Episode 22: An Enquiry Concerning Slurs and Offensiveness
Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2013
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
In what might very well be the last episode before we're pulled off the air, Tamler outlines his data-free "theory" of what makes something offensive. What makes a joke about race, ethnicity, gender, disability funny sometimes, and deeply hurtful at other times? What makes Louis CK so goddamn funny and Andrew Dice Clay just...an asshole? Is Family Guy racist? Throughout the episode, David defends the victims of hatred and is a voice of empathy and reason, while Tamler drops the c-word multiple times, jumps to racist conclusions, and makes fun of David's partial Arab heritage.
Links
- Louis CK and his friends discuss the word f@**%t
- Wikipedia on F**** and C*** [wikipedia.org]
- Bill Burr on the c-word [youtube.com]
- Andy Ihnatko's podcast on 5by5.tv, where he discusses why Family Guy is not funny
- The Troubling Viral Trend of the “Hilarious” Black Neighbor by Aisha Harris [slate.com]
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a psychologist, Dave Pizarro, |
| 0:06.0 | having an informal discussion about issues and signs and ethics. |
| 0:09.4 | Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm not allowed to say, |
| 0:13.6 | and knowing my dad, some very inappropriate jokes. |
| 0:16.9 | No, no, you don't know me. I actually love women and black people and retarded people. |
| 0:30.0 | But I'm a bad man, I'm a bad man. |
| 0:37.0 | Who are you? Who are you? I'm a very bad man. |
| 0:42.0 | I'm a very good man. Good, bad man. |
| 0:47.0 | They think we're false, and we're no more brains than you have. |
| 0:53.0 | Maybe our fingers are bad. |
| 0:59.0 | Anybody can have a brain. You're a very bad man. |
| 1:05.0 | I'm a very good man, just a very bad wizard. |
| 1:10.0 | Welcome to very bad wizards. I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston. |
| 1:13.0 | And I'm Dave Pizarro from Cornell University. |
| 1:15.0 | On today's episode, fresh off our discussion of contenting and the sorority sister email. |
| 1:22.0 | Are you going to say that given that this is the topic of this show? |
| 1:26.0 | I'll only say it if we have a female guest on the show. |
| 1:33.0 | So you were willing to say the N word just because we had Demani on the show? |
| 1:37.0 | Yeah, I don't think that's a sign of weakness. I think that's a sign of strength. |
| 1:41.0 | I think that if you don't have the balls to say it to somebody who might actually get offended by it, |
| 1:47.0 | then it's weak and just completely just weak sauce to say it behind the back. |
| 1:52.0 | Like you do all the time to your wife. |
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