Click here to listen everywhere! This week Marko ponders whether free will exists, or whether our corporate overlords have stripped us of any possibility of it. Plus, it’s been what Mark calls a “we didn’t start the fire” week, so we’re chatting about this week’s speedrun of chaos. Highlights: [0:00] Is there such thing asContinue reading “Ep. 281: free will & the illusion of choice”
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Ep. 280: axe mutiny on the saladin
Click here to listen everywhere! Corrigan came home from Canada with a bloody tale of mutiny on the high seas! Plus, Marko is in his true crime era and America botches yet another execution. Highlights: [0:00] Corrigan tells Marko about the mutiny on the Saladin.[41:19] You’re doing better than some quantum you, Corrigan’s hairdresser isContinue reading “Ep. 280: axe mutiny on the saladin”
Ep. 279: parsing psychosis & the great ai panic
Click here to listen everywhere! We’re back from our little hiatus! This week, Corrigan overthinks Marko’s attempt to explain the neuroscience of psychosis, we get into some of the books we’ve dug lately, and we weigh whether the warnings about AI ending humanity should be taken at face value. Highlights: [0:00] Marko tells Corrigan aboutContinue reading “Ep. 279: parsing psychosis & the great ai panic”
Ep. 278: pacific northwest, you in danger girl (w/ alfie spratling!)
Click here to listen everywhere! 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 muchContinue reading “Ep. 278: pacific northwest, you in danger girl (w/ alfie spratling!)”
Ep. 277: a walk to the world cup & glacier dangers
Click here to listen everywhere! 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 toContinue reading “Ep. 277: a walk to the world cup & glacier dangers”
Ep. 276: astral projection & other dream states
Click here to listen everywhere! 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 haveContinue reading “Ep. 276: astral projection & other dream states”
Ep. 275: you’re supposed to bury the bodies
Click here to listen everywhere! 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] WeContinue reading “Ep. 275: you’re supposed to bury the bodies”
Ep. 274: the ss eastland tips over
Click here to listen everywhere! 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. Stuff we referenced:Continue reading “Ep. 274: the ss eastland tips over”
Ep. 273: ye olde reconstructive surgery
Click here to listen everywhere! 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 toContinue reading “Ep. 273: ye olde reconstructive surgery”
Ep. 272: the chippendales plots
Click here to listen everywhere! 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 violentContinue reading “Ep. 272: the chippendales plots”
