Gargoyles

Episode notes

Alex Schmidt is joined by comedy writer/podcaster Conor Lastowka (Rifftrax, ‘372 Pages We’ll Never Get Back’ podcast) and historian/podcaster Patrick Wyman (‘Tides Of History’ podcast, new book ‘The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World’) for a look at why gargoyles are secretly incredibly fascinating.

Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week’s bonus episode.

LINKS FOR THE GUESTS:

• The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World by Patrick Wyman
• Tides Of History (Wondery)
• The Fall Of Rome (Wondery)
• Patrick Wyman’s articles for Defector.com
• “American Gentry” by Patrick Wyman (The Atlantic)
• Rifftrax — and check out their next live-in-theaters show on Tues Oct. 26th! RiffTrax Live: Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes
• 372 Pages We’ll Never Get Back
• The Pole Vault Championship Of The Entire Universe by Conor Lastowka (Audible Original)

RESOURCES USED TO INFORM THE EPISODE’S LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:

• native-land.ca
• U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture
• The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland (Smithsonian)
• Mapping Manahatta: 10 Lenape sites in New York City (6sqft)

RESEARCH SOURCES:

• How To Read A Church by Richard Taylor
• Why Notre Dame’s Gargoyles Are More Than Art (PBS)
• The art of gargoyles (CBS Sunday Morning / YouTube)
• Field Armor of King Henry VIII of England (The Metropolitan Museum Of Art)
• Otis the bear crowned chunk champion in Alaska’s Fat Bear Week (Reuters)
• Gargoyle’s Quest (Ghosts ‘n Goblins Wikia)
• Bodybuilders argue over how many days there are in a week. (Reddit)
• Defector.com page for “LET’S REMEMBER SOME GUYS”
• In Barcelona, Years-Long Sagrada Familia Completion Pushed Back by Pandemic (Artnews.com)
• Music video for “To Be With You” by Mr. Big (1991)
• Exploring the Fantastic History of Gargoyles in Gothic Architecture (MyModernMet.com)
• The Endurance of Notre-Dame (The New Yorker)
• St. Guinefort, the Dog Venerated as a Saint (Mental Floss)
• Grotesque Irreverence: The Transformation of ‘Ecce Homo’ (Boston University “Sequitur” blog)
• ‘Alien’ Gargoyle: Paisley Abbey, Paisley, Scotland (Atlas Obscura)
• Pop Culture Gargoyles Hidden in Gothic Architecture (Atlas Obscura)
• How To Find The Salamanca Frog, Spain’s Mysterious Promise (blog “Inside The Travel Lab”)
• Gargoyles and silence: ‘our story’ at the Australian War Memorial (The Conversation)
• Historians slam possible removal of ‘racist’ War Memorial gargoyles but call for greater indigenous recognition (The Canberra Times)
• Australian War Memorial website page: “Carved stone figures”
• Special Exhibit: Addressing The Statue (American Museum Of Natural History)
• Gargoyles was nearly the center of a vast Disney Cinematic Universe (Polygon)
• DisneyPlus streaming service page for ‘Gargoyles’