With life getting in the way of recording this week, we're throwing it back to some classic cold opens: The many horrors of Lake Lanier in Georgia and the exploding Lake Nyos in Cameroon. If you're anything like Marko, you've forgotten the details from these four year old episodes, so it's time for a revisit!

[0:00] Lake Lanier
[25:00] Lake Nyos (featuring Hollywood Steve of Hellrankers!)

This week Corrigan prompted Marko to tell a story about isolation, so he brings us the tale of Man of the Hole -- the last member of his Amazonian tribe.

[0:00] Marko tells Corrigan about the lonely life of the Man of the Hole
[31:27] A YouTube video CoRri watched causes us to discuss Marko's inscrutable list of potential JoAG topics; make sure you listen to CoRri on The Crumbling!
[49:30] We discuss CoRri's perfect Halloween
[53:22] What we watched: Muppets Haunted Mansion, Over the Garden Wall, The Haunted Mansion, Casper, Death Becomes Her, Good Boy, Ghost Ship, Anything for Jackson, Army of Darkness, Coyotes (Eddie Burback's AI delusion video), Being Frank

Halloween week is here! As such, Corrigan brings us a suitably gory story of historical axe murder, Marko goes on a ghost tour, and we talk about allll the October spooky movies.

[0:00] Corrigan tells Marko about axe murders
[49:50] Mark is struggling with Halloween, but his fam is going horror mazing and went on a ghost tour
[01:06:41] A conversation about viking weaponry leads to Corrigans weird fear of sliding doors moments and other philosophical thoughts
[01:16:00] What we watched: Hocus Pocus, Savageland, The Tingler, The Deeper You Dig, Ghostwatch, The Long Walk, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, The Fog, The Conjuring: Last Rites, Hubie Halloween, Star Wars pre-quels, Return of the Jedi
[01:47:00] We unpack The Long Walk

While Corrigan is off in California, Marko takes the opportunity to read us a story!

This week Corrigan asked Marko to tell her about some "culty Brits," and he came through with lovable crank George King and his band of interplanetary misfits, the Aetherius Society!

[0:00] Mark tells CoRri about the Aetherius Society
[44:55] We allow ourselves to celebrate ONE death in violation of Deadpool rules, CoRri's getting fit, both hosts have maybe stolen things, and Marko has questions about trump and Gaza
[01:03:00] Mark's son wants a movie to "shit him up" and we need your help
[01:10:20] We finished Ed Gein and it did not get better
[01:18:35] We recap the watch-along. Toxie was a hit!
[01:23:35] What we watched: Toxic Avenger (2023), Practical Magic, The Borderlands, Dog Soldiers, The Righteous, Sinister, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Sleepy Hollow, Trick 'r Treat, Arachnophobia, Hell House LLC, OVerlord, Found Footage: The Making of the Patterson Project, Annabelle

It's a low key, mid-week episode where we just chat about things like the books we're reading, if it's possible to know scientifically the thresholds of joy and pain, and why Charlie Hunnam decided to do Winnie the Pooh voice in the Ed Gein series. It's a chill hang!

Video version on the Ko-Fi! http://www.ko-fi.com/jackofallgraves

This week Marko wanted to hear a story of cursed love, so Corrigan recounts the tragic mystery of the Mayerling Incident, which inadvertently led to WWI. Cursed indeed!

[0:00] Corrigan tells the story of the Mayerling Incident
[47:15] Marko wonders if any of our listeners are dead, Corrigan indulges her special interests, and Hades II is out
[01:02:40] What we watched: Lost Boys, Demon Knight, Strange Harvest, Night of the Reaper

[0:00] Marko tells Corrigan about the horrors of space
[32:08] Apparently the Rapture is here! Who will saaaaave your soul?
[39:56] It's not a podcast, it's a record of the AI-pocalypse
[49:34] Some JoAG related stories listeners have sent us, including Capgras syndrome and parthenogenesis
[01:08:24] Mark shares some head canon
[01:22:05] What we watched: Sketch, Beyond the Poseidon Adventure, Bad Shabbos, Lost Boys, District 9, Red Rooms, Handling the Undead, Masking Threshold

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.

[0:00] Corrigan tells Marko about the absurd and terrifying right wing posse known as Groypers
[56:20] Marko tells Corrigan about the joys of CEX, lizard parthogenesis, and the CoLD scale, all of which leads us to a chat about what we'd really like to see on the news
[01:26:16] Some Ko-Fi updates, plus Corrigan talks about Banana Ball and we just keep thinking about touching grass

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, we talk science illiteracy, and we bicker over some movies!

[0:00] Marko discusses warriors from Samson of the Bible to modern suicide bombers, and what it means to be a martyr
[39:35] Marko talks about dumb shit he's done, it's Corrigan's last day in her thirties
[48:40] We discuss health fads, science confusion, and WHO BENEFITS
01:03:42] Mark talks about rediscovering the brilliance of Metal Gear Solid
[01:13:00] What we watched! (The Omen, Together, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, Now Voyager, Dead Ringer, The Naked Gun