Welcome to Roon Soup, a weekly podcast about magic, culture and the paranormal.

My name is Gordon and I shall be your host.

This week we welcome back Julia Odi for something of a special episode.

About a week ago we got it in our heads to compile the best depiction of spirits and the spirit world in TV and film from a practitioner perspective.

And so that's what we did. By necessity, there'll be some spoilers ahead, but I think we can make the case that even if we slightly

spoiled the plot the topic under discussion remains unblemished so you can still

find value in seeking out and watching the films and programs we mentioned and I've kept the final list out of the show notes so as not to ruin the reveals.

So if you're listening to this in the car, you may just have to repeat some of the names over and over until you get somewhere you can pull over and make

notes. We've all been there. Let's do this thing.

Julia, welcome back. Hello. So I don't know about you, but since we decided to do this show about a week ago, I've had something of a fun week.

We did. That's true., like I had to squeeze in more films than I usually do watch, but it was fun.

There's a lot of good films that actually couldn't remember them being that good. Right, exactly, and by the same token there was some which I suggested.

I think I pitched more crap than you did.

Like I remember Sphere as being a better film than it was for instance. I always knew it was kind of bad, but I didn't realize it was as bad as when I sat down to watch it.

Yeah, your films were certainly older than mine. I think it's because

it was you know a young kid in Brazil and we didn't have television there. For me it was I

used to be cool and now I'm not so I have like I'm sort of if you I went to

film school in the late 90s early noughties so that's when I kind of knew stuff about film and then I haven't really watched anything.

But all right, I mean, I guess this idea sort of emerged because in the last year or so, maybe two years if you stretch it out,

there's been some really, really good, and by good I mean accurate or almost teachable depictions of things like any

particular spirits that have been in film and TV and so the idea for people listening is that we would kind of throw around

some film and TV titles and they don't actually have to be even good films or TV shows and in fact many of them aren't

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