Rewired

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 costume, and follow animism past the point of comfort: if it’s animism, it’s animism all the way down, or it isn’t animism at all. The most charged question in modern practice: can you blend AI and technology with magic, or does it make you a charlatan?...

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 amplifier of whatever is already there, not a creator of anything new. Jaye Anne named it on-mic: “it was mostly about shadow capitalism.” In this episode * The card: the Gen Z Tarot’s renamed suits (Aesthetic / Mood / Facts / Guap) and the Zaddy...

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 cut this deck — presides over the whole hour: suspension between two ways of being, willing surrender rather than giving up. The core move is to reject the clean binary: there’s no filter that spits out yes/no, and anyone selling you one is sellin...

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 the only honest thing a tarot-adjacent podcast can do: we pulled it late. Months later, blind, from a deck that didn’t exist when we recorded — card 32, Fumus / Smoke , from The Wild Unknown Alchemy deck. Smoldering. Warning. Illusion. Smoke is the...