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This week Marko ponders whether free will exists, or whether our corporate overlords have stripped us of any possibility of it. Plus, it's been what Mark calls a "we didn't start the fire" week, so we're chatting about this week's speedrun of chaos. Highlights: [0:00] Is there such thing as free will? [57:55] A man was mauled by a tiger, Pete Hegseth wants to livestream an execution, San Diego is underwater, America is getting oil from Russia, and we feel fine? [01:26:40] What we watched: Carrie, Rose of Nevada, V/H/S/Mixtape, The Fog, Joy Ride, Mortal Kombat II

Corrigan came home from Canada with a bloody tale of mutiny on the high seas! Plus, Marko is in his true crime era and America botches yet another execution. Highlights: [0:00] Corrigan tells Marko about the mutiny on the Saladin. [41:19] You're doing better than some quantum you, Corrigan's hairdresser is super into the MCU, Marko has no sense of time, we've got a kinky let's play coming and a Spirited Away fancave, and Corrigan has a 12 foot skeleton (not inside her body) [57:09] Marko is in true crime documentary mode [01:08:03] The U.S. stays winning by managing to fully botch an execution [01:20:20] Freddy Krueger comes to Fortnite and Marko thinks that portends something very important about the upcoming ANOES film [01:30:00] What we watched: The Widower, The Bodies on the Bridge, Death of a Pastor's Wife, David Gordon Green's Halloween trilogy, Ravenous, The Monkey, Colony, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Stuff we referenced: The Saladin Trial: A Last Hurrah for Admiralty Sessions Piracy in Canada Pirates and Privateers: The History of Maritime Piracy The Smithsonian and the 19th century guano trade: This poop is crap

We're back from our little hiatus! This week, Corrigan overthinks Marko's attempt to explain the neuroscience of psychosis, we get into some of the books we've dug lately, and we weigh whether the warnings about AI ending humanity should be taken at face value. Highlights: [0:00] Marko tells Corrigan about some scientific perspectives on psychosis he's intrigued by [39:40] Corrigan went to Nova Scotia, Marko did a Tough Mudder and got a nubbin removed from his eyelid (not at the same time) [57:50] A recap of book club and some books we've been reading and loving lately (The House That Eats the Dead by Max Doty, The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim, The Night Guest by Hildur Knútsdóttir, Eden Undone by Abbott Kahler) [01:09:32] What we watched: Primetime, Salem’s Lot, Hide and Seek, Supergirl, Evil Dead Burn, United 93, Resident Evil [01:44:10] Will AI end humanity? Stuff we referenced: WSJ - The Hidden Agenda Behind the AI Panic NYT - OpenAI’s A.I. Tried to Breach 4 Other Targets, Without Prompting NYT - OpenAI’s Systems Meddled With U.S. Government Sites After Going Rogue Guardian - AI could kill all humans in next decade, warn experts: but how seriously should we take them? CNN - Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say Sanders, Casar to Introduce Legislation to Ban Artificial Superintelligence and Temporarily Pause Advanced AI Development

Our dear pal Alfie from the Hellrankers pod joins us so Corrigan can tell him how his home state of Oregon is bound for inevitable and deadly catastrophe! Highlights: [0:00] Corrigan tells Alfie and Marko about the Cascadia Subduction Zone and why people in the Pacific Northwest should be much more stressed out [51:00] A send off for Andy "The Butcher" Williams, Bookseller Ryan's book box came in and Marko is on cloud nine!, we talk about screen addiction and how everyone knows it's making their lives worse, and why solving billionaires would solve the world [01:18:50] What we watched (and read): Leviticus, The Whisper Man, Murderland by Caroline Fraser, Viy, Coyote vs. Acme, The Odyssey, Ghost: Too Big To Rig, Exit 8, Iron Lung Stuff we referenced: VIDEOS The Quake That Will Reshape America The Pacific Northwest Megaquake The Cascadia Megaquake Is Inevitable. And It Will Reshape America Forever READING How ‘the big one’ near Seattle could trigger an earthquake in San Francisco Cascadia subduction zone earthquake could be even worse than feared Earthquake Probabilities and Hazards in the U.S. Pacific Northwest They were drilling off Oregon. What they found could shake the entire West Coast 10,000 years of Cascadia earthquakes Surviving Cascadia Simulated Cascadia Tsunami Event The 1700 Cascadia Megathrust Earthquake and the Future of Cascadia Margin The Really Big One Pacific Northwest counties prepare for ‘The Big One’ The Loma Prieta Earthquake Inspired Major Resilience Efforts. Today, the Need to Invest Continues. Hundreds of Portland buildings have ‘very weak’ earthquake defense

