Episode 280: Mad Masque (with Phil Ford and J.F. Martel)

Very Bad Wizards

Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0	Very Bad Wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a psychologist Dave Vizarro,
0:06.0	having an informal discussion about issues and science and ethics.
0:09.4	Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm not allowed to say and knowing my dad
0:15.0	some very inappropriate jokes.
0:17.0	You know how I stayed alive this long, all these years?
0:35.0	Fear. The spectacle of fearsome acts. The Great Inn House has spoken. Play no attention to that band behind the curtain. Who are you? A very bad man? I'm a very good man.
0:53.0	Good man.
0:55.0	They think deep thoughts,
0:58.0	and with no more brains than you have.
1:01.0	They know our attention to that man.
1:04.0	Anybody can have a brain?
1:09.0	You're a very bad man. I'm a very bad man.
1:13.0	I'm a very good man.
1:15.0	Just a very bad wizard.
1:18.0	Welcome to very bad Wizards.
1:20.0	I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston.
1:22.8	Dave, today we have the weird studies guys on
1:26.2	to talk about the mask of the red death
1:29.2	by Edgar Allan Poe in the main segment.
1:33.0	And you know, this got me thinking,
1:36.0	is this podcast ultimately some kind of death cult?
1:41.0	Wait, why?
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