Studious Episodes
Transcripts of each episode available below.
I’ll be Back... to the Future
Remember that time I did an episode on time travel, and you couldn't get through it fast enough? It's a lot of time to cover in not a lot of time. We're painting with broad strokes here, trying to focus on the key elements.
We Could Be Heroes.
How do you follow that episode about PK? Well, you just keep treading water. We follow the previous narrative with our introduction into Grand or Meta Narratives. We'll examine Joseph Campbell's Hero's journey, particularly through our modern myths of Star Wars, Harry Potter, and The Lord of the Rings. What do these narratives have in common with our own journeys through life? They might all be such great successes because they speak to a universal truth within us all.
Double Dickin': The Metaphysical World of Philip K. Dick. Part 2:
We continue with our deep dive on Dick's How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart 2 Days Later here on part 2. We ended the last part on a bit of a cliffhanger. Truth, or someone's perception of truth here, seems stranger than fiction, and it is coming from a serial fiction writer. It's only fair to have all the facts at your disposal. Curious indeed. Let me know in the comments section what you thought of his speech, and perhaps its relation to what you've listened to thus far on Studious. Side Note: I edited, I mean, oversaw my crack team of editors today after having two temporary crowns removed, then wrongfully replaced, only to get anesthetized and made to give two further impressions. So that makes 3 today, including my shitty PK impression, which we discussed may be rather meta. If I get visited by a girl wearing a fish medallion today, this podcast may take a whole other direction...
Double Dickin': The Metaphysical Reality of Philip K. Dick. Part 1:
Greetings one and all, and from PK, it's greetings from Disneyland. I myself used to live Magic Kingdom adjacent in nearby Costa Mesa. Today, we begin our exploration of PK's speech, How to Build a Universe that Doesn't Fall Apart 2 Days Later. It is eerily precogniscent, precogniscant(?) of our current state of affairs, and seemingly it has informed these first few episodes of the podcast. We will explore it to great depths like a spastic spelunker.
Representations of Evil, Part III: Post-Modern Evil
OMG, this is like, soooooo post-modern. We talk about American Psycho and Blue Velvet, but probably not at any great length for you super-fans of the two. We glean Post-Modern Evil through the lens of our current zeitgeist and our relation to the concept of evil through media, and thusly, our relation to evil in our own lives. What is evil anyway? Who gets to draw these lines of distinction for us? Are we capable of doing so for ourselves? If so, what can we all agree upon aside from the usual rigamarole of morality we peddle to each other? Morality is a sliding scale, and changes not only though time, but place as well.