Jack of All Graves

Ep. 126: Toxic miasma


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This week we’re delving deep into our collective anxieties, discussing a fog that killed a GRIP of people in London, and the many things about living in our bodies on planet Earth that are actually casually terrifying.

Highlights:

[0:00] CoRri tells Mark about London’s Great Smog of 1952
[28:00] Shooting of the shit occurs
[42:03] It’s time to shout out our Ko-fi subscribers! You can get a shout out too by doing the right thing at http://www.ko-fi.com/jackofallgraves
[61:00]What we watched! (Poker Face, The Whale, Claw, National Treasure, Cat’s Eye, Evil Dead 2, Time After Time, Baskin)
[80:20] Mark brings up the many ways in which life is just casually terrifying

Stuff we referenced:
  • Fear of political embarrassment led to government cover up of link between air
  • Great Smog of London
  • The Great Smog of 1952
  • Met Office: The Great Smog of 1952
  • The Great Smog of London woke the world to the dangers of coal
  • Reflecting On The 1952 Great Smog of London and Its Legacy
  • Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City
  • Solar ‘superstorm’ missed Earth in 2012 — but another could strike
  • ...more
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