In lieu of a regular episode as Corrigan travels to Europe, you're in for a special treat as Marko reads for us from Clive Barker's anthology "Books of Blood." Settle in, loves.

An American journalist exposed the serious deficiencies in the Lucy Letby murder trial, but British readers weren't allowed to see it... nor did they want to. What does the fraught conversation around Lucy Letby's guilt tell us about the media, our institutions, and the criminal justice system?

[0:00] Mark tells Corrigan about the disappearance of Lars Mittank
[21:15] Mark celebrates Father's Day, we talk about the 4 hour YouTube takedown of the Star Wars hotel, we discuss CoRri's mourning period over her dog and whether you could fit a human in a pet euthabag
[39:10] Furiosa tanked in the theaters. Can we save cinemagoing?
[56:13] What we watched! ( Hit Man, Romy & Michele’s High School Reunion, To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar, Pride, The Omen, Six Schizophrenic Brothers [Book - Hidden Valley Road], Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Thale, Brats, I Saw The TV Glow)
[90:36] We revisit the Lucy Letby case and question whether we're collectively too attached to her guilt... and if so, what does that say about us and our criminal justice systems.

• The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel
• A British Nurse Was Found Guilty of Killing Seven Babies. Did She Do It?
• Why a New Yorker Story on a Notorious Murder Case Is Blocked in Britain
• “Impossible to approach the reporting the way I normally would”: How Rachel Aviv wrote that New Yorker story on Lucy Letby
• New Yorker Story Questions Guilt Of Nurse Convicted Of Killing 7 Babies

Uh oh! Corrigan's busting some myth's again, breaking down the tall tale of the War of the Worlds panic broadcast. Then, as Marko and CoRri both deal with different deaths in their lives, it's a chat about what it means to leave a legacy, and how we and others stave off the dreaded "second death."

[0:00] Corrigan tells Marko about the myth of the War of the Worlds panic broadcast
[30:28] CoRri talks about the absurd ways her dog is slipping from life, new JoAG mailings are coming, Let's Play is coming, book club is Saturday, and CoRri is taking extraordinary measures to ensure the success of the NYC meeting
[44:00] What we watched! (Double Jeopardy, The Fugitive, Dancing for the Devil: The 7M TikTok Cult, MoviePass, MovieCrash, Babes, Cronos, The Exorcist: Believer, Stung, Under Paris. The Strangers: Chapter One)
[87:50] We talk about what it means for your memory to outlive you, and whether we want it to

• The War of the Worlds panic was a myth
• 75 Years Ago, 'War Of The Worlds' Started A Panic. Or Did It? : The Two-Way : NPR
• The Infamous "War of the Worlds" Radio Broadcast Was a Magnificent Fluke | Smithsonian
• The Halloween myth of the War of the Worlds panic - BBC News
• Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds panic myth: The infamous radio broadcast did not cause a nationwide hysteria.
• Ecuador's War of the Worlds: The Myth That Was
• The War of the Worlds in Ecuador

Every now and then we like to take stock of where we are in our slide towards the apocalypse, so this week we're looking back over the last four years and asking, has everything gotten worse?

[0:00] Marko tells Corrigan about an online asshole who murdered via suicide
[21:49] CoRri is a brash American, Mark finds out what brand of neurodivergent he is, and we delve into our weird dream states
[38:00] JoAG is going YouTube, the Conjuring is coming to our ko-fi, and we rip the Warrens again
[44:27] A Russian family melting down outside Corrigan's window leads to a discussion of corporal punishment
[53:06] What we watched! (Atlas, Escape from New York, The Fall Guy, The Coffee Table, Fallen Idols: Nick and Aaron Carter, The First Omen)
[86:49] From our personal lives to greeflation to AI, we question what's gotten worse and better since we started this podcast in August of 2020.

• ‘Consumers are more powerful than President Biden’: The war on greedflation is being won one private-label brand at a time
• Inflation is cooling. So why are food prices, from steak to fast-food meals, still rising?
• The 7 most shocking Google AI answers we’ve seen so far

It is the rare occasion upon which it is a holiday in BOTH of our countries, so we're chillin' out with a low key movie deep dive. Or at least that was the plan. We took a lot of twists and turns, but hey, come nurse your holiday hangover w/ your moviephile weirdo besties.

[0:00] Mark gets a mysterious set of phone calls, which leads to a discussion of scams
[12:16] Richard Dreyfuss has continued his Jaws tour and it's not going great! [24:30 We discuss what kind of Spielberg tattoo Corrigan would put on her thicc thigh, and lowkey racist things like Tintin, Agatha Christie, an Roald Dahl
[34:07] What we watched! With many tangents including why Civil War makes CoRri rage-y, why Caitlin Cronenberg is an alright nepo-baby, the '90s obsession with tribal shit, and more!
[87:27] We play 20 questions! Mark makes Corrigan guess what random movie he watched on Netflix this week. Tell us when you got it and what questions CoRri should have asked.

