Jack of All Graves

This week an offhanded remark from Mark ignited Corrigan’s fury about a pet peeve in the true crime genre: TikTok sleuths. So, we’re examining those online amateur detectives and whether they help or hurt.

[0:00] Mark tells CoRri about the spy in the bag
[11:30] We catch up and discuss Valentine’s traditions
[20:16] We wade into being a parent whose kid wants to play Hogwarts Legacy
[35:10] What we watched!
[60:16] A discussion of people on TikTok who love to try to solve crimes

• Sister Of ‘Hoodie Guy’ Seen With Idaho Victims Responds To Harassment From Online Sleuths Accusing Him Of Murder
• Oregon man, wrongly targeted after TikTok video goes viral, speaks out
• TikTok Users Are Protesting Convicted Killer’s Innocence Because ‘He’s Too Cute’
• I was wrongly accused of being a serial killer and wearing my victims’ clothes
• Tom Felton was falsely accused of grooming an underage girl
• Professor sues TikTok accuser for linker her to Idaho students’ murders
• Opinion: TikTok detectives must stop spreading misinformation
• Five crazy crime cases TikToke users have helped solve
• YouTube, TikTok helped police in Gabby Pettito case. How social media can aid in others.

As frequent travelers, we’ve spent a lot of time in hotels all around the world, and barring some inconveniences here and there, those stays have been pretty uneventful. But today we’re talking about some guests who checked in, but never checked out again.

[0:00] CoRri tells Mark the sad story of Ruthie May McCoy, whose 1987 murder inspired a horror classic
[20:50] Marko gives our listeners a pep talk
[24:27] We chat about swimming, the difference between gangland and execution style killings, a new baby in the JoAG fam, Mark’s Evil Dead journey, CoRri’s latest video for Wisecrack about biohacking, and more
[42:05] What we watched!
[85:00] Quick spoiler from episode 3 of Last of Us!
[86:04] End spoiler!
[86:44] We discuss a pet peeve of Marko’s in modern films
[93:29] Some horrifying moments in hotel history

• They Came Through the Bathroom Mirror
• Death at the Hotel Barclay
• Woman is Apparently Pushed From Window in Carter Hotel
• METRO NEWS BRIEFS: NEW YORK; Hotel Clerk Is Charged In Co-Worker’s Murder
• YOUTH BURNED TO DEATH; Mother in Nebraska Had Premonition of Tragedy Here
• Woman’s Body Wrapped in Plastic, Hidden Under Hotel Bed
• Drifter Clarence Dean sentenced to up to life in prison for 2007 Hotel Carter slay of sex worker Kristine Yitref
• Hotel Carter (WikiWand)
• Night Manager of Times Sq. Hotel Is Killed

We are super lucky this week to have 2000 AD brand manager and all around great guy Michael Molcher on the show to discuss his forthcoming book I Am The Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future, which looks at what the popular comic can tell us about modern policing.

[0:00] Mark tells CoRri and Michael about a man from Russia and his macabre doll collection
[14:05] We talk with Michael Molcher! Pick up your copy of his book from Gibson's and get a sweet JoAG Book Club discount 

We’re chatting about another one of CoRri’s random fears: Hot air balloons! We also debate our strategies for surviving in a dystopia, we go in depth on some tropes we love and hate in movies we watched this week, and Mark tells CoRri about the cryptids she needs to watch out for in England.

[0:00] CoRri tell Mark why hot air balloons are a hot nightmare
[15:47] We have an impromptu discussion of a mass shooting on Lunar New Year and what it’s like to live in a gun happy society
[25:20] We talk about some upcoming JoAG things, including our amazing guest for next week, Michael Molcher, and Mark’s upcoming Last of Us livestreams. Follow him on YouTube to watch him play.
[37:00] We debate how to survive in a dystopia
[43:57] What we watched! We have many thoughts and disagreements
[83:30] Mark warns CoRri about some British cryptids she should avoid on her trip in April

• Are Hot Air Balloons Safe? Bad Weather Highlights Risk
• Hot air balloon crash kills five in Albuquerque, New Mexico
• How Deadly is Hot Air Ballooning? Fatalities Are Rare, Stats Show
• Pilot dies after falling out of hot air balloon during passenger ride in Vermont
• 19 tourists dead in hot air balloon crash in Egypt
• New Zealand hot air balloon crash pilot ‘used cannabis’
• From the Archives, 1989: Thirteen die in 1000-metre balloon plunge
• Outback Ballooning director pleads guilty years after tourist’s death near Alice Springs
• WHS Law exposes aircraft operators to substantial penalties for safety breaches

This week’s discussions range from people who have predicted the end of the world, to some bonkers poisoning incidents throughout the 20th century. The last one is… it’s wild, you guys.

[0:00] Marks tells CoRri about some failed doomsday prophecies and some upcoming ones
[12:34] Mark looks into tattoo removal, we chat about videogames and why CoRri has such a hard time watching TV, and we set a date for our next watch-along: February 4th! Put it in your calendar!
[33:50] What we watched!
[59:09] It’s a thematic set of Ko-fi shoutouts this week! Make sure to subscribe if you want your own shoutout every month.
[79:50] We discuss some notable and fairly batshit examples of poisonings… and also wonder whether advertising and TikTok are their own kinds of poison.

• Chicago Tylenol Murders
• Revisiting Chicago’s Tylenol Murders
• Facts About Sarin
• Aum Shinrikyo: The Japanese Cult behind the Tokyo Sarin attack
• The Sarin Gas Attack in Japan and the Related Forensic Investigation
• SNAP 9A
• With crash and burn of space probe set for Sept. 15, a reminder that NASA’s nucear space follies must end
• Satellite Released Uranium, Scientists Say

We’re back! We’re taking it easy with a New Year’s ‘sode full of horrendous ways to die in a national park, surprise vomiting, and movie disagreements. Plus, we talk about what it means to us to be scared watching a movie, and what kinds of movies give us those heebie jeebies.

[0:00] CoRri tells Mark about the many deaths of Yellowstone National Park
[19:33] We chat about how 2023 is looking so far. Warning: There will be vomit.
[35:00] What we watched! We have some good discussions of movie disagreements, as is our favorite activity.
[73:54] We talk about what it means to be scared while watching a movie

• YouTubers who faced charges in Yellowstone, die in Canadian waterfall accident
• Poems, Photos and Dismembered Foot: What Happened to Il Hun Ro in Yellowstone Park?
• A Man Has Been Dissolved in Acid After Trying to ‘Hot Pot’ in Yellowstone National Park
• Man Who Dissolved In Acidic Hot Spring Was Trying To ‘Hot Pot,’ Report Shows
• Has Anyone Died from Falling in a Geyser?
• Yellowstone 2021 visitation statistics
• A Brief History of Deaths in Yellowstone’s Hot Springs

We’re taking a look back at 2022, picking out our favorite movies and weird news stories of each month as we sail in to 2023!

[0:00] Opening song: Zombie Claus by Psychostick
[0:30] We reflect on the year behind us and talk about some of our Christmas and NYE traditions
[22:00] We share a month by month recap with our favorite movie of the month and a JoAG-y news story

As we find ourselves in the midst of the holiday season, we discuss the prevalence of Christmas-related deaths, what Avatar: The Way of Water can tell us about transmedia’s potential, and some historical murders and mysteries that have been solved!

[0:00] CoRri tells Mark why his probability of dying shoots up around the holidays
[22:14] We’ve got a new book club calendar up, Mark is doing a two part Ko-Fi Snack, and we get into. a long, Avatar-inspired discussion of the possibilities of transmedia storytelling
[48:00] What we watched!
[62:00] We talk about mysteries and cold cases that have been solved at long last!

• In 1947, A High-Altitude Balloon Crash Landed in Roswell. The Aliens Never Left
• Why Did the Mayan Civilization Collapse? A New Study Points to Deforestation and Climate Change
• A BIZARRE SPATE OF CHRISTMAS SHOPPING DEATHS, FROM XUZHOU TO LONDON TO OMAHA
• Heart attack deaths spike around winter holidays, expert group warns
• Why do more people die at Christmas, New Year’s?
• Beware the holidays: All the ways Christmas and New Years can hurt you

We’re not usually a current events pod, but it’s been quite a week between the rapid shutdown of Britain’s major industries, Elon Musk’s continous spiral into fascism, and Mark’s march toward death (aka his birthday). So it’s time for a little State of the Dystopia chat!

[0:00] Mark tells CoRri about a mysterious maybe murder

[17:18] We chat about active imaginations and nightmares, Mark’s birthday, aging, and some surprising “facts” about time

[40:35] What we watched! With a LOT of side discussions.

[80:04] We’ve got a lot of anxiety about the breakdowns of our societies.

We’re coming in hot with a discussion of one of society’s greatest taboos: Inbreeding! Plus, we share some cultural exchange, our watches this week cause us to think some deep thoughts about humanity, and we discuss a few cases of extremely long term kidnapping.

[0:00] CoRri explains the science of human inbreeding… and why it might be less of a problem than we think? Hey, don’t shoot the messenger.
[29:16] We discuss Montell Jordan, pop music, an unusual brotherly Christmas tradition in the Lewis household, a ranking of Russells and other such pressing business
[53:00] What we watched!
[81:13] We talk about a few cases of kidnapping that went on a really long time

• Why inbreeding really isn’t as bad as you think it is
• Genetics of eye color
• The Science Behind the Damage of Inbreeding
• What are the effects of inbreeding?
• Parole agent central to Jaycee Lee Dugard kidnapping case breaks 13-year silence
• Jaycee Dugard – Crime Museum
• Arrest of kidnap suspect Phillip Garrido hinged on instincts and diligence of two members of UC Berkeley police force

This week Mark returns to his favorite topic: The brain! (The brain, the center of the chain!) And then on the advice of his son Owen, we talk about times that people have died on the field while playing sports. Or sport, if you’re British.

[0:00] Mark tells CoRri some stories about the resilience of the human brain
[18:30] We talk about the darkness of winter, the lightness in CoRri’s soul, and how Mark is reframing his sleep struggles
[0:00] Mark tells CoRri some stories about the resilience of the human brain
[18:30] We talk about the darkness of winter, the lightness in CoRri’s soul, and how Mark is reframing his sleep struggles
[31:39] CoRri corrects a mistake she made about lead in water last week. Also, if you want Christmas JoAG mail, make sure you sign up on our Ko-Fi at the Great Bunch of Lads level!
[37:50] What we watched! A lot going on in this one! There is much to recommend!
[69:30] We talk about times people have died while playing sports
[100:18] We discuss the divisive Tik Tok favorite film Skinamarink!

• The Forgotten Story of Ross Milne
• Athletes who have died competing in the Olympics
• Olympic Athletes Who Have Died at the Olympic Games
• Francisco Lazaro: The truth about the runner who died at the Olympics
• Francisco Lazaro
• Olympic Luge Crash Video: Nodar Kumaritashvili Dies in Test Run—Preventable?

We’ve got existential dread up to our ears this week! We talk about the ways in which lead may have destroyed generations of brains, climate and covid anxiety, stupid deaths, and the things that caused our nightmares growing up.

[0:00] CoRri explains the lead-crime hypothesis to Mark
[24:49] We chat about our current climate catastrophe anxiety
[29:00] Mark has COVID again and CoRri wants to know why so many people just keep passing it around; we discuss whether CoRri has any criminality in her; and CoRri has a dumb cultural exchange question
[49:20] It’s time for listener shoutouts! Mark gives all of our Ko-Fi supporters a story about a stupid death
[73:20] What we watched!
[96:00] We discuss strange and pervasive fears we’ve had throughout our lives

• New evidence that lead exposure increases crime
• Lead and Crime: A Review of the Evidence and the…
• Has the Lead-Crime Hypothesis Been Debunked? – Ke…
• How Lead Caused America’s Violent Crime Epidemic
• New evidence that lead exposure increases crime
• Lead and Crime: A Review of the Evidence and the…
• Debunking the lead crime hypothesis | by The Gift…

We had our first Comic-Con panel experience… and our first experience getting the boot for being too spicy! We talk about our grand day out in Birmingham before delving into the question of whether horror is good for children.

[0:00] We recap our experiences at MCM Comic-Con Birmingham

[20:00] We talk a little about CoRri’s whirlwing trip to England before diving into what we watched!

[31:50] Skip this quick section to avoid a Cabinet of Curiosities spoiler

[35:30] End spoiler

[] We discuss whether horror is, in fact, good for kids

If you live in a big city, you probably pass dozens of people every day hauling their luggage down the sidewalks and subway platforms. But have you ever stopped to wonder if there’s something more sinister in those valises than t-shirts and spare underwear?

[0:00] Mark tells CoRri about the science of decomposition

[16:50] In his own weird way, Mark offers some inspiration, and we talk about our “floating door” getting us through life.

[21:40] Cultural exchange time! We discuss the 5th of November celebrations in the UK, and CoRri talks about her road trip through the South.

[44:00] Should we delete Twitter?

[60:00] What we watched!

[93:00] We discuss people caught on CCTV carting corpses in suitcases

• Expolicía que asesinó a una trabajadora sexual y la ocultó en una maleta es condenado a 35 años de cárcel
• Chilling CCTV of two men carrying bag ‘with woman’s body stuffed inside’ in street
• Landlord Charged With Murder of Couple Found Dismembered in Suitcases in TikTok Video
• Grace Millane’s killer caught on video carrying her body in suitcase
• Woman accused of beheading pensioner ‘caught on CCTV dragging suitcase with body in’
• Odessa Carey: Review into Ashington death finds multiple failings

Nothing says Halloween like good old fashioned ghosts! This week we’re diving into the world of ghost hunting. Is there science to back up the existence of ghosts? Listen and find out!

