Ep. 165: planes, trains, & ahhh!

Jack of All Graves

CoRri is in crisis this week after hearing too much about airplane disasters, so of course, we’re leaning in and talking about death and transportation, from Arctic shipwreck to airline malfeasance.

Highlights:

[0:00] CoRri tells Marko about the ill-fated Franklin Expedition
[34:30] We shoot the breeze about CoRri’s leaky eye, a thing we can’t announce, an upcoming series we CAN announce, and some resolution updates
[47:39] What we watched! (Antichrist, Star Time, The Abyss, Bitconned, The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, M3gan, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, Funny Games)
[81:31] We discuss death on various forms of transportation

Stuff we referenced:

• How the Discovery of Two Lost Ships Solved an Arctic Mystery
• Inuit oral historian who pointed way to Franklin shipwrecks dies aged 58 | Canada | The Guardian
• Franklin expedition: DNA test identifies member of 1845 Arctic voyage
• What Happened to the Doomed Franklin Expedition? These Are the Clues | HISTORY
• Graves of Beechey Island – Nunavut – Atlas Obscura
• A very special piece of paper | Canadian Museum of History
• VISIONS OF THE NORTH: The Mystery of the “Peglar” Papers
• Franklin’s Doomed Arctic Expedition Ended in Gruesome Cannibalism | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
• Parks Canada Guided Tour Inside HMS Terror – YouTube
• Inside John Franklin’s Lost Expedition And Its Grisly Arctic Demise
• Artifacts of a Doomed Expedition – The New York Times
• The Lost Franklin Expedition | Naval History Magazine – October 2020 Volume 34, Number 5
• Retracing the final days of a doomed 175-year-old Arctic expedition
• Arctic shipwreck ‘frozen in time’ astounds archaeologists
• Ship found in Arctic 168 years after doomed Northwest Passage attempt | Arctic | The Guardian
• NOVA | Arctic Passage | Tracing the Routes (printable) | PBS
• Tales of the Doomed Franklin Expedition Long Ignored the Inuit Side, But “The Terror” Flips the Script | Arts & Culture| Smithsonian Magazine
• Face to face with a Franklin expedition crew member, 140 years later
• Sir John Franklin’s worldly, wayfaring, indefatigable wife
• Jane Franklin: a remarkable woman | Royal Museums Greenwich
• Northwest Passage: Brief History and Origins of Exploration | TIME
• Lead Poisoning Wasn’t a Major Factor in the Mysterious Demise of the Franklin Expedition | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
• Meet the Inuit historian who helped find the Franklin shipwreck