fatal Brain Cancer of Six Former Phillies Players
• The Grounds on Which We Play: The Dangers of Artificial Turf Fields
• As the world heats up, so does the debate around artificial turf
• Artificial Turf Health Risks
• Synthetic Turf is HAZARDOUS
• New Testing Reveals High Levels of Toxic PFAS in Artificial Turf
• Understanding PFAS - What They Are, Their Impact, and What We Can Do
• PFAS - Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances - US Department of Veterans Affairs
• David West is the Sixth Former Phillie Since 2003 to Die From Brain Cancer
• Investigation Links Astroturf to Deaths of Six Former Phillies
• Health impacts of artificial turf: Toxicity studies, challenges, and future directions
• 6 former Phillies have died of brain cancer: ‘It’s a cluster and it needs to be examined,’ doctor says
• Mystery Philadelphia Brain Cancer Baseball Cluster: No Link To Astroturf Say Leading Experts- So What Is the Answer?

Humans have been obsessed with the end of the world for millennia which means, hey, you have options! Let's talk about end times alternatives to our climate nightmare.

Highlight:

[0:00] Marko and Corrigan discuss different views of the end times from various religions and cultures around the world
[47:45] Boatcore! Marko sees a 16th century ship of death, and Corrigan reads a shipwreck book
[01:05:15] Marko talks about his mental health being a bit of a dick, and discusses a recent feature of capitalism he hates
[01:15:15]] What we watched: Dangerous Animals, Knowing, Hell of a Summer, Happy Gilmore 2, Fantastic Four: First Steps, K-Pop Demon Hunters, M3gan 2.0

Corrigan finds out some shocking decades old information about the horrific end of gorilla lady Dian Fossey, we discuss how absurd the mechanisms of the human body are, and we consider an alternate timeline in which we aren't causing our own demise.

Highlights:

[0:00] Corrigan tells Marko about the murder of Dian Fossey
[40:56] We weigh whether the outcome of the gorilla conservation efforts we just discussed justify the means
[44:53] Marko questions how the human body is possible and it leads to a discussion of alternate timelines in which we didn't screw things up so bad
[01:11:26] What we watched: Slime City, The River Wild, The Monkey, Dexter: New Blood , Superman, Tron, M3gan 2.0, Ghost: Skeletour

Stuff we referenced:

• Dian Fossey and her legacy
• American Found Guilty in Absentia of Rwanda Killing of Gorilla Expert Fossey
• The Tragic Life Of Dian Fossey And Her “Gorillas In The Mist”
• Rwanda Case of the Gorilla Lady Murder
• THE FATAL OBSESSION OF DIAN FOSSEY
• American convicted of killing African researcher
• Dian Fossey - New Yorker
• Why was Dian Fossey killed?
• Fossey murder suspect arrested
• International Gorilla Conservation Programme

We just felt like hanging out, tbh, so Marko talks about some interesting weird news our pal Hannah has put in our in-tray, we discuss why rich people want to live forever and a girl with very sweaty hands, and we test Mark's knowledge of horror movie trivia. Get comfy and prepare yourself to yell at your listening device!

Highlights:

[0:00] Marko recounts some weird news and we ramble about all kinds of things
[38:37] Mark gets a 1up on his driver's license, we cry over wrestling, we talk obscure quotes
[56:05] What we watched: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Sinners, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, Reservoir Dogs, Shoot to Kill (AKA Deadly Pursuit), Things Will Be Different
[01:22:25] We do some horror trivia quizzes!
(https://play.howstuffworks.com/quiz/the-ultimate-horror-movie-quiz, https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/316241/top-100-horror-movies, https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/1380311/horror-movies-general-knowledge)

Highlights:

[0:00] Corrigan tells Marko about Japanese internment and other instances of American concentration camps
[01:10:23] We rave about Pete, Marko asks a question about the end of the world, Marko has swapped vaping for a new vice, CoRri met Joe Pera and Marko met Kris Statlander, Corrigan was on That Other Horror Podcast
[01:33:25] What we watched: Independence Day, Clown in a Cornfield, Copycat, The Surfer, House of Wax, Reservoir Dogs, Sin City, Bring Her Back

Stuff we referenced:

• A Brief History of US Concentration Camps
• Concentration Camps Existed Long Before Auschwitz
• The Unimaginable Reality of American Concentration Camps
• An Expert on Concentration Camps Says That’s Exactly What the U.S. Is Running at the Border
• What is Alligator Alcatraz? Here are the details on the new detention facility
• Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ is just performative cruelty and Trump loyalty
• Could children be detained at “Alligator Alcatraz”? What we know
• Lawmakers blast possibility children could be sent to Alligator Alcatraz
• Hitler’s Inspiration and Guide: The Native American Holocaust
• Interning the Japanese: Gila River Concentration Camp
• The Term “Concentration Camp” in Historical Perspective
• ‘Kids Were Marched Everywhere. This Was a Concentration Camp.’
• Nearly a thousand children died at Indian boarding schools funded by the U.S.
• “Kill the Indian in him, and save the man”: R. H. Pratt on the Education of Native Americans
• Removing Native Americans from their Land
• Indian Removal Act (1830)
• Trail of Tears
• What Happened on the Trail of Tears?
• Not Widely Known – The Internment Camps of Germans in America During WW2
• Executive Order 9066: Resulting in Japanese-American Incarceration (1942)
• Loyalty questionnaire – Densho Encyclopedia
• 75 Years Later: The Impact of Executive Order 9066
• Immigration and Relocation in U.S. History: Behind the Wire
• What Was Life Like in Japanese American Internment Camps?
• Interning the Japanese: Gila River Concentration Camp
• Nearly all deaths in ICE custody over 5 years were preventable, new report finds
• How the Trump Administration’s Border Camps Fit into the History of Concentration Camps
• Are ICE Detention Centers Concentration Camps?
• Trump’s Massive Deportation Plan Echoes Concentration Camp History

Closing out our impromptu series on horrendous public tragedies, Marko talks about the Bradford City stadium fire. Then, we deep dive into the highlights of our movie viewing the past two weeks before a little reflection on what we've learned about Stockton Rush.

Highlights:

[0:00] Marko tells Corrigan about the Bradford City stadium fire
[31:15] There's a war on, Mark's got brain fog, Corrigan busted her face
[51:00] What we watched: Final Destination Bloodlines, The Matrix, The Cabin in the Woods. Titan: The Oceangate Submersible Disaster, Jaws, A Night to Remember, From Dusk Till Dawn, The Shrouds, Friendship
[01:31:02] Moment of Zen: What we've learned about Stockton Rush

Marko joins us this month to discuss the 2011 film The Cabin in the Woods. The movie follows five college friends who head to the woods for…fun? Unfortunately, they end up finding the exact opposite. Because if the creepy gas station man wasn’t enough, there is a basement full of horrors in which the kids unwittingly choose their fate by releasing a killer zombie family upon themselves. Oh, and the whole thing is being orchestrated by a shadow agency attempting to save the world through human sacrifice. 

For the second week in a row, we talk about some devastating deaths in public settings, but not before Mark tells a heartwarming story about a quirky Frenchman, we talk about ICE and the National Guard, and Corrigan questions what the best radioactive mutation would be.

Highlights:

[0:00] Marko tells Corrigan about France's Palais Ideal de Facteur Cheval, an impressive edifice built by a quirky widower
[23:14] We discuss caves, catacombs, and fugue states
[31:57] Mark's doing fine, Corrigan explains the National Guard and what's going on with ICE, we discuss generational nuclear anxiety, and we talk about whether two penises is a good radiation mutation
[48:59] We've got a Pride watch along, a Pride Let's Play, book club, and a new Fancave coming!
[52:27] What we watched: The Black Phone, Rope, You're Next, Doctor Jekyll, The Toxic Avenger, Sirens, Trouble Every Day, Rambo: First Blood Part II, The Surfer, Predator: Killer of Killers, Toxic Avenger Part II
[01:32:52] We talk about public figures who have died in front of a crowd and why we find these things so haunting

Stuff we referenced:

• Lightning kills football team
• Lightning Kills 11 Soccer Players
• Manslaughter probe continues 1 year after hockey player Adam Johnson’s death in England
• A man arrested over death of a hockey player whose neck was cut with skate blade is released on bail
• Matt Petgrave will not face charges in hockey death of Adam Johnson
• Former NHL player Adam Johnson dies after a skate cut his neck during a game
• He was involved in a tragic on-ice death. Now he’s being targeted with racist attacks online
• Black Hockey Player In Fatal Freak Accident Has Become A Target For Racist Tweets
• The darkest night in music history: The shocking murder of Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell

People love watching the cars go fast, but this week Corrigan tells Marko about some horrific racing tragedies that make even being a spectator seem scary AF! Plus, we chat about what it means to leave a legacy and the different ways people have left their mark beyond the grave.

Highlights:

[0:00] Corrigan tells Marko about the dangers of auto racing
[48:47] We revisit our death video watching, Corrigan explains Bananaball
[56:00] COVID is back, now with razorblade throat! Plus, the UK bans disposable vapes!
[1:04:45] Happy Pride Month! Buy from queer people! Don't shop at Target!
[1:08:12] What we watched: Sinners, Hell Hole, Damien: Omen II, Friendship, Legends of the Hidden Temple, Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster
[1:16:14] SINNERS SPOILERS!
[1:21:11] END OF SINNERS SPOILERS!
[1:47:21] What is a legacy? And what are some interesting ways people have tried to leave one?

Stuff we referenced:

• Sprint car driver Justin Owen, 26, killed in crash at Indiana track
• List of driver deaths in motorsport
• More than 520 people have died in U.S. auto racing in past 25 years
• Top 15 Most Dangerous Sports in the World
• Tom Pryce 1977 F1 accident video, injuries photos, cause of death and autopsy
• Lost in the Dunes: The Death of Roger Williamson
• The Horrific 1957 Ferrari Crash that Ended the Mille Miglia Race
• Race car at Le Mans crashes into spectators, killing 83
• Le Mans 1955: the disaster that changed motorsport forever
• Formula 1 statistics 2025: Popularity, Attendees, Viewers, Revenue
• The 20 Worst Race Car Crashes Ever (Videos)
• The Great Stork Derby: When A Millionaire Held A Baby-Making Race For His Fortune
• A Grief So Great: The John Porter Bowman Trust
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Our AI dystopia races forward! This week we're going through some of the unhinged AI news stories from the past few weeks, from AI-induced psychosis, to college cheaters, to an AI victim statement in an actual courtroom. What even is reality anymore?

Highlights:

[0:00] Marko tells Corrigan about the bizarre mystery of the Atlas Vampire
[21:36] Mark tells a horrifyingly embarrassing story
[34:15] Some of our listeners have tangential connections to murderers; a big thank you to Ryan for filling in last week; book club and Ko-Fi updates
[42:26] CoRri hates Eli Roth and rich people who crowdfund
[58:18] What we watched: The Ugly Stepsister, Evil Dead Rise, Miller's Crossing, Fear Street: Prom Queen, The Menu, Until Dawn, Warfare, A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
[01:30:50] AI is officially out of hand in some very scary and disturbing ways

Stuff we referenced:

• People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies
• Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
• Chatgpt induced psychosis
• ChatGPT Is Giving People Extreme Spiritual Delusions
• The Ventriloquist Court: AI "Victim Statements" and the Death of Reality
• I Don't Fear AI, I Fear Tech Oligarchs Distaste for Humanity
• Thinking is being outsourced to AI
• Will Generative Artificial Intelligence Chatbots Generate Delusions in Individuals Prone to Psychosis?
• A.I. Is Getting More Powerful, but Its Hallucinations Are Getting Worse
• Meta hypes AI friends as social media’s future, but users want real connections

Marko is sick AF, so our pal Bookseller Ryan from the Laydown Podcast is here to listen to a story about a culty group of early 20th century writers and talk new horror reads!

Highlights:

[0:00] CoRri tells Ryan about the early 20th century Carmel-by-the-Sea artist community and its weird suicide pact
[41:57] Catchin' up; Ryan met Joe Hill!
[ 51:00] What we watched: Sinners, Thunderbolts, The Ugly Stepsister, Fight or Flight, A Minecraft Movie, Heart Eyes, The Rule of Jenny Pen
[01:13:42] Ryan's Recs!
- It Will Only Hurt for A Moment by Delilah S. Dawson
- Staircase in the Woods by Chuck Wending
- When the Wolf Comes Home by Nat Cassidy
- Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito
- The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
- The Eyes Are The Best Part by Monika Kim
- Strange Pictures by Uketsu
- We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer
- Someone You Can Build A Nest In by John Wiswell
- Shiny Happy People by Clay McLeod Chapman
- Play Nice by Rachel Harrison
- Spread Me by Sarah Gailey

Stuff we referenced:

• Tainted Marshmallows and Murder in Carmel
• Strychnine Found in Food of Writer
• JAPANESE SLAYER OF CARMEL ARTIST HELD George Kodani, Confessed Murderer, Has Day in Court
• FIND NEW YORK GIRL STRANGLED ON BEACH; Searchers Accuse Japanese of Killing Helena Wood Smith in Monterey, Cal. BURIED IN SAND FOR 12 DAYS
• Bohemian Tragedy
• The 1906 Great San Francisco Earthquake
• Rebuilding San Francisco After the 1906 Quake
• Divorced Wife of Geo. Sterling, Cal. Poet, Ends Her Life
• 20 lost years of Carmel’s literary past reveal cyanide suicides, poisonings and a Bohemian legacy
• Reclaiming the Legacy of Nora May French, the Pioneering Poet Made Into a Femme Fatale by Mediocre Men and California Mythology
• Carmel’s Cautionary Tale for Post-Roe America

In honor of Bookseller Ryan's birthday, an on time episode! This week, we're talking grifters -- from the douchebag in Mark's opener who convinced the psychiatric community of his genius, to some more obvious and brazen scammers on our social media feeds or shilling devices.

