Join us to discuss Season 13, Episode 6 Tombstone. No, it's not about the frozen pizza, nor is it actually in Tombstone. That doesn't stop Liz from doing lore based there, though, as she talks about the maybe haunted, and maybe not a former bordello, the Bird Cage Theater.

Research Links

• Aimee Austin | THE CABINET CARD GALLERY
• The Birdcage Theatre - Phoenix Ghosts
• The Haunted Bird Cage Theatre | Tombstone's Wickedest Night Spot | Ghost City Tours
• The Tombstone News
• The Tombstone News
• Secrets of Bird Cage Theatre - Deaths Shootings Ghosts & More
• Bird Cage Theatre – OCCULT WORLD
• The Famous “Bird Cages” Balcony Cribs
• Why Big Nose Kate Was More Than Just Doc Holliday's Lover

Season 13, Episode 5 is titled "Advanced Thanatology". Thanatology is the study of death. Now do you get the joke? We delve into that, Billie's wardrobe upgrade, but lack of weapon containers, how Diana still hates ghost shudders, and then tells you all about the history of plague doctors, and it gets kinda gross.

Research Links

• Men in Tights: Charles De Lorme (1584–1678) and the First Plague Costume
• The Redolent Plague Doctor? – Death Scent
• Edinburgh's Dark Side
• 8 Fascinating Facts About Plague Doctors - Listverse
• Remarks On The Treatment Of Bubonic Plague on JSTOR
• The Plague Doctor: AN engraving by Gerhart Altzenbach (17th century). New Haven, Yale Medical Library, Clements C. Fry Collection on JSTOR
• How Did The Black Plague End? Experts Are Still Working On An Answer
• Plague Doctors, The Masked Physicians Who Fought The Black Death
• 17th-century Plague Doctors Were the Stuff of Nightmares | HowStuffWorks
• Plague doctors: Separating medical myths from facts | Live Science

Join us for Season 13, Episode 4, "The Big Empty." Dean's journey into the King of Dicks continues as the celestial man-baby grapples with his lack of feelings. Liz deep dives into EMF and its usefulness, or lack thereof, during paranormal investigations.

Research Links

• Electromagnetism and Paranormal Phenomena – Psi Encyclopedia
• Ghost hunters utilize latest in technology / Paranormal research has become a popular pursuit
• Teddy Bears and Proton Packs: The Pseudoscientific History of Ghost Hunting Gadgets
• The Shady Science of Ghost Hunting | Live Science
• EMF in the Paranormal: What it is, How its Used and Why Investigators Take it Seriously – Paranormal Down Under

It's Season 13, Episode 3, and we just need a little "Patience." We also need Dean to stop being such a Dean. We cheer the returns of both Missouri and Jody! We discuss what would have happened if Missouri had been more a part of the show. Liz talks about what lithomancy and lithomantic gems are, and how to store your heavy bag of rocks.

Research Links

• Gary Wimmer
• Your Guide Towards Lithomancy
• The Poison Pie Publishing House
• Cleromancy - Wikipedia
• The Role of Seer Stones in Biblical History Explained  ~
• The Power Of Lithomancy Revealed: The Ancient Art of Stone Divination - Good Witches Homestead
• Lithomancy - Wikipedia

There was a motel in Wisconsin, they did not call the Rising Son but the Black Hat Motel, which is where we found our Winchesters in Season 13, Episode 2. This is also the introduction of Asmodeus, however the eff you say his name, and Liz gives the background lore on him.

Research Links

• Dictionary of Demons by M. Ballanger
• The Encyclopedia Of Demons And Demonology By Guiley Rosemary Ellen : motivator8 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
• Asmodeus - Wikipedia
• Shedim - Wikipedia

It's Season 13 Episode 1, "Lost and Found," and we have found Jack, the celestial man-baby. Not only that, but we are once again in a moral grey, even if Dean is too far in his grief to see that.

Liz breaks down teleportation, which is oddly relevant to this and next week's episodes.

Research Links

• Teleportation Is Possible—Just Not in the Way You Might Think
• Quantum entanglement - Wikipedia
• TELEPORTATION Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
• Scientists Reveal Quantum Teleportation Has been Achieved
• Scientists say they have finally achieved teleportation in major breakthrough
• How to Teleport Across Space & Time: Is It Possible?

We are at the Season 12 finale, Episode 23 "All Along the Watchtower." We discuss the numerous deaths and WTF moments. Plus, it's Season 12 Trivia time!

It's Season 12, Episode 22, that's Who We Are, and who even are the Winchesters now? Look at all the emotions on Dean! What happened to Sam's morality code? Why doesn't Ketch just get a cat?

During lore, Liz brings the Golden Dawn series to an end telling the story of that time Aleister Crowley and W.B. Yeats had a magical battle in the middle of London during the Battle of Blythe Road.

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Research Links

• Women of the Golden Dawn : rebels and priestesses : Greer, Mary K. (Mary Katherine) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
• Francis King - Modern Ritual Magic - 1989 : Francis King : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
• The Battle at Blythe Road - Hermeneuticon - Hermetic Library
• Vol.15 No.9 1948
• History of the Golden Dawn: A Timeline – The Hermetic Order of The Golden Dawn®
• Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn - Wikipedia
• The True Story Of The Hermetic Order Of The Golden Dawn
• The Battle of Blythe Road

We are discussing Something About Mary, Season 12, Episode 21. Supernatural fulfills their annual tradition of killing off a recurring character during this episode! We ask: Why is Rick putting a bloody machete in the hallway? What should we call Lady Fancy Pants? What is happening to Mary? Is she really brainwashed? We analyze her brainwashing stages against psychologist Robert Jay Lifton's defined process.

Research Links

• How Stuff Works: Inside the Mind
• Editors' Introduction On Brainwashing: Mind Control, Media, and Warfare on JSTOR

We're talking Season 12, Episode 20 Twigs & Twine & Tasha Banes. And twins. Once again, hunters are in peril, and they have called on the Winchesters for help. Will they save the day? And what do you call a fake person made out of sticks? Plus, Liz talks about the Secret Ritual conducted by the Hermetic Order of Golden Dawn's Second Order.

Research Links

• The Golden Dawn Scrapbook: The Rise and Fall of a Magical Order - Theosophical Society in America
• Francis King - Modern Ritual Magic - 1989 : Francis King : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
• Project MUSE - Victorian Occultism and the Making of Modern Magic: Invoking Tradition by Alison Butler (review)
• Dennis Denisoff, “The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, 1888-1901” | BRANCH
• The True Story Of The Hermetic Order Of The Golden Dawn
• Full text of "Ellic Howe - The Magicians of the Golden Dawn - 1985"
• Women of the Golden Dawn : rebels and priestesses : Greer, Mary K. (Mary Katherine) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
• The Flying Rolls – The Hermetic Order of The Golden Dawn®
• History of the Golden Dawn: An Introduction – The Hermetic Order of The Golden Dawn®
• Esoteric Color Mysticism. The Living Power of Color | by Marcus Hedare | Medium
• W. B. Yeats and "A Vision": The Golden Dawn