Cathedral Talk
by Tom Schutt
A podcast about architecture and Minecraft, dedicated to saving Notre-Dame de Paris
Copyright: © 2021 by Thomas H. Schutt. All Rights Reserved.
Episodes
30 – A Change Ringing Roast
1h 8m · PublishedThe gents do a deep dive into the world of Change Ringing with church bells, comparing and contrasting with other types of ringing.
SEE: Change Ringing
SEE: Campanology
SEE: Peal
SEE: BellBoard
SEE: North American Change Ringing Towers
SEE: Love’s Guide to the Bells of the City of London
SEE: Love’s Guide to the Church Bells of Kent
SEE: The Central Council of Church Bell Ringers (CCCBR)
SEE: North American Guild of Change Ringers (NAGCR)
SEE: The Ancient Society of College Youths (ASCY)
SEE: Ringing up in peal – Yardley, Derick Obergene Society
SEE: Handbell Change Ringing – ASCY 2021 Dinner
SEE: National Cathedral Bells, 1349 Grandsire Caters 2013-12-31
29 – Britain's Tallest Spire
56m · PublishedZack investigates the origin of Salisbury steak.
SEE: Salisbury steak
SEE: Broil
Tom compares and contrasts English gothic with French gothic, using Salisbury cathedral to demonstrate the design aesthetics and choices of the medieval English builders.
SEE: English gothic architecture
SEE: Salisbury Cathedral
SEE: Documentary—Britain’s Great Cathedrals w/ Tony Robinson, Ep3 Salisbury
SEE: Patriarchal cross
SEE: Britain’s tallest churches
SEE: Old St. Paul’s Cathedral
SEE: Lincoln Cathedral
SEE: Original Tower of Salisbury
SEE: Bowing Central Piers of Salisbury
SEE: Salisbury Cathedral clock
SEE: Cathedral close
SEE: Cathedral cloisters
SEE: Magna Carta
Tom shares his latest Minecraft build of Salisbury cathedral.
SEE: Tom’s Salisbury Cathedral (1:1 scale) build
SEE: Tom’s YouTube Salisbury Cathedral video
28 – Modded Times
41m · PublishedZack demonstrates how to use the Create Mod to build customized factories that can generate a variety of blocks using the power of water, wind, and steam.
SEE: Create, Minecraft Mod (curseforge.com)
SEE: BdoubleO100 Create Mod Playlist
SEE: Tango Tek Create Mod Playlist, Season 2
27 – Nonlinear Talk
25m · PublishedDavid and Zack run the show, discussing the latest restoration updates at Notre-Dame.
SEE: Restoration Progress at Notre-Dame
SEE: 60 Minutes Video on Notre-Dame’s Restoration
Zack briefly discusses visiting David and Tom on the East Coast.
SEE: National Cherry Blossom Festival
SEE: Cherry Blossom Biome in Minecraft 1.20
26 – Masonry Follow-up
49m · PublishedDavid and Zack get a chance to weigh in on Tom’s interview with Joe Alonso from Episode 25, regarding masonry and the Washington National Cathedral.
SEE: Washington National Cathedral (WNC)
SEE: WNC Slides—Tour & Earthquake
SEE: Tallest Buildings in Washington, D.C.
SEE: Architect
SEE: Structural engineer
SEE: Stonemasonry
SEE: Igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rock
SEE: Stone carving
SEE: Russell Sage Memorial Chapel
Tom shares that the construction of Notre-Dame’s main crossing vault is underway.
SEE: Wooden centering for main crossing vault at Notre-Dame—NBC Today
25 – Alonso, Head Stonemason
1h 34m · PublishedDONATE: Washington National Cathedral Preservation (click podcast box at bottom)
Joe Alonso, Head Stonemason at Washington National Cathedral, discusses repairing the cathedral after the 2011 earthquake in DC, along with a variety of construction topics including structure settlement, mortar application, limestone qualities, and a special visit from the architects of Notre-Dame de Paris.
SEE: Washington National Cathedral (WNC)
SEE: WNC Slides—Tour & Earthquake
SEE: WNC—Art & Architecture Virtual Tours
SEE: 2011 Virginia earthquake
SEE: Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
SEE: George Frederick Bodley (architect 1906–1907)
SEE: Henry Vaughan (architect 1907–1917)
SEE: Philip H. Frohman (architect 1921–1972)
SEE: Notre-Dame Architects US Tour—Philippe Villeneuve & Rémi Fromont
SEE: Tuckpointing
SEE: Portland cement
SEE: Indiana Limestone
SEE: Empire Quarry
SEE: Cathedral of St. John the Divine
SEE: The International Union of Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers
24 – France’s Largest Cathedral
1h 3m · PublishedThe gents further investigate the eccentricities of Trombone Champ.
SEE: Trombone Champ
Tom, David, and Zack examine the architecture of Amiens Cathedral, the one of the largest gothic cathedrals in the world.
SEE: Amiens Cathedral
SEE: Amiens Cathedral Slides
SEE: Life of a Cathedral: Notre-Dame of Amiens (Columbia University interactive)
SEE: Notre-Dame de Amiens: Life of the Gothic Cathedral, by Dr. Stephen Murray
SEE: NOVA (2010)—Building the Great Cathedrals (PBS)
SEE: Dolly zoom (camera effect)
SEE: Vertigo (1958 Hitchcock film)
Tom shares his latest Minecraft build—Notre-Dame de Amiens.
