Click here to listen everywhere! What is it about celebrity death stories that fascinate us so deeply? We try to work it out while discussing a few that have lodged themselves in our minds. Highlights: [0:00] Mark tells CoRri about the Hinterkaifeck Killings[14:45] An update on the weekend’s coronation festivities[25:00] We need a theme forContinue reading “Ep. 135: Celebrity death stories”
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Ep. 135: Definitely not a coronation special
Click here to listen everywhere! Totally unrelated to any current events, we’re chatting about some royal tragedies, dumb royal deaths, and an important royalty-related phrase to learn in many languages. Highlight: [0:00] CoRri tells Mark the story of Prince John, the Lost Prince of the United Kingdom[14:22] CoRri’s return from the UK was met withContinue reading “Ep. 135: Definitely not a coronation special”
Ep. 131: [Travel edition!] Self-sacrifice
Click here to listen everywhere! This week’s travel edition of Jack of All Graves includes reflections on a Jack the Ripper tour, as well a trip to a memorial to heroic self-sacrifice in a tiny London Park, which has us thinking: Is there anything we would die for? Highlights: [0:00] Some key takeaways from aContinue reading “Ep. 131: [Travel edition!] Self-sacrifice”
Ep. 130: [Travel Edition!] Deep, dark questions
Click here to listen everywhere! We’re beginning a month of special travel editions of Jack of All Graves! This week we discuss a ghost tour in Bath, some cultural differences (and similarities) between Brits and Americans, and some very dark questions. Highlights: [0:00] CoRri tells Mark about an extremely historically inaccurate ghost tour[18:23] Mark asksContinue reading “Ep. 130: [Travel Edition!] Deep, dark questions”
Ep. 129: Parasocial pals
Click here to listen everywhere! This week we’re diving into the parasocial relationships we all have with the public figures we love… and times that those parasocial relationships have gone way too far. Highlights: [0:00] Mark tells CoRri about the most painful conditions in the world[26:21] We recap an amazing book club, there’s a newContinue reading “Ep. 129: Parasocial pals”
Ep. 128: Jack Kevorkian
After the UK Mother’s day and a series of emergencies in Mark’s life, we’re taking it a little easy with a truncated episode… on physician assisted suicide. We’re taking it easy timewise, not on subject matter. We are the podcast we are. If you’re not in a headspace for this kind of discussion, or ifContinue reading “Ep. 128: Jack Kevorkian”
Ep. 127: Let’s fight about Scream
Click here to listen everywhere! After a particularly gory story about a man and his mechanical corn harvester, we chat at length about some of the things we’ve been REALLY into watching lately, and then argue over the merits of the Scream franchise. No spoilers. Just debate. Highlights: [0:00] Mark tells CoRri about Sampson ParkerContinue reading “Ep. 127: Let’s fight about Scream”
Ep. 126: Toxic miasma
Click here to listen everywhere! This week we’re delving deep into our collective anxieties, discussing a fog that killed a GRIP of people in London, and the many things about living in our bodies on planet Earth that are actually casually terrifying. Highlights: [0:00] CoRri tells Mark about London’s Great Smog of 1952[28:00] Shooting ofContinue reading “Ep. 126: Toxic miasma”
Ep. 125: Raptor pharaoh and other conspiracy fun
Click here to listen everywhere! While we’re no fans of baseless conspiracy theory and the often bigoted undertones, this week we’re discussing a few conspiracy theories it’s actually kind of fun to believe in. They’re not true, of course, but they’re fun. Highlights: [0:00] Mark tells CoRri about the horrific death of Katarzyna Zowada[16:10] WeContinue reading “Ep. 125: Raptor pharaoh and other conspiracy fun”
Ep. 124: Existential space dread
Click here to listen everywhere! Space is terrifying and yet somehow incredibly alluring. This week we’re talking about some of the things that intrigue us and frighten us to our very souls about the INFINITE. Highlights: [0:00] CoRri tells Mark about the unsettling phenomenon of “phrogging.”[29:56] We catch up on our weeks and breaking newsContinue reading “Ep. 124: Existential space dread”
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