Very bad with you. It's just a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a psychologist, Dave Pizarro,

having an informal discussion about issues and signs and ethics.

Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm not allowed to say,

and knowing my dad some very inappropriate jokes.

But I'm presenting my thesis tomorrow, and I've barely had time to prepare.

Nonsense. You've been my grad student for 12 years. You were ready six years ago.

What? I probably should have told you.

You're a very bad man. I'm a very good man. Just a very bad wizard.

Welcome to very bad wizards. I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston.

And I'm Dave Pizarro from Cornell University.

And on today's episode, we are going to do something that we threw out there,

and a lot of listeners, they wanted us to do this episode.

Even though we were worried it's a little bit of inside baseball,

an episode about the profession of academia going into philosophy, going into psychology.

We're going to answer questions like, should I go to grad school?

If I do go to grad school, how can I get a job? What are the chances of me getting a job?

And once I get a job, will it be one of these adjunct jobs,

where you're treated like a factory worker in China,

like a nine-year-old factory worker in China, no pay, long hours?

You know, at least those people have the pride of having made an iPhone at the end of the day.

You know? Well, except that they've made like one tiny little clip of an iPhone,

that they'll live their whole lives without ever seeing an actual.

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