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. 126: Toxic miasma
Ep. 125: Raptor pharaoh and other conspiracy fun
Ep. 124: Existential space dread
Ep. 123: TikTok sleuths
Ep. 122: Hotel horrors
Ep. 121: I am the law (w/ 2000AD's Michael Molcher)
Ep. 120: Murder balloons & British spookies
Ep. 119: Poison!
Ep. 118: Tossed salads and human hot pots
Ep. 117: The year that happened
Ep. 116: Solved mysteries
Ep. 115: State of the dystopia
Ep. 114: Cousins' kids and kidnappings
Ep. 113: Ball so hard (you die)
Ep. 112: Lead heads
Ep. 111: Too hot for Comic-Con
Ep. 110: A bag o' bodies
Ep. 109: Ghost science
Ep. 108: When teens fly
Ep. 107: Games that go bump in the night
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