Strange Brews: Weird Studies Live at Illuminated Brew Works

On May 23, 2022, Meredith Michael joined JF and Phil for a live recording at Illuminated Brew Works, a craft brewery in Chicago, Illinois.The occasion was the launch of Weird Studies Black IPA, the fruit of a collaboration with IBW brewmaster Brian Buckman and his team of beer alchemists. The game plan was to talk about potions, but the final conversation ranges over a number of topics including singularity and repetition, time and eternity, alchemy and ritual, Okakura Kakuzō's The Book of Tea, cooking and pickling, and the cultural phenomenon Phil calls "weedhead sh*t." Purchase the Weird Studies Black IPA from Beer on the Wall (https://wehavegreatbeer.square.site/product/illuminated-brew-works-weird-studies-4pk-for-shipping-only-/8126?cp=true&sa=false&sbp=false&q=true) or visit the Illuminated Brew Works (https://www.ibw-chicago.com) website. Buy volume 1 (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/weird-studies-music-from-the-podcast-vol-1) and volume 2 (https://pierre-yvesmartel.bandcamp.com/album/weird-studies-music-from-the-podcast-vol-2) of the Weird Studies soundtrack by Pierre-Yves Martel (https://www.pymartel.com) Support us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/weirdstudies) Find us on Discord (https://discord.com/invite/Jw22CHfGwp) Get the new T-shirt design from Cotton Bureau (https://cottonbureau.com/products/can-o-content#/13435958/tee-men-standard-tee-vintage-black-tri-blend-s)! Get your Weird Studies merchandise (https://www.redbubble.com/people/Weird-Studies/shop?asc=u) (t-shirts, coffee mugs, etc.) Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop (https://bookshop.org/shop/weirdstudies) SHOW NOTES Okakura Kakuzō, [The Book of Tea](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheBookofTea)_ Oscar Wilde on absinthe (https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/335553-after-the-first-glass-of-absinthe-you-see-things-as) Mircea Eliade, [The Myth of the Eternal Return: Cosmos and History](https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Eternal-Return-Princeton-Bollingen/dp/0691182973/ref=sr11?crid=2P1E7XDGASW4L&keywords=The+Myth+of+the+Eternal+Return%3A+Cosmos+and+History&qid=1654693787&s=books&sprefix=the+myth+of+the+eternal+return+cosmos+and+history%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C63&sr=1-1) Toni Morrison. Song of Solomon (https://www.amazon.com/Song-Solomon-Toni-Morrison-Books/s?k=Song+of+Solomon+Toni+Morrison&rh=n%3A283155) The Suzuki Method (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzuki_method) Robert Fink, Repeating Ourselves: American Minimal Music as Cultural Practice (https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520245501/repeating-ourselves) David Cronenberg (dir.), Scanners (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081455/) (1981) Lars von Trier (dir.), Dancer in the Dark (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168629/) (2000) Alan Watts, Beat Zen, Square Zen and Zen (https://www.amazon.com/Beat-Zen-Square/dp/0872860515) William Shakespeare, Macbeth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macbeth) Special Guest: Meredith Michael.