Highlights:

[0:00] Mark tells Corrigan about the torturous "sleep room" wayward girls were subjected to in the 1960s
[38:52] We discuss when Marko's voice dropped
[48:00] We've got lots of new stuff on the Ko-Fi, plus we chat about Cabin in the Woods and whether there are other genre equivalents; and I summarize two JoAG stories Mark does not remember at all that have become the basis for Broadway musicals
[01:03:30] What we watched! (Creature, Scary Movie, Ring, A Simple Favor, Another Simple Favor, Thunderbolts, First Blood, Sweeney Todd
[01:34:15] Let's talk about grifters!

This week Corrigan tells Marko the horrific origins of the phrase "going postal," which somehow became a punchline in the '90s. Along the way, they bicker about cultural differences, debate the ethics of human experimentation, and chat about some excellent flicks. Classic shit.

Highlights:

[0:00] Corrigan tells Marko about the origins of the phrase of "going postal"
[48:06] Cultural exchange!
[56:00] Snakebite guy leads Mark to ask some iffy questions about human experimentation
[01:09:53] What we watched: Thunderbolts, NOPE, Freaky Tales, Drop, Deranged, Black Widow, Ed Kemper, Conclave
[01:38:56] A tease for next week's episode!

Stuff we referenced:

• Recalling the post office shooting, 25 years later
• Montclair Marks 30th Anniversary of Post Office Shooting That Killed Four
• Workplace violence: homicides and nonfatal intentional injuries by another person in 2020
• Examining Workplace Homicide
• THE LONER: FROM SHY FOOTBALL PLAYER TO 'CRAZY PAT'
• MAIL CARRIER KILLS 14 IN POST OFFICE, THEN HIMSELF
• THREE DIE IN POSTAL SHOOTINGS IN TWO STATES
• Postal Officials Examine System After 2 Killings
• State v. Smith
• United States of America, Plaintiff-appellee, v. Curtis L. Collins, Defendant-appellant, 690 F.2d 431 (5th Cir. 1980)
• A disgruntled postal worker with a high-powered rifle shot...
• Man kills 4, self
• Throwback Thursday: Postal workers start packing pistols in 1961
• Mass Shooting at Montclair Post Office Remembered 30 Years Later
• DEATH IN THE POST OFFICE: 4 Shot Dead in New Jersey Post Office; Wide Manhunt but Motive Is Not Clear
• 2 decades later, Montclair reflects on deadly post office shooting
• Post Office Supervisor Shot to Death; Co-Worker Arrested
• The Chilling Story Of The Post Office Shootings That Inspired The Phrase ‘Going Postal’
• Seinfeld Clip: because the mail never stops…

Marko pulls out one of his classic unsolved mysteries with the Oakville blobs -- mysterious, illness-inducing goo from the sky -- before Corrigan revisits the claims of organ harvesting by Falun Gong she touched on a few weeks ago. Let's really dive in to the evidence... or lack thereof.

Highlights:

[0:00] Marko tells Corrigan about the Oakville blobs: mysterious, illness inducing goo from the sky
[20:12] Uh oh, it's a Marko inspirational speech. Plus, Corrigan goes to Asia, then comes back and meets a legend
[32:00] Watch-along time is upon us! Help us pick a space horror!
[38:40] What we watched! (Hold Your Breath, The Rule of Jenny Pen, Stuck, The Woman in the Yard, 825 Forest Road, Sinners, The Incident, Conclave, Opus, Bunny Lake Is Missing, Hollow Man, Kneecap, Thanatomorphose, the Untamed
[01:24:40] CoRri revisits the claims of organ harvesting by Falun Gong

Stuff we referenced:

• China used to harvest organs from prisoners. Under pressure, that practice is finally ending.
• Forced organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in China
• Food Aspiration In Lungs: Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
• Foreign body in the liver: Case report and review of literature
• First Known Survivor of China’s Forced Organ Harvesting Speaks Out 
• China is harvesting organs from Falun Gong members, finds expert panel
• UN urged to investigate ‘forced’ organ harvesting in China

It is Shen Yun season here in the NYC metro, friends. The billboards, the ads, the flyers in the mail.... But what IS Shen Yun? The answer may surprise you. In fact, yeah, safe to say it's gonna surprise you.

Stuff we referenced:

• What is Falun Gong?
• Stepping Into the Uncanny, Unsettling World of Shen Yun
• How a Persecuted Religious Group Grew Into a Global Movement
• Interview with Li Hongzhi
• Report: China still harvesting organs from prisoners at a massive scale
• The Religious Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners in China
• Critics and followers of Falun Gong / Adherents find fulfillment, but detractors call movement a cult
• Is Falun Gong a Cult?
• Behind the Pageantry of Shen Yun, Untreated Injuries and Emotional Abuse
• Lawsuit alleges that young dancers for Shen Yun Performing Arts have faced abuse
• The power of Falun Gong
• The ABC is right: Falun Gong has some dangerous teachings

Wanna know what happens between when a person dies and when they're body is discovered? There's a farm for that, and Marko tells us all about it! Then we discuss gods, what they say about us and our cultures, and why we believe in them.

Highlights:

[0:00] Marko tells Corrigan about forensic taphonomy and the invention of body farms
[22:58] Marko welcomes you to um... MILFcast; CoRri wonders if there's anyone teaching big tiddie yoga; the pope has defeated death and so can you; we figure out how to say ichor and share various Hobbit based memories
[35:10] Snow White managed to piss everybody off
[43:12]] What we watched! (Green Room, Ghost Story, Last Breath, U-571, Breakdown, The Dead Thing)
[01:21:48] We discuss how gods reflect societies and Marko asks CoRri to delve back into her evangelical days to defend her god

Ya think ya know a guy, right? Corrigan tells Marko about Charles Lindbergh, the American hero who was actually a giant shit ass.

Highlights:

[0:00] CoRri tells Mark why American hero pilot Charles Lindbergh was anything but heroic
[53:24] Mark broke himself, but he also climbed the O2! Plus excellent Ko-Fi developments
[01:11:15] What we watched: The Parenting, The Trial, Battle Royale, A Face in the Crowd, Sherlock Jr., The Electric State

Stuff we referenced:

• Charles Lindbergh: American aviator
• The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping: A Grisly Theory and a Renewed Debate
• The Lindbergh Baby Mystery Has Lasted 91 Years. Tantalizing Evidence Might Solve It
• A Chilling New Twist in the Lindbergh Baby Mystery Could Actually Flip the Verdict
• Inside the Capture of the Lindbergh Baby Kidnapper
• Lindbergh Kidnapping - FBI
• 'America First': From Charles Lindbergh To President Trump
• Charles Lindbergh's unapologetic bigotry: How he became the face of the America First Committee
• The Lindberghs and the Jews
• Lindbergh, Nazism, and Environmental Fascism
• From high-flying hero to eugenics advocate
• Charles Lindbergh's Real Nazi Ties Are At the Heart of David Simon's The Plot Against America
• Charles Lindbergh, the Nazis and American isolationism
• America First and WWII
• Was Charles Lindbergh a Nazi sympathizer?
• Fallen Hero
• Highfields, Hopewell, NJ

Mark tells the story of a horrific, mysterious family annihilation and Corrigan talks about women who have gone toe to toe with serial killers and lived to tell the tale.

Highlights:

[0:00] Marko tells Corrigan the story of the Dardeen family murders
[28:55] Mark's been to the future and comes back with a message. We talk about hantavirus and the terrible reveal of what killed the Hackmans
[49:49] Ko-Fi updates! And we discuss whether or not CoRri will get botox.
[57:00] What we watched: Spice World, The Vast of Night, Crimson Tide, Enemy of the State, Mickey 17, Banshee Chapter, In A Violent Nature, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
[01:29:20] Corrigan tells Marko about women who have escaped from serial killers

Marko is back! And to celebrate, Corrigan's telling him a real grim and gory story about deep sea diving!

Highlights:

[0:00] CoRri tells Marko about the gruesome Byford Dolphin Accident
[01:00:37] We jump right into the horrors of living in the lead up to global meltdown
[01:17:33] Thanks to Ryan, your pal anna, Hollywood Steve, and Brianne for taking over Mark's duties last month; Ko-Fi perks are coming;
[01:22:50] We debate what happened to Gene Hackman
[01:35:20] What we watched: The Poseidon Adventure, Star Trek ‘09, In Cold Blood, Monolith, The Monkey, Companion, Heart Eyes, Unforgiven, The Gorge, Wolf Man, We Live In Time

Stuff we referenced:

• What Is the Maximum Depth a Scuba Diver Can Go? Exploring the Limits and Risks
• Decompression Sickness
• Decompression sickness - Harvard
• The Ultimate Guide to Saturation Diving: Training, Safety, and Careers
• What It’s Like to be a Saturation Diver
• The Weird, Dangerous, Isolated Life of the Saturation Diver
• The Byford Dolphin Accident: How 5 Deep-Sea Divers Met Grisly Deaths
• Former saturation diver here - Reddit
• Byford Dolphin Accident (This one has the pics)

In our last week of guest stories, Corrigan's pal Brianne pops in to tell another story of CIA ridiculousness: The time they tried to turn a cat into a spy device!

Highlights:

[0:00] We explain the concept of the powerpoint party
[11:08] Brianne tells CoRri about the Acoustic Kitty Project

Ryan Clark, BookTok's queen of scream and co-host of The Laydown podcast, joins Corrigan this week and tells her the horrific history of the Dozier School for Boys, which has inspired multiple novels, including The Reformatory and Nickel Boys.

Highlights:

[0:00] Ryan tells Corrigan about the Dozier School for Boys
[01:09:45] Some book recs! (Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito and Wake Up & Open Your Eyes by Clay McLeod Chapman)

Stuff we referenced:

• The White House Boys

We are overjoyed to be joined by Mr. John Benfield, an assessor of risk by trade here to tell us about what we should be anxious about in 2025, and how we can best prepare ourselves for this risky world. Plus, Corrigan talks about the horrors of asbestos, and a D.B. Cooper enthusiast corrects the record!

Highlights:

[0:00] Corrigan tells John and Marko about the horrors of asbestos
[52:46] We introduce our guest, John Benfield, and briefly address that the world is getting more fashy in dumb ways
[01:02:00] Corrigan's D.B. Cooper gets scotched in the best possible way on Bluesky
[01:11:48] Mark's son has a question about villains winning in films
[01:16:20] What we watched! (Grafted, Batman Begins, A Real Pain. Class of Nuke ’Em High, Castle Freak, Nickel Boys, Emilia Perez, Beezel, Hauntology, They Live, Fail Safe,
[01:49:05] We delve into the World Economic Forum's 2025 Global Risk Assessment with John, a risk assessment expert.

Stuff we referenced:

• Asbestos: The Evil Dust
• VICE: Why the Deadly Asbestos Industry Is Still Alive and Well
• ‘I’m so angry, I’m wild’: the never-ending wait to clean up asbestos town Wittenoom
• ADSA: Wittenoom Overview
• The Last Days of an Outback Town Where Every Breath Can Be Toxic
• Memories of Wittenoom, a once-thriving but asbestos-riddled town that led to more than 1,000 deaths
• Last homes in asbestos-riddled Wittenoom to be demolished, but some want to stay
• U.K. Risk Register
• AI Bias in Denmark
• Tackling the growing risks of space debris in Earth orbit
• The risks of ‘space junk’ are clear: what goes up, might well come back down on top of you

Naturally, we had to take some time to reflect on David Lynch's life and philosophy. But first, Marko tells Corrigan about the Toba Catastrophe and what it might tell us about the future of humankind after we climate change ourselves to death!

