Ep. 182: plane theft & nonce hunters

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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 online 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

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Ep. 181: toxic landscapes & extreme protest

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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

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Ep. 180: The Toynbee Tiles & Media Gambles

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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)

Extra: The Doomsday Clock

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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.

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Ep. 179: the coffee’s too hot & so is the planet

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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

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Ep. 178: a soviet hero, mercury mayhem, & the thing about documentaries

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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

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Ep. 177: a scientology scandal & a brief history of assassination

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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

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Ep. 176: the ethics of AI art

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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

Ep. 175: irish america & feral children

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Corrigan tells Marko how an orphan train turned Irish Americans white, and we discuss the sad but fascinating stories of feral children.

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

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Ep. 174: a real mean serial killer & a royal conspiracy

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Mark tells Corrigan the story of a serial killer called “the meanest man in America,” we reveal some BIG JoAG news, and CoRri forces Mark to talk about the latest scandal in the royal family.

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