Ep. 278: pacific northwest, you in danger girl (w/ alfie spratling!)

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Our dear pal Alfie from the Hellrankers pod joins us so Corrigan can tell him how his home state of Oregon is bound for inevitable and deadly catastrophe!

Highlights:

[0:00] Corrigan tells Alfie and Marko about the Cascadia Subduction Zone and why people in the Pacific Northwest should be much more stressed out
[51:00] A send off for Andy “The Butcher” Williams, Bookseller Ryan’s book box came in and Marko is on cloud nine!, we talk about screen addiction and how everyone knows it’s making their lives worse, and why solving billionaires would solve the world
[01:18:50] What we watched (and read): Leviticus, The Whisper Man, Murderland by Caroline Fraser, Viy, Coyote vs. Acme, The Odyssey, Ghost: Too Big To Rig, Exit 8, Iron Lung

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Ep. 277: a walk to the world cup & glacier dangers

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In our 6th anniversary episode, Marko tells Corrigan about Richard Swanson’s ill-fated walk to Brazil, and Corrigan caps things off with some real bad news about glaciers… and then some good news… and then more bad news.

Highlight:

[0:00] Marko tells Corrigan about Richard Swanson, who attempted to walk to Brazil from Washington to see the World Cup
[33:00] We’ve officially done 6 years of JoAG and Marko is scarred, we’re doing double mailers, we’re watching Viy for our next international movie
[55:55] What we watched: The Glass House, Ritual, Legend, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Soulm8te
[01:34:41] Corrigan talks about why glaciers melting is bad, how we’re fixing it, and the one stupid thing that’s really hindering our efforts to stave off climate change

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Ep. 276: astral projection & other dream states

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While Marko is skeptical, Corrigan tells him about how neuroscience studies dreams, and whether people who claim to lucid dream, wake up with demons and vampires on their chests, or astral project are making it up or really seeing some shit.

Highlights:

[0:00] Corrigan tells Marko about how neuroscientists have come to understand things like lucid dreaming, sleep paralysis, and astral projection
[01:12:16] Society is weird about Sundays, our book club is bendy, and we’ve got a watch-along coming up
[01:23:22] Marko talks about things that have gotten worse in the six years we’ve been doing this podcast

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Ep. 275: you’re supposed to bury the bodies

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Marko picked too dark a topic for this week, so we fucked it off and wung it with a little discussion about terrible funeral directors.

Highlights:

[0:00] Marko and Corrigan talk about funeral directors who are more in the desecrating corpses business than the burying or cremating them one.
[43:00] We lost Hayden Panettiere and Screaming Mad George, we recap the meet-up and how we lost the recording, the Lewis family eats approximately a ton of American sweets,
[01:02:25] What we watched!: Deep Rising, Blow Out, The Devil’s Mouth, Is God Is

Ep. 274: the ss eastland tips over

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The good news is we had a great time recording a live episode in London! The bad news is it did not, in fact, record! So this week Corrigan retells the story she told of the dockside capsizing of the SS Eastland, sans Marko and audience reaction.

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Ep. 273: ye olde reconstructive surgery

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In a breezy episode as we prep for our London meet-up, Marko talks about his latest museum-inspired hyperfixation: Early iterations of reconstructive surgery!

Highlights:

[0:00] Marko shares the origins of reconstructive surgery
[0:38:55] Marko shouts out a man who kept his mom in the fridge, CoRri is about to head to London
[0:50:20] What we watched: Beetlejuice The Musical, Hadestown The Musical, Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Is God Is

Ep. 272: the chippendales plots

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What’s more wholesome than a bunch of oiled up guys in Playboy bunny style collars and cuffs grindin’ up on some screaming housewives on a school night? Certainly not the men who made that wet dream a reality. This week Corrigan tells Marko the story of the petty and violent douchebags who created Chippendales.

Highlights:

[0:00] Corrigan tells Marko about the man who founded and killed for Chippendales
[46:07] Marko doesn’t like when CoRri gets spicy, Corrigan sweats too much, we discuss cartoons we hated and why Nickelodeon cartoons actually were great, we consider which of our limbs are expendable
[01:14:50] What we watched: Horror in the High Desert 1, 2, 3, & 4, Shadow of a Doubt, The Odyssey, Masters of the Universe, The Backrooms, Mandalorian & Grogu, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, The Furious, Thesis

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Ep. 271: an exemplary week on sh*tclown island

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At the request of Melanie in New Zealand, this week Marko talks about wtf is going on in the UK right now, from Nigel Farage to Count Binface to the confusing murder of Ann Widdecombe. Plus, the news Marko has been waiting for has finally arrived, and we butt heads over Evil Dead Burn!

Highlights:

[0:00] An explainer on what is happening in the UK right now
[40:33] Marko is plagued by physical ailments, AI is AIing, Mark describes his theater going joy seeing Evil Dead Burn at Deadite Church
[54:30] New Fancave on the Ko-Fi, Mark is actually enjoying the World Cup, Sam Neill has left us, In the Mouth of Madness watch-along Saturday at 9pm British, 4pm Eastern.
[01:07:00] Marko has finally gotten the news he has been waiting for the entire near six years of this podcast: New Elm Street!
[01:14:48] What we watched: Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, The Last Stop in Yuma County, Evil Dead Burn, Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman
[01:28:35] We talk Evil Dead Burn! We do not agree!

Ep. 270: america’s most evil president

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The United States has just celebrated 250 years since the signing of Declaration of Independence and well, y’know, it was bumpy. As we ponder how we got here, Corrigan tells Marko about the historical U.S. president our current president looks up to most. Spoiler: He sucked!

Highlights:

[0:00] Corrigan tells Marko about the seventh president of the United States, Andrew Jackson
[01:21:20] Marko is emotionally compromised
[01:30] What we watched: The Sheep Detectives, Evil Dead (2013), Evil Dead Rise, Obsession

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Ep. 269: christopher porco took an axe

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As Marko put it, you don’t know how foul this play gets. This week he tells the story of the murder of Peter Porco — an event so unbelievable, it’d be ludicrous in fiction.

Highlight:

[0:00] Marko tells a story of axe murder that gets worse and worse every time you think the horror is complete
[50:44] There’s a heatwave in the UK, we rehash prison abolition in light of Christopher Porco, Marko’s work AI’d him,
[01:10:40] Titan Submersible news alert! Weeeewooo weeeewooooo!
[01:15:35] What we watched (and read!): Cape Fear (Apple), Psycho Killer, The Crazies, Evil Dead II, Army of Darkness, Naked Lunch, When the Wolf Comes Home by Nat Cassidy, Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman