It’s Oscar time as Mike & Jake are joined by comedians Joe List and Sarah Tollemache to talk Forrest Gump, Boyhood, Birdman, J.K. Simmons, and American Sniper. Be sure to rate and subscribe on iTunes!

No more teachers, no more books…because we’re in our 30s. Amber, Seena, Ed, & Sam try and relate to 15-year-old Justin Atkinson. Stay in school, or at least make it to third period.

In the first of our two parter on axe murders throughout history, we cover a story of a prostitute brutally murdered WITH AN AXE in olde New York and the story of Kate Webster, an Irishwoman who murdered her boss, dismembered the body, and threw the whole mess into the River Thames.

Guest Jackie Zebrowski joins us to talk about growing up watching Busty Cops and Playmate of the Apes, older men, and watching porn with her partner. Help support TWiJ here: www.patreon.com/twij Follow Jackie on twitter @JackTheWorm Follow us too @TWiJpod, @chrislaker, @mykafox

The moon. Is it hollow? Are there aliens inside? Is it even REAL? We answer all these questions and more on our exploration of Earth’s very first satellite and the experts that maintain that the moon is definitely, absolutely, without a doubt, not what it seems.

It’s the second part of the Boston Strangler Murders as we cover the two psychics who became entrenched in the search for the killer and both the likely and unlikely suspects of the murders including the man who took credit for it all but probably didn’t do it: Albert DeSalvo.

It’s a different kind of Heavy Hitter as we cover a series of brutal and bizarre murders that were almost certainly committed by no less than three people over a period of 18 months in Boston during the early sixties.

We end our series on the Nazi-Occult connection with it’s most heinous evildoer, Heinrich Himmler, and the esoteric meanings behind the swastika.

It’s part one of our coverage of the occult roots of the Nazi party, from the seemingly harmless teachings of Madame Helena Blavatsky to the nefarious Thule Society and beyond.

Aliens return with the Coronado Group Abduction, in which at least six people were abducted while attending a UFO convention on the same night in the same motel while Bill Clinton was in town. There’s a lot to unpack here.

It’s our 2014 retrospective, as we cover the year’s most murderous news stories from January to December, including spree stabbings, Brazillian serial killers, Irish baby graves, and mass fatal alcohol poisonings.

It’s the dark side of our lord and savior Santa Claus, from his supposed Satanic leanings to the horrifying wonder that is Christmas in Iceland.