A storytelling pod in which an American girl and a Welsh guy bond over a shared love of the terrifying, tragic, bloody, morbid, anxiety-inducing, and horrific -- a joyful and therapeutic exploration of very dark things.
Listen: We know you've googled it this week. So, today we're gonna try to get to the bottom of what the hell a groyper is and whether we should care.
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This week we talk about how religions define martyrdom, whether it reeeeeally counts according to their own texts, and how any group is convinced to go to war. Plus, CoRri closes out her thirties, w…
Holy smokes! We've been doing this thing for five years! To celebrate, Corrigan tells a horrific historical banger, we discuss some of our favorite stories and films from the last five years, and we…
Corrigan explains to Marko how Pizzagate and Q-Anon unmoored the United States, and we have a chat about the racism white men tend to perpetuate in their movies about racism.
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Recently it's become popular for economists to say we're in a "vibecession," and we're all imagining that everyone's broke and struggling. This week Marko lays out the hard numbers about societal co…
In 1965, AstroTurf was created. This has made a lot of people dead or maimed and been widely regarded as a bad move.
[0:00] Corrigan tells Marko about the happy little forever chemic…
Humans have been obsessed with the end of the world for millennia which means, hey, you have options! Let's talk about end times alternatives to our climate nightmare.
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Corrigan finds out some shocking decades old information about the horrific end of gorilla lady Dian Fossey, we discuss how absurd the mechanisms of the human body are, and we consider an alternate …
We just felt like hanging out, tbh, so Marko talks about some interesting weird news our pal Hannah has put in our in-tray, we discuss why rich people want to live forever and a girl with very sweat…
In dishonor of the grand opening of the U.S. government’s latest concentration camp, Corrigan tells Marko about her country’s long history of displacement and internment.
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This week Marko talks to his brilliant 14-year-old son Peter about what it's like being a teenager at the end of the world: AI, deepfakes, true crime, influencer culture, and, of course, horror movie…
Closing out our impromptu series on horrendous public tragedies, Marko talks about the Bradford City stadium fire. Then, we deep dive into the highlights of our movie viewing the past two weeks befo…
Due to Father's Day celebrations, recording of this week's fresh JoAG is delayed till Tuesday. But in the meantime, please enjoy this month's episode of JoAG Fancave on us! If you like it, hey, you g…
For the second week in a row, we talk about some devastating deaths in public settings, but not before Mark tells a heartwarming story about a quirky Frenchman, we talk about ICE and the National Gu…
People love watching the cars go fast, but this week Corrigan tells Marko about some horrific racing tragedies that make even being a spectator seem scary AF! Plus, we chat about what it means to le…
Our AI dystopia races forward! This week we're going through some of the unhinged AI news stories from the past few weeks, from AI-induced psychosis, to college cheaters, to an AI victim statement i…
Marko is sick AF, so our pal Bookseller Ryan from the Laydown Podcast is here to listen to a story about a culty group of early 20th century writers and talk new horror reads!
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In honor of Bookseller Ryan's birthday, an on time episode! This week, we're talking grifters -- from the douchebag in Mark's opener who convinced the psychiatric community of his genius, to some mo…
This week Corrigan tells Marko the horrific origins of the phrase "going postal," which somehow became a punchline in the '90s. Along the way, they bicker about cultural differences, debate the ethi…
Marko pulls out one of his classic unsolved mysteries with the Oakville blobs -- mysterious, illness-inducing goo from the sky -- before Corrigan revisits the claims of organ harvesting by Falun Gon…