499. Are Orcs Racist? (with Christopher J. Ferguson)
Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast
David Barr Kirtley
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2022
⏱️ 68 minutes
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| 0:19.5 | All right, so now let's get to our show. |
| 0:26.7 | Wired.com presents the Geeks Guide to the Galaxy. |
| 0:35.0 | And here is your host, David Barr Curtley. |
| 0:40.7 | Hello, and welcome to episode 499 of Geeks Guide to the Galaxy. |
| 0:45.9 | Our guest today is Christopher J. Ferguson, who you may remember from our feature interview back in episode 420. |
| 0:52.2 | He's a professor of psychology at Stetson University, and his |
| 0:55.9 | articles have appeared in the New York Times, the New York Daily News, and the Houston Chronicle. |
| 1:00.6 | He's also the author of the mystery novel Suicide Kings, and the nonfiction book's Moral |
| 1:05.5 | Combat, Why the War on Violent Video Games is Wrong, which he wrote with Patrick Marky, |
| 1:11.2 | and How Madness-shaped History, an eccentric array of maniacal rulers, raving narcissists, and |
| 1:16.5 | psychotic visionaries. And we'll be speaking to them today about this article are orcs |
| 1:20.8 | racist, Dungeons and Dragons, ethnocentrism, anxiety, and the depiction of, quote, |
| 1:25.6 | evil monsters, which appears in the journal |
| 1:28.0 | Current Psychology. |
| 1:29.8 | And now here's an review with Christopher J. Ferguson. |
| 1:33.4 | All right, so we're here with Christopher J. Ferguson. |
| 1:35.6 | Welcome to the show. |
| 1:36.6 | Hey, thanks for having me on today. |
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