In our 6th anniversary episode, Marko tells Corrigan about Richard Swanson's ill-fated walk to Brazil, and Corrigan caps things off with some real bad news about glaciers... and then some good news... and then more bad news. Highlight: [0:00] Marko tells Corrigan about Richard Swanson, who attempted to walk to Brazil from Washington to see the World Cup [33:00] We've officially done 6 years of JoAG and Marko is scarred, we're doing double mailers, we're watching Viy for our next international movie [55:55] What we watched: The Glass House, Ritual, Legend, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Soulm8te [01:34:41] Corrigan talks about why glaciers melting is bad, how we're fixing it, and the one stupid thing that's really hindering our efforts to stave off climate change Stuff we referenced: Climate crisis could be destabilising mountain areas like Nepal, experts warn PBS Horizons: Why Earth's melting glaciers matter more than we think New Scientist: Why Scientists Are Terrified About What They're Finding Beneath Antarctica Climate change: mountain glaciers NSIDC: Glaciers WWF: Why are glaciers and sea ice melting? The glacier microbiome ‘Vast’ mass of microbes being released by melting glaciers In a First for the U.S., Renewables Generate More Power Than Natural Gas Floodwater ‘like liquid cement’ as death toll in Nepal rises sharply

While Marko is skeptical, Corrigan tells him about how neuroscience studies dreams, and whether people who claim to lucid dream, wake up with demons and vampires on their chests, or astral project are making it up or really seeing some shit. Highlights: [0:00] Corrigan tells Marko about how neuroscientists have come to understand things like lucid dreaming, sleep paralysis, and astral projection [01:12:16] Society is weird about Sundays, our book club is bendy, and we've got a watch-along coming up [01:23:22] Marko talks about things that have gotten worse in the six years we've been doing this podcast Stuff we referenced: The remote viewers (The Guardian) CIA Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process The cognitive neuroscience of lucid dreaming The neuroscience of lucid dreaming: Past, present, future Out-of-Body Experiences: Into the Astral? Why Sleep Paralysis Makes You See Ghosts Astral Projection: A Strange Out-of-Body Experience in Dissociative Disorder Astral Projection: An Intentional Out-of-body Experience The Rubber Hand Illusion - Horizon: Is Seeing Believing? - BBC Voluntary Out-of-Body Experience: An fMRI Study Astral projection: Facts and theories

Marko picked too dark a topic for this week, so we f****d it off and wung it with a little discussion about terrible funeral directors. Highlights: [0:00] Marko and Corrigan talk about funeral directors who are more in the desecrating corpses business than the burying or cremating them one. [43:00] We lost Hayden Panettiere and Screaming Mad George, we recap the meet-up and how we lost the recording, the Lewis family eats approximately a ton of American sweets, [01:02:25] What we watched!: Deep Rising, Blow Out, The Devil's Mouth, Is God Is

The good news is we had a great time recording a live episode in London! The bad news is it did not, in fact, record! So this week Corrigan retells the story she told of the dockside capsizing of the SS Eastland, sans Marko and audience reaction. Stuff we referenced: The Eastland Disaster - PBS Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes: The SS Eastland Disaster on the Eastland Hundreds drown in Eastland disaster The Eastland Disaster Killed More Passengers Than the Titanic and the Lusitania. Why Has It Been Forgotten? The HORRENDOUS Disaster of SS Eastland

In a breezy episode as we prep for our London meet-up, Marko talks about his latest museum-inspired hyperfixation: Early iterations of reconstructive surgery! Highlights: [0:00] Marko shares the origins of reconstructive surgery [0:38:55] Marko shouts out a man who kept his mom in the fridge, CoRri is about to head to London [0:50:20] What we watched: Beetlejuice The Musical, Hadestown The Musical, Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Is God Is

What's more wholesome than a bunch of oiled up guys in Playboy bunny style collars and cuffs grindin' up on some screaming housewives on a school night? Certainly not the men who made that wet dream a reality. This week Corrigan tells Marko the story of the petty and violent douchebags who created Chippendales. Highlights: [0:00] Corrigan tells Marko about the man who founded and killed for Chippendales [46:07] Marko doesn't like when CoRri gets spicy, Corrigan sweats too much, we discuss cartoons we hated and why Nickelodeon cartoons actually were great, we consider which of our limbs are expendable [01:14:50] What we watched: Horror in the High Desert 1, 2, 3, & 4, Shadow of a Doubt, The Odyssey, Masters of the Universe, The Backrooms, Mandalorian & Grogu, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, The Furious, Thesis