• Furiosa
• Fury Road
• Day of the Dead
• All You Need is Death
• Civil War
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
• Congo
• Humane
• Mad Max

Corrigan tells Mark the dark origins of the phrase "the dingo ate my baby," and we discuss how travel can be hazardous to your life expectancy as we explore the many ways tourists have died on holiday.

[0:00] Corrigan tells Mark about the time a dingo ate a lady's baby and everyone laughed
[28:30] Mark spins a yarn, CoRri's air conditioner birds have flown the nest, we've got book club and Fancave updates, and we discuss our favorite book to movie adaptations and what fantasy worlds we'd want to live in.
[51:52] Marko rants about the JASON UNIVERSE
[60:30] What we watched! (Gaslight, In Bruges, Kim's Video, Challengers, Jurassic World Dominion, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, Gozilla x Kong: The New Empire, Sting, The Loved Ones
[103:00] We discuss ways in which tourists have met their ends abroad

• Azaria Chamberlain inquest: forget the dingo jokes and recognise Lindy’s trauma
• DISTURBING DETAILS FOUND AT AZARIA CHAMBERLAIN'S DEATH SCENE
• From the vault – Chamberlain collection
• Vindication at Last for a Woman Scorned by Australia’s News Outlets
• Azaria Chamberlain inquest
• Australian coroner finds dingo took baby Azaria in 1980
• 'The police were feeding information to the press': The Australian mother wrongly convicted of murder
• Why That ‘Dingo’s Got My Baby’ Line Isn’t Funny
• 'Dingo baby' mystery finally solved? Australia inquest hopes to close 1980 case
• Dingo baby ruling ends 32 years of torment for Lindy Chamberlain
• How do Dingos hunt?
• Dingo attacks are rare – but here’s what you need to know about dingo safety
• Dingoes: How dangerous are they?
• The disturbing disappearance and death of the German Tourists in Death Valley — StrangeOutdoors.com
• The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans
• Death Valley Germans • Family Lost in Death Valley California

After Mark tells CoRri about a wild Seattle airplane theft, we embark on a wide ranging chat covering a self-medicating primate, British playground games, religion in schools, and whether tiktok pedophile hunters are doing the lord's work or doing it for clout.

[0:00] Marko tells Corrigan about Beebo Russell's grand theft aviation
[23:30] There are birds in CoRri's walls, we're playing lots of video games, and we give some inspiration
[37:00] Marko met Bookseller Ryan in a Princess Diana themed cafe
[43:17] An orangutan made medicine!! Also, we learn some hymns from Marko's weird Welsh childhood and how to play the game of conkers
[67:52] What we watched! (Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Twister, Challengers, Fall Guy, A History of Violence, When a Stranger Calls, Abigail)
[88:30] We discuss the whacky world of pedophile hunters

• Wounded orangutan seen using plant as medicine
• Extended audio: Horizon employee talks with air traffic control in cockpit
• Vigilante paedophile hunters ruining lives with internet stings
• Self-proclaimed paedophile hunter arrested, charged with assault and revealing identity of person charged with sexual offence
• A vigilante ‘predator hunter’ clashed with police and prosecutors. Now, he’s the one facing felony charges.
• Feud between sexual predator ‘sting’ KTS group, Madison County authorities continues
• The Controversial Rise of Vigilante Paedophile Hunters
• Is evidence from a vigilante 'sting' operation accepted in UK courts?

This week Corrigan tells Marko all about the toxic waste dotting the landscape of the U.S. and how climate change is making it worse, and we dive into some extreme forms of protest people have undertaken and why they did it.

[0:00] Corrigan tells Marko about toxic superfund sites
[27:55] Mark saw Bruce Springsteen who is surprisingly popular in Wales
[35:00] Corrigan's surreal Richard Dreyfuss experience and weekend from Hell
[54:46] Thursday we'll have a new Ko-Fi exclusive episode of JoAG Fancave on The Strangers, and we've got a watch along coming Saturday, May 25th!
[60:27] What we watched! (The Strangers, Basket Case, Godzilla Minus One, Inglourious Basterds, Dead of Night (aka Deathdream), Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles, Love Lies Bleeding)
[90:40] We discuss extreme protests

• Cesspools in Eden by the Dead Kennedys
• Self-immolation and other ‘spectacular’ protests: How impactful are they?
• Asylum seekers sew lips together | World news | The Guardian
• Asylum seekers in Australia sew lips together in protest at indefinite detainment
• Reports of lips sewn together as asylum seekers stage hunger strike | Australia news | The Guardian
• A protest, standing in water, for 14 days
• Graphic pictures: Woman hangs herself on fish hooks in Paris shark protest
• Artist nails his scrotum to the ground in Red Square | Russia | The Guardian
• The Five Most Toxic Sites in the U.S.
• What is Superfund? | US EPA
• A.L. TAYLOR (VALLEY OF DRUMS) | Superfund Site Profile | Superfund Site Information | US EPA
• LOVE CANAL | Superfund Site Profile | Superfund Site Information | US EPA
• Love Canal - Wikipedia
• 'We've been forgotten': In Newark, N.J., a toxic Superfund site faces growing climate threats
• As hundreds of toxic sites await cleanup, questions over Superfund program’s future | PBS News Weeken