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. 27: Jack of All Watery Graves
Ep. 26: Bodies
Ep. 25: I like my comedy like I like Mark's soul
Ep. 24: Kids who kill
Ep. 23 - Benign anarchy (w/ Dead and Lovely's Steve Spratling!)
Ep. 22: Mack of All Graves
Ep. 21: Your asshole brain and you
Ep. 20: Surviving death
Ep. 19: Stage managing death
Ep. 18: Autonomy over your meat
Ep. 17: Zero percent juice
Ep. 16: Trust the boffins
Ep. 15: Jed Shepherd is a real nice guy
Ep. 14: The thrill of the kill
Ep. 13: The anxiety kitchen
Ep. 12: Out of the elevator, into the coffin
Ep. 11: Ethical cannibalism under capitalism
Ep. 10: Things to do when you're dead
Ep. 9: Candy panic
Ep. 8: Meatsuits and mediums
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