#9: Comfort

#9: Comfort

From Theotre of the Mind by Emmet F. Cameron

March 21, 2026 · 1h 42m · Season 2 · Episode 9

About this episode

Emmet & Youssef discuss the concept of comfort and its implications in various contexts.

Are we getting in a rut or planting ourselves firmly with room to grow? Emmet & Youssef talk Thornton Wilder, Thorstein Veblen, theatre seating, nostalgia, conspicuous consumption, mortality, presence, the unbearable speed of existence, haunted houses, & more! *** Community Corkboard: Blood Brothers tickets: https://studio-theatre-perth.ticketsplease.ca/ Inaugural Perkolator resident artist Laura Mota-Juang: https://www.instagram.com/imnofiction/ Kitchen Theatre Project 24 Hour Play Project Participant Registration: https://forms.gle/5UxchN2PDoqe521q8 Audience Registration: https://forms.gle/w5iTGM7JnaqNFTW36 Beetlejuice Jr. at St. John’s High School: https://sjchs.ticketsplease.ca/events/beetlejuice-jr/ Spring on the Mississippi lyrics: https://mudcat.org/detail_pf.cfm?messages__Message_ID=873164 Our Town: Read the script: https://archive.org/details/ourtownperennial0000unse 1989 Production with Spalding Gray & Frances Conroy: https://youtu.be/3k_EBbZdUO0?si=s9cplv-YgJOfzuhC 2003 Production with Paul Newman: https://youtu.be/gc1o9cGQ9_Q?si=Q-WfRjvvqvwXrguz https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Q2BwQ87nk/?mibextid=wwXIfr Theory of the Leisure Class - BBC 4 “In Our Time”…

People in this episode

Hosts: Youssef, Emmet

Topics covered

  • comfort
  • nostalgia
  • conspicuous consumption
  • mortality
  • theatre
  • presence
  • speed of existence

Keywords

  • Thornton Wilder
  • Thorstein Veblen
  • haunted houses

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: In Our Time

Places: Mississippi

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