Phil Ford and J.F. Martel from the great "Weird Studies" podcast join us for a whirling discussion of Edgar Allan Poe’s mesmerizing tale of decadence and disease “The Masque of the Red Death." We also talk about weird fiction more generally, why it’s so suited to the short story genre, how it creates a mood that drips and bursts from the seam of the page.
Plus David and Tamler in the opening segment talk about Aella’s data-driven, chart and graph filled birthday orgy. Is she the sex symbol for our times?
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Episode 168: The Big Lebowski vs Pulp Fiction (Pt. 2)
Episode 167: The Big Lebowski vs Pulp Fiction (Pt. 1)
Episode 166: Total Recall (Ted Chiang's "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling")
Episode 165: Life With No Head (With Sam Harris)
Episode 164: Choosing to Believe
Episode 163: Should I Stay or Should I Go? (Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas")
Episode 162: Parents Just Don't Understand (with Paul Bloom)
Episode 161: Reach-Around Knowledge and Bottom Performers (The Dunning-Kruger Effect)
Episode 160: Everything is Meaningless: The Book of Ecclesiastes
Episode 159: You Have the Right to Go to Prison
Episode 158: False Dichotomies and Oral Reciprocity
Episode 157: Notes From Underground (Pt. 2)
Episode 156: Notes From Underground (Pt. 1)
Episode 155: Alfred Hitchcock's Money Shot
Episode 154: Metaphysical Vertigo (Borges's "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius")
Episode 153: Progress in Psychology: A Reply to BootyBootyFartFart
Episode 152: Ruthlessness, Public and Private
Episode 151: Viddy Well, My Listeners (Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange")
Episode 150: Paul Bloom Insisted That We Talk About Sex Robots
Episode 149: Death, Immortality, and Porn (Intuition) Pumps
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