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🗓️ 8 September 2016
⏱️ 83 minutes
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This week we are joined by fellow podcaster Scott Gosnell to talk about one of my very favourite topics; Giordano Bruno!
We also discuss fantasy novels, Bruno the character, Bruno the spy, Dame Francis Yates and the Art of Memory, Bruno’s cosmic schema and the construction of Brunoesque Memory Palaces.
Brunissimo!
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Roon Soup, a podcast about magic, culture and the paranormal. |
0:07.0 | My name is Gordon and I shall be your host. |
0:12.0 | Enjoy. |
0:13.0 | Today on Roon Soup, we are speaking to author, podcaster, and fellow Bruno nerd Scott |
0:27.0 | Gosnell about what else but Bruno himself. |
0:30.0 | Scott, thank you very much for your time. |
0:33.0 | It's a pleasure to be here. |
0:35.0 | All right, well, Mr. Gosnell, you know the drill by now. |
0:38.0 | Were you a weird kid? |
0:40.0 | I used to think that I was a weird kid, but the older I get, the more I think that everyone was a weird kid. |
0:48.0 | You know, it used to be more of a thing if you were sort of into pop culture and maybe played Dungeons and Dragons and you were a little bit |
0:58.1 | nerdy and non-sporty that you felt like a weird kid but you know now everyone remembers that as their childhood |
1:09.4 | You know who's weird now jocks are. Jocks are weird too. |
1:14.0 | Well, they are now because they're the minority. |
1:16.0 | So everyone, you know, everyone does identify, as you say, with the kind of weird spectrum. |
1:21.0 | And so if you're a kid today who's like do you know what I actually just like baseball |
1:26.3 | that's my thing or whatever they're the weirdo |
1:30.5 | that's right you go how baseball, a 19th century sport. It's very steampunk, right? |
1:37.6 | Yeah, so, but what you're saying is you know |
1:49.4 | know, you had a similar kind of interest in in the tense happen to a lot of our guests interest in that sort of, you know, |
1:49.6 | maybe comics maybe that kind of thing. |
1:52.1 | Right so I was big in the comics I was big into comics, |
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