Huh, have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like?

Not much to it, is there?

Unless, of course, it's a Walker's sandwich.

Mmm, that is good.

Now that's what Asani should sound like.

Go all crisp in with walkers.

Delicious.

Hi there, I'm Jason Gottz, and you're listening to Think Again, a Big Think podcast.

Since 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas in small, powerful doses from the most creative thinkers of our time.

The Think Again podcast takes us out of our

comfort zone. We surprise some of the smartest people you know with ideas they're not prepared to

discuss. I'm very, very excited to be joined today by Chief New York Times film critic A.O. Scott,

who's also a distinguished professor of film criticism at Wesleyan University. His new book is

Better Living Through Criticism, and I was going to call it penetrating or illuminating or

refreshing, but the book says adjectives are for lazy critics. Welcome to think again,

A.O. Scott. Thanks to be here, but I'll accept adjectives. Okay, well all of those adjectives

in my mind do apply to your book.

Well, thank you.

All right, A.O. Scott, what gives you the right to sit there and tell people what's good

and not good and who the heck do you think you are anyway?

I mean, nothing particularly gives me the right.

One of the great things about being a critic is that there's no license, there's no credential.

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