[0:00] CoRri tells Mark why, if there were a hell, Ed and Lorraine Warren would most certainly be there
[29:43] We discuss how a demon would get into Mark and learn a little more about Welsh Halloween in the ’80s
[46:48] What we watched! (If the discussion of Barbarian sounds choppy, it’s because we spoiled the shit out of it and I had to cut it out. Sorry!)
[65:00] We get into discussing the science of ghosts and ghost hunting

• Victorian scientists thought they found an explanation for Ghosts
• Why do we see ghosts?
• Paranormal Investigators Who Use Science Reveal What Ghost Hunters Get Wrong
• The science of ghosts
• Ghost Busted: When Science Meets the Supernatural
• The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It’ — Ed and Lorraine Warren’s role in the real case
• Was Amityville Horror based on a true story?
• 10 Times Ed & Lorraine Warren Were Outed as Frauds
• The devil is in the implications for The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
• War Over ‘The Conjuring’: The Disturbing Claims Behind a Billion-Dollar Franchise
• “The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It” is bad in a concerning way
• Let’s Kill Off The Conjuring
• The Ghost Box

It’s back to the gruesome twosome this week after back to back episodes with excellent guests. In this episode, we discuss an intense story of survival in the Peruvian rainforest, check-in with a little JoAG therapy, and lay out some of our essential viewing and traditions for the Halloween season.

[0:00] CoRri tells Mark the story of super badass German teenager Juliane Koepcke, who survived a plane crash and ten days solo in the Peruvian rainforest
[18:42] Mark joins QAnon?
[31:34] Our minds and bodies are broken
[40:30] Our con day is sold out and Snack of All Graves is coming on Monday so make sure you subscribe to hear it!
[42:05] Our no-spoiler thoughts on Halloween Ends and Terrifier 2
[55:35] We chat about our favorite Halloween season movies and traditions

• How teenager Juliane Koepcke survived a plane crash and solo 11-day trek out of the Amazon
• Juliane Koepcke: How I survived a plane crash
• The Incredible Story Of Juliane Koepcke
• Wings of Hope
• Amanda Frank on Twitter (MAGA infiltrator)

This week we have the absolute pleasure of having Chris Porritt from the Helix Cloud Games network of podcasts with us to talk about the world of horror games and why they’re such fertile ground for innovation.

[0:00] Mark tells the story of a man and his unlicensed zoo
[16:49] We introduce our guest Chris Porritt, what tf cloud gaming is, and why Google is so good at killing stuff
[40:44] We announce our MCM Comic-Con Birmingham panel and other such JoAG business! Get your ticket and come see us do our first live appearance on Saturday, November 12th, 2022 at 3:10pm on the Live Stage!
[48:00] We talk about Deadstream and some of the movies that scarred Chris
[58:50] We discuss horror games!

• Helix Cloud Games: YouTube | Twitter | Facebook
• Follow Chris on Twitter

It’s a VERY special JoAG this week as we’re joined by Dr. Ben Duffin-Jones, a forensic psychiatrist with years of experience working in the Welsh penal system. We learn the ins, outs, ups, and downs of working to understand what makes criminals tick, and why empathy is the most important requirement for the job. Plus: Ben ranks our perfect murder strategies from episode 31!

Oh boy. Right before recording this episode, our dear scheduled guest had an emergency and had to cancel, so… um… we talked about everything from bird migration to the genius of She-Hulk to what the Dahmer Netflix series can tell us about the true crime landscape.

[0:00] Mark introduces CoRri to three minor deities, with one catch… one of them he made up. Can she guess which?
[10:50] We have a little JoAG therapy sesh about why we’re both feeling a little off at the moment. Plus, our next watch-along is October 8th!
[24:30] We discuss the autumnal equinox and CoRri has a revelation about birds, which leads Mark to tell her about the Jews of Aberystwyth
[36:00] We deep dive into the Netflix Dahmer series and what it does differently from other true crime
[53:30] We watched The Munsters so you don’t have to
[63:00] What else we watched! From the glorious twitter drama of Don’t Worry Darling to the beautiful meditation on grief that is The Night House.
[90:00] The answer to which deity Mark fabricated.

An article in GQ has CoRri hyperfixated on the gory procedure of surgical leg lengthening, we revisit the royal mourning period in the UK and get an EXTREMELY surprising revelation from Mark, and Mark takes us into the world of conjoined twins and other physical irregularities in the human form.

[0:00] CoRri tells Mark about leg lengthening surgery
[34:30] We get an update on the mourning situation in the UK and find out a SHOCKING revelation regarding Mark’s relationship with the Queen
[55:45] We have a conversation about what celebrity deaths affected us the most
[65:00] What we watched!
[95:00] Mark tells CoRri about some fascinating physical irregularities in the human form

• Historical Vignettes on How the Ilizarov Method C…
• New Limb-Lengthening Tech May Reduce Complication…
• How Comrade Ilizarov saved my leg | Health | The…
• Inside the World of Leg Lengthening | GQ
• STATISTICS – NORMAL DISTRIBUTION- HEIGHTS

We dedicate our episode today to the wild and whacky world of the United Kingdom and its forced period of mourning in the wake of the death of their monarch! If you love the Queen, you’ll probably hate this!

[0:00] Mark talks about what it was like to be in London when the Queen died.
[26:30] Aside from some chat about what yetis sound like and CoRri’s birthday weekend, we jump right into talking more about the complicated nature of the UK’s mourning of their monarch, and mourning in the age of social media in general.

Mark is back! And he wants to talk about folk religion! We chat about corpses uncovered by climate change, potentially necrotic mosquito bites, kind of rad cannibals, and more!

[0:00] CoRri tells Mark about the corpses in Lake Mead
[21:20] We catch up on the past two weeks apart, starting with a very special dedication from Mark and including vivid descriptions of his potentially necrotic mosquito bites! Plus, we discuss the grey pubic hair to death pipeline.
[47:50] What we watched!
[80:50] We discuss some interesting folk religions, some of which involve cannibalism
[97:00] Ko-Fi shout outs! Everyone gets a god!

• Officials reveal new details about the 3 sets of human remains found at Lake Mead
• Lake Mead Has Hundreds of Bodies Waiting to Be Found
• Western ‘Megadrought’ Is the Worst in 1,200 Years
• Multiple sets of remains found in receding Lake Mead. Here’s a timeline of the discoveries.
• Vegas mob lore floats to the surface along with bodies at Lake Mead

Mark is still away on his Caribbean dream vacay, so CoRri is joined by Dead and Lovely’s Hollywood Steve this week to talk about his journey from atheist to Mormon to atheist again, with some fascinating history and theology thrown in. If you didn’t think Big Foot featured into Mormon beliefs, you’re in for a surprise!

[0:00] CoRri tells Steve about the Great Moon Hoax of 1835
[24:30] It’s a ramble. Ultimately, the point is, the Queen should make a sex tape.
[48:00] What we’ve watched and played lately and why VR is too dystopian to be fun
[72:00] We discuss Mormons!

• Belief, Legend, and the Great Moon Hoax 
• The Great Moon Hoax Was Simply a Sign of Its Time
• The Great Moon Hoax and the Christian Philosopher
• “The Great Moon Hoax” Is published in the “New York Sun”

In celebration of 100 episodes of JoAG, we got together in London to chat face to face about everything from the American penchant for drunk driving to CoRri's weird past doing Christian missionary work to some stories Mark's dug up on internet meet-ups that didn't go nearly as well as ours. The audio is potato quality but the conversation is a piping hot plate of chips! Thanks for hanging with us for one hundred episodes of the JoAG journey! Here's to many hundreds more!

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Maybe it’s cheating a little, but we want to record our big 100th episode together in London, so this week we’re just hanging out chatting about some disconcerting science news, some horror science, and a whoooole lot of stuff we’ve been watching the past two weeks. Plus Mark recommends music and spins the Wheel of Justice!

[0:00] We talk over a story in the news this week about reanimated pigs and all the IMPLICATIONS.
[22:50] We discuss Mark’s broken toe and what you can expect from our London content, and CoRri explains the science of why she pukes all the time
[35:40] Mark dives into his old last.fm profile to recommend songs to our Ko-Fi supporters. Here they are in a YouTube playlist!
[57:50] Mark spins the Wheel of Justice
[60:30] What we watched! The list can always be found on our website, jackofallgraves.com

We’ve got your favorite scientist Eileen Marks-Nelson back with us to answer more super weird science questions! This time she’s tackling tips for how to survive scenarios that are nearly impossible to make it out of alive!  

[0:00] Mark tells CoRri and Eileen about the strange case of the dog suicide bridge
[18:02] Thanks for coming to our watch-along and for your Ko-fi support!
[26:00] Eileen explains sensation-seeking behavior, and administers a test to find out where Mark and CoRri stand on the scale
[61:11] We get into surviving (or NOT surviving) some unsurvivable situations

Rewatching the Final Destination movies has CoRri wondering what society would be like if the events of the movie were happening in real life and everyone started to recognize it. How would it change our ideas about death and near-death experiences? What would people buy and sell? How many times would it have to happen for us all to start believing?

[0:00] CoRri tells Mark about the murder inquiry dogging the author of Where the Crawdads Sing
[19:52] We get really excited about being complimented, Mark partied too hard, CoRri was definitely not a child bride, and we are REALLY into shout-outs
[43:31] What we watched!
[64:50] We talk about how our society would be different if death came for us the same way it does in the Final Destination movies

• ‘Crawdads’ author Delia Owens is wanted for questioning in a murder. Here’s why.
• ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ Author Wanted for Questioning in Murder – The Atlantic
• The Delia Demolition

You ever stop to listen to the lyrics to a high energy jam and realize there’s something super sinister lurking beneath those bouncy beats? This week we’re delving into songs inspired by real life crimes and tragedies.

[0:00] Mark tells CoRri about a seemingly benign stupid food decision with fatal consequences
[12:36] The UK is on FIRE. Is preparing for it POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE WILD?
[25:40] There’s a new video rant, book club was great, a watch-along is coming on July 30th, and Boffin Eileen is joining us for ep. 99 so send us your questions about surviving unsurvivable situations!
[32:20] What we watched! Plus, wtf was that Munsters trailer??
[64:00] We discuss songs about real life crimes and tragedies

• ELDERLY COUPLE FOUND DEAD IN CAR TWO WEEKS AFTER TRIP TO FESTIVAL – Chicago Tribune
• The Tragic and True Story Behind this 90s Earworm | The Zone @ 91-3
• Hey Man Nice Shot by Filter – Songfacts
• What’s That Song About?: “Hey Man Nice Shot” – Filter, 1995 (alternative)
• The full story behind The Killers’ Murder Trilogy – Radio X
• Preppy Killer Case 30 Year Later – Robert Chambers and Jennifer Levin’s Story
• Mother of late teenager who inspired Pearl Jam’s ‘Jeremy’ speaks out for the first time

This week the UK is finally on the road to seeing the backside of Boris Johnson, but what does that even mean, and how did that doofus get into power in the first place? CoRri’s asking Mark the tough questions about the state of British society as a nice break from the horrors of America. Plus, a bonkers story of amnesia, a new pick from the wheel of justice, and a journey through the last words of people on death row.

[0:00] CoRri tells Mark about a strange case of amnesia
[21:30] Mark’s odd exhortation leads to a discussion of Romeo + Juliet and The Sunscreen Song.
[29:20] Mark met giraffes! We talk giraffe facts and rant about people who’s instinct when meeting such majestic creatures is to shoot them and hang them on their wall.
[38:50] Time to spin the wheel of justice and find out Mark’s next video rant.
[41:50] Mark shouts out our ko-fi subscribers with the last words of criminals before they were executed
[67:30] What we watched!
[84:00] Mark does his best to explain British politics to CoRri in light of Boris Johnson’s semi-resignation as Prime Minister

• Amnesia – Symptoms and causes – Mayo Clinic
• Man With Amnesia Finds His Family After Searching for 11 Years – ABC News
• Do you know this man? | Health & wellbeing | The Guardian
• The Last Unknown Man | The New Republic
• Benjaman Kyle Asks: Who Am I? | Front Page | transylvaniatimes.com
• The Problem With Adventure Movies Today – YouTube

A few weeks ago, Mark insisted Corrigan was a giant mark for believing in human echolocation, so this week we’re revisiting the topic, as well as other seemingly superhuman powers that exist in the world!

[0:00] CoRri tells Mark about the gruesome shark attacks that inspired Peter Benchley’s Jaws
[18:19] The 4th of July somehow leads us to a conversation about empathy
[35:00] What we watched!
[45:35] Spoiler for the movie Men
[48:18] End of Men spoiler
[73:51] We talk about the incredible capabilities of human adaptation

• Charles Bruder killed in shark attack – Newspapers.com
• 1916 New Jersey Shore shark attacks inspired Jaws and changed the way we view ocean predators
• The 1916 shark attacks: Matawan, N.J.’s 100-year struggle with a bloody legacy – nj.com
• The Matawan Shark Attack: A Deadly Day in 1916 – Yesterday’s America
• July Attacks of the New Jersey “Jaws” | Weird NJ
• Echolocation in blind people reveals the brain’s adaptive powers | Science | AAAS
• Learning How to Be a Human Bat – Scientific American
• People Can Learn Echolocation in Ten Weeks | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
• How Does Human Echolocation Work? | Innovation| Smithsonian Magazine
• The ‘sea-nomad’ children who see like dolphins – BBC Future
• Desert people evolve to drink water poisoned with deadly arsenic | New Scientist
• Could we make a superhuman? | BBC Science Focus Magazine
• A World Without Pain | The New Yorker

It can often seem like the world is getting worse on nearly every conceivable level — and it is! — but this week we’re talking about both the ways things have gotten worse in our lifetimes, and some of the ways things have actually gotten better.