SEE: Tom’s Amiens Cathedral (1:1 scale) build
SEE: Tom’s YouTube Amiens Cathedral video
23 – Hunchback Dream Cast
1h 5m · PublishedTom, David, and Zack discuss the architecture in Disney’s animated 1996 adaptation of the Hunchback of Notre-Dame.
SEE: Disney’s Notre-Dame vs Real Notre-Dame
SEE: Up-wrong bell (clapper strikes counter to bell’s motion)
SEE: Up-right bell (clapper strikes in-sync with bell’s motion)
SEE: Hunchback Intro up-wrong bell (behind title, 9 seconds)
SEE: Palais de la Cité, a.k.a.: Palais de Justice, Paris
Tom, David, and Zack share their proposed casting lists for the upcoming live-action adaptation of Disney’s Hunchback of Notre-Dame. In order of discussion:
QUASIMODO: 1996 Cast—Tom Hulce
Jesús Castro—cast by Zack
Rami Malek—cast by David
Peter Dinklage—cast by Tom
ESMERALDA: 1996 Cast—Demi Moore & Heidi Mollenhauer
Alina Serban—cast by Zack
Renée Elise Goldsberry—cast by David
Zoe Saldaña—cast by Tom
PHOEBUS: 1996 Cast—Kevin Kline
Gaspard Ulliel (deceased)—in memoriam, Zack
Stephen Manas—cast by Zack
Chris Pine—cast by Tom
The Hollywood Chrises—go-to list for David
FROLLO: 1996 Cast—Tony Jay
Vincent Cassel—cast by Zack
Charles Dance—cast by Tom
Mark Strong—cast by David, choice 1
Billy Crudup—cast by David choice 2
CLOPIN: 1996 Cast—Paul Kandel
Óscar Jaenada—cast by Zack
Tom Hiddleston—cast by David, choice 1
Robert Carlyle—cast by David, choice 2
Maisie Williams—cast by David, choice 3
ARCHDEACON: 1996 Cast—David Ogden Stiers
Gérard Depardieu—hard rejection by Zack
Daniel Auteuil—cast by Zack
Brian Cox—cast by David
Donald Sumpter—cast by Tom
VICTOR: 1996 Cast—Charles Kimbrough
Stephen Merchant—cast by Zack
Jim Carter—cast by Tom
HUGO: 1996 Cast—Jason Alexander
Jason Alexander (why not?)—recast by Zack
Trevor Noah—cast by Zack
Jerome Flynn—cast by Tom
LAVERNE: 1996 Cast—Mary Wickes
Tony Shalhoub—cast by Tom
Aisha Tyler—cast by Zack
22 – Dwarfing the Empire State Building
1h 4m · PublishedOriginally recorded as a trial episode back in mid-2020 during the early days of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Tom discusses whether building mega-skyscrapers next to the Empire State Building would disfigure the the New York City skyline.
SEE: 15 Penn Plaza
SEE: The Guardian (2010)—New York skyscraper to rival Empire State Building
SEE: List of the Tallest Buildings in the World
SEE: Burj Khalifa
SEE: Space Elevator
The gents discuss whether cinemas and big-budget movies are on the way out due to all the new streaming services.
SEE: List of most expensive films ever produced
Tom asks David and Zack what the traffic rules are for stopping for a school bus with an active stop-sign on a divided highway.
SEE: School Bus Laws By State—When to stop and when not to!
Zack struggles to contemplate Tyrannosaurus as a big chicken.
SEE: NYT (2019)—T.Rex Like You Haven’t Seen Him: With Feathers
SEE: Supervolcanos
SEE: Geocentric vs. Heliocentric Universes
SEE: Relativity of Simultaneity
21 – Building Museum
45m · PublishedTom completes the "Phase 1" (1163–1170 A.D.) of his 2:1 scale Minecraft model of Notre-Dame, consisting of the vaulted double-ambulatory and above it, the second-level gallery, complete with various low flying-buttresses.
SEE: THSchutt’s Notre-Dame(2:1) build, Phase 1 (1163–1170 A.D.)
David and Tom recount their experience at the National Building Museum to see the Notre-Dame de Paris: The Augmented Exhibition which has been open since April 2022 through September 2022, with countless graphics and interactive applications.
SEE: National Building Museum (NBM)
SEE: NBM—Notre-Dame de Paris: The Augmented Exhibition
SEE: Museum of London—Great Fire of London (1666), Minecraft Model
SEE: Virtual Reality
SEE: Augmented Reality
SEE: National Trust, UK—Explore Virtual Ruins in Minecraft (Grian’s Corfe Castle)
SEE: Grian—Using Real Ruins to Create a Castle in Minecraft
SEE: Assassin’s Creed
SEE: Pagan Scientists at Chartres Cathedral
SEE: The Paris Fire Brigade
SEE: Deep-Cleaning of Notre-Dame’s Limestone
Cathedral Talk has 30 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 28:12:17. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on July 29th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on April 22nd, 2024 16:11.