Click here to listen everywhere! 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] CoRriContinue reading “Ep. 185: is everything… worse?”
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Ep. 183: a baby-eating dingo & tourist (death) traps
Click here to listen everywhere! 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’sContinue reading “Ep. 183: a baby-eating dingo & tourist (death) traps”
Ep. 182: plane theft & nonce hunters
Click here to listen everywhere! 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’sContinue reading “Ep. 182: plane theft & nonce hunters”
Ep. 181: toxic landscapes & extreme protest
Click here to listen everywhere! 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]Continue reading “Ep. 181: toxic landscapes & extreme protest”
Ep. 180: The Toynbee Tiles & Media Gambles
Click here to listen everywhere! 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 aboutContinue reading “Ep. 180: The Toynbee Tiles & Media Gambles”
Extra: The Doomsday Clock
Click here to listen everywhere! 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 ClockContinue reading “Extra: The Doomsday Clock”
Ep. 179: the coffee’s too hot & so is the planet
Click here to listen everywhere! 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 tellsContinue reading “Ep. 179: the coffee’s too hot & so is the planet”
Ep. 178: a soviet hero, mercury mayhem, & the thing about documentaries
Click here to listen everywhere! 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]Continue reading “Ep. 178: a soviet hero, mercury mayhem, & the thing about documentaries”
Ep. 177: a scientology scandal & a brief history of assassination
Click here to listen everywhere! 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 ofContinue reading “Ep. 177: a scientology scandal & a brief history of assassination”
Ep. 176: the ethics of AI art
Click here to listen everywhere! 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]Continue reading “Ep. 176: the ethics of AI art”
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