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Mark asked for something unpleasant, so this week Corrigan tells him about a place she loves — Northern Ireland — and how the British state colluded with paramilitaries to murder the wildly popular Miami Showband.
Highlights:
[0:00] Corrigan tells the story of the murder of the “Irish Beatles,” the Miami Showband
[53:47] Marko has a medical plan Corrigan is not on board with; he also has a book rec: The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre; and we discuss GTA6 and how Marko decides what kind of content is too adult for his children
[01:21:35] What we watched!: Arachnophobia, Killer Klowns From Outer Space, Blair Witch Project, Below, The Sixth Sense, Street Fighter, Crystal Lake, Buddy
Stuff we referenced:
- Uproar at Stormont as loyalist killer with bomb tries to storm assembly
- Good Friday Agreement: What is it?
- Paths to Peace in Northern Ireland: A Brief History of the Troubles
- The Miami Showband massacre: what led to the killing of the ‘Irish Beatles’?
- “The long lethal years of The Jackal”
- The Dead and the Living: Britain’s Dirty War in Northern Ireland
- No collusion between security forces and UVF in bombings – report
- UVF claimed MI5 urged it to kill former Irish PM, state papers reveal
