It is Shen Yun season here in the NYC metro, friends. The billboards, the ads, the flyers in the mail.... But what IS Shen Yun? The answer may surprise you. In fact, yeah, safe to say it's gonna surprise you.

Wanna know what happens between when a person dies and when they're body is discovered? There's a farm for that, and Marko tells us all about it! Then we discuss gods, what they say about us and our cultures, and why we believe in them.

[0:00] Marko tells Corrigan about forensic taphonomy and the invention of body farms
[22:58] Marko welcomes you to um... MILFcast; CoRri wonders if there's anyone teaching big tiddie yoga; the pope has defeated death and so can you; we figure out how to say ichor and share various Hobbit based memories
[35:10] Snow White managed to piss everybody off
[43:12]] What we watched! (Green Room, Ghost Story, Last Breath, U-571, Breakdown, The Dead Thing)
[01:21:48] We discuss how gods reflect societies and Marko asks CoRri to delve back into her evangelical days to defend her god

Ya think ya know a guy, right? Corrigan tells Marko about Charles Lindbergh, the American hero who was actually a giant shit ass.

[0:00] CoRri tells Mark why American hero pilot Charles Lindbergh was anything but heroic
[53:24] Mark broke himself, but he also climbed the O2! Plus excellent Ko-Fi developments
[01:11:15] What we watched: The Parenting, The Trial, Battle Royale, A Face in the Crowd, Sherlock Jr., The Electric State

Mark tells the story of a horrific, mysterious family annihilation and Corrigan talks about women who have gone toe to toe with serial killers and lived to tell the tale.

[0:00] Marko tells Corrigan the story of the Dardeen family murders
[28:55] Mark's been to the future and comes back with a message. We talk about hantavirus and the terrible reveal of what killed the Hackmans
[49:49] Ko-Fi updates! And we discuss whether or not CoRri will get botox.
[57:00] What we watched: Spice World, The Vast of Night, Crimson Tide, Enemy of the State, Mickey 17, Banshee Chapter, In A Violent Nature, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
[01:29:20] Corrigan tells Marko about women who have escaped from serial killers

Marko is back! And to celebrate, Corrigan's telling him a real grim and gory story about deep sea diving!

[0:00] CoRri tells Marko about the gruesome Byford Dolphin Accident
[01:00:37] We jump right into the horrors of living in the lead up to global meltdown
[01:17:33] Thanks to Ryan, your pal anna, Hollywood Steve, and Brianne for taking over Mark's duties last month; Ko-Fi perks are coming;
[01:22:50] We debate what happened to Gene Hackman
[01:35:20] What we watched: The Poseidon Adventure, Star Trek ‘09, In Cold Blood, Monolith, The Monkey, Companion, Heart Eyes, Unforgiven, The Gorge, Wolf Man, We Live In Time

In our last week of guest stories, Corrigan's pal Brianne pops in to tell another story of CIA ridiculousness: The time they tried to turn a cat into a spy device!

[0:00] We explain the concept of the powerpoint party
[11:08] Brianne tells CoRri about the Acoustic Kitty Project

This week Hollywood Steve and Your Pal Anna from the Hellrankers podcast are kind enough to stop by in Marko's place. Anna tells us the story of Terrible Tillie, a cursed lighthouse on the Oregon coast that should never have been built!

Ryan Clark, BookTok's queen of scream and co-host of The Laydown podcast, joins Corrigan this week and tells her the horrific history of the Dozier School for Boys, which has inspired multiple novels, including The Reformatory and Nickel Boys.

[0:00] Ryan tells Corrigan about the Dozier School for Boys
[01:09:45] Some book recs! (Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito and Wake Up & Open Your Eyes by Clay McLeod Chapman)

We are overjoyed to be joined by Mr. John Benfield, an assessor of risk by trade here to tell us about what we should be anxious about in 2025, and how we can best prepare ourselves for this risky world. Plus, Corrigan talks about the horrors of asbestos, and a D.B. Cooper enthusiast corrects the record!

[0:00] Corrigan tells John and Marko about the horrors of asbestos
[52:46] We introduce our guest, John Benfield, and briefly address that the world is getting more fashy in dumb ways
[01:02:00] Corrigan's D.B. Cooper gets scotched in the best possible way on Bluesky
[01:11:48] Mark's son has a question about villains winning in films
[01:16:20] What we watched! (Grafted, Batman Begins, A Real Pain. Class of Nuke ’Em High, Castle Freak, Nickel Boys, Emilia Perez, Beezel, Hauntology, They Live, Fail Safe,
[01:49:05] We delve into the World Economic Forum's 2025 Global Risk Assessment with John, a risk assessment expert.

Naturally, we had to take some time to reflect on David Lynch's life and philosophy. But first, Marko tells Corrigan about the Toba Catastrophe and what it might tell us about the future of humankind after we climate change ourselves to death!

[0:00] Marko tells Corrigan about the Toba Catastrophe Theory
[23:05] Mark's inscrutable bits, our special guest for next week,
[32:30] Now that Mark listens to podcasts, his latest listen brings him to a discussion of conspiracy theorists in the White House on the eve of the inauguration
[42:18] What we watched: The Man They Could Not Hang, The Straight Story, Gladiator II, Cuckoo, Twin Peaks, The People's Joker
[1:03:15] Looking back on Lynch