Gargoyles

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

Alex Schmidt

Society & Culture, Comedy, History

4.7 • 720 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Alex Schmidt is joined by comedy writer/podcaster Conor Lastowka and historian/podcaster Patrick Wyman for a look at why gargoyles are secretly incredibly fascinating.

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0:00.0	Gargoyles, known for being spooky, famous for being stony.
0:08.0	Nobody thinks much about them, so let's have some fun.
0:11.0	Let's find out why gargoyles are secretly incredibly fascinating. Hey, there, folks.
0:34.7	Welcome to a whole new podcast episode, a podcast all about why being alive is more interesting than people think it is.
0:42.8	My name is Alex Schmidt, and I'm not alone.
0:46.2	My guests today are wonderful.
0:48.2	I'm joined by two guests, Connor Lestoka and Patrick Wyman.
0:52.5	Connor is a comedy writer, novelist, and podcaster.
0:56.6	He's a senior writer-producer for Rift Tracks, which I hope you know for amazing movie-based comedy.
1:01.8	He also co-hosts a podcast called 372 Pages We'll Never Get Back about particularly excruciating
1:09.0	books to read.
1:10.1	And Connor writes better Novels.
1:11.6	His newest novel is entitled The Pole Vault Championship of the entire universe.
1:16.6	You may remember Connor from the episode of this show about butter.
1:19.6	Also very excited to have a new guest, Patrick Wyman, who you may know from podcasting.
1:24.6	He has amazing shows like Tides of History and the Fall of Rome,
1:28.8	just wonderful, wonderful history podcasting. And Patrick's a writer and historian as well,
1:34.1	and I highly recommend his new book. It is entitled The Verge, Reformation, Renaissance, and 40
1:40.3	years that shook the world. Those 40 years in the title of The Verge are 1490 to 1530.
1:47.7	And if you only know Columbus happened then, you have a lot to find out about.
1:52.9	And it's really astounding to know how much that time period really flipped all of world
1:58.8	history, all at once.
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