Episode 185: Intuition and Reality: The Wedge, Part One
"The Wedge" is a key concept for Phil and JF. When exploring weird phenomena—from artworks to ghosts, and everything in between—one tends to emphasize one or the other "end" of the event. At the thin ...
26 Feb 20251h 17min
Special Release: Poltergeists, Fairies, Skeptics, and the Managerial Class
Due to scheduling conflicts and a series of unforeseen events, JF and Phil have had to push the release of the next official episode of Weird Studies back by one week. To tide you over, we're unlockin...
19 Feb 202533min
Episode 184: On David Lynch
David Lynch passed away on January 15th, 2025, leaving behind a body of work that reshaped the landscape of cinema and television. Few artists have delved as deeply into the strange, the beautiful, an...
5 Feb 20251h 42min
Episode 183: On Hermann Hesse's 'Siddhartha'
Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha is one of the great novels of the twentieth century and a prime example of literature that transforms the deeply personal into something universal. For Phil and JF in this e...
22 Jan 20251h 21min
Episode 182: Providence of Evil: On Robert Eggers' 'Nosferatu'
In this episode, JF and Phil examine the myth of the vampire through the lens of Robert Eggers' latest film, Nosferatu, a reimagining of F. W. Murnau's German Expressionist masterpiece. Topics covered...
8 Jan 20251h 20min
Holiday Bonus: Waiting for the Next Sentence
With the next flagship show set to drop on January 8, 2025, we thought we'd tide you over with this conversation on the art and craft and writing, originally recorded for Listener's Tier patrons on th...
18 Dec 202445min
Episode 181: On 'The X Files,' with Meredith Michael
Chris Carter's The X-Files is weird on its face: a dramatic series that, from the start, presented itself as more than drama, an exploration of the reality of the paranormal using the tools of fiction...
4 Dec 20241h 18min
Episode 180: The Player: On the Magician Card in the Tarot
The Magician card likely graces more front covers of books on the tarot than any of the other major arcana. In many ways, it symbolizes the tarot itself, or the individual who has mastered the art of ...
20 Nov 20241h 22min
