Ep. 185: is everything… worse?

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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.

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Ep. 184: memorial day movie smash

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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

Ep. 183: a baby-eating dingo & tourist (death) traps

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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

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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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