Episode 172: Are You Free (to like the Chappelle special)?

Very Bad Wizards

Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2019

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

David and Tamler start out with a discussion of the new Chappelle special and the negative reaction from many critics. Is Chappelle trolling his audience? Has he lost touch with the powerless people he used to champion? Or have critics missed his larger point, and failed to approach the new special as an art form? Then they address the latest development in the literature around Benjamin Libet's famous study that, according to some people, proved that free will doesn't exist. How did that study get so much attention in the first place? Tamler proposes a Marxist analysis. Plus, David teaches Tamler how to pronounce Bereitschaftspotential antisemitically.

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0:00.0	Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a psychologist, Dave Pizarro,
0:05.9	having an informal discussion about issues and signs and ethics.
0:09.3	Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm out of allow to say,
0:13.6	and knowing my dad some very inappropriate jokes.
0:16.9	I'm playing a volume loud as you want to, but don't touch my levels now.
0:19.9	I got them set just like I like.
0:21.7	Sure.
0:30.4	We do our attention to that man behind the curtain.
0:38.8	Who are you?
0:41.0	Who are you?
0:42.6	I'm very bad man.
0:44.0	I'm a very good man.
0:45.9	Good man.
0:50.1	They think he's lost, and with no one raising his voice.
0:54.0	We do our attention to that man.
1:00.0	Anybody can have a brain.
1:04.0	You're a very bad man.
1:06.5	I'm a very good man.
1:08.3	Just a very bad wizard.
1:11.1	Welcome to very bad wizards.
1:12.4	I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston.
1:14.9	Dave, what does it actually mean to be equal?
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