# Joe Compton

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Magic: Power and Its Costs

In Episode 80 of Rabbit Hole of Research, Joe, Nick, Georgia, and Mary welcome author B.L. Mostyn (Heroes of Another Age) to the Basement Studio to discuss the costs of magical systems. We discuss the physics, biology, politics, and ecology behind magic systems, fantastical creatures, and the power…

The Mini: Magic

In Episode 81: The Mini: Joe, Nick, and Georgia recap Episode 80: Magic — Power and Its Costs with author B.L. Mostyn, talk about the storm that swept through Chicagoland causing a 10-day power outage, and Joe fanboying at Fan Expo Chicago — where John Carpenter, Kurt Russell, and Keith David were …

The Mini: The Cloud

In Episode 83: The Mini, Joe, Nick, and Georgia recap Episode 82: Data Centers: Are We Really Blowing Up the Planet for AI Slop and Porn? with confirmed, three-peat returning guest and Friend of the Pod, David Pincus, PhD. The crew follows up on the CoreWeave/Hammond deal, corrects the Tempe Town L…

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

Was E.T really the greatest sci-fi movie of 1982? We go down the rabbit hole of where E.T. fits in the summer that changed sci-fi. In Episode 84 of Rabbit Hole of Research, Joe, Nick, Georgia, and Mary welcome back returning guest and boxing glove artist Chris Guzman (@theboxinggloveartist) to the …

The Mini: E.T. addendums, Science Holes and Media The Crew is Digging

In Episode 85: The Mini, Joe, Nick, and Georgia review the E.T. episode (1982 the greatest summer of sci-fi movies), and add a few more tidbits they forgot to mention during the recording (and it’s a Super-miss). Joe and Georgia talk about DragonCon and seeing alumni of the show out in the wild, an…

Disability in Horror

In Episode 86 of the Rabbit Hole of Research, Joe, Georgia, and Mary (Nick had an emergency) are joined by Bram Stoker-nominated horror-comedy writer Grace Daly to dig into one of horror's oldest and laziest shortcuts: the different body as a signal of danger, evil, or tragedy. From ableist tropes …

The Mini: Nick vs the AI chef

In Episode 87: The Mini, Joe and Georgia welcome Nick back, recap the Disability in Horror episode, and add a bit more to the conversation. Joe forgot to mention during the episode one of his favorite characters, Nick Andros from Stephen King’s The Stand (which he reads almost every year). They to…

The Crazies

In Episode 88 of the Rabbit Hole of Research, Joe, Nick, and Georgia take the show on the road to Reed’s Local, where Melissa and Luc join them to dig into what we really mean when we call someone “crazy.” Using George Romero’s 1973 cult film The Crazies as a starting point, we explore psychosis, s…

The Mini: Crazy

In Episode 89: The Mini, Joe, Nick, and Georgia recap Episode 88: The Crazies, and tie up a few loose ends. Who was the man that stopped sleeping? Did mattress companies invent the eight-hour of sleep for marketing? And there are a couple fun events happening at Reed’s Local, a Halloween Bike ride …

Witch Please

In Episode 90 of the Rabbit Hole of Research, Joe, Nick, and Georgia head back to the basement studio for the second episode in their month of horror. Returning guest Bill Halliar kicks things off with a protective spell, just in case. We talk about the Malleus Maleficarum, the numbers behind Salem…