Highlights:

[0:00] Marko tells Corrigan about the Toba Catastrophe Theory
[23:05] Mark's inscrutable bits, our special guest for next week,
[32:30] Now that Mark listens to podcasts, his latest listen brings him to a discussion of conspiracy theorists in the White House on the eve of the inauguration
[42:18] What we watched: The Man They Could Not Hang, The Straight Story, Gladiator II, Cuckoo, Twin Peaks, The People's Joker
[1:03:15] Looking back on Lynch

Corrigan tells Marko some fun stories about times people were sure telekinesis and other paranormal superpowers were a thing, we discuss what's going on with the California wildfires and why it's a problem for Marko's climate anxiety, and Mark weaves his Nightmare on Elm Street reboot idea through CoRri's attempts to talk about what she watched this week!

Highlights:

[0:00] Corrigan tells Marko about the U.S. government's forays into telekinetic research
[49:36] Marko has climate anxiety; Corrigan explains what's going on with the California wildfires
[1:08:00] Book club coming, we recommend Tananarive Due's The Reformatory, and a watch-along will occur February 1st!
[1:13:45] What we watched! (The Mist, Wicked, The Order, The Boys From Brazil, The Sea Wolf, To Die For, Y2k, 10 Cloverfield Lane)

Stuff we referenced:

• Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room
• Psychokinesis: Facts About Mind Over Matter
• ESP & Psychic Powers: Claims Inconclusive
• Inside The Montauk Project, The US Military’s Alleged Mind Control Program
• CIA's declassified documents: Highlights of the 13 million pages out now
• Spoon bender Uri Geller offers Donald Trump to use his island as US military base
• Remote Perturbation Techniques: Managerial Summary (CIA)
• MK-Ultra

In keeping with our VERY dark January, Marko tells Corrigan about a British pedophile advocacy group that got way too much legitimacy. But then we lighten things up with shout outs from The Void, bickering over Nosferatu, and a deep question about time travel.

Highlights:

[0:00] Marko tells Corrigan about a pro-pedophilia group in 1970s England
[35:35] Mark hates January, CoRri is terrified of caterpillars, and people are eating bugs for the planet!
[48:12] Elon Musk is "intervening" in UK politics and pretending to be a German guy on Twitch
[55:20] Lots of good stuff coming up on the Ko-Fi so sign up, ya silly geese!
[1:00:00] Shout Outs from the Void
[1:14:45] What we watched! (Timecop, Nosferatu, Evil Dead 2, Conclave, Lockerbie)
[01:50:55] Corrigan asks Marko how he would convince someone he was a time traveler

As 2025 kicks off, Corrigan tells Marko some dark tales she learned on her vacation in Rome, and we look back at our favorite things this year and forward at what's on the horizon for us this year.

Highlights:

[0:00] Corrigan tells Marko the dark tales of two women who've become feminist symbols in Italy
[54:34] CoRri recaps her vacation, including the many human bones she saw, Mark smells of brisket
[1:04:30] What we watched! (Nosferatu, Twister, Carry-On, Resolution, Gladiator, Werewolves, RoboCop,
[1:26:28] Looking back over what we got up to in 2024 and forward to 2025
[1:46:20] Our favorite things from 2024 -- Movies, books, TV, music, and adventures!

Stuff we referenced:

• Toxicology in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
• Ghost & Crimes of Rome Tour - Ask for Yash!
• The tragic story of Beatrice Cenci
• Violence Begets Violence: The Cruel Death of Beatrice Cenci
• This Aristocratic Family Turned on its Abusive Patriarch
• Meet Giulia Tofana: The 17th-Century Professional Poisoner Said To Have Killed 600 Men
• Giulia Tofana, Italy’s most notorious poisoner
• Le donne silenziate: the foundations of the Italian patriarchy
• Italy confronts its toxic culture of violence against women
• Make noise! A murder and a movie stir Italians to loudly demand an end to violence against women
• Femicide in Italy: A modern phenomenon deeply rooted in country’s cultural past
• Italy grapples with its patriarchal history as femicide cases shock the nation
• Giulia Tofana: poisoner, murderer, saviour?

It's a truth universally acknowledged that Christmas is a time for ghosts. We don't make the rules. So, Marko opens us up with a spooooky tale of a perhaps misunderstood monk in West Yorkshire before we dive into the world of prepping, doomsday and otherwise.

Highlights:

[0:00] Mark tells Corrigan
[33:36] We talk about how good you look, The Void is coming so sign up on our Ko-Fi to secure your personal message, Mark updates us on what it's like to be 46
[45:22] There are DRONES MAYBE in New Jersey
[56:39] What we watched!: Violent Night, Speak No Evil (2024), The Santa Clause 3, Venom: The Last Dance, Heretic, 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, The Endless
[01:37:16] What are doomsday preppers and do we want to be them?

Stuff we referenced:

• What is Prepping and What is a Prepper?
• Doomsday Desperation
• Millennial utopians and prepper subcultures: Contemporary utopianism on the left and right
• The Americans Prepping for a Second Civil War
• Preparing for the Apocalypse: A Look at the Rise of Doomsday Preppers
• Why 'preppers' are going mainstream
• 7 Assumptions That Can Get You Killed When SHTF
• Practice Combat Without Getting Killed

What a week it's been to live on this spinning rock, right? This week Corrigan tells Marko the story of the only unsolved highjacking case in American history, and we talk about the assassination of a healthcare CEO, and what the response says about the state of the U.S.

Highlights:

[0:00] Corrigan tells Marko about the mystery of famous highjacker D.B. Cooper, and about new revelations that might finally tell us for sure who he was!
[45:28] It has been a CRAZY week to be alive, Mark doesn't like Corrigan's accent work, book club will be Dec. 28th
[53:30] A discussion of Corrigan's upcoming resolutions leads to some deep philosophical tangents about morality
[01:11:38] What we watched! (Nazi Town, USA, Wicked, Trapped in the Rocky Mountains, Arctic Void, History of the Occult, Three Wiser Men and A Boy, Sugarplummed, The Christmas Quest, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Suicide Squad, Targets, Nightbeast, The Burrowers
[01:45:22] We talk about the assassination of United Healthcare and what we can take from the discourse about the killer

Stuff we referenced:

• D.B. Cooper Update: Why FBI Reopened The 53-Year-Old Plane Hijacking Case
• A Staggering New Clue on D.B. Cooper's Tie Has Blown the 52-Year-Old Case Wide Open
• D.B. Cooper
• Who is D.B. Cooper? New Evidence May Crack One Of America’s Greatest Mysteries
• D.B. Cooper skyjacking: Boy, 8, unearths ransom notes
• $5,800 of airplane hijacker D. B. Cooper’s ransom money is found near the Columbia River on February 10, 1980.
• UnitedHealth uses faulty AI to deny elderly patients medically necessary coverage, lawsuit claims
• Insurance company halts plan to put time limits on coverage for anesthesia during surgery
• Competing Companies Scrub Online Leadership Bios …Fear Of Being Next?

There will be oversharing, friends, as Mark deals with his approaching 46th birthday by exploring what science says is happening to his body. Plus our regular chat about AI, a revisit of the Lady of the Dunes case, and Marko's final appraisal of Scream VI! Has he changed his tune, or are we doomed to fight forever?

Highlights:

[0:00] Mark talks about some of the ways he can expect his body to break down now in his mid-40s
[39:39] We discuss neurodivergent safe foods, CoRri's impulsive haircut and tattoo, and how Mark has been burned by his impulses before
[55:27] CoRri learns to put less pressure on herself, we mention upcoming things, and we watched a very unusual version of Metropolis for the Ko-Fi
[1:01:00] What we watched! (Xtro, Giorgio Moroder’s Metropolis, Targets, True Stories, Lady of the Dunes [Oxygen True Crime], My Old Ass, Scream VI, Love Death & Robots)
[1:38:10] We check in on generative AI and how quaint our past discussions of deepfakes seem now that AI is being trained on US
[1:44:00] A quick revisit of the Lady of the Dunes

Corrigan wants to get to the bottom of the gruesome phenomenon of cattle mutilation, and Marko finally gives up diet coke... for reasons that may surprise you.

Highlights:

[0:00] CoRri tells Marko about the mysterious phenomenon of cattle mutilation
[50:52] Mark has finally divested from diet Coke over, of all things, AI. You'll be shocked to know this sends us spiraling.
[1:16:08] Book club picks are coming, Mark loves Eastenders, we've changed how our YouTube functions, and other loose thoughts
[1:27:14] What we watched! (Hot Frosty, Creep Tapes, Cape Fear, Scream, Alien: Romulus, MadS)

Stuff we referenced:

• Cattle mutilations: One researcher's theory on what's happening | Livestock | capitalpress.com
• Let’s Talk About Cattle Mutilations - Modern Farmer
• The Mysterious History of Cattle Mutilation | HISTORY
• The Return of the Cattle-Mutilation Conspiracy Theory | The New Republic
• A decade after armed standoff, the Bundys appear to be above the law : NPR
• Cults or UFOs? Decades of mysterious cattle mutilations stump police
• Oregon ranchers describe bizarre cases of cattle mutilations in ‘Unsolved Mysteries’ - oregonlive.com
• Detectives perplexed by mysterious Oregon cattle mutilations - oregonlive.com
• The 1970s Cow Mutilation Mystery - JSTOR Daily
• Wave of Mutilation: The Cattle Mutilation Phenomenon of the 1970s on JSTOR
• 6 cows in Texas found dead and mutilated with their tongues cut out have left police searching for answers | CNN
  
  

Bit of a week, huh? We'll address it, but mostly we want to talk to you about a cat that predicts death, our love for Night of the Living Dead (1990) and Smile 2, and weird ways organisms "think" that cause as to ask questions about our own consciousness.

Highlights:

[0:00] Marko tells Corrigan about a cat who can predict death
[28:56] A listener made us a shirt and it causes us to reflect on how lucky we are
[33:45] We reflect briefly on the week since the election. Check out the Fancave on our Ko-Fi for some advice on how not to be a doomer.
[40:12] A moment for Tony Todd and a rave about Night of the Living Dead (1990)
[52:30] What we watched! (The Penguin, Frankie Freako, Heretic, The Purge: Election Year, Carnival of Souls, Eyes Without a Face, Smile 2, Woman of the Hour, Joker: Folie a Deux)
[1:30:45] Mark delves into ideas of consciousness, and whether some scientific revelations about how we can imitate it could effectively, well, kill god.

Weeoooweeoooweeooo! JoAG therapy alert! After Corrigan explains the horrible history of the American electoral system, Marko needs to get some feelings of futility about the world off his chest.

Highlights:

[0:00] Corrigan gives Marko an overview of America's terrible electoral system
[01:19:47] JoAG therapy! We have to talk out some existential dread

Stuff we referenced:

• The Impact of Voter Suppression on Communities of Color | Brennan Center for Justice
• Black voting rights and voter suppression: A timeline
• People of Color Are Being Deterred from Voting | Brennan Center for Justice
• Why Black Americans Still Face Obstacles to Voting at Every Step - Business Insider
• US Supreme Court Allows Racial Discrimination in Electoral Maps | Human Rights Watch
• Why Was the Electoral College Created? | HISTORY
• The history of the Electoral College and our national conversation about race | Harvard Kennedy School
• What is the Electoral College? | National Archives
• Eliminating Electoral College favored by majority of Americans | Pew Research Center
• Should the U.S. Abolish the Electoral College? - 2024 Presidential Election
• Three-Fifths Clause: Why Its Taint Persists
• Here's What Critics Say Is Wrong With The Electoral College : NPR
• Abolishing The Electoral College Would Be More Complicated Than It Seems : NPR
• 10 Years After SCOTUS Gutted Voting Rights Act, Alabama Turnout Gap Is Worse | Brennan Center for Justice
• 'Shelby County': One Year Later | Brennan Center for Justice
• With 2024 election so tight, a reminder how few votes decided the 7 swing states in 2020 - ABC News
  
  

It's been a minute since we updated the trusty JoAG columns o' recs, so just in time for Halloween, we got a ton of recommendations for you, all released in the last 4 years! But first, we go deep into evangelicalism once more as we discuss a supposed portal to hell in Siberia!

Highlights:

[0:00] CoRri tells Mark about the Siberian "Well to Hell"
[53:00] We apologize for and discuss the choice to watch Peter Jackson's Meet the Feebles for our watch-along
[01:09:35] We update our horror columns with new Halloween recs for you!

