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. 106: Forensic psychiatry
Ep. 105: Murphy's law
104: Irregularity
Ep. 103: Queen Elizadeath
Ep. 102: Folk deities
Ep. 101: Mormon (w/ Hollywood Steve!)
Ep. 100: The one-hundredth one!
Ep. 99.5: Zombie pigs and movie recs
Ep. 99: Ask a boffin – surviving the unsurvivable
Ep. 98: Gratui-titty
Ep. 97: Deep dark cuts
Ep. 96: What even is a UK?
Ep. 95: Superhumans
Ep. 94: Such highs and lows
Ep. 93: Gotta get Gowron Friday
Ep. 92: The f**k this movie spectrum
Ep. 91: Meth Nazis and labor pains
Ep. 90: Stupid deaths revisited
Ep. 89: From prophecy to mind control
Ep. 88: When birthdays kill
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