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vote save America.com slash Georgia. From Crooked Media, this is unholyer than now.

I'm your host, Philip Picardy.

Well, everybody, I hope you're ready to light the menorah and spin that dreidel,

because Hanukkah officially started this week.

A little later on in this episode will be

welcoming John Lovett for a very special and at least partially Hanukkah themed

edition of, Am I going to hell for this? But first, let's get to today's

big story. Throughout the course of this season we've had this and insight to meet our current moment. But today I want to focus a little

less on Jewish theology and a little more on Jewish magic. Nobody knows magic

better really than the incredible author Alice Hoffman whose whose book Practical Magic, gifted the world

with a movie adaptation that featured Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kinman casting

spells and seeking revenge on a wily man. Alice's later books often employ the use of magic to help her main characters as they seek

justice, redemption, and happiness in an otherwise hostile world.

This was particularly prescient in her novel, The World that we knew, where Alice utilized

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