At the request of Melanie in New Zealand, this week Marko talks about wtf is going on in the UK right now, from Nigel Farage to Count Binface to the confusing murder of Ann Widdecombe. Plus, the news Marko has been waiting for has finally arrived, and we butt heads over Evil Dead Burn! Highlights: [0:00] An explainer on what is happening in the UK right now [40:33] Marko is plagued by physical ailments, AI is AIing, Mark describes his theater going joy seeing Evil Dead Burn at Deadite Church [54:30] New Fancave on the Ko-Fi, Mark is actually enjoying the World Cup, Sam Neill has left us, In the Mouth of Madness watch-along Saturday at 9pm British, 4pm Eastern. [01:07:00] Marko has finally gotten the news he has been waiting for the entire near six years of this podcast: New Elm Street! [01:14:48] What we watched: Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, The Last Stop in Yuma County, Evil Dead Burn, Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman [01:28:35] We talk Evil Dead Burn! We do not agree!

The United States has just celebrated 250 years since the adoption of the Declaration of Independence and well, y'know, it was bumpy. As we ponder how we got here, Corrigan tells Marko about the historical U.S. president our current president looks up to most. Spoiler: He sucked! Highlights: [0:00] Corrigan tells Marko about the seventh president of the United States, Andrew Jackson [01:21:20] Marko is emotionally compromised [01:30] What we watched: The Sheep Detectives, Evil Dead (2013), Evil Dead Rise, Obsession Stuff we referenced: Andrew Jackson: The good, the bad, the ethnic cleansing Andrew Jackson Was Not A Product Of His Time Andrew Jackson: the Father of Genocide of the South and Eastern Tribes Andrew Jackson was a slaver, ethnic cleanser, and tyrant. He deserves no place on our money. Andrew Jackson Was A Real-Life Horror Movie Monster Andrew Jackson’s Face is a Meme for White Supremacy Andrew Jackson: America’s Most Violent President A Brief History on the Trail of Tears July 27, 1816: The “Negro Fort” Massacre 1837: The Hard Times U.S. president secrets you never knew

As Marko put it, you don't know how foul this play gets! This week he tells the story of the murder of Peter Porco -- an event so unbelievable, it'd be ludicrous in fiction. Highlights: [0:00] Marko tells a story of axe murder that gets worse and worse every time you think the horror is complete [50:44] There's a heatwave in the UK, we rehash prison abolition in light of Christopher Porco, Marko's work AI'd him, [01:10:40] Titan Submersible news alert! Weeeewooo weeeewooooo! [01:15:35] What we watched (and read!): Cape Fear (Apple), Psycho Killer, The Crazies, Evil Dead II, Army of Darkness, Naked Lunch, When the Wolf Comes Home by Nat Cassidy, Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman

Two horrors for the price of one this week, as Corrigan tells the story of the greatest hard rock mining disaster in American history, and the murder of a man who tried to help the workers organize in its aftermath. Highlights: [0:00] Corrigan tells Marko about the Granite Mountain-Speculator mining disaster, and a union man who tried to prevent it from happening again [53:36] The Knicks win prompts a discussion of sports fandom, trump's stupid UFC circus, and eugenics! [01:10:28] There's a lot of news! Including a couple of British bans that CoRri and Mark do not see eye to eye on. [01:26:05] We recap watching Evil Dead and go through other things coming up on our Ko-Fi and Discord [01:43:00] What we watched!: The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Insomnia, Hokum, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Evil Dead, Natchez Stuff we referenced: Speculator Mining Disaster The Granite Mountain – Speculator Mine Disaster Granite Mountain/Speculator Mine Disaster The mysterious lynching of Frank Little: activist who fought inequality and lost A Reexamination of the Granite Mountain/Speculator Mine Disaster Frank Little: The Hobo Agitator

We're back and bringing you a new bodily horror to add to your list of fears! Marko tells us all about cancers that can be transmitted! Highlights: [0:00] Marko tells Corrigan about some strange cancers that have spread from host to host [30:00] Catching up on CoRri's trip to Europe and the U.K., London meet-up packets are coming soon, and our discord is poppin'! Get on there! We're watching the Evil Dead movies every Saturday starting June 13th! [51:55] What we watched: Hokum, The Yeti, Mother Mary, Kraken, Over Your Dead Body, Anthropophagous, Nekromantic, Land of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, I Love Boosters, Obsession, Natchez, Yesteryear, Backrooms