Episode 219: Multiplied by Mirrors
Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2021
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
It’s a Borges bonanza! David and Tamler dive into two stories: “Emma Zunz” and “Borges and I.” The first seems like a straightforward daughter revenge story (Tamler’s favorite genre), but Borges being Borges there are layers of doubt and fuzziness about what exactly is going on. “Borges and I” may be less than a page, but it has us questioning our identity, the relationship between private and public selves, and what happens to when you release a work out into the world.
Plus, back to social psychology. Are you a picky eater? Then people think you suck at sex. We are not sure who is recording this podcast.
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Links:
- People who are willing to try new foods are perceived as more desirable and less sexually restricted
- Bradshaw, H. K., Mengelkoch, S., Espinosa, M., Darrell, A., & Hill, S. E. (2021). You are what you (are willing to) eat: Willingness to try new foods impacts perceptions of sexual unrestrictedness and desirability. Personality and Individual Differences, 182, 111082. — You are what you (are willing to) eat: Willingness to try new foods impacts perceptions of sexual unrestrictedness and desirability
- Emma Zunz by Jorge Luis Borges
- Borges and I by Jorge Luis Borges
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. |
| 0:16.7 | Truth is like grits, you'll serve it up plain, pull a soft on it. |
| 0:46.7 | Man, they think they've lost and with no more brains than you have. |
| 0:53.7 | Way to our attention, come on man. |
| 1:00.7 | Anybody can have a brain. |
| 1:04.7 | You're a very bad man. |
| 1:07.2 | That's a very good man, just a very bad wizard. |
| 1:11.8 | Welcome to very bad wizards. |
| 1:13.1 | I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston. |
| 1:16.0 | Dave, according to a recent series of studies, I'm both more masculine and more sexually adventurous |
| 1:22.8 | than you are. |
| 1:24.1 | This is more of a comment than a question, but I think I'm starting to like psychology again. |
| 1:31.6 | I think that you're misinterpreting. |
| 1:32.9 | I think what this is saying is that you're a slut. |
| 1:37.5 | Yeah, perfect. |
| 1:38.6 | It's a deviant. |
| 1:42.0 | It is true that we're going to talk about this paper in our opening segment on |
| 1:47.0 | willingness to try new foods and perceptual perceptions of sexual desirability. |
| 1:51.9 | But I have some thoughts that will defend my vegetarianness from your gross attacks |
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