It Could Happen Here Weekly 207
It Could Happen Here
Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
4.3 • 6.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2025
⏱️ 256 minutes
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Summary
All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file.
- Occulture, Technomancy vs Tradition, and the Role of Magick in 2025
- The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: The Heart Stops Reluctantly
- The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: Out of Sight, Out of Mind
- The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: The Quality of Mercy
- Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #40
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The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Corinna Barrett Lain, Secrets of the Killing State: The Untold Story of Lethal Injection (New York: New York University Press, 2025.)
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The Shady Business of Lethal Injection: The Quality of Mercy
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:06.1 | Hey, everybody. Robert Evans here, and I wanted to let you know this is a compilation episode. |
| 0:12.7 | So every episode of the week that just happened is here in one convenient and with somewhat less ads package for you to listen to in a long stretch if you want. |
| 0:23.3 | If you've been listening to the episodes every day this week, |
| 0:25.5 | there's going to be nothing new here for you, |
| 0:27.1 | but you can make your own decisions. |
| 0:44.7 | Welcome back to the It Could Happen here, spooky special. |
| 0:46.2 | I'm Garrison Davis. |
| 0:50.2 | I hope you had a pleasantly frightful Halloween. |
| 0:57.5 | I just got back from Berlin and had a very scary time at the Amsterdam airport and will forever hold a grudge against the Dutch people. But in Berlin, I attended the 2025 Acculture |
| 1:04.2 | Conference, which seeks to explore the relationship between occultism and culture. |
| 1:16.3 | My first Acculture episode, last week, gave an overview on the subject of a culture, |
| 1:20.8 | and talked with a panel of artists and magic practitioners about some of the dominant, |
| 1:26.5 | topical currents throughout the conference, namely William S. Burroughs, the cut-up method, |
| 1:29.0 | and the tension around generative AI. |
| 1:35.0 | This episode will follow up on discussions of AI and digital technomancy, |
| 1:38.9 | and compare those to the other large current throughout the conference, |
| 1:42.7 | the revival of traditional occult practices. |
| 1:47.3 | Then the panel of Ryan, Delta, Elaine, and myself will debate the role of occult practice in 2025 and the current ability of occultism |
| 1:54.3 | to influence and shape culture and politics. Now back to the panel. |
| 2:03.7 | Fast forwarding to Saturday, |
| 2:09.0 | there was another block that focused on LOMs and digital technomancy called Pop Magic Language and Reality Hacks. |
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