• Left Column: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Psycho Goreman, Freaky, No One Will Save You, M3gan, Lamb, Host
• Middle Column: Vicious Fun, Fresh, Superhost, The Blackening, Milk & Serial, Trap, Totally Killer, Longlegs, Deadstream, The Night House, Renfield, Nope, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022), The Black Phone, The Pope's Exorcist, The First Exorcism, Immaculate, Barbarian, Malignant, His House, A Quiet Place: Day One, Invisible Man, Late Night With the Devil
• Right Column: The Substance, Talk To Me, Evil Dead Rise, Pearl, Silent Night (2021), Hunter Hunter, Soft & Quiet, Terrifier 2 &3, The Sadness, The Wicked & the Damned, When Evil Lurks, Men, Censor, Possessor Stopmotion, In A Violent Nature, Bones & All

Stuff we referenced:

• World’s deepest manmade hole dubbed ‘well to hell’ plunges 40,000 feet
• The Fascinating Truth Behind The "Well To Hell" Hoax - Urbo
• How Deep Is the Deepest Hole in the World? | Scientific American
• The Untold Truth Of The Well To Hell
• The Well to Hell | Snopes.com
• Scientists Discover Hell in Siberia - Christianity Today

Highlights:

[0:00] Marko tells Corrigan about the grim end of Brian Wells, the man with a bomb strapped around his neck
[20:40] Mark does some victim blaming, we explain our absence, and we go over some upcoming JoAG stuff including this weekend's watch-along on October 26th!
[32:10] Robert Roberson's execution has been delayed! Keep up the pressure!
[39:45] CoRri picks out a classic movie for Mark to watch!
[42:08] What we watched! (Pulse, Dead Man’s Curve, Dead of Night, The Gift, Next of Kin, It’s What’s Inside, Horror in the High Desert, Horror in the High Desert 2, Hellboy: The Crooked Man, The Substance, Red Rooms, WNUF Halloween Special, Terrifier 3, Azrael)
[1:12:00] We talk about The Substance! No spoilers unless you want to know zero things about the film.
[1:29:40] We share some of the bonkers stories people have shared to our social media lately

Stuff we referenced:

• US man, 81, sentenced to six months for creating giant hybrid sheep for hunting
• Cheating alleged after men’s world conker champion found with steel chestnut
• ‘Horrifying’ mistake to take organs from a living person was averted, witnesses say
• Bay Area startup claims it developed 2-way communication between people via dreams
• Disguised GP admits attempted murder poisoning
• Build your own CRISPR solution

Fresh off our NYC meetup and a matching set of colds, we're reflecting on Marko's American adventure, and talking about the frightful phenomenon of spontaneous human combustion.

Highlights:

[0:00] Corrigan tells Marko about the mechanisms by which human being seem to spontaneously combust
[34:10] We reflect on the meetup and Mark's time in America.
[44:40] Corrigan has a wild coincidence to share with the JoAG circle
[58:39] CoRri explains why Strange Darling is a very problematic movie
[1:09:00] What we watched! (Evolver, Dead Silence, House of Spoils, Clearcut, The Believers, Absurd, Speak No Evil, Deadpool & Wolverine, V/H/S/Beyond, Salem’s Lot, Dracula, Halloween 3, Freaked)
[1:44:30] A question for our audience: What franchise has the best average hit rate?

Stuff we referenced:

• Spontaneous Human Combustion in the Light of the 21st Century | Virve Koljonen - Academia.edu
• Spontaneous Human Combustion: Eye-witness cases in more detail
• Spontaneous combustion killed pensioner, rules coroner
• 'First Irish case' of death by spontaneous combustion
• Spontaneous Human Combustion
• Is Spontaneous Human Combustion Possible?

It's a very special 200th episode live from Corrigan's backyard at the JoAG x Hellrankers meetup of DOOOOM! That's right, Hollywood Steve and Your Pal Anna, along with a few dozen of our listening fam, assembled for a swingin' shindig where Marko told us about some notable mob hits, and we ranked each entry in the Jaws franchise!

Highlights:

[0:00] Mark tells us about the rise of organized crime in America and some of the classic MOs for mob hits.
[25:00] We rank the Jaws flicks!

This week Corrigan tackles the controversial shaken baby syndrome diagnosis and, in anticipation of Mark's upcoming journey to the states, we talk about his hopes, fears, and the weird ass gift shop at the World Trade Center. Plus, we finally put an end to our years-long dispute about the Scream franchise!

Highlights:

[0:00] Corrigan scotches Shaken Baby Syndrome
[49:42] We chat about Mark's concerns about coming to America, the things he's looking forward to, and the bizarre phenomenon that is the 9/11 gift shop
[74:00] What we watched! (Storm of the Century, Blink Twice, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, The Watchers, Scream 4, Omni Loop, Caveat)

Stuff we referenced:

• Robert Roberson Faces Execution, Despite Groundbreaking Texas Junk Science Law
• The horrible truth about shaken baby syndrome cases.
• Shaken Science: Former medical examiner: ‘Alleged cases of pure shaking are unusual’
• The controversy about shaken baby syndrome actually isn't one at all
• Law Needs to Keep Up With Science in Shaken Baby Syndrome Cases
• Evidence of 'shaken baby' questioned by controversial study | New Scientist
• Shaken baby cases tested by defense medical expert witnesseses
• Appeals court agrees shaken baby syndrome is 'junk science' in some cases • New Jersey Monitor
• The evidence base for shaken baby syndrome - PMC
• How Can Doctors Be Sure a Baby's Been Shaken? - The Atlantic
• Shaken Baby Syndrome | National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
• Texas court sets execution for man in controversial shaken baby syndrome case
• National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome
• Hours before Freddie Owens' execution, friend who testified against him says he lied: "Freddie was not there" - CBS News

Marko tells Corrigan about the most prolific peacetime murderer in German history, Mark tries his hand at the NYC sightseeing guide exam, and astronauts stuck on the ISS are giving CoRri anxiety.

Highlights:

[0:00] Marko tells Corrigan about extremely prolific medical murder Niels Högel
[20:35] We discuss whether or not we would exude cool in an art gallery, CoRri's weird bathroom project
[43:30] Mark attempts a few questions from the NYC Sightseeing Guide exam
[53:30] What we watched! (Key Largo, The Body Snatcher, The Ghost & Mrs. Muir, The Watcher, The Crow, Milk & Serial
[1:21:20] The astronauts stuck in space are freaking CoRri out

It's been a long, tough week, so we're just chillin', shooting the breeze and talking about the MYRIAD things we've watched over the past week and a half. Plus, we talk about a Scream movie without yelling at each other!

Highlights:

[0:00] Mark and CoRri shoot the breeze about getting older, getting drunk, and getting that good sleep
[21:40] What we watched! (Midnight Run, Milk & Serial, Jaws 2, Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, Rituals, The Boston Strangler, The Funhouse, The Dark Half, Sweet Smell of Success, Scream 2, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Robot Jox, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Cuckoo, Arcadian, Captain America: Civil War, Ant-Man)

Having read MORE maritime history this summer, Corrigan tells Marko about the seafarer's scourge of scurvy, and Mark asks some deep questions about Gremlins.

Highlights:

[0:00] CoRri tells Mark about scurvy
[49:43] Marko has been "in the wars" and is a bit worse for wear after his holidays; he explains his eye procedure; and at our four year anniversary, we found out some things a human child can do at four years old
[64:30] Cultural exchange!: sticker book edition. Plus, is James Marsden's career weird?
[78:00] What we watched! (Edge of the City, In the Heat of the Night, The Slumber Party Massacre, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, Mister Creep, Beast, Source Code, Night of the Zombies, Inside Out 2, Gremlins 2, Oddity, Alien: Romulus
[1:53:50] Romulus spoilers
[1:58:51] We discuss some pressing questions about the Mogwai/Gremlin life cycle!

Stuff we referenced:

• A Nightmare Disease Haunted Ships During Age of Discovery
• Scurvy: By the End, Death is a Mercy
• James Lind: The man who helped to cure scurvy with lemons
• History of scurvy and use of vitamin C in critical illness: A narrative review.

Marko is on vacation with is fam, so Hollywood Steve and Your Pal Anna of the Hellrankers podcast join Corrigan to discuss an 18th century alleged butt stabber, cryptids, a HUGE murder debunking, and more!

Highlights:

[0:00] Steve and Anna tell Corrigan about the butt stabbin' menace known as the London Monster
[40:40] We discuss monster theory, cryptids, conspiracy theory, and what a gigantic weirdo RFK Jr. is.
[54:00] We introduce Steve and Anna's podcast, Hellrankers!
[66:30] CoRri found out some wild news about famous serial killer H.H. Holmes this week, and we talk about why we often get history so wrong
[93:30] What we watched! (All the Back to the Futures, Wild Wild West, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Attack of the Killer Donuts, Deadware, Twister, Raising Arizona, Hot Rod, Barb & Star Go To Vista Del Mar, The Palm Royale, Butterfly Kisses)

There's nothing Marko loves more than a good bit of brain weirdness, so this week he tells Corrigan about Anton-Babinski syndrome: A rare disorder where your eyes can see but your brain can't.

Highlights:

[0:00] Mark tells CoRri about Anton-Babinski Syndrome
[28:20] Mark asks ChatGPT to describe Jack of All Graves. The results might surprise you! Plus, CoRri's birthday is coming up, Mark's going to Bulgaria, and we have a chat about terrible brand names
[44:55] Watch-along coming up so send us your NYC horror recommendations! It's almost our anniversary and Steve and Anna of Hellrankers are coming to 'cast with Corrigan next week!
[58:10] New Elm Street 4k coming, we're into Fede things, and what we watched! (Alien: Romulus, Waterworld, Trap, Back to the Future)
[1:28:00] Mark speedruns through a list of mildly troubling questions for CoRri to answer

CoRri tells Marko about the connection between a Portuguese serial killer and the long debunked science of phrenology before we talk '90s pro wrestling, horrifying updates from the Titan submersible, our week in horror movies, and what Olympic sport we think we could probably squeak by and qualify for.

Highlight:

[0:00] Corrigan tells Marko about the history of phrenology and what it has to do with a 19th century Portuguese serial killer
[46:45] Summer is attacking Mark, Corrigan is getting a dog
[57:00] Meetup's coming up so get on in! Also, book club this weekend reading Maeve Fly! Join us! And then a New York themed watch-along at the end of the month! And our new Snack to the Future is coming to Ko-Fi on Friday!
[64:00] Corrigan was almost on a pro-wrestling podcast. We discuss her experience watching '90s Nitro and Raw
[72:07] We have horrifying Titan Submersible updates!
[89:00] What we watched! (Virtuosity, It Chapter 2, Ghost Shark, Godzilla Minus One, Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person, A Man For All Seasons, Despicable Me 4, Alien)
[116:30] Question of the week: What Olympic sport do you think you could qualify for with enough practice?

References:

• On the trail of Diogo Alves, the 1800s serial killer whose head is kept in a jar · Rafaela Ferraz
• Diogo Alves: The 19th-Century Killer With A Perfectly Preserved Head
• Preserved Head of Diogo Alves – Lisbon, Portugal - Atlas Obscura
• Canada was 'highly confident' it heard man-made noises during search for Titan submersible, documents show | CBC News
• Massive Lawsuit Filed Connected to Oceangate Titan Submersible Tragedy
• Killer in a Jar: The Preserved Head of Diogo Alves – The Vale Magazine
• See an Alarmingly Well-Preserved Human Head in a Jar at This Portuguese University - Atlas Obscura
• Am I too attached to a long-dead Portuguese serial killer?
• What Skulls Told Us
• The Introduction of Phrenology to the United States
• The Shape of Your Head and the Shape of Your Mind
  

We're circling back to a few topics we've touched on before, as Mark expands our understanding of amphetamine use in WWII, and we discuss a doctor who is absolutely certain of the existence of an afterlife.

Highlights:

[0:00] Marko tells CoRri
[29:50] An oncologist has totally proved the afterlife exists, you guys
[63:00] The UK is full of fascists and they're burning things!
[70:45] A fond farewell to Dead & Lovely
[76:30] What we watched! (We are What We Are, Psycho III, Psycho IV, It, Cobra Kai, The King of Comedy)

Stuff we referenced:

• I've studied more than 5,000 near death experiences. My research has convinced me without a doubt that there's life after death.

It's fire season in the U.S. of A. so Corrigan tells Marko about one of the most famous fires in U.S. history: The Great Chicago Fire of 1871.

Highlights:

[0:00] Corrigan tells Marko about the Great Chicago Fire
[37:08] Mark broke his face
[46:00] We're definitely getting tattoos and you should get on our Discord if you'd like to come visit us in September!
[51:25] Corrigan convinces Marko he'll like a sport
[62:08] What we watched! (Ghoulies, Ghoulies 2, Starship Troopers, The Passing (Yr Ymadawiad), Monster Mash, The Running Man, Hackers, Deadpool and Wolverine)
[90:00] Mark has questions about Project 2025

Stuff we referenced:

• What (or Who) Caused the Great Chicago Fire? | Smithsonian
• The Chicago Fire of 1871 and the 'Great Rebuilding'
• What Really Started the Great Chicago Fire? | The New Yorker
• Chicago's Great Fire, 150 Years Later | Smithsonian
• Chicago on Fire | American Experience | Official Site | PBS
• The Great Chicago Fire | The Great Chicago Fire & The Web of Memory
• The Great Chicago Fire, As Told By Those Who Lived Through It – Chicago Magazine
• The Great Chicago Fire | Chicago Stories | WTTW Chicago
• Featured Document Display: 150 Years Ago: The Great Chicago Fire | National Archives Museum
• An eyewitness account of the Great Chicago Fire, 1871 | Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Highlights:

[0:00] CoRri talks Mark about the mysterious missing panel of the most stolen painting in history
[34:57] Mark gets prayed for, trump almost gets got
[49:15] CoRri has covid and a broken computer; we have a watch-along coming July 27th
[67:20] Some bananas murders hit the UK, causing Marko to once again reflect on his own perfect murder method
[80:00] What we watched! (The Bear, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Longlegs, MaXXXine, Telemarketers, Turbulence)
[112:54] A macabre question from Marko: How do you think you're going to die?

