Episodes
September 30, 2026
Episode 11: A Race Car in the Red — Burnout, the Protestant Work Ethic & Why Logic Can't Save You
There is a kind of tired that sleep does not touch, and this episode is ninety minutes of two people circling it. The card came up world-weary — a woman
Show notesSeptember 29, 2026
Episode 10: Fighting for the Three — Moral Vampires, Impossible Ethics & the Myth of Good Guys
There is a version of the vampire that stopped being a monster somewhere in the last century and started being a mirror. Not the thing out there you drive
Show notesSeptember 13, 2026
Episode 9: You Can't Cut the Magnet — Divine Feminine, Subconscious Reprogramming & the Origin of Rewired
This is a dispatch from the vault: an unreleased episode of Matt’s old show, Contemplating Resonance , and the very first time he and Jaye Anne ever
Show notesAugust 30, 2026
Episode 8: When Do We Bare Our Teeth? — AI Purity Culture, the BITE Model & Why Regulation Beats Boycotts
Matt pulls Strength as a jumper (it fell face-up) from the Symdala Tarot , a round mandala deck whose guidebook gives every card a one-word activation
Show notesAugust 16, 2026
Episode 7: The Most Repressed Archetype — The Magician, Creative Fear & Funding Your Own Dream
Matt pulls a deck he hasn’t touched in over a year — the Deviant Moon Tarot , where the clothing is stitched from photographed 19th-century tombstones and
Show notesAugust 2, 2026
Episode 6: The Tension Is the Point — The Empress, AI's Shadow & Why Binaries Won't Go Away
It’s Pride Month, so Matt brings the queer deck and pulls The Empress: bearded, liberation-focused, shield reading live, laugh, liberate . What starts as
Show notesJuly 19, 2026
Episode 5: There's No Waning Cycle — Burnout, Astrology & Why Technology Never Lets You Rest
Astrology isn’t predicting it; it’s reflecting it — the cosmos enforcing cycles a culture of endless progress refuses to honor. The question we couldn’t
Show notesJuly 5, 2026
Episode 4: Animism All the Way Down — AI, Technology as Magic & the Purity Trap
This is the one where we mix the things you’re not supposed to mix, argue that the purity line around technology is shadow projection in an ethics
Show notesJune 21, 2026
Episode 3: Shadow Capitalism — AI as Amplifier, Scarcity Games & Where Resource Ends and Being Begins
On the surface, a riff on the King of Pentacles. Underneath: reality as a set of consented games — speakeasies, masks, LARPing, capitalism — and AI as an
Show notesJune 21, 2026
Episode 2: Participant, Not Consumer — Cultural Appropriation, Tarot & Why There's No Clean Line
Two white people take on appropriation vs. appreciation and refuse to dodge it. The Hanged Man — Matt’s recurring card, drawn 3 of the 4 times he’s ever
Show notesJune 21, 2026
Episode 1: What Kind of Smoke Is It? — Religious Trauma, Biblical Inerrancy & Leaving Evangelical Christianity for Witchcraft
NOTE: We forgot to pull a card. On the debut. The one rule of the show — pull a card, follow it, leave it unresolved — missed on episode one. So we did
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