[0:00] Mark tells CoRri about some Soviet gumption in the form Antarctic self-surgery
[17:50] We unpack the horrendous week America has had thanks to the Supreme Court
[43:45] We unpack the watch-along and future watch-along ideas, as well as book club, and our future hang in the UK
[55:45] What we watched! It was A LOT.
[84:25] We discuss things that have gotten worse AND things that have gotten better in our lifetimes

Since Mark is seeing Nine Inch Nails and CoRri is seeing Midnight Oil this weekend, we’re doing a Friday party-sode! We’re sipping on some suds and talking about CoRri’s disability, how racism ruined swimming in America, our irrational celebrity hatreds, Star Trek, actor accents, Nightmare on Elm Street’s enduring legacy, and more! This one is surprisingly uplifting, so cuddle up with us, friends.

[0:00] CoRri tells Mark how the legacy of racism has ruined swimming for Black folks in the United States
[17:25] We jump right into a discussion of irrational hatreds of celebrities and the absurdity of the passage of time
[29:18] Mark is going to see Nine Inch Nails in a…. biodome? And this leads us into a discussion of the gloriousness of Star Trek. It makes sense, I swear.
[41:39] Mark watched In The Mouth of Madness and, like the movie, the conversation spirals! From Sam Neil’s accent to Christian Bale’s improvisation skills, and our own acting and filmmaking backgrounds
[52:13] What we watched!

• Racial History of American Swimming Pools : NPR
• Challenging the Myth that ‘Blacks Can’t Swim’ – 5 Questions with Filmmaker Ed Accura | Pool Safely
• Racial Disparities in Swimming: What Can We Do?
• Racism at American Pools Isn’t New: A Look at a Long History
• Taika Waititi & Rhys Darby Take Lie Detector Tests | Vanity Fair

It’s been two weeks since we’ve had a chat, so we’ve got a lot to say. Mark tells a horrifying cave story, the Void speaks some wisdom to our audience, and the movie Dashcam drives us to question where we draw our ethical lines in the films we choose to support. No spoilers, so you don’t have to have watched the movie to listen to the conversation!

[0:00] Mark tells CoRri a horrendously claustrophobic incident at the Nutty Putty Cave in Utah
[23:50] Mark’s back from Crete with bug bites on his ass!
[34:00] Book club is coming on June 18th, and a double-feature watch-along on June 25th!
[36:35] We spin the wheel of justice and Mark connects to the Void and gets some bad advice for our Ko-Fi supporters
[59:10] What we watched!
[84:40] We talk about the movie Dashcam and where we draw an ethical line in deciding what we’ll watch

Mark is on holiday this week, so our dear comrade Richard Lambert joins Corrigan to talk about Nazi drug use, the fate of the British monarchy, the trouble with ghost movies, violent state responses to labor movements, and the horrors of capitalism! It’s action packed!

[0:00] Guest Richard Lambert tells CoRri about Nazi methamphetamine use
[21:00] We shoot the breeze about our week and have some cultural exchange about the British monarchy
[40:10} What we watched!
[76:48] We discuss the horrors of capitalism, specifically violent things done to people trying to push for labor rights

• Social Welfare History Project Passaic Textile Strike, 1926
• Triangle Fire: Police Brutality against Strikers | PBS LearningMedia
• Uncovering the History of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire | History| Smithsonian Magazine
• POLICE IN SIDECARS CLUB AND CHASE 3,000 IN PASSAIC STRIKE
• What Made the Battle of Blair Mountain the Largest Labor Uprising in American History | History| Smithsonian Magazine
• Shooting Up: A History of Drugs in Warfare by Lukasz Kamienski review – what turns soldiers into monsters? | History books | The Guardian
• Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler review – a crass and dangerously inaccurate account | History books | The Guardian
• The scandal of Orgreave | The miners’ strike 1984-85 | The Guardian

It’s been a terrible week in America and we’ve got to talk about it. This week we follow a cathartic discussion of American failures with some good natured bickering about science, an invitation to come hang out with us, and a little jaunt into one of our favorite topics, dumb ways to die.

[0:00] We talk about America’s mounting social problems and whether the country is headed toward utopia or dystopia

[26:20] We discuss the sizes of alcohol bottles and the queen’s platinum jubilee, and we bicker about whether or not human echolocation is real

[35:00] We want you to come hang out with us in Birmingham, UK on November 12th and 13th!

[47:20] What we watched!

[75:00] We revisit stupid ways people have died or caused major tragedies

• The Darwin Awards: 10 Of The Worst Stupid Death Stor…
• 10 Disasters Caused by Absurdly Negligent Decisions – Toptenz.net
• King Charles II Died a Horrible, Unfortunate Death

This week we look at some authors with an uncanny eye to the future, and some folks who want nothing more than to get inside your head. Is it possible? Only one way to find out.

[0:00] CoRri tells Mark about books that have predicted the future
[17:30] Mark invites you into the void, and tells an embarrassing story from his week
[29:00] CoRri continues to be bad at video games, but book club continues to be great
[38:10] What we watched!
[68:35] We talk about whether mind control is possible, and if so, if it’s ethical

• The story of cannibalism that came true – BBC Culture
• R v Dudley and Stephens – Wikipedia
• Edgar Allan Poe–Cosmologist? – Scientific American Blog Network
• Books That Predicted the Future | Mental Floss
• The Wreck Of The Titan Told Of The Titanic’s Sinking 14 Years Before It Happened
• The Machine Stops: Will Gompertz reviews EM Forster’s work ★★★★★ – BBC News
• Books That Predicted the Future | Reader’s Digest
• The Man Who Fought a Bull With Mind Control
• The RoboRoach Bundle

This week we have one of our classic JoAG therapy sessions discussing overthinking, executive dysfunction, running from problems, and living in a world that breaks our brains. BUT FIRST! You’ve got a good chance of dying on your birthday, Mark tries to help CoRri come to terms with Eurovision, we play some Evil Dead: The Game, and more!

Highlights:
[0:00] Mark tells CoRri about the odds of dying on your own birthday

[18:28] South Korea shows us birthdays aren’t real

[24:30] The queen’s platinum jubilee leads to some cultural exchange about opera singers

[34:58] CoRri took a PATH train and realized she’s not over her claustrophobia

[41:34] We bicker about the cultural footprint of Avatar

[54:40] Wheel of justice time! Subscribe to us on Ko-fi for Mark’s glorious rants!

[57:00] What we watched AND what we played!

[87:50] It’s JoAG therapy time. How does that make you feel?

Once upon a time we thought Jack of All Graves was gonna be a horror movie podcast. It is not. But sometimes we just have to go all in on talking about the thing that brought us together. After a lil’ chat about being buried alive, we deep dive into the best and worst things about TV and movies, with much Sam Raimi celebration. Lots of timestamps here to tailor your experience.

[0:00] CoRri talks about being buried alive. Not personally. But the concept.

[18:19] Mark’s in a good headspace, CoRri’s anxious, but CoRri has some anxiety-reducing tips for those prone to procrastination

[25:20] We’re gonna stream the Evil Dead videogame! Watch us on our YouTube on Saturday, May 14th! 2-4pm GMT, 9am-1pm EST, and then again at 8pm GMT, 3pm EST!

[28:44] We’re talking about movies and TV this week. Time stamps coming for each discussion!

[31:39] Mark finished Ozark, so we talk about how shows are made now and the obnoxious tendency to split up seasons

[36:20] CoRri explains why true crime drama and docuseries are getting tiresome

[50:24] We watched some noir-esque movies, which has us talking about why we love that style so much — even though other people don’t seem to agree.

[62:30] CoRri watched a couple classics for the first time: Duel and Sleepaway Camp.

[69:00] The House That Jack Built helps CoRri put words to her feelings about sexual violence in movies that she couldn’t quite articulate last week

[81:41] It’s Dr. Strange time!

[84:30] Spoilers abound!

• Timothy Clark Smith Was So Afraid Of Death He Got A Grave With A Window – Indie88
• A window to the deceased: Vermont Doctor buried with window to his coffin due to phobia | WRGB
• Grave of Timothy Clark Smith – New Haven, Vermont – Atlas Obscura
• 4 People Who Were Buried Alive (And How They Got Out) | Mental Floss
• Was Essie Dunbar Discovered Alive in the Coffin During Her Funeral? | Snopes.com
• Woman ‘buried alive tried to fight way out of coffin for 11 days’, family say | The Independent | The Independent
• Traditional Irish wakes – Drinks, pranks, games, and songs
• Traditions of an Irish Wake
• People Feared Being Buried Alive So Much They Invented These Special Safety Coffins | Sponsored | Smithsonian Magazine
• What Are the Actual Chances of Being Buried Alive? ‹ Literary Hub

We’ve been on two curiosity kicks lately it seems: The ethics of human experimentation and how to make our corpses useful once our meat suits cease to house our consciousness. Get your fill of both topics in this episode as we discuss the child torment that gave us cognitive behavioral therapy, several ways to make sure your dead body gets a little extra mileage, and much more.

[0:00] Marks tells CoRri the sad story of Little Albert and his torment at the hands of unethical behavior psychology experimentation

[18:50] We shoot the breeze and recap our amazing Jason-centric watch-along!

[28:20] What we watched!

[56:00] We discuss helpful uses for your corpse!

[85:00] Mark has proverbs from around the world for our Ko-fi subscribers. Make sure you become a member so you, too, can get yours next month!

• This New Burial Technique Turns a Corpse Into a Tiny Pile of Freeze-Dried Fertilizer | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
• What is an Eternal Reef? » Eternal Reefs » Living legacies that memorialize the passing of a loved one
• How Cadavers Made Your Car Safer | WIRED
• In the U.S. market for human bodies, anyone can sell the donated dead
• A greener afterlife: is human composting the future for funerals? | Soil | The Guardian
• How Promession Burials Work: Process, Cost & Legality | Cake Blog

America’s nuclear weapons are often more of a danger to Americans than they are a danger to others, Mark makes the case that we should be using corpses for more things, and decades olds closure to former cold cases makes us think about the meaning of guilt.

[0:00] CoRri tells Mark about the time a guy dropped a wrench and nearly blew up Arkansas

[28:20] Being home alone drives CoRri to think she’s being followed.

[41:16] Mark is better after his bout with covid, we had an impromptu watch-along is his feature film debut, and have a watch-along coming up on April 30th

[48:50] What we watched!

[75:30] Mark thinks we should use corpses for more things

[83:30] Society is big on disabled people being “miracles” but not great at treating them like humans

[90:30] We talk about cold cases that were solved decades later and what it means to be guilty

• Watch Command and Control | American Experience | Official Site | PBS
• Human error in a nuclear facility nearly destroyed Arkansas – The Verge
• 37 years after the Titan II Missile explosion | KATV

[0:00] Mark just found out that American scientists have done a lot of terrible and unethical experiments on marginalized people, especially radiation-related ones.

[16:00] After last week’s stunning declaration that he was immune to covid, Mark has covid.

[21:30] Some announcements! We’re on Dead & Lovely, Mark’s in a movie he’s gonna watch on our Discord, we’ve got a watch-along coming

[37:19] In honor of Mark’s own hubris, CoRri tells him about some people who fucked around and found out

[52:20] What we watched!

[60:00] X Spoilers! We finally talk about X! Turn it off till you see the movie!

• Toronto Urban Legends: The Leaping Lawyer of Bay Street
• Man Drowns At Party For Lifeguards | AP News
• Another Anti-Vaccine Radio Host Is Killed By Covid—Adding To A Growing List
• Herman Cain, 74, Dies From The Coronavirus : NPR
• Was an Anti-Seat Belt Law Advocate Killed in an Automobile Accident? | Snopes.com
• New York Rider Dies Protesting Motorcycle Helmet Law – ABC News
• Victim at Lifeguards’ Party – The New York Times
• Garry Hoy: The Man Who Accidentally Jumped Out A Window

We’re finally getting around to talking about animal ailments that are a real bad time when transferred to humans! Plus, CoRri answers Mark’s tales of British censorship from last week with the story of America’s Hays Code.

Highlights:
[0:00] CoRri tells Mark how the film industry avoided government censorship in the early 20th century

[31:30] Mark is an outdoorsmen all of a sudden, which leads to a discussion of favorite movie sword fights

[44:50] Mark and CoRri respond differently to the threat of covid, book club is coming, and we’re gonna be on Dead & Lovely!

[53:59] Mark updates CoRri on a crime that occurred when she was in England

[58:00] A long chat about the Jimmy Savile documentary that hit Netflix last week

[68:30] What we watched!

[92:50] Zoonotic diseases!

Stuff we referenced:

• Early Hollywood and the Hays Code | ACMI: Your museum of screen culture
• Remembering Hollywood’s Hays Code, 40 Years On : NPR
• Don’ts and Be Carefuls (1927)
• BFI Screenonline: The Hays Code
• Failure of the Milwaukee Protocol in a Child With Rabies | Clinical Infectious Diseases | Oxford Academic
• Milwaukee_protocol.pdf
• Comparing clinical protocols for the treatment of human rabies: the Milwaukee protocol and the Brazilian protocol (Recife) – PMC
• No Rabies Treatment After All: Failure of the Milwaukee Protocol The Pandora Report
• Infection | Leptospirosis | CDC
• Leptospirosis fact sheet – Fact sheets
• Leptospirosis in Humans – PMC
• Signs and Symptoms | Leptospirosis | CDC
• Transmission | Hantavirus | DHCPP | CDC
• What’s ‘Bat Soup,’ and Did It Cause the New Coronavirus?

