It's a media heavy ep! After Mark tells Corrigan about a Soviet officer who saved us all from certain death and Corrigan explains what the deal is with Mercury retrograde, we delve deep into the movies we watched this week and unpack why modern documentaries are so unsatisfying.
Highlights:
[0:00] Marko tells Corrigan how Stanislav Petrov saved the world
[12:09] Corrigan explains what it means for Mercury to be in retrograde
[31:30] Marko gives our Ko-Fi subscribers individualized horoscopes
[59:30] What we watched! We dive real deep this week on the filmmaking and storytelling in these flicks. (Pan’s Labyrinth, Monkey Man, Identity, Frailty, The Mutilator, Ghostbusters, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, Ghostbusters, Bad Vegan, Michael Clayton, The Bear)
[101:19] We discuss orthorexia, the problems with current documentary trends, and the docuseries Bad Vegan
Stuff we referenced:
Ep. 166: global outlook fubar
Ep. 165: planes, trains, & ahhh!
Ep. 164: a JoAG family new year
Ep. 163: caves and car thefts
Ep. 162: JoAG gets tarot'd
Ep. 161: medieval tomes & digital souls
Ep. 160: sleepwalkers
Ep. 159: park the panic
Ep. 158: death row stories
Ep. 157: the JoAG Halloween campfire
Ep. 156: dooming ourselves with medicine
Ep. 155: The boundaries of horror
Ep. 154: when people are objects
Ep. 153: Hospital hell pt. 4 – murderous medical professionals
Ep. 152: Hospital Hell pt. 3: emergency in the ER
Ep. 151: Hospital hell pt. 2 - Surgeons gone wild
Ep. 150: Hospital hell pt. 1: empathy for the devil
Ep. 149: Return of the Mark
Ep. 148: Evolution & neurodivergence [w/ Boffin Eileen!]
Ep. 147: Miseducation
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