Jack of All Graves

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...

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 Sp...

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 Sc...

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...

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 JoA...

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 [...

Marko picked too dark a topic for this week, so we fucked it off and wung it with a little discussion about terrible funeral directors. Highlights: [0:00] Marko and Corrigan talk about funeral directors who are more in the desecrating corpses business than the burying or cremating them one. [43:00] We lost Hayden Panettiere and Screaming Mad George, we recap the meet-up and how we lost the recordi...

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 disas...

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...

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 Chippe...

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 ail...

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] Mar...

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...

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 promp...

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 E...

Back in 1969, the Rolling Stones paid the world's most notoriously violent biker gang to do security for a hastily thrown together concert in exchange for beer. It went.... poorly. Highlights: [0:00] Corrigan tells Marko about the horrors of the Altamont Free Concert (make sure you listen to the companion ep. for free on our Ko-Fi !) [01:04:03] Summer is terrible, we reminisce on our blogging days...

This week we revisit the unhinged and violent era that followed 9/11, with Marko telling the bizarre story of the D.C. spree killers known as the Beltway Snipers. Then we try to come to grips with what's going on in U.K. politics this week 'cause that ish is bananas. Highlights: [0:00] Marko tells Corrigan the bonkers details of the Beltway Snipers [47:19] Mark wants to talk about the "good old da...

Everybody loves a dolphin... but no one quite as much as Margaret Howe Lovatt, who loved her charge, Peter the Dolphin, far more than was appropriate. Corrigan tells the story. Plus, why is everyone so freaked out about eleven missing "scientists?" Highlights: [0:00] Corrigan tells Marko about a dolphin trainer who got intimate with a dolphin [47:26] We discuss Mark's angst about the world and als...

In a follow-up to a long ago episode, Marko talks about the sinister ways in which rich people are planning to keep themselves alive for longer. Spoiler alert: It's not by stopping climate change or advocating for better healthcare! Highlights: [0:00] Marko tells Corrigan about the companies trying to extended rich people's longevity, and the dystopian ways their trying to do it [44:25] Marko foun...

Corrigan shares a gruesome bit of boatcore suggested by a listener: The wreck of the French frigate The Medusa! Then our guest Ella Tailor talks about her experiences in Minneapolis during ICE's reign of terror... and why it makes her hopeful. Check the show notes for MN mutual aid links! Highlights: [0:00] Corrigan tells Ella and Marko the gruesome story of the wreck of the Medusa [53:00] Marko h...

Marko has been on Reddit, and the news isn't good. Are we in for some real climate fuckery in the imminent future? And should we be channeling our inner preppers? Highlights: [0:00] Bad news! El niño is about to fuck us all up! [30:25] Corrigan has a book recommendation and a life recommendation to take away some of the dread (The Story of More by Hope Jahren) [54:30] What we watched: RoboCop, Lea...

We're joined by author Lauren Bolger to talk about her spooky, genre-bending book "The Barre Incidents," and its connections to everyone's favorite sexy cryptid: Mothman! This book has everything: Ghost miners, Norse gods, Indrid Cold, and even a little romance for good measure! Highlights: [0:00] Corrigan tells Lauren and Marko about John Keel, the Mothman, Indrid Cold, and the superspectrum theo...

Marko tells Corrigan the very iffy story of a woman who may or may not have had a strange form of amnesia. You decide. Highlights: [0:00] Marko tells Corrigan the strange story of journalist Jody Roberts... or is it web designer Jane Dee? [38:26] Corrigan's lasagna hack raises a conversation about the merits and pitfalls of taking shortcuts [01:05:40] What we watched: Project Hail Mary, Your Monst...

Marko reads the 1893 short story "An Alpine Divorce" by Robert Barr before Corrigan tells some real stories about the phenomenon everyone's talking about on social media. Plus, Marko discovers Ruby Frankie. Ooooh boy. Highlights: [0:00] Marko reads "An Alpine Divorce." [11:58] Corrigan talks about women being left in the wilderness by angry men [50:58] Marko finds a mysterious mini-DV tape, we cha...

We're back after two epic episodes in a row apparently crashed Corrigan's immune system! This week Marko tells Corrigan about one of the most horrific bastards we've ever discussed -- Marcel Petiot, a.k.a. Dr. Satan! Then we catch up on the month of movies we haven't discussed! Highlights: [0:00] Marko tells Corrigan about the MacDonald Triad & truly fucking depraved serial killer Marcel Petio...