Podcast Episodes
Back to Search
Virgil Humiliated, Virgil Adored: Inferno, Canto XXIII, Lines 127 - 148
Season 1 Episode 139
We come to the end of Canto XXIII and the sixth of the evil pouches, the malebolge, that make up the subsets of fraud in the eighth circle of INFERNO…
4 years, 1 month ago
Virgil Gawks: Inferno, Canto XXIII, Lines 109 - 126
Season 1 Episode 138
We finally arrive at a moment that even our guide Virgil cannot believe.
Why is he caught slack-jawed?
The answer is more complicated than you might th…
4 years, 1 month ago
Welcome To The Synod Of The Hypocrites: Inferno, Canto XXIII, Lines 82 - 108
Season 1 Episode 137
Dante, our pilgrim, has slowed down to talk to two of the hypocrites, who are walking along in their gilded lead capes. But he gets more than he barg…
4 years, 1 month ago
The Lead Weight Of Hypocrisy: Inferno, Canto XXIII, Lines 58 - 81
Season 1 Episode 136
Dante the pilgrim and his guide, Virgil, have come down to the bottom of the sixth evil pouch to escape the demons from the fifth. Here, they find a …
4 years, 1 month ago
A Review And Reading Of The Entire Fifth Evil Pouch Of Fraud: Inferno, Canto XXI, Line 1 - Canto XXIII, Line 57
Season 1 Episode 135
We've been through the circle of barratry, of political grift--and now it's time to look back over this vast landscape of text in Dante's INFERNO.
Joi…
4 years, 1 month ago
What You Read Determines What You See: Inferno, Canto XXIII, Lines 4 - 57
Season 1 Episode 134
Dante the pilgrim and his guide Virgil appear to have escaped the nasty demons in the fifth pouch of fraud, down in the eighth circle of Inferno.
But …
4 years, 1 month ago
Grifters 1, Demons 0: Inferno, Canto XXII, Line 118 - Canto XXIII, Line 3
Season 1 Episode 133
Our nameless grifter has proposed a game for the demons: Let's see how many more of my damned ilk I can call out of the boiling pitch for you to torm…
4 years, 1 month ago
The Game Is On: Inferno, Canto XXII, Lines 94 - 117
Season 1 Episode 132
Our nameless barrator has a plan for escape. He's been maimed by the demons but he's not finished yet!
Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as we settle into hig…
4 years, 1 month ago
Naming Names Among The Grifters: Inferno, Canto XXII, Lines 76 - 93
Season 1 Episode 131
Our nameless barrator has been ripped open--but he's still able to do what grifters do best: sell out his fellow grifters.
Join me, Mark Scarbrough, a…
4 years, 2 months ago
The Demons Take Their Pound Of Flesh: Inferno, Canto XXII, Lines 40 - 75
Season 1 Episode 130
Mange-Dog has pulled a political grifter up onto the shore of the boiling pitch and the demons are about to let him have it. But not before Virgil, p…
4 years, 2 months ago