Ep. 51: Hiking can be murder

We’ve both been doing a lot of hiking lately, and given the kind of people we are, that obviously raises an important question: What are the various ways in which you can die while on a hike?

Highlights:
[0:00] CoRri tells Mark the story of the town that murdered a man

[18:30] CoRri is causing mass psychogenic illness and we don’t know if there are giraffes in Sri Lanka

[25:30] State of the Pod: We talk about exploitative true crime podcasts and whether we actually are one

[35:30] We discuss blackface and the limits of punching up in media

[43:20] Check out our book club and don’t forget to get your hands on a copy of Blood Vessel for our September 4th watch-along

[47:30] We watched Till Death this week. It prompts a conversation about the no-cell-phone trope in movies

[56:00] We talk about the many ways you can die while hiking, from serial killers to carbon monoxide