Episode 250: Metaphors All the Way Down
Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2022
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
We often think of metaphors as poetic flourishes, a nice way to punctuate your ideas and make them more relatable. But what if metaphors aren’t simply tools of language but part of thought itself? David and Tamler “dive into” George Lakoff’s theory of metaphors and “explore” the implications of his view that metaphors shape and constrain the ways we conceptualize our experience of the world. Plus if we’re really living in cancel culture, we might as well do some cancelling. Say goodbye to "Singing in the Rain," Latinx, and punny academic titles among other things.
Oh and it’s our 250th episode! It’s been quite a journey. Have we come a long way or are we just spinning our wheels? And for a fun detour, check out our bonus podcast series “The Ambulators” on the great TV series Deadwood.
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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. |
| 0:09.3 | 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. |
| 0:17.1 | We're philosophical about dumb shit. |
| 0:20.4 | We're philosophical about shit. We're very thoughtful about shit that means nothing. |
| 0:23.6 | The cleaning of his thoughts and a new attention to that man behind the curtain. |
| 0:40.2 | Who are you? |
| 0:42.4 | Who are you? |
| 0:44.0 | I'm very bad man. |
| 0:45.4 | I'm a very good man. |
| 0:47.2 | Good man. |
| 0:48.4 | Just a very bad wizard. |
| 1:12.5 | Welcome to very bad wizards. |
| 1:13.9 | I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston. Dave, it's our 250th episode. |
| 1:20.1 | Why can't we get our shit together ever and actually do something like to mark the occasion? |
| 1:27.6 | There's just too many occasions to mark. |
| 1:30.0 | There's no way we could come up with something that interesting or cool. |
| 1:33.1 | We could barely come up with something interesting or cool just for like non-round numbers. |
| 1:38.8 | Okay, but for the 75th episode, not like, whoo, 75, like that's such a big number, right? |
| 1:45.8 | We had like six guests come on and we had this whole thing like, what did you change your mind about? |
| 1:52.5 | 100th, we had our daughters. |
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