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Welcome to Weird Studies, an arts and philosophy podcast with hosts Phil Ford and J.F. Martel.

For more episodes or to support the podcast, go to weird studies. This is Phil. I usually write out these introductions. I like having

an opportunity to look back on the conversation that J.F. and I just had and ponder what it all means

and maybe try to come out with some fresh insight that might throw it all in a new perspective,

but I do not feel up for that this week.

So I am giving it to you straight off the dome, as the kids say.

Improvising, which is kind of what I always do with JF, as we in fact discuss a little bit at the beginning of this conversation.

But it's rather different improvising with somebody, you know, sort of like playing tennis or something.

That's one thing.

But improvising by yourself, staring into a microphone, that's quite another.

So with these intros, I usually don't leave anything to chance and write it all down.

But no, this time it feels appropriate to be messy, to chance something,

to venture something. After all, it's the beginning of our fifth year. And J.F. and I mark the occasion,

not with the fanfare of drums and trumpets, but rather with a hangover and a sleep-bleered countenance.

J.F. and I were not what you might say at our best, at least at the beginning of this conversation.

But at a certain point, we found our theme, which has something to do with the expression,

time is a flat circle.

And the conversation takes wing and eventually comes back full circle and we end up kind of repositioning

all the various random mondering of the first half hour or so into a new configuration where

perhaps they make some kind of sense. At least I like to think so. Score another one for

improvisation.

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