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Jun 21, 2025

I spent way too much time trying to shoehorn a Warhammer 40K reference into this episode title, and it devolved into something that would make a Chaos Marine blush. So we're keeping it professional (kinda) and diving straight into the space weather for 2025's back 9.

Watch along on YouTube here, if you like. This is...


Jun 13, 2025

I've been revisiting Ursula K. Le Guin's brilliant essay "The Child and the Shadow". Le Guin was defending fantasy against the sterile modernism of her era—but what happens when that defence needs to evolve? We're no longer fighting a battle between "good" and "bad" fantasy. Instead, we're caught in something...


Apr 14, 2025

Hello from Cusco, where the streets are laid out like a puma and hawkers offer massages on every corner. I've been thinking about Huáscar, the last true Sapa Inca, who willingly took sacred knowledge into the underworld until the time was right for its return.

What if the strange convergence we're witnessing - the...


Jan 8, 2025

Ringing in the new year with a banger!

John Michael Greer returns to the show to explore

  • Whether we can say if 'western' magic has a discernable metaphysics.
  • What those might be.

Seeing as AI did such a good job of giving us a definition of metaphysics (which you will get in the show), here's what she thinks the...


Dec 24, 2024

Austin Coppock returns to the show for our traditional six-monthly astrological forecast, this time for the first half of 2025.

We are calling this one Just The Tip (Of The Chainsword)!

  • 00:00 Introduction to 2025 Astrology Predictions
  • 02:56 The Significance of Warhammer 40K in 2025
  • 05:45 Astrological Context: The...