Episode 184: Tainted Glove
Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2020
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
David and Tamler start off talking about the infamous Richard Dawkins eugenics tweet. What does it mean for eugenics to "work"? And given the sensitive nature and horrific history of eugenics, is it wrong to raise the topic even if you're just focused on the science? Hey we're just asking questions, man…
Then, huge baseball fan that he is, David insists that we talk about the massive Houston Astros sign-stealing scandal and cheating in sports more generally. When is bending the rules just part of the game ("if you ain't cheatin' you ain't tryin'") - and when is it really wrong? Why does the use of technology make cheating seem more dishonorable? Why weren't the Astros players punished since they were the driving force behind the scandal? And why are apologies so hard on twitter?
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Links:
- Richard Dawkins slammed for saying 'of course' eugenics would work - Washington Times
- MercatorNet: Twitter piles on Richard Dawkins over eugenics tweet
- Astros cheating scandal had to result in historic punishment - Sports Illustrated
- Sign-stealing [wikipedia.org]
- How Much Of The Astros' Legacy Is Now In Doubt? | FiveThirtyEight
- Does José Altuve's Bad Tattoo Explain His ALCS Home Run Celebration? - The Ringer
- The Astros' Apology Tour Is Off to a Comically Disastrous Start - The Ringer
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 | Don't listen to them, Leela. People said I was dumb, but I proved them. |
| 0:30.0 | Who are you? Who are you? I'm very bad men. |
| 0:42.0 | I'm a very good man. Good man. |
| 0:46.0 | Blasting teeth lost, and with no more brains than you have. |
| 0:52.9 | Maybe I should. |
| 0:54.7 | Come on, man. |
| 0:58.9 | Anybody can have a brain. |
| 1:02.9 | You're a very bad man. |
| 1:05.4 | I'm a very good man. Just a very bad wizard. |
| 1:09.9 | Welcome to very bad wizards. I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston. |
| 1:14.2 | Dave Eugenics works for cows, horses, pigs, dogs, and roses. |
| 1:20.8 | Why on earth wouldn't it work for humans? |
| 1:23.4 | Do we really call it eugenics when we're doing it to cows? |
| 1:25.8 | Like, was there like some cow Hitler who was like spotted? |
| 1:32.4 | He's better. I feel like eugenics is widely, widely misunderstood, and I'm here to defend it. |
| 1:40.4 | I think that we should make everybody blacker. |
| 1:43.0 | But they will. You're racist against gingers. |
| 1:46.1 | Well, you know, that's an interesting question because gingers, sorry, red heads, |
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