Stuff we referenced:

• Brief history of Ghent, the rebellious city of Flanders
• Ghent over the centuries
• The mystery of the disappearance of the Just Judges 90 years on
• Van Eyck’s Ghent Altarpiece and the many thefts of a masterpiece
• Missing Van Eyck panel - the end to Belgium’s biggest mystery?
• Treasure-hunting Belgians warned to keep pickaxes away after claim lost masterpiece hidden beneath street
• Who Stole the Ghent Altarpiece?
• The Van Eycks
• The disappearance of the Just Judges panel
• The Ghent Altarpiece, Most Stolen Painting of All Time
• Lost art: chasing the elusive Ghent Altarpiece panel
• From Napoleon to Nazis, this is the story of one of the most stolen artwork of all time – the Ghent Altarpiece
• The Ghent Altarpiece: the truth about the most stolen artwork of all time

An American journalist exposed the serious deficiencies in the Lucy Letby murder trial, but British readers weren't allowed to see it... nor did they want to. What does the fraught conversation around Lucy Letby's guilt tell us about the media, our institutions, and the criminal justice system?

Highlights:

[0:00] Mark tells Corrigan about the disappearance of Lars Mittank
[21:15] Mark celebrates Father's Day, we talk about the 4 hour YouTube takedown of the Star Wars hotel, we discuss CoRri's mourning period over her dog and whether you could fit a human in a pet euthabag
[39:10] Furiosa tanked in the theaters. Can we save cinemagoing?
[56:13] What we watched! ( Hit Man, Romy & Michele’s High School Reunion, To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar, Pride, The Omen, Six Schizophrenic Brothers [Book - Hidden Valley Road], Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Thale, Brats, I Saw The TV Glow)
[90:36] We revisit the Lucy Letby case and question whether we're collectively too attached to her guilt... and if so, what does that say about us and our criminal justice systems.

Stuff we referenced:

• The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel
• A British Nurse Was Found Guilty of Killing Seven Babies. Did She Do It?
• Why a New Yorker Story on a Notorious Murder Case Is Blocked in Britain
• “Impossible to approach the reporting the way I normally would”: How Rachel Aviv wrote that New Yorker story on Lucy Letby
• New Yorker Story Questions Guilt Of Nurse Convicted Of Killing 7 Babies

Uh oh! Corrigan's busting some myth's again, breaking down the tall tale of the War of the Worlds panic broadcast. Then, as Marko and CoRri both deal with different deaths in their lives, it's a chat about what it means to leave a legacy, and how we and others stave off the dreaded "second death."

Highlights:

[0:00] Corrigan tells Marko about the myth of the War of the Worlds panic broadcast
[30:28] CoRri talks about the absurd ways her dog is slipping from life, new JoAG mailings are coming, Let's Play is coming, book club is Saturday, and CoRri is taking extraordinary measures to ensure the success of the NYC meeting
[44:00] What we watched! (Double Jeopardy, The Fugitive, Dancing for the Devil: The 7M TikTok Cult, MoviePass, MovieCrash, Babes, Cronos, The Exorcist: Believer, Stung, Under Paris. The Strangers: Chapter One)
[87:50] We talk about what it means for your memory to outlive you, and whether we want it to

Stuff we referenced:

• The War of the Worlds panic was a myth
• 75 Years Ago, 'War Of The Worlds' Started A Panic. Or Did It? : The Two-Way : NPR
• The Infamous "War of the Worlds" Radio Broadcast Was a Magnificent Fluke | Smithsonian
• The Halloween myth of the War of the Worlds panic - BBC News
• Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds panic myth: The infamous radio broadcast did not cause a nationwide hysteria.
• Ecuador's War of the Worlds: The Myth That Was
• The War of the Worlds in Ecuador

Every now and then we like to take stock of where we are in our slide towards the apocalypse, so this week we're looking back over the last four years and asking, has everything gotten worse?

Highlights:

[0:00] Marko tells Corrigan about an online asshole who murdered via suicide
[21:49] CoRri is a brash American, Mark finds out what brand of neurodivergent he is, and we delve into our weird dream states
[38:00] JoAG is going YouTube, the Conjuring is coming to our ko-fi, and we rip the Warrens again
[44:27] A Russian family melting down outside Corrigan's window leads to a discussion of corporal punishment
[53:06] What we watched! (Atlas, Escape from New York, The Fall Guy, The Coffee Table, Fallen Idols: Nick and Aaron Carter, The First Omen)
[86:49] From our personal lives to greeflation to AI, we question what's gotten worse and better since we started this podcast in August of 2020.

Stuff we referenced:

• ‘Consumers are more powerful than President Biden’: The war on greedflation is being won one private-label brand at a time
• Inflation is cooling. So why are food prices, from steak to fast-food meals, still rising?
• The 7 most shocking Google AI answers we’ve seen so far

It is the rare occasion upon which it is a holiday in BOTH of our countries, so we're chillin' out with a low key movie deep dive. Or at least that was the plan. We took a lot of twists and turns, but hey, come nurse your holiday hangover w/ your moviephile weirdo besties.

Highlights:

[0:00] Mark gets a mysterious set of phone calls, which leads to a discussion of scams
[12:16] Richard Dreyfuss has continued his Jaws tour and it's not going great! [24:30 We discuss what kind of Spielberg tattoo Corrigan would put on her thicc thigh, and lowkey racist things like Tintin, Agatha Christie, an Roald Dahl
[34:07] What we watched! With many tangents including why Civil War makes CoRri rage-y, why Caitlin Cronenberg is an alright nepo-baby, the '90s obsession with tribal shit, and more!
[87:27] We play 20 questions! Mark makes Corrigan guess what random movie he watched on Netflix this week. Tell us when you got it and what questions CoRri should have asked.

What we watched:

• Furiosa
• Fury Road
• Day of the Dead
• All You Need is Death
• Civil War
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
• Congo
• Humane
• Mad Max

Corrigan tells Mark the dark origins of the phrase "the dingo ate my baby," and we discuss how travel can be hazardous to your life expectancy as we explore the many ways tourists have died on holiday.

Highlights:

[0:00] Corrigan tells Mark about the time a dingo ate a lady's baby and everyone laughed
[28:30] Mark spins a yarn, CoRri's air conditioner birds have flown the nest, we've got book club and Fancave updates, and we discuss our favorite book to movie adaptations and what fantasy worlds we'd want to live in.
[51:52] Marko rants about the JASON UNIVERSE
[60:30] What we watched! (Gaslight, In Bruges, Kim's Video, Challengers, Jurassic World Dominion, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, Gozilla x Kong: The New Empire, Sting, The Loved Ones
[103:00] We discuss ways in which tourists have met their ends abroad

Stuff we referenced:

• Azaria Chamberlain inquest: forget the dingo jokes and recognise Lindy’s trauma
• DISTURBING DETAILS FOUND AT AZARIA CHAMBERLAIN'S DEATH SCENE
• From the vault – Chamberlain collection
• Vindication at Last for a Woman Scorned by Australia’s News Outlets
• Azaria Chamberlain inquest
• Australian coroner finds dingo took baby Azaria in 1980
• 'The police were feeding information to the press': The Australian mother wrongly convicted of murder
• Why That ‘Dingo’s Got My Baby’ Line Isn’t Funny
• 'Dingo baby' mystery finally solved? Australia inquest hopes to close 1980 case
• Dingo baby ruling ends 32 years of torment for Lindy Chamberlain
• How do Dingos hunt?
• Dingo attacks are rare – but here’s what you need to know about dingo safety
• Dingoes: How dangerous are they?
• The disturbing disappearance and death of the German Tourists in Death Valley — StrangeOutdoors.com
• The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans
• Death Valley Germans • Family Lost in Death Valley California
• Discovery of Skeletal Remains in Death Valley National Park May Solve an Old Mystery | National Parks Traveler
• Death Valley bones linked to German tourists
• CALIFORNIA : Bones may solve mystery : Death Valley hikers find what may be tourists' remains. - Los Angeles Times
• Twentieth anniversary of one of Death Valley’s baffling mysteries | Pahrump Valley Times
• 2 found dead in Joshua Tree National Park were European tourists – Twin Cities
• Grand Canyon Helicopter Crash: Victim's Parents Get $100m | TIME
• Grand Canyon fatal helicopter crash 'probably caused by wind'

After Mark tells CoRri about a wild Seattle airplane theft, we embark on a wide ranging chat covering a self-medicating primate, British playground games, religion in schools, and whether tiktok pedophile hunters are doing the lord's work or doing it for clout.

Highlights:

[0:00] Marko tells Corrigan about Beebo Russell's grand theft aviation
[23:30] There are birds in CoRri's walls, we're playing lots of video games, and we give some inspiration
[37:00] Marko met Bookseller Ryan in a Princess Diana themed cafe
[43:17] An orangutan made medicine!! Also, we learn some hymns from Marko's weird Welsh childhood and how to play the game of conkers
[67:52] What we watched! (Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Twister, Challengers, Fall Guy, A History of Violence, When a Stranger Calls, Abigail)
[88:30] We discuss the whacky world of pedophile hunters

Stuff we referenced:

• Wounded orangutan seen using plant as medicine
• Extended audio: Horizon employee talks with air traffic control in cockpit
• Vigilante paedophile hunters ruining lives with internet stings
• Self-proclaimed paedophile hunter arrested, charged with assault and revealing identity of person charged with sexual offence
• A vigilante ‘predator hunter’ clashed with police and prosecutors. Now, he’s the one facing felony charges.
• Feud between sexual predator ‘sting’ KTS group, Madison County authorities continues
• The Controversial Rise of Vigilante Paedophile Hunters
• Is evidence from a vigilante 'sting' operation accepted in UK courts?
• I spent three years in a paedophile hunting team – here’s what I learned
• Police concerns over rise of 'paedophile hunters'
• The rise of paedophile hunters: To what extent are cyber-vigilante groups a productive form of policing, retribution and justice?
• ‘Paedophile hunters’ do not violate human rights, court rules

This week Corrigan tells Marko all about the toxic waste dotting the landscape of the U.S. and how climate change is making it worse, and we dive into some extreme forms of protest people have undertaken and why they did it.

Highlights:

[0:00] Corrigan tells Marko about toxic superfund sites
[27:55] Mark saw Bruce Springsteen who is surprisingly popular in Wales
[35:00] Corrigan's surreal Richard Dreyfuss experience and weekend from Hell
[54:46] Thursday we'll have a new Ko-Fi exclusive episode of JoAG Fancave on The Strangers, and we've got a watch along coming Saturday, May 25th!
[60:27] What we watched! (The Strangers, Basket Case, Godzilla Minus One, Inglourious Basterds, Dead of Night (aka Deathdream), Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles, Love Lies Bleeding)
[90:40] We discuss extreme protests

Stuff we referenced:

• Cesspools in Eden by the Dead Kennedys
• Self-immolation and other ‘spectacular’ protests: How impactful are they?
• Asylum seekers sew lips together | World news | The Guardian
• Asylum seekers in Australia sew lips together in protest at indefinite detainment
• Reports of lips sewn together as asylum seekers stage hunger strike | Australia news | The Guardian
• A protest, standing in water, for 14 days
• Graphic pictures: Woman hangs herself on fish hooks in Paris shark protest
• Artist nails his scrotum to the ground in Red Square | Russia | The Guardian
• The Five Most Toxic Sites in the U.S.
• What is Superfund? | US EPA
• A.L. TAYLOR (VALLEY OF DRUMS) | Superfund Site Profile | Superfund Site Information | US EPA
• LOVE CANAL | Superfund Site Profile | Superfund Site Information | US EPA
• Love Canal - Wikipedia
• 'We've been forgotten': In Newark, N.J., a toxic Superfund site faces growing climate threats
• As hundreds of toxic sites await cleanup, questions over Superfund program’s future | PBS News Weekend
• The presence of Superfund sites as a determinant of life expectancy in the United States | Nature Communications
• Love Canal Revealed a National Problem; Superfund Provided a Solution | U.S. EPA News Releases | US EPA
• 50 years later: St. Louis still processing the PBB Disaster | WOODTV.com
• Radioactive dirt is trucked from Coldwater Creek. North County residents want broader testing.
• Atomic Fallout: How the Feds Downplayed Radioactive Waste in St. Louis for 75 years
• The Love Canal Tragedy | About EPA | US EPA
• Love Canal: A Toxic Tragedy | Saving Earth | Encyclopedia Britannica
• How a Group of Housewives Changed History | American Experience | Official Site | PBS
• Waiting and waiting for cleanup of the Passaic River - NJ Spotlight News
• $1.8B cleanup of polluted N.J. river stalls while feds figure out who will pay
• Case Summary: $165 Million Settlement to Start Cleanup Work on the Passaic River in New Jersey | US EPA
• Learn about Dioxin | US EPA
• Mesothelioma - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic

They can't all be winners but sometimes you gotta take a gamble on a new movie or TV show. After Marko tells Corrigan about the mysterious Toynbee Tiles, we dive deep into some big cinematic and TV swings we've experienced the past couple weeks.

