Today, how all soul species are here to sort out the love vs. will question, the real source of the fantasy of good vs. evil, how religion has been the tool of Gephians, Edenity’s take on transgender, and much more, it was a dense episode. Two quick notes: the concept that the war between the Cahrpacians and Gephians is yin-in-service vs. yang-in-service respectively came to Stace after we recorded, so I made that the title but you won’t hear us use those terms directly. Also, I suggested with my porous memory that it was maybe House Republicans who were caught having a Nazi-soaked text thread, but this was the political organization of the Young Republicans, an important distinction.

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