In an episode years in the making, we finally tackle the question of what prison abolition is and whether it would actually work, with the help of "The Leftist Lawyer" Sheryl Weikal! But first, Corrigan tells the true story behind the legend of John Henry and how it ties into the modern prison industrial complex.

[0:00] Corrigan tells Marko and Sheryl the true history behind the legend of John Henry
[39:52] We learn about Sheryl's work as a Pay-What-You-Can lawyer and talk about prison abolition

• Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, The Untold Story of An American Legend by Scott Reynolds Nelson
• The Muddled Distinction Between De Jure and De Facto Segregation
• Racial covenants, a relic of the past, are still on the books across the country
• When Authorities Dunked Outspoken Women in Water
• The Legend of John Henry: Talcott, WV

Boffin Eileen is back! This time she's perfectly adequately (read: AMAZINGLY) answering Marko's burning questions about what the nukes can do to us, and addressing Corrigan's skepticism about regulating our nervous systems! Plus, an impromptu tribute to Catherine O'Hara.

[0:00] Eileen talks about the truly horrific effects of radiation sickness
[58:40] Eileen explores how much we can regulate our own nervous systems, and what it really means to be "dysregulated"

1. Harry Daghlian - Nuclear Museum

2. May 21, 1946: Louis Slotin Becomes Second Victim of “Demon Core” | American Physical Society

3. Scientist of the Day - Harry Daghlian

4. How a careless slip killed a physicist

5. The Slotin Accident: Inside the Archives – Los Alamos Historical Society

6. Medical Studies of the Demon Core Victims

7. The Los Alamos Accident, 1958

8. The Cecil Kelley Criticality Accident9. https://www.epa.gov/radiation/radiation-health-effects

1. 
   Autonomic Nervous System: What It Is, Function & Disorders
2. Sympathetic Nervous System (SNS): What It Is & Function
3. Parasympathetic Nervous System (PSNS): What It Is & Function
4. Stress, Adaptation, and Disease: Allostasis and Allostatic Load - McEWEN - 1998 - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences - Wiley Online Library
5. The Window of Tolerance: What It Is and Why It Matters
6. Expanding the Window of Tolerance: 6 PDFs & Worksheets
7. What We Get Wrong About the Nervous Syste...

A miscommunication leads to us having to wing this episode, and it sure goes all over the place! Corrigan revisits the claims of the Killer in the Code podcast, Marko discusses nuclear war, and we preview the next two REALLY COOL episodes we've got coming.

[0:00] Corrigan gives an update on the Killer in the Code podcast
[32:08] CoRri was a pukey child and we discuss pukey Garbage Pail Kids,
[41:50] We preview some incredible episodes we have coming up the next two weeks!
[58:28] What we watched: Feast, Man Bites Dog, Taxi Driver, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Train Dreams