We’re getting educational this week, JoAG fam! We’re delving into the history of Britain’s video nasties and we’re taking a journey through some fascinating facts of no importance to keep your water cooler conversations flowing and your Tinder dates awkward!

Highlights:

[0:00] Mark tells CoRri about Britain’s “video nasties” and why you could be in deep trouble for engaging with films from A Nightmare on Elm Street to Cannibal Holocaust for decades in the UK.

[28:40] We small talk about small talk and compare migraines

[42:45] The void is closed off to Mark this month, so here are 25 fun facts for our Ko-fi supporters, which actually end up blowing CoRri’s mind

[64:00] Time to spin the wheel of justice and find out Mark’s next video rant!

[67:30] What we watched! And played!

It’s been said that JoAG is like listening in on a conversation at the pub, and friends, that’s what this one is. We were gonna talk about zoonotic diseases, but instead we end up deep into a spiral about great directors who kinda suck now and why that happens. Join us. Eavesdrop. Sidle up to as at the bar and interject your thoughts.

Highlights:
[0:00] CoRri tells Mark about the dangers of the sleep medication Ambien

[24:00] We talk about our March mayhem, reflect on watching Piranha (1978), and discuss the next Marko’s Video Rants. Go submit your pick!

[33:00] We start walking about what we watch and just gooooo

[59:00] A conversation about Darkman spirals into a discussion about aging directors who’ve lost what made them great

Stuff we referenced:

• The Bizarre Side Effects of Taking Ambien – https://www.healthline.com/health/side-effects-of-taking-ambien
• Roseanne’s Ambien story almost makes sense. – https://slate.com/technology/2018/05/roseannes-ambien-story-almost-makes-sense.html
• “I Did What?” Zolpidem and the Courts | Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law – http://jaapl.org/content/39/4/535
• The ‘Ambien Defense’ Has a Long, Dubious History | Time – https://time.com/5295281/ambien-defense-history/
• Two Cases of Zolpidem-Associated Homicide – PMC – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3505131/
• Zolpidem: MedlinePlus Drug Information – https://medlineplus.gov/druginfo/meds/a693025.html

We’ve got cannibalism on one end and nuclear neuroses on the other. Come with us for some JoAG therapy as we work through why Mark can’t stop thinking about mutually assured destruction.

Highlights:

[0:00] Mark tells CoRri about Japanese cannibal Issei Sagawa

[14:50] Just shooting the shit, y’know?

[28:30] What we watched! No spoilers, don’t worry.

[44:00] We talk about nuclear war: What would happen if it were to occur, how it’s depicted in pop culture, the effects of thinking too much about nuclear war on small children, and more!

Stuff we referenced:

• The Day After: America Watches in Fear – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG-e52yAxfs
• Protect and Survive (Complete Nuclear Survival British Public Information Film) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yrv505R-0U
• How Growing Up With the Threat of Nuclear War Shapes Kids’ Psyches – https://www.thecut.com/article/how-the-threat-of-nuclear-war-shapes-kids-psyches.html
• ‘By 10, I knew all about the impact of a nuclear blast’: growing up in the shadow of the bomb – https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/16/by-10-i-knew-all-about-the-impact-of-a-nuclear-blast-growing-up-in-the-shadow-of-the-bomb
• Fear of nuclear annihilation scarred children growing up in the Cold War, studies later showed- https://timeline.com/nuclear-war-child-psychology-d1ff491b5fe0
• 38 Essential ’80s Songs About Nuclear Anxiety – https://www.stereogum.com/1978060/38-essential-80s-songs-about-nuclear-anxiety/lists/ultimate-playlist/
• How One Apocalyptic BBC Movie Scarred a Generation of U.K. Schoolchildren – https://www.kqed.org/arts/13867080/how-one-apocalyptic-bbc-movie-scarred-a-generation-of-u-k-schoolchildren
• Nuclear War Movies: A History of Total Annihilation on Film – https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/nuclear-war-movies-a-history-of-total-annihilation-on-film/
• The Day After (1983) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iyy9n8r16hs

We’ve got a lot on our minds this week, from war and covid, to whether you’d still be you if your consciousness was uploaded to the cloud. Settle in and work through some of the complexities of being alive in 2022 with us.

Highlights:

[0:00] CoRri tells Mark about the utopian commune turned sex cult, upstate New York’s Oneida Community

[25:47] We talk about war, covid, and how quickly we get used to bizarre and unthinkable events

[39:50] We set our next watch-along! Shall we do a gore fest on March 26th? Also, book club is this weekend! Don’t miss it!

[48:00] BATMAN SPOILERS! Time to talk about what we’ve watched! We start with The Batman, so if you don’t want some minor spoilers, I’m popping a timestamp in here for when we move on!

[63:00] We’re done talking Batman! More on what we’ve watched

[85:00] CoRri can’t stop thinking about consciousness after watching season 2 of Upload, so she asks Mark a question about what makes us who we are, and if an uploaded version of our consciousness would still fundamentally be us.

Stuff we referenced:

• The Rich, Sexy History Of Oneida — Commune And Silverware Maker – https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2016/05/20/oneida-silverware
• New York’s Oneida Community Preached Perfectionism and Created Silverware – https://untappedcities.com/2021/06/11/oneida-community-new-york/
• The Utopia of Sharing in Oneida, NY – https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/03/travel/escapes/03Oneida.html
• Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell – https://www.gibsonsbookstore.com/book/9780743260046
• The Trial of Charles Guiteau: An Account – https://famous-trials.com/guiteau/2197-home
• The Untold Story of Utopian Communes In America – https://www.ic.org/paradisenow/

It might seem like in an age saturated with true crime podcasts and Netflix documentaries about cults, we’d all be way to canny to fall prey to them. In this episode, we talk about why we still get pulled into the seductive lure of cults, and how social media, especially wellness and mommy influencers, provide fertile algorithmic ground for cultish ideology.

Highlights:
[0:00] Mark tells CoRri about the unsolved murder of Artemus Ogletree

[15:10] We catch up a little, ponder on some potential weird episodes of JoAG, and have a little cultural exchange over the phrase “full of beans”

[25:50] We switch things up and THIS is where we talk about what we watched!

[55:00] It’s time to spin the wheel of justice and find out what Mark will be watching for his next video rant

[59:30] Mark provides a psychic reading to each of our ko-fi supporters

[72:12] It’s time to talk about cults

Stuff we referenced:

• Om-ing by the Beach With Andrew Keegan, Former Teen Idol Turned Spiritual Guru - https://www.vulture.com/2015/03/andrew-keegan-encounter.html
• One of the Stars of ’10 Things I Hate About You’ Started a Religion – https://www.vice.com/en/article/mv55wa/andrew-keegan-started-a-new-religion-814
• Wellness Mommy Bloggers and the Cultish Language They Use – https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a36595860/wellness-mommy-bloggers-and-the-cultish-language-they-use/
• Here’s How A “Poop Cult” With 58,000 Followers Set Off A Facebook War – https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nidhisubbaraman/facebook-jilly-juice-cabbage-epperly
• Woman Who Claims Cabbage Juice ‘Cures’ Autism and Can Regrow Limbs to Be Probed by Officials – https://www.newsweek.com/jillian-mai-thi-epperly-claims-cabbage-juice-cures-autism-homosexuality-and-909737

This week Mark’s doctor gave him some pills to help him with his sleeping problem, which got him thinking about how lucky we are to live at a time when we can be prescribed a pill rather than experiencing some of the horrendous historical treatments for mental illness we discuss in this episode.

Highlights:
[0:00] CoRri tells Mark about the Neubauer twin experiments

[21:45] We talk about anxiety surrounding the events unfolding in Ukraine and what it means to be living in “interesting times”

[39:00] We discuss our watch-along and Christian Bale’s inscrutable accent

[51:26] What we watched!

[75:30] The medication Mark was given to sleep has him thinking about historical treatments for mental illness

Stuff we referenced:

• The twins of Auschwitz – https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30933718
• CSUF professor’s book sheds light on a mid-century scandal – https://www.ocregister.com/2021/11/05/csuf-professors-book-sheds-light-on-a-mid-century-scandal/
• Three Identical Strangers: Was the twin separation study ethical? – https://www.newscientist.com/article/2208369-three-identical-strangers-was-the-twin-separation-study-ethical/
• A U.S. Science Experiment that Deliberately Separated Jewish Identical Twins from Birth – https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/a-u-s-science-experiment-that-deliberately-separated-jewish-identical-twins-from-birth-b7ce8deaca4f
• ‘Three Identical Strangers’: It’s not too late to address the ethical violations – https://www.statnews.com/2019/02/07/three-identical-strangers-address-ethical-violations/
• Twins reveal horror of being separated at birth — and for years after – https://nypost.com/2021/12/11/twins-reveal-horror-of-study-that-kept-them-apart-for-decades/
• Lessons From a Controversial Study That ‘Deliberately Divided’ Twins – https://news.fullerton.edu/2021/10/lessons-from-a-controversial-study-that-deliberately-divided-twins/
• 60 Years On, Twin/Triplet Study Still Raises Questions – https://www.medpagetoday.com/psychiatry/generalpsychiatry/80829
• Records from controversial twin study sealed at Yale until 2065 – https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2018/10/01/records-from-controversial-twin-study-sealed-at-yale-until-2065/

Jack of All Graves came about as a result of a super chance interaction on twitter a decade ago, a coincidence that blows CoRri’s mind and leads us into a discussion of some of the wild coincidences that have happened on and around our planet, from life-saving flight changes to multiple atomic bombing survivals.

Highlights:
[0:00] Mark tells CoRri the tale of the Kentucky Meat Shower of 1876
[12:44] This introduction is all over the place. Just sit back and enjoy the ride.
[24:40] The book club schedule is up, along with an amazing discount from our partner indie bookstore! Check out http://www,jackofallgraves.com/bookclub for all the info! Plus, we’ve recorded a special Snack of All Graves reacting to the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie which will be up on our YouTube and our Ko-Fi free to all!
[28:52] Somehow we’re watching Reign of Fire for our watch-along this weekend, which leads to a discussion of whether dragon movies inherently suck.
[38:42] What we watched!
[49:50] We discuss the crazy random happenstance of coincidences.

Stuff we referenced:

• The Story of Violet Constance Jessop – https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/titanic/stories/violet-constance-jessop.htm
• The daughter of Irish immigrants who survived the Titanic, Britannic, and Olympic disasters – https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/violet-jessop-disasters
• Violet Constance Jessop – https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-survivor/violet-constance-jessop.htm
• Robert Todd Lincoln and Presidential Assassiations – https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/robert-todd-lincoln-and-presidential-assassiations-not-formal-title.htm
• “A Certain Fatality”: Robert Todd Lincoln and Presidential Assassinations – http://werehistory.org/robert-todd-lincoln/
• If You Are Hit By Two Atomic Bombs, Should You Have Kids? – https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2012/07/17/156915881/if-you-are-hit-by-two-atomic-bombs-should-you-have-kids
• The Man Who Survived Two Atomic Bombs – https://www.history.com/news/the-man-who-survived-two-atomic-bombs

From a discussion of the time that Hawaiians ganked British explorer Captain James Cook, to trying to grapple with whether it makes any sense at all for a good god to allow horrific suffering to exist in the world, today on JoAG we’re in the business of destroying gods.

Highlights:
[0:00] CoRri tells Mark the complicated story of the killing of English explorer Captain Cook

[21:40] We talk about why we’re late with the ‘cast this week and Mark’s newfound struggle with insomnia

[33:40] We talk about Mark’s new video rant, our book club, and the next watch-along!

[43:00] What we watched!

[69:18] This week’s “Frightgeist,” as our friend Ben so lovingly dubbed this section of the ‘cast: We’re talking about terrible diseases that afflict human beings and how Christians reconcile a good god with immense suffering.

• Stuff we referenced:
  Why Does God Allow Suffering? (Cru) – https://www.cru.org/us/en/train-and-grow/life-and-relationships/hardships/why-does-god-allow-suffering.html
• Why Does God Allow Suffering? (Focus on the Family) – https://www.focusonthefamily.com/parenting/family-spiritual-growth/answering-our-kids-questions-why-does-god-allow-suffering/
• Death of Captain Cook – Hawaii Alive – https://hawaiialive.org/death-of-captain-cook/
• How Do You Kill a God? On Captain Cook’s Ill-Fated Arrival in Hawaii – https://lithub.com/how-do-you-kill-a-god-on-captain-cooks-ill-fated-arrival-in-hawaii/
• Encountering history: ‘Discovery’ and ‘Resolution’ revisited – https://www.bl.uk/the-voyages-of-captain-james-cook/articles/encountering-history-discovery-and-resolution-revisited
• Captain Cook in Hawaii – The National Archives – https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/captain-cook-in-hawaii/
• Hawaiian History: How Captain Cook Met His End – https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/travel/arts-culture/hawaiian-history-how-captain-cook-met-his-end/
• Captain Cook killed in Hawaii – https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/captain-cook-killed-in-hawaii
• Captain Cook’s 1768 Voyage to the South Pacific Included a Secret Mission – https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/captain-cooks-1768-voyage-south-pacific-included-secret-mission-180970119/
• The Demise Of Captain Cook – http://www.coffeetimes.com/cook.htm

Inspired by a story posted in our Facebook group, we decided to look into freak accidents where people’s bum luck got them into horrific situations — from a projectile bear through the windshield to an air hose up the rectum.

