"The Wedge" is a key concept for Phil and JF. When exploring weird phenomena—from artworks to ghosts, and everything in between—one tends to emphasize one or the other "end" of the event. At the thin end of the Wedge, the focus is on subjective experience: how it felt, what it was like, and its personal significance. At the thick end, the emphasis shifts to what actually happened, independent of how it was experienced. Though their roles sometimes switch, Phil generally thinks from the thin end, while JF approaches things from the thick. In this episode, they begin unpacking the implications of the Wedge for making sense of reality’s stranger aspects.

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Weird Studies, Episode 184 on David Lynch Phil Ford, “The View from the Cheap Seats at the UFO Show” Scene by Scene, 1999 Interview with David Lynch Weird Studies, Episodes 76 on Henri Bergson’s Metaphysics Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution Phil Ford, Dig Johan Huizinga, The Waning of the Middle Ages Lewis Lockwood, Beethoven: The Music and the Life

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