Episode 179: Talking Shit
Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2019
⏱️ 123 minutes
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Summary
David and Tamler wrap up the decade with an episode on trash-talking that morphs into a debate over the value of experimental inquiry. Participants in a lab put more effort into a slider task after they're insulted by a confederate. Do experiments like these tell us anything about trash-talking in general? Can it explain the effect of Mike Tyson telling Lenox Lewis he'd eat his children, or of Larry Bird looking around the locker room before the 3-point contest saying he was trying to figure out who'd finish second? Can it tell us how football players should talk to their opponents? Does it give us a more modest but still valuable insight that we can apply to the real world? This is our first real fight (or disagreement) in a while.
Plus, some mixed feelings about Mr. Robot Season 4 Episode 11 and some tentative predictions (recorded before the finale which aired by the time this episode is released). Happy holidays!
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Links:
- Yip, J. A., Schweitzer, M. E., & Nurmohamed, S. (2018). Trash-talking: Competitive incivility motivates rivalry, performance, and unethical behavior. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 144, 125-144.
- Kniffin, K. M., & Palacio, D. (2018). Trash-talking and trolling. Human Nature, 29(3), 353-369.
Transcript
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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. |
| 0:09.4 | 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 the best ever. I'm the most brutal and vicious and most ruthless champion that's ever been. |
| 0:21.4 | There's no one can stop me. Links to the conqueror. No, I'm Alexander. He's no Alexander. |
| 0:26.0 | I'm the best ever. My style is in petrol. My defense is impregnable. |
| 0:30.4 | And I'm just for rostics. I want your heart. I want to eat his children. Praise be to Allah. |
| 0:56.0 | I'm a very good man. Good man. |
| 0:59.6 | They think they've lost and with no more brains than you have. |
| 1:05.6 | They know our attention. Come on, man. |
| 1:09.2 | Anybody can have a brain. |
| 1:14.3 | You're a very bad man. |
| 1:18.3 | I'm a very good man. Just a very bad wizard. |
| 1:23.8 | Welcome to very bad wizards. I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston. |
| 1:28.2 | Dave, President Trump was officially impeached yesterday as the official political pundit of |
| 1:34.8 | the very bad wizards podcast. How do you think this will affect his re-election chances? |
| 1:41.7 | I know what my reaction to Trump getting impeached was. |
| 1:46.1 | I deleted the Twitter app on my phone. |
| 1:48.0 | I actually did. I can't handle it. |
| 1:52.8 | I can't handle it. But I will have you know, I never |
| 1:56.0 | to my horn because why? But I was quoted about the Trump campaign and the Christian |
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