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Ep. 45: No pain, no gain?

Mark wondered about the connection between suffering/oppression and innovation/progress, so we explore whether these things are inherently connected. Click here to listen everywhere! Highlights: [0:00] CoRri tells Mark about the phenomenon of mass psychogenic illness, and it turns out Mark has experienced it [22:50] Not to harp on this soccer thing, but boy does itContinue reading “Ep. 45: No pain, no gain?”

Ep. 44: Mid-Week Movie Madness Special

Click here to listen everywhere! Somehow Mark got it into his head that we could do a 10-15 minute mini-sode in which we discussed the movies we watched this week, but you’ve all listened to this podcast, so it’ll come as no surprise to you that we spent an hour on it. Highlights: [0:00] WeContinue reading “Ep. 44: Mid-Week Movie Madness Special”

Ep. 43 : Horror is the fear vaccine

Click here to listen everywhere! CoRri’s been thinking lately about what fear is, and why some things break through the fear callous we’ve built up over the years and send us running to pull the covers over our heads, so we discuss our biggest fears and what our brains are doing when they hit us.Continue reading “Ep. 43 : Horror is the fear vaccine”

Ep.42 – Satanic, don’t panic

Click here to listen everywhere! An ex-vangelical and a Satanist walk into a podcast… Highlights: [0:00] CoRri tells Mark about primary amebic meningoencephalitis — otherwise known as brain-eating amoebas [16:50] We recap our amazing boatcore watch-along and the wonderful movies we watched this week [29:00] Mark shares a listener story and we talk about whetherContinue reading “Ep.42 – Satanic, don’t panic”

Ep. 41: Cursed Films

Click here to listen everywhere! Whether it’s fires on sets, cast member deaths, or IRA bombs, some movies just seem to draw catastrophe. Some people would even say they’re cursed. I mean, we wouldn’t, but some people would. Let’s chat about them. Highlights: [0:00] Mark tells CoRri about some nightmarish types of cysts [14:02] MarkContinue reading “Ep. 41: Cursed Films”

Ep. 40: The stinkhole moment

Click here to watch everywhere! As happens from time to time, we had a plan for where this episode was going, and then it happened very differently from that plan. So, this week, we have Mark’s big brother on the ‘cast to talk about sinkholes, movie demons, and his deep love for Hereditary. It’s aContinue reading “Ep. 40: The stinkhole moment”

Ep. 39: Movies that murdered

Click here to listen everywhere! Freak accidents happen, sure, and sometimes you take every precaution and tragedies still unfold… but that’s not what happened in the stories we’re telling today. This week we discuss deaths on movie sets and the hubris of the filmmakers who caused them. Highlights: [0:00] Marks talks about the time heContinue reading “Ep. 39: Movies that murdered”

Ep. 38: Pufferfish, pufferfish, pass

Click here to listen everywhere! We’re in the mood to fight each other this week, whether over the Hellboy remake or rehashing one of our earlier debates about addiction. We know each other better now, so the gloves are off. In this whirlwind episode, topics span from a cursed lake and America’s civil war, toContinue reading “Ep. 38: Pufferfish, pufferfish, pass”

Ep. 37: The suicide contagion

Click here to listen everywhere! We live in the age of memes and mass media, so we all know that some ideas are especially contagious. In this episode, we delve into the phenomenon of suicide clusters and the media’s culpability in spawning copycats. Highlights [0:00] Where have all the soundtracks gone? Mark laments the lossContinue reading “Ep. 37: The suicide contagion”

Ep. 36: Wrasslin’

We’ve got one of CoRri’s childhood besties, Duncan Newton-Gaines, on the show this week to help Mark initiate CoRri into a love-hate relationship with the tragic, awesome, exploitative, magical art of pro wrestling. Highlights [0:00] CoRri explains why, if you think you have ghosts, it might not be ghosts. And you’re also probably the oneContinue reading “Ep. 36: Wrasslin’”