Highlights:

[0:00] Mark tells Corrigan about the Toynbee Tiles
[23:00] We talk about JoAG & Lovely meetup planning and how well traveled the average American might be
[33:20] We're super into VR but there might be too many children?
[47:54] What we watched! (Hundreds of Beavers, The Autopsy of Jane Doe, Love Lies Bleeding, Beyond Re-Animator, Death Spa, RRR, Evil Dead, Baby Reindeer, Manfish, Immaculate, Uncle Peckerhead, Beetlejuice)

The JoAG journey is a therapeutic one, and as such we recognize that taking care of our wellbeing always come first. Thus, while dear Marko tries to get his sleep situation back on track, this week it's a solo quick take, in which Corrigan explains what exactly the Doomsday Clock is and how it came into existence. You're not gonna like what time it is.

Stuff I referenced:

• What is the Doomsday Clock? | University of Chicago News
• Doomsday Clock Timeline
• How to read the Doomsday Clock
• Current Time - 2024 - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
• Doomsday Clock - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
• The moments that could have accidentally ended humanity
• Agents of Doom: Who is creating the apocalypse and why
• The atomic scientists' Doomsday Clock is now 75—and threats to civilization still abound
• What Was the Manhattan Project? | Scientific American
• The Manhattan Project - Nuclear Museum
• Oppenheimer: The Real WW2 History Behind the Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb on Japan | Den of Geek

After Corrigan tells Marko about the widely misunderstood McDonald's hot coffee lawsuit and CoRri learns about the British institution that is Mr. Blobby, we delve into some of the seemingly bonkers solutions people have come up with to climate change in lieu of total societal restructuring.

Highlights:

[0:00] Corrigan tells Marko the real story behind the supposedly frivolous McDonald's hot coffee lawsuit
[38:56] Cultural exchange! Mark explains Mr. Blobby
[51:24] We talk shit on CM Punk
[62:05] What we watched! (Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical, Monkey Man, The Bear, All You Need Is Death
[88:20] We discuss some actual solutions to climate change that don't require a complete restructuring of society and whether they give us any hope

Stuff we referenced:

• Liebeck v. McDonald’s
• What Really Happened Behind the Hot Coffee Lawsuit | Reader's Digest
• Woman sues McDonald's after she's burned by hot coffee, echoing 1994 case : NPR
• The McDonald’s Coffee Cup Case: Separating McFacts From McFiction - FindLaw
• McDonald's sued over hot coffee spill nearly 30 years after 1994 lawsuit
• Legal Myths: The McDonald's "Hot Coffee" Case - Public Citizen
• A New Documentary Looks Back At A Famous Cup Of McDonald's 'Hot Coffee' : NPR
• The Truth Behind the Infamous McDonald’s Hot Coffee Case | The Poole Law Group
• Decades after the infamous 'hot coffee' case, McDonald's is being sued over another scalding spill | CBC News
• Do You Know the Full Story Behind the Infamous McDonald’s Coffee Case and How Corporations Used it to Promote Tort Reform? | Democracy Now!
• McDonald's Hot Coffee Case Revisited in Starbucks Litigation
• MCDONALD’S HOT COFFEE CASE: THE REAL STORY & WHY IT MATTERS | Morris & Dewett
• Reversing Climate Change with Geoengineering - Science in the News
• What is geoengineering—and why should you care? | MIT Technology Review
• Effects of geoengineering must be urgently investigated, experts say | Geoengineering | The Guardian
• What Is Geoengineering and Why Is It Considered a Climate Change Solution? | Scientific American

It's a media heavy ep! After Mark tells Corrigan about a Soviet officer who saved us all from certain death and Corrigan explains what the deal is with Mercury retrograde, we delve deep into the movies we watched this week and unpack why modern documentaries are so unsatisfying.

Highlights:

[0:00] Marko tells Corrigan how Stanislav Petrov saved the world
[12:09] Corrigan explains what it means for Mercury to be in retrograde
[31:30] Marko gives our Ko-Fi subscribers individualized horoscopes
[59:30] What we watched! We dive real deep this week on the filmmaking and storytelling in these flicks. (Pan’s Labyrinth, Monkey Man, Identity, Frailty, The Mutilator, Ghostbusters, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, Ghostbusters, Bad Vegan, Michael Clayton, The Bear)
[101:19] We discuss orthorexia, the problems with current documentary trends, and the docuseries Bad Vegan

Stuff we referenced:

• What Do Astronomers Mean When They Say Mercury Is In Retrograde?
• What Really Happens When Mercury Is in Retrograde
• Are there real ways to fight climate change? Yes.
• Reversing Climate Change with Geoengineering - Science in the News
• What is geoengineering—and why should you care? | MIT Technology Review
• Effects of geoengineering must be urgently investigated, experts say | Geoengineering | The Guardian
• What Is Geoengineering and Why Is It Considered a Climate Change Solution? | Scientific American

Corrigan explains to Mark why people are asking about the whereabouts of First Lady of Scientology Shelly Miscavige, and we chat about assassinations and why they fascinate us.

Highlights:

[0:00] Corrigan tells Marko about the disappearance of Shelly Miscavige
[53:30] Mark learns about milk duds, we discuss the weird growth of the Easter holiday, we share our Purge night plans
[67:52] What we watched! (Dog Day Afternoon, The Truth vs. Alex Jones, You'll Never Find Me, Rottentail)
[95:00] We have a little chat about assassination

Stuff we referenced:

• What to Know About Shelly Miscavige, Wife of Scientology Leader David Miscavige
• Shelly Miscavige Found? Video Potentially Reveals Secret Scientology Base
• Where are Scientology leaders David and Shelly Miscavige?
• Read Why Shelly Miscavige, Once Scientology’s Queen, Was Dethroned by Her Husband David | Vanity Fair
• Scientology: Inside the Compound That May Hold Shelly Miscavige
• Shelly Miscavige, the ‘missing’ wife of Scientology leader David Miscavige, ‘out of hiding’ | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site
• Leah Remini Says She Still Doesn't Know Shelly Miscavige's Whereabouts
• Scientology Leader's 'Missing' Wife Appeared ‘Relaxed’ During New Sighting
• New Shelly Miscavige sighting actually took place earlier than you may have heard
• Leah Remini Twitter thread

Mark tells CoRri about the unseemly experiments that led to our knowledge of hepatitis, and then we're in for a classic ARGUESODE! Following the Late Night With the Devil controversy, we debate the ethics of AI and whether there's any meaningful difference between human inspiration and machine learning.

Highlights:

[0:00] Mark tells CoRri about the unethical experiments conducted at the Willowbrook State School
[15:04] Irish people are mad at Corrigan, Mark is spiky this week, the turnbuckle is the hardest part of the ring, and we have some cultural exchange surrounding hedgehogs and crisps
[37:32] What we watched! (Double Blind, The Fly, Late Night with the Devil, Stopmotion, The Hunger Games, The Midnight Man, Quiet on the Set, Metropolis, Frogman, Four Lions)
[73:00] We discuss Late Night WIth the Devil and the conversation it's stirred up about AI art
[76:30] Spoilery movie review
[89:00] End of spoilers! We debate the validity of AI art and its ethics

Corrigan tells Marko how an orphan train turned Irish Americans white, and we discuss the sad but fascinating stories of feral children. Plus, Marko issues a musical challenge to listeners, and we test out our Shakira impressions.

Highlights:

[0:00] CoRri tells Marko about the great Arizona orphan abduction
[38:41] Mark feels a little down about the state of the world now compared to when we started JoAG
[58:20] We try out our Shakira impressions. Just go with it. And we discuss upcoming JoAG things
[69:56] What we watched! (Frogman, Glasshouse, Se7en, Coherence, 20 Days in Mariupol, Madame Web, 10 To Midnight)
[95:09] We discuss feral children, also known as isolates, and what they reveal to us about human development and what it means to be human

Stuff we referenced:

• St. Patrick’s Day: Origins, Meaning & Background | HISTORY
• St. Patrick's Day and the True Story of Saint Patrick | TIME
• The Colorful History of the St. Patrick's Day Parade
• Irish Potato Famine: Date, Cause & Great Hunger - HISTORY
• What was the Irish potato famine? How was Queen Victoria involved, how many people died and when did it happen? | The Sun
• BBC - History - British History in depth: The Irish Famine
• Irish Famine survivors - it was not so long ago
• The Great Irish Famine Was a Turning Point in History
• Scientists Finally Pinpoint the Pathogen That Caused the Irish Potato Famine | Science| Smithsonian Magazine
• HOW INFECTION SHAPED HISTORY: LESSONS FROM THE IRISH FAMINE - PMC
• History: The Abduction of 40 Orphans in 20th Century Clifton - PHOENIX magazine
• The Irish Orphan Abduction | Feature | Tucson Weekly
• The Orphan Trains - True West Magazine
• Britain's Blueprint for Colonialism: Made in Ireland - JSTOR Daily
• When Language Started a Political Revolution - JSTOR Daily
• The Art of Breaking People Down: The British Colonial Model in Ireland and Canada on JSTOR
• History Ireland
• Ireland 1916: how 800 years of British rule led to violent rebellion | CBC Radio
• Colonialism and Ireland: The choice facing us is between empire and republic – The Irish Times
• Handover of British rule: ‘After 700 years here, what difference does 7 minutes make?’ – The Irish Times
• Real-life jungle books – how feral children raised by animals continue to fire the imagination
• Real-life Mowgli kept alive by cats
• 'Dog Boy' of Chile Rescued - ABC News
• He was a wild child. Really wild | World news | The Guardian
• Raised in the wild: tales of survival | The Independent | The Independent
• John Ssebunya of Uganda | Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA)
• Starved, tortured, forgotten: Genie, the feral child who left a mark on researchers | Children | The Guardian
• Modern Cases of Feral Children – HealthGuidance.org
• 4.2.1F: Feral Children - Social Sci LibreTexts

Highlights:

[0:00] Mark tells CoRri about serial killer Donald "Pee Wee" Gaskins

[16:35] Corrigan made a real life friend, Mark is bad at keeping a calendar,

[29:00] A major announcement! 

[40:08] What we watched: Dune (1984), Dune (2021), Dune 2, Peeping Tom, Poor Things, Argylle, The Others, Cloverfield, House at the End of the Street, Fade To Black, The Ruins

[78:00] CoRri makes Mark talk about the Kate Middleton Mother's Day photo scandal

Can you trust your chiropractor? Are social media pranksters a sign of something deeply broken in society? We delve into these questions and more.

Highlights:

[0:00] Corrigan tells Marko why he might want to avoid the chiropractor
[47:53] We ramble about hedgehogs and guinea pigs, princess diaries, frequency, Antarctica, and more. CoRri had coffee and it shows
[67:22] What we watched! (Dune, Poor Things, Dead and Breakfast, Lisa Frankenstein, The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot)
[78:00] We talk about social media pranksters and why they get us so angry

Stuff we referenced:

• Chiropractic treatment, a $15-billion industry, has its roots in a ghost story - Los Angeles Times
• Chiropractic’s Fight for Survival | Journal of Ethics | American Medical Association
• The Harvey Lillard Story: Fact or Myth? | Dynamic Chiropractic
• Palmer’s first chiropractic cure must have been a case of miraculous healing
• First Adjustment - D.D. Palmer - LibGuides at Palmer College of Chiropractic
• Looking back at the lawsuit that transformed the chiropractic profession part 4: Committee on Quackery - PMC
• Chiropractic Quackery: The Wacky Fringe Side - MH@H
• A neuroscientist’s view: spare children the manipulations of chiropractic quackery
• Dangers of chiropractic treatments under-reported, study finds | Alternative medicine | The Guardian
• Chiropractic manipulation of the spine may cause strokes and even death | Neuroscience | The Guardian
• Adverse effects of spinal manipulation: a systematic review - PMC
• Is Chiropractic Pseudoscience? Myths, Benefits, and Limits
• Pediatrician: Expertise, Specialities, and Training
• A Pediatrician's Training - HealthyChildren.org
• Chiropractic Education - National Board of Chiropractic Examiners
• Doctor of Chiropractic Degree: What to Expect as a Chiropractic Intern | Cleveland University-Kansas City
• What a Chiropractor Can't or Shouldn't Treat
• Becoming a Physical Therapist | APTA
• Chiropractic neck adjustments linked to stroke
• The 50 Most Influential Reality TV Seasons of All Time: Candid Camera

Segments:

[0:00] American Imperialism
[46:45] The Brits and the Making of Israel
[100:03] Oil, Anticommunism, & the Rapture
[152:40] But Do You Condemn Hamas

We're wrapping up our series on Gaza by talking about where Hamas came from and the reality of what "war" looks like in Palestine. This is a real feel bad episode so make sure you're properly prepared.

