Jack of All Graves

Mark’s on a camping trip, so the inimitable Kristin Latourelle joins Corrigan to discuss their shared evangelical past and the very, very thin — possibly non-existent — line between mainstream Christ…

This week we’re diving into torture, whether state sanctioned or the work of criminal elements like cartels and serial killers.

Highlights:

[0:00] CoRri talks about the tragic and terrifying Lake Nyo…

This week we’ve been sending news headlines back and forth to each other, so we thought we’d share some of the world’s weirdness with you -- from the death of a real tall horse to Anthony Bourdain's …

Mark wondered about the connection between suffering/oppression and innovation/progress, so we explore whether these things are inherently connected.

Highlights:

[0:00] CoRri tells Mark about the phe…

Somehow Mark got it into his head that we could do a 10-15 minute mini-sode in which we discussed the movies we watched this week, but you’ve all listened to this podcast, so it’ll come as no surpris…

CoRri’s been thinking lately about what fear is, and why some things break through the fear callous we’ve built up over the years and send us running to pull the covers over our heads, so we discuss …

An ex-vangelical and a Satanist walk into a podcast....

HIGHLIGHTS:

[0:00] CoRri tells Mark about primary amebic meningoencephalitis — otherwise known as brain-eating amoebas

[16:50] We recap our ama…

Whether it’s fires on sets, cast member deaths, or IRA bombs, some movies just seem to draw catastrophe. Some people would even say they’re cursed. I mean, we wouldn’t, but some people would. Let’s c…

As happens from time to time, we had a plan for where this episode was going, and then it happened very differently from that plan. So, this week, we have Mark’s big brother on the ‘cast to talk abou…

Freak accidents happen, sure, and sometimes you take every precaution and tragedies still unfold… but that’s not what happened in the stories we’re telling today. This week we discuss deaths on movie…

We’re in the mood to fight each other this week, whether over the merits of the Hellboy remake, or rehashing one of our earlier debates about addiction. We know each other better now, so the gloves a…

We live in the age of memes and mass media, so we all know that some ideas are especially contagious. In this episode, we delve into the phenomenon of suicide clusters and the media’s culpability in …

We’ve got one of CoRri’s childhood besties, Duncan Newton-Gaines, on the show this week to help Mark initiate CoRri into a love-hate relationship with the tragic, awesome, exploitative, magical art o…

This week we thought we’d delve into natural disasters, but it turns out we’re both preoccupied with the same phenomenon: Earthquakes.

Highlights:

[0:00] Mark tells the story of Franz Reichelt, the f…

Unsurprisingly, Mark loves leaving his life in the hands of teenage ride operators at amusement parks, while CoRri takes a pass on that sort of thrill. This week we’re talking about horrific and haun…

In April of 1989, 96 football fans were killed in a tragic crush at the FA Cup Final at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. In this episode, Dan Birtle tells us what happened…

There are lots of terrible people who make good art. In this week’s episode, we discuss what kinds of terrible we tolerate, the mental gymnastics we do to excuse the artists we love, and where we dra…

You watch enough horror and true crime, you can't help but start to wonder -- could I commit the perfect crime? This week we discuss people who almost got away with murder, and how we'd do the dastar…

America has a gun issue, but Mark and CoRri don't see it quite the same way. This week we talk about the complicated nature of a heavily armed populace.

[0:00] Mark tells CoRri the sordid tale of the…

Will the horrors never cease? From the horrors of internet illiteracy, to the horrors of invasive medical procedures, to the horrors of bad CGI, to the horrors of the artistic illegitimacy of horror …