Highlights:

[0:00] Mark tells CoRri about the horrifying effects of an industrial chemical leak in Bhopal, India

[19:20] We announce our first Snack of All Graves episode with our pal Anna Martin!

[29:30] We give our Ko-fi shout outs and pick the movie for Mark’s first video rant! Wanna get in on any of this action? Subscribe to our Ko-fi! All the spooky kids are doing it!

[40:46] It’s the what we watched part!

[69:00] We chat about freak accidents — the bonkers ones people survive and the mundane ones that somehow end them.

• Stuff we referenced:
  ‘Bhopal’s tragedy has not stopped’: the urban disaster still claiming lives 35 years on – https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/dec/08/bhopals-tragedy-has-not-stopped-the-urban-disaster-still-claiming-lives-35-years-on
• Woman who lost her forehead in 120mph car crash ‘still recovering’ 14 years on – https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/woman-who-lost-forehead-120mph-24998237
• The Incredible True Story Of Carlos Rodrigues, The Man With Half A Brain – https://www.scoopwhoop.com/culture/true-story-of-carlos-rodrigues-man-with-half-a-brain/
• Forthman Murff – Chainsaw Decapitation Survival – https://whereistheline.net/2018/09/07/ep-4-forthman-murff-chainsaw-decapitation-survival/
• He’s A Lumberjack, And He’s (Somehow) Okay – http://dehraduntown.blogspot.com/2014/06/hes-lumberjack-and-hes-somehow-okay.html
• Dishwasher Fall Kills Woman – https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/may/29/kirstyscott
• ‘Lucky to be alive:’ Huntsville man suffers electric shock while charging iPhone – https://www.al.com/news/huntsville/2017/04/huntsville_man_survives_1_in_a.html
• Shooting film Boiling Point in a single take was ‘zen’, Stephen Graham says – https://www.breakingnews.ie/entertainment/shooting-film-boiling-point-in-a-single-take-was-zen-stephen-graham-says-1243177.html

In a moment of drunken fixation, Mark pitched the idea of a full episode dedicated to his favorite subject: Head trauma! And more specifically, decapitation. It is bad things that can happen to noggins from start to finish, so buckle in and hold on to your heads!

Highlights:
[0:00] CoRri tells Mark the story of Phineas Gage, the man who survived a metal rod exploding through his brain

[17:09] We recap this week’s watch-along and talk about our upcoming Ko-fi side-‘sode with Leprechaun franchise historian Anna Martin

[33:19] We dive into our main topic by talking about our favorite onscreen decapitations and beheadings

[1hr1min] Mark talks about some of the decapitation stories that most interest him, from samurai seppuku to self-decapitation

Stuff we referenced:

• Samurai Suicide: Seppuku (Harakiri) – https://jpninfo.com/41352
• Decapitated wasp grabs its head before flying away – https://youtu.be/_LmdmltW-XU
• The Phineas Gage Story – https://www.uakron.edu/gage/story.dot
• “No longer Gage”: an iron bar through the head – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1114479/
• Phineas Gage and the effect of an iron bar through the head on personality – https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2010/nov/05/phineas-gage-head-personality
• Living With Half a Brain: Phineas Gage – https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/history/living-half-brain-phineas-gage
• Phineas Gage: Neuroscience’s Most Famous Patient – https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/phineas-gage-neurosciences-most-famous-patient-11390067/
• Ostrich rips its own head off – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34du9ew7ppw

This week we decided to just shoot the breeze about our lives, so CoRri suggests discussing the economic classes we grew up in and how they made us who we are. Mutual aid is everything, people!

Highlights:

[0:00] Mark tells CoRri about an odd series of similar suicides in Japan

[13:35] We dive right into a tangent about imagining what strangers are doing on the bus and what debts Bruce Willis has that are informing his movie choices

[22:30] Updates on our Ko-fi, book club, and watch-along.

[33:50] We talk about what we’ve watched, but we’re saving Scream for the end of the ‘cast so we don’t spoil it for anyone

[1hr1min] We chat a bit about our different experiences of economic class in our respective countries

[1hr33] The spoilery Scream review!

A guy who received the first pig-to-human heart transplant set Mark off on a journey this week, and we all benefit from his hyperfixation on the history of transfusions, transplants, and putting monkey balls where they absolutely should not be.

Highlights:

[0:00] CoRri tells Mark about the mindset of people who climb Mt. Everest and about the problem of all the dead bodies up there.

[20:00] Mark declares Coronavirus over, we thank you all for the birthday wishes you sent to Mark’s son Owen, and introduce our brand new Ko-Fi page! Go subscribe! http://www.ko-fi.com/jackofallgraves 

[37:24] It’s time to talk about what we watched!

[57:00] Mark discusses the mad scientists who’ve attempted to use animals in human medical procedures from blood transfusions to heart transplants.

Inspired by a photo from last week’s conversation about Thalidomide, we’re discussing the wild world of prosthetics throughout history, what disability means, and better living through body augmentation.

Highlights:

[0:00] Mark gives a very affecting lesson on why you shouldn’t keep wild animals as pets

[17:10] CoRri is kind of on holiday in the Hawaiian Twin Peaks

[26:16] We talk a bit about wrasslin’ and why everyone should be watching it

[33:20] John Carpenter’s The Thing is the zeitgeist this week, and we talk about the other 1980s horror flicks we consumed over the past few days

[57:00] We look at various prosthetic technologies throughout history

It's a brand new year, and with it comes, well, some of the same old anxieties. We're diving deep into what makes us nervous in 2022, but cutting it with some movie talk and some optimistic thoughts about capybaras.

Highlights:

[0:00] CoRri tells Mark about the devastatingly dangerous 1950s morning sickness cure, Thalidomide

[17:50] We talk about our attitudes toward the new year and go on quite a spiral about capybaras

[31:50] Mark’s annual new year’s dead pool takes a shocking plot twist. Plus, our next book club is January 22nd and our next watch-along is January 29th, so mark your calendars!

[50:20] We face a rare disagreement in the types of movies we like to watch

[1hr8:30] We discuss what we’re anxious about in 2022, and why we respond differently to Don’t Look Up. (we get past talking about the movie specifically at 1hr16)

We’re keeping it real festive this post-Christmas week with a deep dive into the circle of life, starting with a discussion of the ways in which evolution does wild things to keep organisms alive, and journeying on to a chat about how steadfastly committed humans are to ending other humans’ lives in creative ways.

Highlights:

[0:00] The wild spread of Omicron has Mark thinking about all the ways in which life finds an evolutionary way — from Inuit Ketosis to viral mutations.

[17:15] We talk about what the fuck is up with Kermit the Frog’s voice, our Christmas experiences

[29:20] We discuss what we watched this week, complete with a tangent on why weird looking actors like Benedict Cumberbatch and Adam Driver are proof we should have more body diversity in Hollywood

[52:40] We opened by talking about how life finds a way, but we’re spending the rest of the episode talking about things people have created in order to kill other people.

This week we’re following up on a viewing assignment from last week with Silent Night, and we’re talking about whether or not miracles are all around us (after a cold open about whatever the exact opposite of a medical miracle is).

Highlights:
[0:00} CoRri tells Mark about the medical mystery of the Toxic Lady. Thanks to Ryan Joiner for the story tip!

[21:00] Mark wants jingle bells in our theme tune, we are in the liminal Christmas space and have all the anxiety… but watch CoRri’s Wisecrack writing debut about Hallmark Christmas movies! Plus, book club is coming after the holidays, and perhaps we’ll do a post-Christmas watch-along? Aaaand Omicron is even more of a buzzkill!

[38:00] We talk about what we’ve watched this week, CoRri’s nightmare Spider-Man viewing experience, and the potential repercussions of studios catering the content of films too much to the audience in order to get butts in seats.

[1hr] We get into a spoilery discussion of Silent Night, the movie we tasked our listeners with watching this week

[1hr15] We discuss some supposed modern miracles, what other explanations might exist, and whether we’re too wrapped up in scientism to allow that there might be some things science can’t explain

Every day folks post bananas stories about the world in our Facebook group. This week we delve a little further into some of the incredible things that have come across our group, from dog exorcisms to suicide pods.

Highlights:

[0:00] Mark shares some terrifying AI… art?

[12:00] We explain where the fuck we’ve been, thank you all for your Spotify Wrapped posts

[25:20] We check in on the state of Covid in the UK

[32:30] We dive into what we’ve watched the past two weeks and CoRri explains what you can and can’t show on television in the U.S.

[57:00] We sift through some of the bonkers stories that people have posted in our facebook group

In an epic Jack of All Graves/Dead and Lovely crossover event, Hollywood Steve is here to talk with us about his reproductive organs! Make sure you check out Dead & Lovely episode #242 on Wednesday to hear the three of us talk about the cannibal horror western “Ravenous.”

Highlights:

[0:00] Mark tells CoRri and Steve the story of Jean Hilliard, the woman who froze solid and lived to talk about it

[14:00] We introduce Hollywood Steve and get going with some cultural exchange as we discuss eating habits in the UK, the American South, and on the U.S. coasts.

[36:00] Onto what we’ve watched! We also chat about our lockdown lives and trauma.

[59:00] We talk about Steve’s massive vas deferens and why it caused his doctor some deep psychological scars during his vasectomy.

[1hr14min] We briefly talk about some ridiculous historical birth control methods and bad vasectomies

The time has finally arrived for us to ask JoAG’s resident boffin, Eileen Marks-Nelson, some of our listeners’ weirdest science questions! If you’ve ever wondered how vampires get it up, or how long you’re alive after decapitation, or whether it’s possible there’s a branch of human evolution that turned into merpeople, you’re in the right place!

Highlights:
[0:00] CoRri tells Mark about the infamous Australian “shark arm case.” Thanks to Jason Chodera for the tip!

[16:55] We briefly discuss some weird and probably not real legal loopholes to keep out of trouble, and Mark is unimpressed by the concept of the pot luck.

[27:00] We talk about what we watched this week

[52:50] Brief One Night in Soho spoiler

[54:30] Spoilers over! We discuss how supernatural horror movies are too often ruined by twist endings

[1hr4min] We bring Eileen on to answer our “science” questions

Let’s be real: It can feel to all of us like the end is nigh, but we mean that in an ambiguous sense generally. For some folks, though, they’re pretty sure there’s a concrete date when all this is over. We’re looking at who some of those people are, and what they do when the date comes and goes without incident.

Highlights:
[0:00] Mark explains the process that will occur when the Queen kicks the bucket… which he’s pretty sure is gonna happen this week

[19:36] We discuss how we deal with the darkness of this time of year and talk through our latest watch-along

[30:50] We need your questions for our boffin! Also, CoRri’s house is mayhem

[35:00] It’s the what we watched segment

[49:20] We end up on a short diversion about the guy who went to space with William Shatner and then died in a small plane crash weeks later

[52:00] We discuss people who have prophesied specific dates for the end of the world

An absolutely tragic and horrendous news story out of the UK has sexual deviance in the news, but not all unusual sexual desires are created equal. This week we’re delving into the difference between paraphilic disorders and paraphilias, and looking at some actually kind of nice ways people get turned on.

Highlights:

[0:00] CoRri tells Mark about the Great Molasses Flood of 1919

[20:00] We come in hot with an off-topic rant about Chris Pratt

[25:50] We put the watch-along poll up, and we talk about receiving our inaugural one-star review

[31:30] It’s the what-we-watched segment (plus something Mark’s reading!)

[55:00] Mark talks about the horrific murder and necrophilia case that’s rocking the UK, and we talk about the difference between paraphilic disorders and paraphilias more broadly.

Halloween and Dia De Los Muertos have us thinking about death, so we're talking this week about ways in which people try to keep the memories of their dead loved ones alive, and how we deal with our own grief when it comes to loss. 

Highlights:
[0:00] Mark tells CoRri about some Halloween tragedies

[15:00] CoRri corrects her Bella in the Wych Elm story from last week’s cold open

[21:40] We talk about setting a book club date and our next watch-along, which will be Saturday, November 13th! Plus, we discuss library fines and video stores

[33:00] We get into what we watched this week

[1hr8:45] We talk about the ways people memorialize the dead, how we deal with remembering our own lost loved ones, and how we’d like to be remembered

It’s a gruesome but uplifting conversation. This week we’re discussing horrific accidents people have experienced that did incredible trauma to their bodies, and why their survival is kinda inspiring.

[0:00] Mark and CoRri visited the Wychbury Monument last week. CoRri explains the cryptic graffiti on its face, and the probably false but very entertaining story behind it.

[19:29] CoRri processes what the fuck was happening with the UK’s covid situation

[29:55] We take the rare time to talk about current events, including bodies found in the search for Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie, and the tragic death of director of photography Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust.

[45:40] Mark’s son Owen joins us to talk about Arachnophobia

[58:10] We dive into what we’ve watched this week

[1hr17] Mark continues his quest to be on a watchlist by expressing his glee at the impending death of the Queen

[1hr22] We discuss the absolutely devastating physical trauma the human body can endure and manage to recover from

It has finally happened! Your intrepid hosts have met in the real world and we're taking you along for the journey. Plus, it's the first ever episode edited by Mark! (Apologies for the echoey audio. The hotel room was HUGE.)

