Jan 01 2025 138 mins 2
As 2025 kicks off, Corrigan tells Marko some dark tales she learned on her vacation in Rome, and we look back at our favorite things this year and forward at what's on the horizon for us this year.
Highlights:
[0:00 ] Corrigan tells Marko the dark tales of two women who've become feminist symbols in Italy
[54:34 ] CoRri recaps her vacation, including the many human bones she saw, Mark smells of brisket
[1:04:30 ] What we watched! (Nosferatu, Twister, Carry-On, Resolution, Gladiator, Werewolves, RoboCop,
[1:26:28 ] Looking back over what we got up to in 2024 and forward to 2025
[1:46:20 ] Our favorite things from 2024 -- Movies, books, TV, music, and adventures!
Stuff we referenced:
- Toxicology in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
- Ghost & Crimes of Rome Tour - Ask for Yash!
- The tragic story of Beatrice Cenci
- Violence Begets Violence: The Cruel Death of Beatrice Cenci
- This Aristocratic Family Turned on its Abusive Patriarch
- Meet Giulia Tofana: The 17th-Century Professional Poisoner Said To Have Killed 600 Men
- Giulia Tofana, Italy’s most notorious poisoner
- Le donne silenziate: the foundations of the Italian patriarchy
- Italy confronts its toxic culture of violence against women
- Make noise! A murder and a movie stir Italians to loudly demand an end to violence against women
- Femicide in Italy: A modern phenomenon deeply rooted in country’s cultural past
- Italy grapples with its patriarchal history as femicide cases shock the nation
- Giulia Tofana: poisoner, murderer, saviour?