Highlights:

[0:00] Marko tells Corrigan about civilian casualties in the war in Ukraine
[22:00] We promise to be more stupid after this week, Mark is destroying his insides with hot peppers, CoRri defends illusionists, we discuss our chaotic watch-along, we have new stuff up on Ko-Fi
[39:37] What we watched! (The Devil's Backbone, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, No Way Up, There's Something Wrong With The Children, Past Lives, The Zone of Interest, Frequency, Natural Born Killers)
[60:32] CoRri talks about the origins of Hamas and the realities of life in Gaza during wartimes

Stuff we referenced:

• The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza by Max Blumenthal
• Shoppable book list from Gibson's bookstore
• How Israel Helped to Spawn Hamas
• How Israel helped create Hamas
• What the World Can Learn From the History of Hamas
• “Divide and Rule”: How Israel Helped Start Hamas to Weaken Palestinian Hopes for Statehood
• Blowback: How Israel Went From Helping Create Hamas To Bombing It
• Gaza war: how representative is Hamas of ordinary Palestinians?
• Palestinian poll shows a rise in Hamas support and close to 90% wanting US-backed Abbas to resign
• Zionism and the Annihilation of Gaza: The Problem in Palestine is Not Political, but Ideological

Why can't the U.S. quit Israel? This week we delve into the various reasons why the U.S. supports the Israeli government unconditionally, no matter how distasteful we might find their actions.

Highlights:

[0:00] Mark tells CoRri about the Alphabet Murders
[23:37] CoRri wants to summarize docuseries that are too long, Mark hates beatboxers, and we've got a watchalong coming this Saturday 2/19/24. Tell us what movie about a human murderer you want to watch!
[42:50] What we watched! (The Oracle, House of Wax, The Holdovers, Dream Scenario, The Departed, Mosquito, You Won't Be Alone, Butchers of the Bayou, Lover, Stalker, Killer)
[73:45] Why the U.S. backs Israel unconditionally

Stuff we referenced:

• Reading list from Gibson's Bookstore
• Dying to Forget: Oil Power, Palestine, & the Foundation of U.S. Policy in the Middle East by Irene L. Gendzier
• Half of evangelicals support Israel because they believe it is important for fulfilling end-times prophecy
• Evangelical Christians must rethink their reflexive support for Israel
• American evangelicals interpret Israel-Hamas War as a prelude to End Times
• ‘This war is prophetically significant’: why US evangelical Christians support Israel
• Jews and the Rapture
• U.S. Aid to Israel in Four Charts
• How the US became Israel’s closest ally

As we continue looking at the history that has led to the current genocide in Gaza, friend of the 'cast Kristin Latourelle joins us to talk about Britain's role in the founding of Israel, global antisemitism, and the brutal treatment of the Palestinians from the early days of occupation.

Highlights:

[0:00] Kristin tells CoRri and Mark the gory true story of Saint Valentine
[12:30] There are cancer proof wolves now! Also: Watch-along on Feb. 24th, book club this Saturday the 17th, read along with our Gaza list
[23:45] What we watched! (Landlocked, KillHer, King Ralph, Prey, RoboDoc, Gyeongseong Creature)
[43:12] The foundation of Israel, the Naqba, and how the Brits made it happen

Stuff we referenced:

• Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
• The Hundred Years War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
• The Banality of Brutality: British Armed Forces and the Repression of the Arab Revolt in Palestine, 1936 – 39 by Matthew Hughes [PDF]

Highlights:

[0:00] Mark tells Corrigan about a man who bioengineered his own cancer
[12:50] Mark has Covid and we’ve got new stuff up on the YouTube !
[20:33] What we watched! (Texas Chainsaw Massacre, 12 Angry Men, Total Recall, Dog Day Afternoon, Jules, Mosquito, The Beekeeper, American Nightmare, Drive, The Odds, Anguish)
[55:30] The Spanish American War and the birth of American Imperialism

If you want to read in prep for next week, we’ll be discussing The Hundred Years War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi

Highlights:

[0:00] Mark tells CoRri about Operation Paperclip
[24:40] We discuss WWE and why Mark finds himself watching more of it at the worst possible time
[41:00] What we watched! (El Conde, Anatomy of a Fall, Night Swim, The Ring, Nazi Town USA, Chowchilla)
[74:39] We talk about the idea of humane execution

Stuff we referenced:

• The Long, Fraught History of Human Execution Techniques | Discover Magazine
• Description of Each Execution Method | Death Penalty Information Center
• Nitrogen gas execution: how it works and why it’s controversial | Alabama | The Guardian
• Nitrogen hypoxia used to execute Alabama’s Kenneth Smith: What to know
• Smith strapped to gurney hours before failed execution, attorneys say
• Death Penalty Evolution Map: How Executions Have Changed in States | The New Republic
• Beccaria – “On Crimes And Punishments” – Criminology Web
• A humane death or a lethal experiment? How Alabama’s controversial nitrogen execution works | US News | Sky News
• Introduction: A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse – A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse – NCBI Bookshelf

Highlights:

[0:00] Corrigan tells Mark about the scientific search for Bigfoot
[38:22] Mark has a bone to pick with True Detective
[54:39] What we watched! (When Evil Lurks, Wonka, Afflicted, The Iron Claw, Surreal Estate)
[82:10] Exorcism! What’s that shit about?

Stuff we referenced:

• Riley Keough tells us what the Sasquatch can teach us | 2024 Sundance Film Festival – Los Angeles Times
• ‘Sasquatch Sunset’: The Pooping, Pissing Bigfoots Disturbing Sundance
• Bigfoot is Real (For 11% of U.S. Adults) – CivicScience
• ‘Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science’ : NPR
• Is Bigfoot real? | Live Science
• Genetics study claims to prove existence of Bigfoot
• New Bigfoot Evidence Screened as Experts Claim Proof of Existence – ABC News
• Sasquatch Genome Project – Search
• Is Bigfoot real? Why people believe in the Sasquatch – BBC Science Focus Magazine
• Provo Canyon Bigfoot Encounter? – YouTube
• Charlotte Observer | 05/11/2004 | Bigfoot just a big hoax?
• Bigfoot Was Investigated by the FBI. Here’s What They Found | HISTORY
• Forensic Expert Says Bigfoot Is Real
• Follow Bigfoot’s mythical steps to discover wild America
• ‘Bigfoot’ samples analyzed in lab | Science | AAAS
• Why Do So Many People Still Want to Believe in Bigfoot? | History| Smithsonian Magazine
• Bigfoot Anatomy | Scientific American
• Bigfoot: DNA Proves He’s Not Real | TIME
• Some Researchers Are Looking for Bigfoot—Just Don’t Tell Anyone – WSJ
• Genetic analysis of hair samples attributed to yeti, bigfoot and other anomalous primates – PMC
• Mossback’s Northwest | The Scientific Search for Bigfoot | Season 1 | PBS
• The Science Behind Bigfoot and Other Monsters
• Scientist Has Very Simple Explanation for Bigfoot

Highlights:

[0:00] Mark tells Corrigan the tale of the Rasputin of New York
[19:10] Mark's kids discover Eminem, and we discover today's kids live in a different universe than us; plus, people are bad with lyrics, and we are old about music.
[35:12] We've got a book club on Jan. 20 and a watch-along on Jan. 27
[43:55] What we watched! (Destroy All Neighbors, Society of the Snow, Phobia, Pin, The Curious Case of Natalia Grace, The Thing, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, The Suicide Squad, The Blackcoat's Daughter, The Witch)
[88:58] We discuss the World Economic Forum's Global Risk Report for 2024 and all the catastrophes imminent upon the earth and its inhabitants!

Stuff we referenced:

• World Economic Forum Global Risk Report 2024

Highlights:

[0:00] CoRri tells Marko about the ill-fated Franklin Expedition
[34:30] We shoot the breeze about CoRri’s leaky eye, a thing we can’t announce, an upcoming series we CAN announce, and some resolution updates
[47:39] What we watched! (Antichrist, Star Time, The Abyss, Bitconned, The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, M3gan, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, Funny Games)
[81:31] We discuss death on various forms of transportation

Stuff we referenced:

• How the Discovery of Two Lost Ships Solved an Arctic Mystery
• Inuit oral historian who pointed way to Franklin shipwrecks dies aged 58 | Canada | The Guardian
• Franklin expedition: DNA test identifies member of 1845 Arctic voyage
• What Happened to the Doomed Franklin Expedition? These Are the Clues | HISTORY
• Graves of Beechey Island – Nunavut – Atlas Obscura
• A very special piece of paper | Canadian Museum of History
• VISIONS OF THE NORTH: The Mystery of the “Peglar” Papers
• Franklin’s Doomed Arctic Expedition Ended in Gruesome Cannibalism | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
• Parks Canada Guided Tour Inside HMS Terror – YouTube
• Inside John Franklin’s Lost Expedition And Its Grisly Arctic Demise
• Artifacts of a Doomed Expedition – The New York Times
• The Lost Franklin Expedition | Naval History Magazine – October 2020 Volume 34, Number 5
• Retracing the final days of a doomed 175-year-old Arctic expedition
• Arctic shipwreck ‘frozen in time’ astounds archaeologists
• Ship found in Arctic 168 years after doomed Northwest Passage attempt | Arctic | The Guardian
• NOVA | Arctic Passage | Tracing the Routes (printable) | PBS
• Tales of the Doomed Franklin Expedition Long Ignored the Inuit Side, But “The Terror” Flips the Script | Arts & Culture| Smithsonian Magazine
• Face to face with a Franklin expedition crew member, 140 years later
• Sir John Franklin’s worldly, wayfaring, indefatigable wife
• Jane Franklin: a remarkable woman | Royal Museums Greenwich
• Northwest Passage: Brief History and Origins of Exploration | TIME
• Lead Poisoning Wasn’t a Major Factor in the Mysterious Demise of the Franklin Expedition | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
• Meet the Inuit historian who helped find the Franklin shipwreck

After a seasonal tale of mass murder, in our final episode of 2023, we're recapping some of our favorite things and biggest accomplishments of the year, and our hopes and dreams for 2024. Plus, we dig into listener faves and goals! We're all in this together, fam!

Highlights:

[0:00] Mark tells CoRri of a Christmas time massacre in Covina, California
[16:30] CoRri waxes nostalgic about soundtracks and we reminisce on some bangers
[33:40] We chat a bit about why we love New Year's Eve and how we've spent our holidays. Plus, we dedicate the episode to our newest boffin, Stephen Root!
[44:30] We discuss the art of choosing celebrities for Marko's dead pool
[50:50] What we watched! (Dead End, Rare Exports, Round and Round, Perpetrator, The Running Man, Die Hard With a Vengeance, El Conde, Thanksgiving)
[73:50] We recap the year, including listener favorites, 2023 achievements, and goals for 2024

It's a holiday vibe check! After a horrifying tale of death by cave, we're unloading a stream of consciousness that ranges from stuff that makes us feel old to the dubious merits of magicians to CoRri's harrowing car theft misadventure. December is for ANTICS.

Highlights:

[0:00] CoRri tells Marko about the terrifying caving death of Floyd Collins
[45:58] The mosquito ringtone and kids being bad at technology make us feel old
[53:00] We audit the holiday vibes and discuss Mark's three least favorite kinds of performers
[65:40] CoRri talks about her car getting stolen in Philadelphia
[85:30] What we watched! (The People Under the Stairs, Black Christmas, The House That Jack Built, Die Hard 2, Gremlins, The Mission,
[118:00] A preview of JoAGs to come

Stuff we referenced:

• HBomberguy - Plagiarism and You(Tube)
• The Kentucky Cave Wars (U.S. National Park Service)
• Floyd Collins And His Excruciating Death In Kentucky's Sand Cave
• The Corpse of a Cave Explorer That Became a Tourist Attraction - Atlas Obscura
• Tragedy at Sand Cave (U.S. National Park Service)
• The 1925 Cave Rescue That Captivated the Nation

Corrigan's lifelong friend Lian joins the 'cast this week to talk about journeying out of evangelicalism, mental health, spirituality... and TAROT. That's right, this week, we're getting our Tarot cards read! Are we bound for fame? Are our deaths imminent? Find out with us!

Highlights:

[0:00] Mark tells CoRri and Lian about the Delphi murders
[18:53] We introduce Lian and announce our next watch-along on Sat. Dec. 9!
[26:45] Ko-fi shout-outs! Mark curses each supporter with a personal folk demon
[42:13] What we watched! (Witchboard, It's A Wonderful Knife, Saltburn, Love Has Won, Zoo, Pontypool, The Marvels, Day of the Dead, Christine)
[71:00] We talk about Lian's spiritual journey and how it intersects with her mental health
[86:20] We talk a bit about the history of Tarot, and then Lian pulls some cards for us!

