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Weird Studies

Phil Ford and J. F. Martel

Society & Culture, Arts, Philosophy

4.8 • 688 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Every off-week, listeners who have chosen to support Weird Studies by joining our Patreon at the Listener's Tier get to enjoy a bonus episode. These episodes are different from the flagship show. Less formal and entirely improvised, they offer Phil and JF a different way of exploring the weird in art, philosophy and culture. To tide our listenership over until the next new episode drops on September 25th, 2024, here is a recent example of a Weird Studies audio extra, recorded as your hosts were finishing up their first Weirdosphere course, "The Beauty and the Horror." The conversation ended up centering on cultural works we experienced in childhood, and that are all the more magical for being only vaguely remembered. To enroll in JF's upcoming Weirdosphere course, "Whirl Without End: Fairy Tales and the Weird," please visit www.weirdosphere.org. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0	Spectrevision Radio
0:02.0	Welcome to Weird Studies. I'm J.F. Martel.
0:14.0	This isn't an official Weird Studies episode.
0:17.0	Phil Ford and I are technically on hiatus until September 25th.
0:22.2	What we're offering you today is an episode we released in July for our Patreon supporters.
0:27.1	Our patrons get to listen to one of these every off week, just so you know.
0:31.4	The bonus episodes differ from the flagship shows and that they are completely improvised.
0:36.5	We go in blind, eager to find out what the
0:38.9	conversation's about along with our listeners. Often, we end up developing ideas we could not have
0:45.2	come up with otherwise. The conversation you're about to hear is an example of that kind of magic,
0:51.3	when it feels like we're being guided, as if we were part of some larger tale.
0:56.4	In a sense, a good conversation is always that way, isn't it? It's always a bit like a fairy tale.
1:01.7	You don't know where it will take you. You end up thinking new and strange things,
1:06.6	and in doing so, you become something you weren't before. Whereas you were just a frog,
1:12.8	now you're a frog who was once a prince, and then a prince who was once a frog.
1:18.6	When I used to read fairy tales, Alice says in her famous adventure in Wonderland, I fancied that
1:24.5	kind of thing never happened. And now here I am in the middle of one.
1:29.4	Magical conversations aside, have you ever found yourself standing suddenly in the middle
1:34.4	of a fairy tale? It's happened to me a few times, and I bet it has happened to you too. It may be
1:41.5	just a matter of remembering. And when you remember that time you found
1:45.3	yourself in the middle of a fairy tale, something odd happens. You realize that you're still there,
1:52.0	still in the deep, dark woods, the golden palace, the fairy court. There's a sense in which
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