00:00: Mark welcomes Corri into the physical realm

03:58: We explore Corri’s first impressions of the United Kingdom

15:30: We discuss the week’s watches, Chasing Niagara, TCM: the next generation, Halloween II

26:00: We’re joined briefly by Morgan Freeman

31:55: Fresh out of a release-day showing of Halloween Kills, we pick the movie apart and chat through what worked and what didn’t for us- this will, of course, feature huge spoilers for the movie- spoilers kick in at 35:40

45:09: We think hard about the risks of making the leap from Zoom to meeting up in person

48:30: We chat about some long-distance meetings that didn’t go so well

Hey friends. Wanna hang out? Let’s just kick up our feet and talk about some movies and stuff. It’s spooky season after all, and we’re but a week out from our very first in-person JoAG. Come have a seat on our podcast couch and chill.

Highlights:

[0:00] We shoot the breeze about Mark’s habit of buffering, non-lethal weapons, and other topics of great importance

[8:00] We get into what we’ve been watching, bangers and bummers alike

[14:30] Midnight Mass spoilers!!

[22:00] No more spoilers! It’s safe to pass!

A friend of the ‘cast mentioned that crimes that happen in rural locations are often much more interesting than the humdrum every day incidents in big cities, so we took a look at some stories that could only happen in those wide open spaces.

Highlights:
[0:00] Mark tells CoRri about people who feel compelled to eat non-edible things

[15:00] Mark’s kid probably has Covid, we’re obsessed with the new theme Halloween Kills theme song by Ghost, Hunter’s Moon, and the Child’s Play Cinematic Universe is more impressive than people give it credit for

[34:40] The results of our experiment about playground songs

[38:25] We talk about some interesting crimes that could only happen in the more rural parts of the world

Sometimes the quest for secret knowledge leads to some pretty bizarre beliefs. We’re delving into a few conspiracy theories and their larger consequences in the world.

Highlights:
[0:00] Mark tells CoRri about extra-sensory perception… but not that kind

[19:25] We get right into a little cultural exchange discussing the phrase “you’re welcome” and where we keep our household appliances.

[33:12] Thanks to our book clubbers, thanks to our Apple podcast reviewers! Buy the next book club book at Gibson’s Bookstore or your own local bookstore or get it from the library! Fuck Jeff Bezos!

[35:50] We discuss Mark’s new tattoo and why we keep going back to such a painful process

[45:55] It’s the weekly movie discussion segment!

[1hr] We get into a discussion about conspiracy theory, why people believe them, and a few specific ones that interest us

Sometimes you just have to laugh at death and the chaotic and humiliating ways in which it strikes.

Highlights:
[0:00] CoRri tells Mark about the Donner Party

[22:45] We have some announcements, including book club on September 25th and a VERY special milestone episode on October 16th!

[33:40] We discuss the wild week in movies we’ve just had

[54:00] We talk about the poetry of a stupid death, and share some of our favorites

As we’ve said time and time again, there’s no end to the horrors of nature. This week we’re delving into the wild ways members of the animal kingdom have evolved and learned to defend themselves against predators and unwanted advances.

Highlights:
[0:00] Mark tries to convince terrified-flyer CoRri that sometimes plane crashes can be funny

[12:55] Mark’s got a new positive character arc for season 2 of JoAG, and CoRri’s basement is still garbage. But hey! Go write us a review on Apple podcasts! US store | UK store

[23:30] We get into the movies we’ve watched this week

[43:00] There are a lot of bonkers way animals defend themselves in the wild, and we want to talk about them

Don’t forget to check out the info on our book club on our website! We’re meeting September 25th to talk about A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay!

It’s been a rough week as Tropical Storm Ida left CoRri swimming in her basement. We get into what it’s like to weather a natural disaster, and then we’re joined by Tara Court of The Killening podcast and horror/sci-fi author David Court to talk about FrightFest and the new movies you should be looking out for.

Highlights:

[0:00] CoRri forgot to research a cold open because her house flooded in Tropical Storm Ida

[16:56] We recap our watch-along and ask for your questions for our favorite boffin

[26:30] We discuss what we’ve watched this week

[36:00] We’re joined by podcaster/radio host Tara Court and author David Court to discuss Frightfest

[1hr17] Do movies have to be seen in the theater to be enjoyed properly?

Mark is drunk. CoRri is tired. This is our one year anniversary ramble about vacations, movies, why the world is a giant mess, and why we still need each other and the JoAg fam.

Highlights:

[0:00] The wild disarticulated feet of British Columbia

[18:25] Mark pops some champagne to celebrate one year of JoAG

[23:00] We discuss our respective trips to Knoxvillle, TN and the Isle of Wight

[36:20] We get into what we’ve watched this week

[1hr3] Mark has a book rec, we have a book club, and our next watch-along is Saturday!

[1hr7] We reflect on the state of our world and why we still need JoAG

We’ve both been doing a lot of hiking lately, and given the kind of people we are, that obviously raises an important question: What are the various ways in which you can die while on a hike?

Highlights:
[0:00] CoRri tells Mark the story of the town that murdered a man

[18:30] CoRri is causing mass psychogenic illness and we don’t know if there are giraffes in Sri Lanka

[25:30] State of the Pod: We talk about exploitative true crime podcasts and whether we actually are one

[35:30] We discuss blackface and the limits of punching up in media

[43:20] Check out our book club and don’t forget to get your hands on a copy of Blood Vessel for our September 4th watch-along

[47:30] We watched Till Death this week. It prompts a conversation about the no-cell-phone trope in movies

[56:00] We talk about the many ways you can die while hiking, from serial killers to carbon monoxide

Some toys are horrifying because they’re simply unsettling; others are horrifying because they maim and even kill. We’re taking a look at some memorable offenders of both kinds.

[0:00] CoRri answer Mark’s question from several weeks ago: Is there a disorder that can make you fearless?

[23:00] We jump straight into some JoAG therapy. We’re having a hard time, friends, but we’re doing our best.

[29:15] To top off our own personal issues, we discuss some terrible news from the UK about a mass shooting and terrible news from the earth about

[37:50] We haven’t watched much this week, but one of those things was Robocop and we take a little bit to rave about it, as well as chat a bit about SurrealEstate and a good monster-of-the-week story.

[52:48] We talk about nightmare toys.

While Mark might be quick to point out that 1, 2, Freddy’s coming for you, turns out there are all kinds of other things to fear about sleeping besides guys with knife hands — from sleep paralysis demons to insomnia that literally kills.

Highlights:
[0:00] Am I a psychopath? Are you? Mark has one (bullshit) question to help you find out

[11:45] Welcoming Mark back from vacation causes us to spiral into talking about the nightmare of living in America

[21:30] We have a bit of cultural exchange about cheese, tacos, and how to pronounce “Anthony”

[26:18] CoRri hasn’t been sleeping and Mark doesn’t understand insomnia

[32:00] We have a book club coming! Join us Saturday, ,August 14th, 2021 @ 8pm GMT, 3pm EST, noon PDT to discuss The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires. Follow our socials for the Zoom link to come!

[35:30] Time to discuss what we’ve watched. Spoiler alert: We really love James Gunn.

[54:00] We get into some really terrible sleep disorders we’re super glad we don’t seem to have…yet.

[1hr25] Mark circles back to the questions from the cold open.

Mark’s on a camping trip, so the inimitable Kristin Latourelle joins Corrigan to discuss their shared evangelical past and the very, very thin — possibly non-existent — line between mainstream Christianity and a cult. It’s a long one, so, y’know, use the time stamps.

Highlights:
[0:00] CoRri tells Kristin the story of Ursula and Sabina Eriksson and their strange case of folie à deux.

[20:00] CoRri welcomes back Kristin and we announce a little book club we’re doing in conjunction with The Laydown podcast. We’re reading The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix. Hit us up on social media if you want to be a part of it!

[26:50] We reflect on what we’ve watched this week.

[39:30] We came here to talk about Jesus… or, okay. His followers. Is there really a difference between the mainstream church and a cult? We’re not so sure.

This week we’re diving into torture, whether state sanctioned or the work of criminal elements like cartels and serial killers.

Highlights:

[0:00] CoRri talks about the tragic and terrifying Lake Nyos disaster

[16:40] Mark issues and episode content warning for descriptions of torture, we re-introduce our wonderful guest, Hollywood Steve of the Dead and Lovely podcast, and we talk about Mark’s need for sensory input that drove this week’s choice of topic.

[28:55] We recap our watch-along and talk about what we’ve been watching this week.

[53:18] A detour into the cultural dystopia of the late ’90s and early aughts inspired by HBO Max’s new Woodstock ’99 documentary.

[1hr2mins] We talk about whether humans are the only animal that tortures, and what kinds of torture have existed and currently exist.

This week we’ve been sending news headlines back and forth to each other, so we thought we’d share some of the world’s weirdness with you -- from the death of a real tall horse to Anthony Bourdain's AI voice and beyond. 

Highlights:

[0:00] Mark loves Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark

[11:00] A listener witnessed someone actually getting stuck in quicksand!

[18:00] We remind everyone we’re watching Fright Night (1985) over Discord Saturday, July 24th @8pm GMT, 3pm EST, 12pm PDT. Plus, CoRri watched Near Dark.

[22:00] We get into what we’ve watched this week. Mark even watched one of CoRri’s recs!

[34:30] Mark went and saw the new Purge movie, so we discuss what we’d do in a Purge society

[44:00] Just for fun, we blast through some stuff in the news that’s caught our attention this week, from garden shelters built from teeth to bed snakes to disembodied feet to Anthony Bourdain’s AI voice from beyond the grave

Mark wondered about the connection between suffering/oppression and innovation/progress, so we explore whether these things are inherently connected.

Highlights:

[0:00] CoRri tells Mark about the phenomenon of mass psychogenic illness, and it turns out Mark has experienced it

[22:50] Not to harp on this soccer thing, but boy does it bring out the worst in the UK. Still, CoRri got kind of into it. Plus, a reminder that July 24th is our vampire watch-along and you should vote in the poll for what to watch on Twitter!

[33:00] Our weekly chat about what horror movies we’ve been watching

[51:15] We discuss whether suffering is necessary for progress, or whether history has simply made us complacent to it

Somehow Mark got it into his head that we could do a 10-15 minute mini-sode in which we discussed the movies we watched this week, but you’ve all listened to this podcast, so it’ll come as no surprise to you that we spent an hour on it.

Highlights:

[0:00] We talk about a couple terrible murder cases out of the UK

[16:15] We explain why we missed Sunday, we talk about Mark’s terrible idea for our one year anniversary episode, and we discuss how impressionable CoRri is

[24:30] Our intended main event of this episode, we talk about the movies we’ve watched int he past week and a half

CoRri’s been thinking lately about what fear is, and why some things break through the fear callous we’ve built up over the years and send us running to pull the covers over our heads, so we discuss our biggest fears and what our brains are doing when they hit us.

Highlights:

[0:00] Mark discusses the inhospitable, deadly landscape of Australia and does some VERY aggressive Australian accent work

[14:27] Mark is super into Alita: Battle Angel and CoRri learns the word “nonce”

[20:40] We’re heading towards one year of JoAG and want suggestions for what we should do to celebrate. We also want suggestions for vampire movies for our next watch-along! Plus, we have another leech cock story

[27:20] It’s the weekly segment where we chat about what horror movies we watched. Also, we debate whether Michael Myers should have killed a baby

[37:09] Mark insists I time stamp his Elm Street rant, so here’s his time stamp

[41:50] Back to the movies we’ve watched!

[54:52] We talk about what fear is, what scares us, how that applies to movies we watch and books we read, and how horror movies vaccinate us against fear

An ex-vangelical and a Satanist walk into a podcast....

HIGHLIGHTS:

[0:00] CoRri tells Mark about primary amebic meningoencephalitis — otherwise known as brain-eating amoebas

[16:50] We recap our amazing boatcore watch-along and the wonderful movies we watched this week

[29:00] Mark shares a listener story and we talk about whether there’s some cosmic connection that allows us to know something has happened before we’re told about it

[37:30] We get into our main topic, Satanic Panic and what real Satanism actually is

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Whether it’s fires on sets, cast member deaths, or IRA bombs, some movies just seem to draw catastrophe. Some people would even say they’re cursed. I mean, we wouldn’t, but some people would. Let’s chat about them.

Highlights:

[0:00] Mark tells CoRri about some nightmarish types of cysts

[14:02] Mark wonders about what our listeners are doing while listening to us, and we discuss our upcoming boatcore watch-along. We’re watching Ghost Ship on June 19th at noon PDT/3pm EST/8pm GMT on our Discord: https://discord.com/invite/HuBTacyn5Y

[20:25] Our weekly chat about what we’ve been watching

[43:35] We discuss films commonly described as cursed and how they got those reputations: Poltergeist, The Wizard of Oz, The Exorcist, and The Omen

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As happens from time to time, we had a plan for where this episode was going, and then it happened very differently from that plan. So, this week, we have Mark’s big brother on the ‘cast to talk about sinkholes, movie demons, and his deep love for Hereditary. It’s a meander, but it’s a heartfelt one.

[0:00] CoRri unintentionally channels one of Mark’s most primal fears when she decides to tell him about sinkholes

[14:50] Mark’s brother Alan is here!

[21:45] We talk about the next watch-along happening on June 19th on our Discord!

[23:30] A strange crossover jersey confuses us, and we discuss Andy Muschietti’s Michael Keaton instagram drop.

[32:50] We go through what we watched this week IN DEPTH, including why we hated the new Saw movie

[54:20] The Conjuring 3 gets us talking about demons in movies, and Alan gives a beautiful and impassioned defense of Hereditary which fails to move CoRri’s cold heart

Freak accidents happen, sure, and sometimes you take every precaution and tragedies still unfold… but that’s not what happened in the stories we’re telling today. This week we discuss deaths on movie sets and the hubris of the filmmakers who caused them.

