Ep. 142: Remember the Titan

Jack of All Graves

Big week for boatcore enthusiasts, folks! We’re discussing the real life horror story that was the disappearance of the Titan submersible, and the strange trajectory of the social media discourse around it. Plus, CoRri tells Mark why orcas are super metal.

Highlights:

[0:00] Corrigan tells Mark about orcas
[28:00] We introduce our main topic: The ill-fated Titan submersible! We also have a watch-along July 1st, and we just had book club!
[38:10] What we watched! (Possum, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Polite Society, Cuban Fury, Jaws, NOPE, Mad Heidi
[72:57] We get into our discussion of the TItan submersible!

Stuff we referenced:

• Why Has a Group of Orcas Suddenly Started Attacking Boats?
• Why Don’t Orca Ever Attack Humans in the Wild?
• Facts About Orcas
• Resident killer whales sometimes attack porpoises but never eat them
• Orca Rams Into Yacht Near Scotland As Boat-Bashing Behavior Seems To Spread North
• Tilikum: Grim History of SeaWorld’s Killer Orca That Violently Killed 3 People
• Titanic Sub Updates
• SeaWorld trainer torn limb from limb by killer whale turned ‘psychotic’ by captivity
• Missing Titanic submersible: what is the Titan tourist sub and what might have happened to it?
• A former passenger details what it’s like inside the missing Titan submersible
• Inside the Titanic tourist submersible missing with 5 people
• Physicist explains how Titan’s ‘catastrophic implosion’ might have happened–and what it meant for those on board
• Titan submersible maker OceanGate faced safety lawsuit in 2018: “Potential danger to passengers”
• Stockton Rush Was Warned Sub Was Following Titanic’s ‘Unsinkable’ Mistake