Episode 23: Straw Dogs (with Yoel Inbar)

Very Bad Wizards

Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2013

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Dave, Tamler, and special guest Yoel Inbar break down Sam Peckinpah's brilliant (at least according to one of us) 1971 film Straw Dogs. They talk about the notorious rape scene, the meaning of the final siege, standing up to Cornish townies, and whether the urge to respond to insults is rational in in modern society. Also: Yoel and Tamler go another round in their debate about statistics and grad school.

Links

Straw Dogs [imdb.com]

Yoel Inbar [yoelinbar.net]

"The Power of Straw Dogs" [dailybeast.com]

Edward Copeland on Straw Dogs [eddieonfilm.blogspot.com]

"Home Like No Place: Peckinpah's Straw Dogs." [criterion.com]

Musical interlude courtesy of Monibeatz [http://monibeatz.bandcamp.com/]

Special Guest: Yoel Inbar.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and psychologist, Dave Pizarro,
0:05.9	having an informal discussion about issues in science and ethics.
0:09.3	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.
0:17.2	You humans make a brave noise.
0:21.0	There are ways to convince you of your errors.
0:24.4	But when I'm on his phone, I do my attention to that man behind the curtain.
0:40.8	Who are you?
0:42.8	Who are you?
0:44.4	I'm a very bad man.
0:46.0	I'm a very good man.
0:47.6	Good, bad, bad, bad, bad.
0:52.0	They think they're false, and with no more brains than you have.
0:55.6	They know our attention.
0:57.6	Tell my dad.
1:01.6	To anybody can have a brain.
1:05.6	You're a very bad man.
1:07.6	I'm a very good man.
1:09.6	Just a very bad wizard.
1:11.6	Welcome to very bad wizards.
1:13.6	I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston.
1:15.6	And I'm David Pizarro from Cornell University.
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