Highights:

[0:00] Marks talks about the time he was an extra in an unreleased movie filmed in a sex dungeon

[8:36] We talk about the lively facebook discussion that ensued from last week’s episode and announce our next watch-along genre: BOATCORE!

[19:30] We talk about what we’ve been watching lately, which leads to a discussion of our love for theatergoing, a rant about people lying about a movie to get you to watch it, and a lot of other tangents.

[49:30] Our main topic: Tragedies on film sets.

We’re in the mood to fight each other this week, whether over the merits of the Hellboy remake, or rehashing one of our earlier debates about addiction. We know each other better now, so the gloves are off. In this whirlwind episode, topics span from a cursed lake and America’s civil war, to the trouble with Zack Snyder, to whether an affinity for getting high is a mammalian impulse — and if so, what that means.

[0:00] CoRri tells Mark about America’s most cursed lake and fields a surprising question about state’s rights.

[24:23] We discuss what might be JoAG’s legacy in the annals of time

[29:30] We recap our Discord watch-along of Thirteen Ghosts, the film’s awards showings, and Mark’s desire for his own theme song

[37:30] We rehash the other things we’ve watched this week, talk about why Dave Bautista is weirdly adorable, and compare the pitfalls of Zack Snyder and Christopher Nolan films

[53:00] We fanboy/fangirl out about Robert Englund and his upcoming role in Stranger Things

[58:00] An hour into the ‘cast, we consider just NOT talking about the thing we were gonna talk about, but then power through to discuss whether animals’ penchant for getting high reflects some greater mammalian tendency toward drug use. This leads. to us revisiting a discussion we had in a previous episode about addiction, but MUCH more aggressively because we know each other well enough to bicker now

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We live in the age of memes and mass media, so we all know that some ideas are especially contagious. In this episode, we delve into the phenomenon of suicide clusters and the media’s culpability in spawning copycats.

[0:00] Where have all the soundtracks gone? Mark laments the loss of the title banger from eighties and nineties horror movies.

[12:25] A reminder to watch Thirteen Ghosts with us on the 22nd of May [join our Discord to take part! https://discord.com/invite/HuBTacyn5Y; we also talk about stuff that’s gone down in the Facebook group, including that strange slot in the back of medicine cabinets, creepy etsy finds, and street creature performance art in Wales.

[22:30] We talk about what we’ve been watching, the villain monologue trope, and the joys of singing in the car.

[36:20] We discuss suicide clusters and experiences with the suicides of people close to us, and what the media could do to prevent copycats.

[1hr13] Mark closes us out on a joke.

• NHS: Help for Suicidal Thoughts – https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/feelings-symptoms-behaviours/behaviours/help-for-suicidal-thoughts/
• Samaritans (UK) – https://www.samaritans.org/
• Mind (Mental Health Charity) – https://www.mind.org.uk/
• Suicide Prevention Resource Guide (U.S.) – https://www.healthline.com/health/mental-health/suicide-resource-guide

We’ve got one of CoRri’s childhood besties, Duncan Newton-Gaines, on the show this week to help Mark initiate CoRri into a love-hate relationship with the tragic, awesome, exploitative, magical art of pro wrestling.

[0:00] CoRri explains why, if you think you have ghosts, it might not be ghosts. And you’re also probably the one leaving yourself those cryptic post-it notes, not your landlord.

[18:50] We introduce our guest, talk about why tattoos are great and fraught, and chat a little bit more about earthquakes

[29:00] We get into the movies we watched this week and the games Mark has been playing

[43:00] CoRri talks about her newfound love for AEW and we jump into discussing triumphs and tragedies in wrestling

This week we thought we’d delve into natural disasters, but it turns out we’re both preoccupied with the same phenomenon: Earthquakes.

[0:00] Mark tells the story of Franz Reichelt, the flying tailor.

[11:40] Mark and CoRri are SO bad at math, Mark listened to JoAG for the first time, and we’re ready for the next JoAG watch-along on May 22nd! Let us know any of your suggestions for “MTV horror” to watch.

[24:00] We go off on a tangent about censorship in the U.S. and U.K.

[36:50] We watched VFW, which leads us into a tangent about James Cameron, which leads us into a discussion of Mark’s role in a Titanic musical

[45:20] We share some terrible earthquake stories, and Mark concludes that there’s really only one natural disaster we really need to fear

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Unsurprisingly, Mark loves leaving his life in the hands of teenage ride operators at amusement parks, while CoRri takes a pass on that sort of thrill. This week we’re talking about horrific and haunting things that have happened to unsuspecting riders at parks around the U.K. and U.S.

[0:00] CoRri calls bullshit on local lore about New Jersey’s Ramapough Lenape people

[13:07] We revisit the Video Man and confirm guys slinging VHS bootlegs from their vans was a thing in the UK in the ’80s and ’90s.

[28:50] We have merch!

[33:00] We talk about what we watched this week and Mark poses a question to the audience about filmmaking

[47:00] We talk about horrific amusement park accidents

In April of 1989, 96 football fans were killed in a tragic crush at the FA Cup Final at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. In this episode, Dan Birtle tells us what happened and about his brother, David, who was among the victims.

(Sorry for the false starts with the uploads. If you see a 2.5 hour version of this, re-download for the proper version that DOESN'T repeat the episode over again at the end)

[0:00] AI brings back the creativity of dead musicians in the Lost Tapes of the 27 Club.

[10:23] Mark’s friend and colleague Dan joins us for our main topic, but first, we talk about what we’ve been watching lately.

[25:45] Dan tells us about the Hillsborough Disaster, in which 96 football fans were killed, and his personal connection to the tragedy.

[1hr15] We take a sudden turn into a conversation about Twister, Blockbuster, and nostalgia.

There are lots of terrible people who make good art. In this week’s episode, we discuss what kinds of terrible we tolerate, the mental gymnastics we do to excuse the artists we love, and where we draw the line.

Highlights:

[0:00] CoRri tells Mark about the mysterious Lady of the Dunes and her possible connection to the movie Jaws

[13:20] Mark eulogizes Prince Philip in the only way he knows how, we announce The Wicker Man is officially our watch-along movie (Discord link here!)

[20:15] We watched some pretty good remakes this week! We discuss the 2021 version of Wrong Turn and 2003’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning.

[33:50] We talk separating the art from the artist and how we determine what we can consume with a clean conscience and what goes in the bin.

You watch enough horror and true crime, you can't help but start to wonder -- could I commit the perfect crime? This week we discuss people who almost got away with murder, and how we'd do the dastardly deed. Hypothetically, of course.

[0:00] Mark talks about the shady Calico organization

[12:10] We talk Taskmaster, Mark dedicates the episode to Canada, and we tease this week's main topic

[21:40] We discuss the results of our watch-along poll so far and the movies we've watched this week.

[37:52] Could we commit the perfect murder? We outline our plans and leave it up to you to decide.

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America has a gun issue, but Mark and CoRri don't see it quite the same way. This week we talk about the complicated nature of a heavily armed populace.

[0:00] Mark tells CoRri the sordid tale of the most prolific female serial killer in history, Elizabeth Bathory.

[10:50] We announce the winner of our t-shirt contest and remind everyone once more to vote on our next JoAG Watch-Along for April 17th -- the hate watch!

[17:45] We discuss our further attempt to break our terrible movie watching streak and recommend a few worthwhile flicks, including the always classic Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2.

[29:30] Our main event: Guns. This week's cultural exchange revolves around guns in the U.S. and why Americans just can't seem to give 'em up.

Will the horrors never cease? From the horrors of internet illiteracy, to the horrors of invasive medical procedures, to the horrors of bad CGI, to the horrors of the artistic illegitimacy of horror -- we're just really working through a lot this week.

[0:00] We revisit Momo and talk about critical thinking and the internet

[13:40] Mark describes the horrifying experience of having an endoscopy and CoRri laments every day being exactly the same

[27:00] CoRri breaks down some movies she recommends, and we discuss our cosmic movie rut

[43:00] We pause our ranting for Mark to make a correction about Chuck Russell in the “Shit Mark Has Got Wrong” segment, which leads to a discussion of the proper use of CGI

[49:00] JoAG Watch-Along 4: The Hate Watch will take place Saturday, April 17th! Get your suggestions in on our FB, Twitter, or Instagram!

[51:35] We wonder why horror gets short shrift as a respectable genre

A big ol' content warning on this episode as we begin with a frank discussion of sexual harassment and the tragic murder of Sarah Everard. If that's a bit much, skip to 30 minutes in for some lighthearted discussion of the horror movies we've watched this week.

[0:00] CoRri recounts several instances of sexual harassment she's faced in public spaces and asks Mark to reckon with his role in changing things for women

[30:40] We recap the third JoAG watch-along, talk about why The Blob is great, and wonder where the hell Chuck Russell went

[39:00] We take a dive into the horror movies we've watched this week

[46:30] We talk Ghost, the invisible orange, "rescue songs" for working out, and CoRri's vaccine experience

If you've listened to the theme tune to any of the first 25 episodes of JoAG, you know CoRri's favorite genre of horror is spooky boats. But her fear of the ocean doesn't end there and neither does Mark's. In this episode, we delve into the many horrors lurking in and upon the deep blue sea.

[0:00] The Fermi Paradox has Mark feeling lonely and searching for alien life

[7:15] We get a plausible explanation for the Manchester drownings we attributed to a serial killer last week, talk about our current t-shirt contest, discuss our facebook poll for our upcoming watch-along, and chat about unhinged Zack Snyder fans.

[35:00] We get into all the things that terrify us about the ocean, from stepping on sea urchins and stingrays to ghost ships and goblin sharks.

[1hr15] We watched Mayhem and probably don't recommend it, and Murder Among the Mormons and absolutely do. Plus, Mark gets inside CoRri's theories about Rotten Tomatoes and movie accents.

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While we don't often shy away from the very dark, we've hesitated to talk about the topic of this week's episode: searching out photos and videos of gruesome things. We discuss our experiences seeing violence and death online and try to dissect WHY we can't help but look.

[0:00] Mark talks about a mysterious serial killer who may or may not be pushing people into the canals of Manchester

[9:20] CoRri grills mark about the definition of "pudding," we announce our new JoAG t-shirt giveaway contest, and we remind everyone to join us for our next watch-along on March 13th!

[22:30] We talk about the movies we've watched lately and the podcast CoRri is addicted to, Paradise.

[40:15] We have a confession to make: We've seen a lot of dead bodies on the interwebz. We're trying to understand why we can't help but look.

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This week CoRri explains to Mark how listening to Christian megastar Carman was a straight line to QAnon, we ponder whether there's such thing as "going too far" with art, and we question why the dark is sometimes super effing funny.

[0:00] Evangelical megastar Carman has died and CoRri has some thoughts.

[19:29] We get off to a bumpy start, and announce our next watch-along date: March 13th! Hit us up on Twitter/Insta/Facebook to suggest and vote on a remake we'll all watch together over Discord!

[26:45] We love Kevin Smith, but like, what's his deal right now?

[31:46] We talk about dark comedy, whether there's such thing as "going too far," and what pushes something from funny to too dark and damaged to funny again.

It's back to just Mark and CoRri this week, and that means it's time for some good old fashioned JoAG therapy. In this episode, we discuss kids who murder, why their existence is so jarring, and how we punish them.

A note of apology for Mark's audio in this episode, as Garageband swallowed CoRri's recording and we had to use the Zoom audio.

[0:00] Facebook content moderation is the worst job on earth

[16:50] Mark has a Phone Booth fan theory, a listener friend created some amazing JoAG art, and Mark forgets we've never met

[23:20] We discuss some flicks we've caught lately since we were so enamored with Hollywood Steve, we left you without any recs last week, and CoRri talks about anti-rich guy movies from the '90s.

[36:00] Is childhood sacred? Is that why it freaks us out when kids kill kids? And what should we do with kids who murder?

[1hr8min] Closing thoughts, shout outs, requests for input, and a reminder to drop us some stars and reviews!

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This week we're #blessed to be joined by Dead & Lovely's Hollywood Steve Spratling as we discuss the infamous Max Headroom signal interference incident and other acts of what Mark has dubbed "benign anarchy."

[0:00] The mystery of the Dyatlov Pass Incident is potentially solved in part by technology from the movie Frozen

[21:00] We talk about Steve, the Dead and Lovely podcast, and our takes on trashing bad movies

[31:45] CoRri gives the history of the Max Headroom character

[45:00] We talk the signal interference incident and what it would be like to experience it and other such events

[1hr9m] Dead and Lovely's next episode will be about the incredible His House so don't miss it! And make sure you hit us up on social media with ideas for our next watch-along. The theme is remakes!

If anyone can identify the show in which John Madden turns into a Gargoyle, please let us know so we can help poor Steve.

Check out the Dead and Lovely podcast for more Hollywood Steve, and be sure to follow them on Instagram and Twitter!

We've gotten pretty dark lately. This week we're talking about things we love. Mack Petersen of the Morphenomenal Podcast joins us to talk Power Rangers, Psycho Goreman, and the brilliance of Evil Dead 2. Nothing too deep. Just geeking out, man.

[0:00] Mark asks the age old quarantine question: How many of your neighbors have their dead family members in their freezers?

[9:00] What is adult Power Rangers fandom in 2021?

[23:00] Psycho Goreman is the perfect love letter to '90s Canadian horror shows for kids, Power Rangers, and INSANE gore.

[33:30] Movie trailers tell us way too much.

