126! Magic vs. Tech in Media and Ghost Foods

Why are we gravitating toward magic against technology, and is magic winning the cultural conversation? And what's your worst possible ghost food? [30:55]

This week, Joey, Aaron, and Jess talk about the difference between fantasy and SciFi, magic as Big Tech's foil, the Waves of Pocahontas, WandaVision, silphium, ghost foods we currently live with (thanks again, allergies!), and the ultimate pear. They don’t talk about the legend that is Don Hertzfeldt.

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• What Joey's been watching: Fate: The Winx Saga (Netflix), The Nevers (HBO), The Irregulars (Netflix), Shadow and Bone (Netflix), and The Legend of Korra (Netflix)

• Rolling Stone: The True Origins of ‘X-Men’

• Naomi Alderman's The Power

• engadget: Motherhood, nature and technology in 'Horizon Zero Dawn'

• Returnal Is Harder Than Dark Souls?? - Too Hard?

• Baywatch is on Hulu in all it's absurd glory.

• Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade

• Gastropod podcast: Of Ghost Foods and Culinary Extinction

• BBC on the mystery of Silphium

• "You got chocolate in my peanut buttah!"

• Dogfish Head's Ancient Ales collection

• Unchained pottery

• Our ghost collaborators from The Cell vs. Louise Bourgeois: Structures of Existence; The Cells

• And don't you worry ... forever and always, we're always here.