The Weird Studies Christmas Special

Weird Studies

Phil Ford and J. F. Martel

Society & Culture, Arts, Philosophy

4.8 • 688 Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

We recorded this episode in early December for our Patreon subscribers, but as it's the closest thing to a Christmas special we're ever likely to make, we thought we'd slip it into everyone's stocking this year. In it, we discuss the Ford family's most recently acquired Christmas ornament (which Phil mistakenly calls a luminaria), gazing into the Christmas tree, the loneliness of little worlds, the mystery of incarnation, Colin Wilson's "Faculty X," and the utter weirdness of British Christmas specials. Listen to volume 1 and volume 2 of the Weird Studies soundtrack by Pierre-Yves Martel Support us on Patreon Find us on Discord Get the T-shirt design from Cotton Bureau! Get your Weird Studies merchandise (t-shirts, coffee mugs, etc.) Visit the Weird Studies Bookshop REFERENCES Erik Davis, A Brief History of the Phantasm Colin Wilson, The Occult The Dog House UK, TV series The Christmas Lantern Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Spector Vision Radio.
0:11.1	So have we ever had Wednesday fall on a Christmas, or perhaps the more idiomatic way to say that would be, have we ever had Christmas fall on a Wednesday?
0:22.6	In other words, on the day that we traditionally release our show.
0:25.5	That has never happened in the five years.
0:28.6	No, we would remember that.
0:30.9	One of these days, I want us to do a Christmas show.
0:34.2	Is Christmas on a Wednesday this year?
0:37.7	No, it's not.
0:38.7	Okay.
0:39.5	And I was just regretting that fact.
0:41.9	But one of these days, we're going to have to do a Christmas show.
0:44.8	And in lieu of a flagship Christmas show, we have instead a Christmas Patreon bonus.
0:50.9	At least I want this to be Christmas themed.
0:54.1	Okay. And I have show um, show and tell,
0:57.3	I have a Christmas decorative object that my wife put out for the first time yesterday. Okay.
1:03.1	That I love. I'm kind of obsessed with it. And I want to show it to you over Zoom. I look
1:08.4	forward to seeing it. Helen's folks, my wife's parents recently sold their house and divided up furnishings
1:17.4	that they weren't taking with them into retirement among the family, right? And so Helen,
1:25.2	who is Christmasy as fuck, Helen, Helen is the Christmassyest person he will
1:32.3	ever meet, made a bee line for the Christmas ornaments for the things that would be put up
1:37.8	at Christmas time and brought a bunch back.
1:40.5	And there was one particular object where she asked her father and brother who were also there
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