Dr. Keri Thomas joins us to talk about medieval manuscripts, death, and the possibility of digital resurrection. Are we entering a digital dark age, or are our mortal souls bound for the cloud?

Highlights:

[0:00] CoRri tells Keri and Marko about Europe's werewolf trials
[28:53] We dive right in with an introduction to Dr. Keri Thomas that spirals into a discussion of how digitization and resurrection are related
[66:03] We talk about the super metal way medieval manuscripts were made, how people would have read them, and how people lived so closely acquainted with death
[91:42] We talk a bit more about the Voynich Manuscript, which we discussed at length on the Laydown Podcast! Go listen!
Follow Dr. Keri Thomas's blog!

Stuff we referenced:

• Welsh Witches
• The Death Toll of Europe's Witch Trials
• A Brief History of the Salem Witch Trials
• What Is Clinical Lycanthropy?
• The Damnable Life and Death of Stubbe Peeter
• Before America Had Witch Trials, Europe Had Werewolf Trials | HISTORY
• Werewolf Trials: Europe's Gruesome 16th-Century Witch Hunts
• A German werewolf's 'confessions' horrified 1500s Europe | National Geographic

jack of all graves, podcast, horror, horror movies, movie recommendations, violence, scary movies, movie recs, movie reviews, storytelling, sleepwalking, somnambulists, defenestration, homicidal sleepwalking

Highlights:

[0:00] Mark tells CoRri the story of a detective's shocking discovery in a 19th century French murder case
[14:15] CoRri explains thanksgiving to Mark and Mark tells CoRri about British reality tv tradition
[36:07] What we watched! (Escaping Twin Flames, Satan Wants You, The Horror Show, The Eyes of My Mother, The Conference, Huesera: The Bone Woman, Bull, The Bay)
[69:33] We talk about dangerous and violent things people have done while sleepwalking and why it happens

Stuff we referenced:

• Why Do People Sleepwalk? Causes, Symptoms, Dangers, More
• What Sleepwalking Teaches Us About Trauma | Time
• Sleepwalker falls out eighth-story window
• Woman fell to her death after climbing through window while sleepwalking, court hears - CNA
• Teenager plunges 25ft after sleepwalking out of her bedroom window ... and survives without breaking a single bone | Daily Mail Online
• Sleepwalking dairy farmer teen, 18, shatters her spine and pelvis | Daily Mail Online
• The sleepwalker who fell out a window — and didn't feel a thing - 9Coach
• Young girl sleepwalks out of window to 30ft fall | London Evening Standard | Evening Standard
• Spending The Night With Sleepwalker Mike Birbiglia : NPR
• The Sleepwalking Detective Who Convicted Himself Of A Murder

Greetings from the mirror JoAG universe! Today we come to you with a rare optimistic episode, in which we discuss good things about life on this planet, from stories of survival to tales of good luck to some of the various improvements and advancements humans have made. Certified wholesome!

Highlights:

[0:00] CoRri tells Mark the harrowing tale of Mauro Prosperi's survival in the Sahara Desert
[35:20] We welcome you to our mirror universe and chat about how things are going there
[48:00] We talk about the JOY of horror movies
[60:00] What we watched! (The Killer, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3, Suitable Flesh, The Truman Show)
[95:00] We talk about things about life and the world that have improved and are improving, and Mark tells the story of the (un)luckiest man alive.

Stuff we referenced:

• The Toughest Footrace on Earth - Marathon Des Sables
• BBC World Service - Outlook, Lost in the desert: the extraordinary survival of Mauro Prosperi
• Alone in the Sahara: The Survival Story of Mauro Prosperi | RECOIL OFFGRID
• The Myth of Drinking Urine When You're Out of Water | RECOIL OFFGRID
• How I drank urine and bat blood to survive - BBC News
• The Marathon des Sables is the world's toughest race. This man veered 291km off course — and survived - ABC News
• I was lost in the desert for nine and a half days – and sustained myself with raw bats and urine | Running | The Guardian

Highlights:

[0:00] Marko tells CoRri an unconvincing tale about a big hole
[23:34] A rambling and a little disturbing welcome from Mark and shooting of the breeze
[30:25] What we watched! (Jackass Forever, Shutter Island, Coco, Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story, Poltergeist, Hocus Pocus, Goosbumps, Practical Magic, Death Becomes Her, Legends of the Hidden Temple, Killers of the Flower Moon)
[58:26] We discuss some of the most infamous crimes in recent times and some complicated death row stories

Get into the Halloween spirit this week with an 18th century beast, a cursed box of knick knacks, and a horrifying fun house find. Plus, can Marko best a komodo dragon? Does ACAB include RoboCop? Make yourself a s'more and let's discuss.

Highlights:

[0:00] CoRri tells Marko about the Beast of Gévaudan
[23:32] Mark has a unique idea for podcast performance art, we discuss his COVID, and we question whether he could best a komodo dragon in combat
[40:45] Watchalong today (Sunday 10/29) on our Discord! Come hang! Plus new stuff on our Discord, and Mark talks a bit about Spider-Man 2 (the game).
[49:09] What we watched! (Monster Club, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Dear Zachary, Twilight Zone, The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster, The Puppetman, Unwelcome, Leatherface: TCM 3, Malum, Dark Harvest, Hereditary, The Road Dog)
[83:50] Semi-spoiler for Unwelcome
[85:30] End of spoiler!
[89:00] Does ACAB include RoboCop?
[90:47] We tell a couple of spooky campfire tales to get you in the Halloween spirit.

Stuff we referenced:

• When the Beast of Gévaudan Terrorized France | History| Smithsonian Magazine
• What Was the Beast of Gévaudan? | HISTORY
• The unbelievable true story of the real body found in a California funhouse
• The Sideshow Corpse Hidden in a Fun House
• Campfire Sound Effect by Mikhail from Pixabay

Highlights:

[0:00] Marko tells CoRri and Eileen about Miriam Rodriguez, the middle aged Mexican woman who took on the cartels solo to get justice for her daughter
[15:09] Mark’s American child accent leads us to a brief discussion of Sylvester Stallone and the Rocky films, and then. we remember to introduce our pal Eileen Marks-Nelson
[22:04] What we watched! (Fall of the House of Usher, The Reckoning, , Friday the 13th: A New Beginning, Totally Killer, Vampire in Brooklyn, 10 Cloverfield Lane, Ernest Scared Stupid, Deadstream, Train To Busan, Dead Alive, The Host, Carrie, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, Insidious, VHS85, The Creator)
[69:10] Eileen tells us about antimicrobial resistance, and why we’re sleeping on one of the biggest threats to human existence

Stuff we referenced:

• History of medicine – 20th Century, Advancements, Innovations | Britannica
• Bacteria | Basic Biology
• Ancient brew masters tapped antibiotic secrets | ScienceDaily
• Tetracycline-Labeled Human Bone from Ancient Sudanese Nubia (A.D. 350) | Science
• Moulds in Ancient and more recent medicine 
• Antiviral Resistance: Antivirals, Antimicrobial Resistance, HIV (clevelandclinic.org)
• The Challenge of Antibiotic-Resistant Staphylococcus: Lessons from Hospital Nurseries in the mid-20th Century
• ALEXANDER FLEMING Penicillin Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1945
• Antibiotics: Conventional Therapy and Natural Compounds with Antibacterial Activity—A Pharmaco-Toxicological Screening
• Unearthing the story of the first antifungal drugs
• Penicillin | Discovery, History, Uses, Types, Side Effects, & Facts | Britannica
• Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus emerged long before the introduction of methicillin into clinical practice
• Changes in Intestinal Flora of Farm Personnel after Introduction of a Tetracycline-Supplemented Feed on a Farm | NEJM
• Drug Companies Accept FDA Plan To Phase Out Some Animal Antibiotic Uses : The Salt : NPR
• E-I-E-I-Oh no: Decades of antibiotics in farm animals lead to deadly superbugs | Grist
• Study: Farmed Fish Could Be Another Source of Antibiotic Resistance | Food Safety News
• Recent Advances in the Discovery of Novel Antiprotozoal Agents
• Drug Development to Protozoan Diseases
• WHO’s first global report on antibiotic resistance reveals serious, worldwide threat to public health
• Humans Can No Longer Ignore the Threat of Fungi
• Antimicrobial resistance: a global threat | UNEP – UN Environment Programme
• AMR2023_summary_EN.pdf (unep.org)
• When the drugs don’t work: can we do anything about antimicrobial resistance? | Global development | The Guardian
• Malaria-causing parasites resistant to both treatment and detection have emerged in Ethiopia
• Antibiotics: Combatting Tolerance To Stop Resistance
• COVID-19 Reverses Progress in Fight Against Antimicrobial Resistance in U.S.
• Paxlovid-Resistant Covid ‘Discovered’ Should We Worry?
• Paxlovid Resistance: Is It Just a Matter of Time Now?
• Disinfectant resistance in bacteria: Mechanisms, spread, and resolution strategies – ScienceDirect
• Resisting disinfectants | Communications Medicine (nature.com)
• U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week Toolkit 2022 (cdc.gov)
• A Superbug Stalked My Daughter and Stole Her Life. Phage Therapy Could Have Saved Her | Blogs | CDC
• An insight into the antifungal pipeline: selected new molecules and beyond
• Using viruses to treat antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections
• Nanoantibiotics: Functions and Properties at the Nanoscale to Combat Antibiotic ResistanceMicrobes that cause cavities can form superorganisms able to ‘crawl’ and spread on teeth

Highlights:

[0:00] CoRri tells Mark about the Bethnal Green Tube Disaster
[36:00] Marko paints a vivid welcome picture, the unseasonably warm weathers causes him to create his own rendition of a Mama’s and the Papa’s classic
[43:30] An update on the Taylor Schabusiness story, plus upcoming watch-along, book club, and JoAG guests!
[58:20] What we watched! (Pet Sematary: Bloodlines, Burial Ground, House II: The Second Story, The Nun II, Critters, The Card Counter, Disturbing Behavior, Dead Silence, Idle Hands, A Haunting in Venice, Historia de Lo Oculto, Magic, Ghostwatch, Sunset Blvd, Scamanda)
[142:00] What separates a horror movie from adjacent genres like sci-fi, adventure, and action?

Stuff we referenced:

• The Blitz | World War II, History, & Facts | Britannica
• Bethnal Green Tube Disaster: ‘I tried to black it out’ – BBC News
• Bethnal Green Tube disaster: 75 years on, and 173 victims of wartime tragedy finally have the memorial they deserve | The Independent | The Independent
• Bethnal Green Tube Shelter Inquiry Report – The National Archives
• Bethnal Green Tube Disaster – Historic UK
• BBC – WW2 People’s War – The Bethnal Green Tube Shelter Disaster
• What is Horror? Definition and Examples in Film

Highlights:

[0:00] Mark tells CoRri about the performing art of Marina Abramović, and the people who made it violent
[21:06] Spooky season has officially begun and Corrigan spent it with dear Bookseller Ryan and her dear spooky children
[29:24] We discuss Gremlins 2, Mark’s kids’ upcoming horror screenings, and Mark’s hugely improved mental health
[37:20] The world is still shit but we revisit finding joy in it
[51:49] What we watched! (The Exorcist, Eden Lake, The Isle, The Lighthouse, The Cell, Child’s Play 3, No One Will Save You) Follow us on letterboxd: Mark | CoRri
[73:00] We discuss cartel violence, a lack of respect for the value of human life, and whether criminalization and prohibition are the problem.

Highlights:

[0:00] Mark tells CoRri about the deeply unhinged murder of Shad Thyrion by Taylor Schabusiness. Yes, Schabusiness.
[21:40] Mark downs a truly problematic amount of cola, we chat about some videogames, and we tell you about upcoming things, including our appearance on the Laydown Podcast and our new video from Bristol on our YouTube!
[33:00] CoRri deals with her mortality in a way that sounds high but isn’t
[39:40] What we watched! (No One Will Save You, Fatal Pulse, Critters, Cassandro, Friday the 13th (2009), Housebound)
[66:43] We discuss medical professionals that murder, the institutions that let it happen, and what we’ve learned on our empathy journey so far

Stuff we referenced:

• ‘Double-O Swango’: What happened to Dr. Michael Swango, who left trail of dead patients in Midwest, elsewhere
• Case against Ohio doctor charged with killing 25 patients may hinge on former colleagues
• William Husel: Ohio doctor accused of overprescribing fentanyl to the dying found not guilty of murder | CNN
• Colin Norris: serial killer nurse conviction sent to court of appeal | Criminal Cases Review Commission | The Guardian
• ‘Angel of Death’: New evidence in Colin Norris killer nurse case – BBC News