[39:00] Mack and Mark fanboy out over Evil Dead 2, which we'll be watching together this Saturday on Discord! Join up! https://discord.com/invite/HuBTacyn5Y

[53:00] Mark shows Mack his Evil Dead 2 set memorabilia

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Our brains are our besties, regulating every thought we experience and function we perform, but they betray us in the harshest of ways. In this episode, we're chatting about compulsions, addictions, disorders, and other cruel tricks of the mind. We're really revealing ourselves in this one, so settle in, folks. It's JoAG therapy.

[0:00] CoRri tells Mark about the 17th century bestiality panic in Colonial America

[12:50] The seeming endlessness of the covidtimes is driving us to insanity. Meanwhile, listeners in our facebook group are trying to find a collective name to call themselves. Join them! https://www.facebook.com/groups/jackofallgraves

And don't forget to join us for Evil Dead 2 on our Discord on February 6th!

[22:20] We talk about compulsions -- intrusive thoughts, anxieties, eating disorders, hoarding...

[63:50] We talk movie recs, "loopcore," James Badge Dale, and the videogame CoRri is obsessed with right now, Spiritfarer.

This week we decided to give the Netflix documentary series Surviving Death a whirl. It did not go well. BUT it did make us want to know more about the science behind near-death experiences and what's going on with our brains when we die.

[0:00] Mark explains the Schmidt Pain Index

[10:20] We can't help but get into the Armie Hammer cannibal stuff

[19:15] We put bios on our website, we're making a FB group, and we've scheduled our next JoAG Watch Along! Mark your calendars for February 6th to watch Evil Dead 2 with us on Discord!

[21:40] We talk about "Near-Death Experiences" and scientific theories of where consciousness is located

[66:05] Things we've watched this week and whether or not we recommend them.

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Many creative types have dealt with their own deaths through their art. This week, we're talking about some of that creative output, and what we would do with the time we had left in the face of our own imminent deaths. It's more fun than it sounds.

Timestamps: 

[0:00] Surprise cannibalism! A Russian pensioner turns murder victims into meat jelly

[12:27] A bit of cultural exchange as we discuss some linguistic differences

[14:40] Our main topic: Things people create when they're aware they're going to die

[30:00] We talk about whether we would publicly document our own deaths and what it means to leave a legacy

[40:50] Would we want to know our exact date and time of death ahead of time?

[51:40] This week we've watched Super Dark Times and Promising Young Woman

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It may be nearly Christmas, but we've still got a healthy heap of dread to serve up in the form of our fears about extinction level events.

Highlights:

• We don't usually bother discussing the lame duck U.S. president, but it has to be said: donald trump is a murderous cunt

• Corri explains why she was MIA last week

• Let's watch Nightmare on Elm St. together on our Discord on 12/19/20! https://discord.gg/HuBTacyn5Y 

• We discuss extinction level events that keep us up at night. Or keep Corri up. Mark's fine. 

• We get a little Communist

• We loved Freaky and Mark really loves Vince Vaughn

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It's Mark's birthday week, so, with a little help from their pal Jason Helms of the Men of Low Moral Fiber podcast, Corri surprises him with a visit from the co-writer of the horror sensation "Host," Jed Shepherd!

Big thanks to Jason for coming in at the last minute, and to Ben Helms for editing the episode!

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What is it that makes a good horror movie kill so satisfying? We're not sure, but you can bet we're gonna try our darndest to talk it out. This week we're bangin' on about our favorite kills and why we love them.

• The '80s were more terrible than you remember and being on the show ALF caused eating disorders and crack habits
• Corri accidentally convinces Mark Thankskilling is worth watching
• We go through your #momcore recs
• We talk about our favorite and most memorable horror movie kills and share faves from our Twitter followers
• Mark can't stop talking about kills he hates
• Our anti-rec: Porno on Shudder. So much dick trauma. 
• Looking for Yulecore recs! Send us yours!

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• Mark misses his mom, which leads him to a horror genre: Momcore
• Eileen gives us more mouse cannibal facts
• We have an Instagram! Follow @jackofallgravespod
• What the fuck do we do with all this anxiety??
• Climate change inactivism and disaster movies (and social class in the apocalypse)
• Can we be saved from media illiteracy?
• The main event: Coronavirus anxiety

Have another 2020 anxiety we didn't mention? Hit us up on the tweety about it and we'll bring it up next week! @jackofallgraves

As coronavirus drives us all back into quarantine, we're going a liiiiiittle bonkers, which drives us to think about the near universal fear of being trapped. We also talk about insights into the serial killer mind, and we convince a horror-averse friend to watch Scream and talk about it. 

Highlights:

• Corri talks about a guy who got stuck in an elevator for 41 hours
• Being buried alive would be terrible
• We learn that mice have a penchant for brains and it expains a nightmarish incident from Corri's youth
• Mark delves into quotes from murderers about the experience of killing
• Lian Stutsman pops in to talk about her experience watching Scream in our ongoing series of horror n00bs watching the classics
• We give a few recs and anti-recs

Ever had a cannibalistic pet? We want to hear about it! Talk to us @jackofallgraves on Twitter! Don't forget to rate and review us, and tell your creepiest friend that they should listen!

Corri has a sad today, but we're addressing her strange obsession to cheer her up: Cannibalism.

Highlights:

• Corri is devastated by the death of Alex Trebek, so we talk about celebrity deaths that have hit us and our listeners hard
• Mark talks about his facebook deadpool
• We dive right in to talking about people eating people
• Early humans ate each other as side dishes
• The Donner Party is aparently not common knowledge in the UK
• The main event: German cannibal Armin Meiwes and the ethics of consensual cannibalism
• As always, we leave you with a couple recs: The Wolf of Snow Hollow and Blood Vessel

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Highlights:

• Corri talks to her big brother Zack about the supposed horror movie copycat killer Mark Branch and other bonkers stories from their hometown
• Mark cops his first Twitter ban and Corri takes the opportunity to prank him
• There's a ghost in Corri's living room
• We play the horror game Little Nightmares on the Men of Low Moral Fiber podcast! Check it out! (www.menoflowmoralfiber.com)
• We revisit some past stories that have come up in the news, including AI and deepfakes and our inability to trust our own eyes
• Mark horrifies us with another delusion
• We fixate on autocannibalism
• We discuss alternatives to being buried.... after you die, of course.
• Recs: Lincoln in the Bardo, Love and Monsters, The Mortuary Collection, His House, but NOT Bly Manor

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It's Halloween week at last! That bittersweet time where the official spooky season comes to a close and all of us creeps have one last celebration before we slink back into the shadows. Thus, we wanted to send the season off with a bang: A visit to a medium, a hometown murder story, talking Evil Dead w/ a non-horror fan, and a look at some of the true stories behind tainted candy panics.

Highlights:

• Mark visits a spiritualist church to see a medium in action 
• We subjected Mark's longtime friend Mia to Evil Dead (2013) and she tells us about the experience
• Mia has an INCREDIBLE story about the soundtrack to Dead Calm
• Corri tells the story of the Friday the 13th copycat killing in her hometown that nearly ruined Halloween
• We stan Billy Zane
• We discuss tainted candy panics and the lead-crime hypothesis

 Got a good Halloween story or epic Halloween plans? Think Corri and Mark are wrong about Michael Myers? Are you friends with Billy Zane? Hit us up on twitter @jackofallgraves! And don't forget to drop us a review on Apple Podcasts or whever you listen!

We're more than halfway through the Halloween season and it's time we talked about talking to the dead! 

Highlights:

• Mark shares his best and worst Halloween costume
• We celebrate the 35th anniversary of Re-Animator
• Mark's wife takes him to a scarecrow festival 
• We delve into the world of psychic mediums and our skepticism towards them
• Corri, once again, has evangelical baggage

Think we're dead wrong on mediums? Fight it out with us on twitter @jackofallgraves!

It's a momentous occasion for JoAG! We have our first guest! Certified scaredy cat Kristin Latourelle stops in for a bit to tell us about the experience of watching Child's Play (1988) for the first time and it is a WILD ride! Elsewhere in the 'cast, Mark & Corri talk about the horrifying world of deep fakes, favorite cemeteries, and how to be chill about death. 

Highlights:

• Oh god! Oh fuck! Deepfakes!
• We talk about the things we've been watching this week and whether we recommend them or not
• Horror hater Kristin rants about Chucky
• We discuss our favorite cemeteries and the the way deaths shape communities
• Mark has two very important, mildly disturbing questions

Stop by and visit us on twitter @jackofallgraves, especially if you have answers to any of Mark's burning questions!

This week we're delving into the haunting world of images taken before, during, and after tragic events. 

Highlights:

• Mark has bad news for cat people: you probably have a brain parasite
• We take a moment to mourn the loss of cinemagoing 
• We discuss American Movie and 30 Days of Night
• Topic of the week: Cursed images
• Corri explains Dateline to Mark
• We talk 9/11 & shared public experiences of events

Tell us all your thoughts and feelings on the twitter @jackofallgraves. 

Spooky season is officially upon us, and here at JoAG, we think it's important to send you into the most wonderful time of the year equipped with enough recommendations to keep the whole family bathed in horror all month long. In this two part episode, we delve into our top picks for everyone from the horror n00b to the seasoned horror head. 

Part One Highlights:

• We jump right into our normal level recs: movies for having a few "tins" and a laugh with some friends. Good natured jump scares and gross outs
• We talk about the art of "dread" 
• Mark comes up with more "cores" 
• We discuss why we love old school Tim Burton and Spielberg films
• We close out with our expert level recommendations: stuff you only watch if you're ready for a bad time. Don't assemble your friends to watch these if you want to keep them.

Don't forget to listen to part 1 if you missed it! Then hit us up on twitter @jackofallgraves to tell us what you're watching and yell at us about what we missed!

Spooky season is officially upon us, and here at JoAG, we think it's important to send you into the most wonderful time of the year equipped with enough recommendations to keep the whole family bathed in horror all month long. In this two part episode, we delve into our top picks for everyone from the horror n00b to the seasoned horror head. 

Part One Highlights:

• Mark opens up with some pleasant conversation about America's botched death penalties
• Corri has an unexpected return to her evangelical roots
• We explain our novice, normal, and expert level recommendation system
• We deep dive into our novice recs: Movies that aren't necessarily FOR kids, but you could watch with your kids and not get them taken away from you. Great watches at any age.

Don't forget to listen to part 2 for normal and expert level recs! Then hit us up on twitter @jackofallgraves to tell us what you're watching and yell at us about what we missed!

We promised a lighthearted journey after last week's heavy hitter, so this week we're talking about the terrifying world of '80s and '90s children's television!

Highlights:

• Mark continues his obsession with head trauma by explaining the absolutely horrifying Capgras delusion
• Are You Afraid of the Dark, Eerie, Indiana, and they heyday of disturbing kids' tv
• We unpack the WHY of our childhood tv phobias
• Mark puts out a theory about the influence of Twin Peaks
• Mr. Noseybonks turns out to be  far scarier than Corrigan could have aniticipated 
• Corri teaches Mark about s'mores. 

Tell us all about the television that scarred you as a child on twitter @jackofallgraves! If you're enjoying the show, we'd appreciate your ratings and reviews on your podcast app of choice, and we always love to hear from you on twitter! Thanks for sticking with us, spooky friends!

This episode comes with a giant content warning: We're talking about people who have ended their lives in extremely public fashions. We describe the circumstances and imagery involved in these stories in some detail. While we are not making light of these stories, if this kind of content is triggering to you in any way, we recommend steering clear. If you're not currently seeing a therapist, check out the resources linked at the bottom of these notes for finding low cost mental healthcare. We think you're worth keeping around, spooky friends.

Highlights:

• Mark discusses the finer points of trepanation, the pseudoscience of drilling a hole in your skull
• The reason for the episode: The Facebook Live streamed suicide of army veteran Ronnie McNutt goes viral on TikTok
• We revisit the famous public suicides of R. Budd Dwyer and Christine Chubbuck, and the VHS vlog of Bjork stalker Ricardo López
• We recommend Random Acts of Violence [Shudder], The Siren [Shudder], and Antrum [Amazon Prime]

Resources for finding affordable therapy in the United States:

• How to Find An Affordable Therapist - Vice - This has very good information about figuring out what TYPE of therapists you might need, along with ideas for finding an affordable one
• Low Cost Treatment - Anxiety & Depression Association of America
• Open Counseling - A directory where you can put in your zipcode to find free and low cost therapists in your area

Generations of evangelicals were terrified into letting Jesus save their souls after watching the 1972 Christian horror movie "A Thief in the Night." In this episode, Corrigan makes Mark watch the film that launched a million rapture panic attacks, and Mark has A LOT of questions. 

Highlights:

• We discuss the finer points of decapitation and consciousness
• Mark tries to understand the Rapture 
• Corri tells a real life horror story about a murder-suicide in an evangelical community
• We talk about how kids raised on A Thief in the Night run the American dystopia
• Corri recommends "Scream, Queen!" and "Color Out of Space." Available on Shudder. 
• Mark recommends "Head Count." Available on Netflix in the U.S.

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It's Jack of All Graves! A podcast where two very different folks from two different countries bond over our shared love of all things spooky, murdery, bloody, ghosty, and in any way horrific! In our first episode, get to know who we are, how we fell in love with the macabre, and what horror things get us all hot & bothered. 

Highlights: 

• Mark alienates himself from his South African colleagues by telling them he saw a notorious demon
• Corrigan's older brothers abandon in her in a cemetery... repeatedly
• We question what the horror gateway drugs are for kids these days
• Corrigan explains American evangelicalism and the Satanic panic to Mark
  • The podcast Corri references is Conviction: American Panic  https://gimletmedia.com/shows/conviction
• We discuss the power of belief (and lack thereof) 
• We close out by finding Mark absolutely buried the lede on that tokoloshe story

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