Episode 058: Warlock (feat. Stephanie Burt)

CEREBRO

Connor Goldsmith

Science Fiction, Arts, Books, Visual Arts, Fiction

4.8 • 815 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2021

⏱️ 179 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 58 of CEREBRO, Connor and Harvard Professor of English Stephanie Burt twist into new shapes with the whimsical Warlock! An iconic element of the Claremont/Sienkiewicz New Mutants, techno-organic alien Warlock became the ultimate fish out of water, learning humanity through his bond with Doug Ramsey, his selfsoulfriend.

The CEREBRO character file on Warlock begins at 1:03:16.

(Content Advisory: Warlock's story includes parent-child violence. This episode discusses the AIDS Crisis, homophobia, and ableism.)

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0:00.0	It occurs to me that for people who are complete newbies to the X-Men, we haven't explained what Warlock is, which I feel like we should do really quick.
0:10.2	X-Men, X-Men.
0:13.4	In the 21st century, people mutants led by Magneto aim to destroy the world.
0:22.2	Only hope is X-Men.
0:28.3	Welcome to Cerebro, the X-Men podcast, where a homo and his friends dig deep into the history of Homo Superior.
0:35.2	I'm your host, Connor Goldsmith. And joining me today is returning
0:39.0	guest, Dr. Stephanie Burt, Professor of English at Harvard University, previously on Cerebro for the
0:45.2	episode on Kate Pride. Stephanie, how are you today? I'm doing great. There's a cat right next to me.
0:52.4	It sure is. I mean, the Cape Pride episode, you didn't get a cat, but for Warlock, you're going to get a cat.
1:04.0	And I should also say, because my publisher would get upset at me if I just neglected this entirely, that since I last visited you on the air,
1:14.3	my chapbook.
1:16.2	You have a new chapbook, yeah.
1:17.5	Did I send you one?
1:19.7	I did.
1:20.1	Yes, you sent me one.
1:21.1	I loved it.
1:22.0	It is a book called For All Mutants, and it consists of poems about the X-Men mostly.
1:26.9	There's some Shira in there, too, but it's mostly poems about the X-Men mostly. There's some Shira in there, too.
1:28.0	But it's mostly poems about the X-Men.
1:30.7	If you go to my Twitter bio, you'll find out how to get it.
1:32.7	And who published that?
1:33.8	That was published by Rain Taxi Editions in Minneapolis.
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