Deep Dive: Negotiations Under Fire, Artaud’s Theatrical Urgency, and the Sei Whale Pod - September 4, 2025

In this Deep Dive episode, our hosts discuss...

 • 📜 On this day in 1951: the Korean War armistice talks continued amid fierce fighting, with negotiators bargaining at the table while commanders and soldiers managed the immediate reality of battle — a tense interplay between diplomacy and combat that shaped the conflict’s next phase and had deep humanitarian and strategic ripple effects.
 • 🎂 Today’s birthdays: Antonin Artaud (1896), Richard Wright (1908), and Damon Wayans (1960). We focus especially on Artaud — his Theatre of Cruelty, efforts to shock audiences into emotional truth, his struggles with illness and institutionalization, and how his experiments with physicality, sound, and language influenced later performance and film practices.
 • 💡 Fact of the day: a group of sei whales is called a pod — a concise, evocative term that highlights their social nature, helps explain collective behaviors like migration, and underscores how human impacts can ripple through an entire group.

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