Jack of All Graves

A content warning: In our open, Marko talks about a German doctor who institutionalized child sexual abuse. It's not graphic, but it's disturbing. Time stamps are always below for skipping such content and listening to lighter fare like our opinions on the guy who walked from South America to England and whether Red Dwarf holds up! Highlights: [0:00] Marko tells Corrigan about German doctor Helmut Kentler, who set up child predators in the foster care system under the guise of psychological experimentation, backed by the government [38:02] Marko has a sudden changed in his belief system, we share our views on the guy who "walked" from Chile to England [01:01:17] We recap the "blue wave" that hit America this week and what it might or might not mean[01:16:25] What we watched: Eat The Ones You Love by Sarah Maria Griffin, The Instruction Manual to Being a Vampire by Craig Wallwork, Maximum Overdrive, Godzilla Minus Zero, Ghost in the Cell, The Prowler, The Cycle, M, Below, Exorcist II: The Heretic, Haunt Season, God of Frogs, Wildwood, Hellbound: Hellraiser II, Ice Cream Man, ANOES: The Dream Child

This week we welcome horror author Craig Wallwork to the JoAG fam. Corrigan tells a story of vampire panic, Craig tells us stories of hypochondria and Dracula fandom, and Marko asks some pressing vampire questions. Highlights: [0:00] Corrigan talks about tuberculosis and the New England Vampire Panic of the 18th and 19th centuries[50:20] We talk about Craig's latest book, authorial intent, hypochondria, and Marko's pressing vampire questions- Follow Craig on Instagram | Buy Craig's Books Stuff we referenced: The New England Vampire Panic (State Library of Massachusetts) New England’s Vampire History | Legends and Hysteria (Yankee Magazine) Vampires and Death in New England, 1784 to 1892 (Anthropology & Humanism) The Strange Case of Mercy Brown & the New England Vampire Panic (Isabella Connor) Have Mercy (Rhode Island Historical Society) When New Englanders Blamed Vampires for Tuberculosis Deaths (History) A Halloween Mystery—Did Dracula Have Tuberculosis? (American Lung Association) The New England Vampire Panic (newspapers.com) Tuberculosis: A Fashionable Disease? (Science Museum) When 'Consumption' Came to the West (National Jewish Health) A Gentle Death: Tuberculosis in 19th Century Concord (Concord Free Public Library) TB in America: 1895-1954 (PBS American Experience) The history of tuberculosis: from the first historical records to the isolation of Koch's bacillus (Journal of Preventative Medicine and Hygiene) Lost LA: The Forgotten Plague (PBS doc) Tuberculosis: The White Plague (Tenement Museum) The Great New England Vampire Panic (Smithsonian)

Mark asked for something unpleasant, so this week Corrigan tells him about a place she loves -- Northern Ireland -- and how the British state colluded with paramilitaries to murder the wildly popular Miami Showband. Highlights: [0:00] Corrigan tells the story of the murder of the "Irish Beatles," the Miami Showband[53:47] Marko has a medical plan Corrigan is not on board with; he also has a book rec: The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre; and we discuss GTA6 and how Marko decides what kind of content is too adult for his children[01:21:35] What we watched!: Arachnophobia, Killer Klowns From Outer Space, Blair Witch Project, Below, The Sixth Sense, Street Fighter, Crystal Lake, Buddy Stuff we referenced: Uproar at Stormont as loyalist killer with bomb tries to storm assembly Good Friday Agreement: What is it? Paths to Peace in Northern Ireland: A Brief History of the Troubles The Miami Showband massacre: what led to the killing of the ‘Irish Beatles’? “The long lethal years of The Jackal” The Dead and the Living: Britain’s Dirty War in Northern Ireland No collusion between security forces and UVF in bombings - report UVF claimed MI5 urged it to kill former Irish PM, state papers reveal

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 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 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