Episode 29: PEDs, Tenure Pills, and "Hyberbolic Chambers"

Very Bad Wizards

Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2013

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Dave and Tamler try to artificially bulk up their expertise on the ethics of performance enhancing drugs and end up raising a lot more questions than they answer. Why do we condemn certain methods for boosting performance on the playing field and praise others? Why is it OK to train at high altitudes but not in hyperbaric chambers that simulate high altitudes? Why is Lance Armstrong a villain and Graham Greene (who wrote many of his most famous novels on benzedrine) a hero? Is there genetic therapy to cure haunted child haircuts, and if there is, how can Tamler get access to it? Of course, no discussion on PEDs would be complete without clips from South Park and Sanford and Son. Also, David misremembers Lyle Alzado as a regular on an 80's sitcom because of a single appearance on "Small Wonder." We probably should have taken some podcast enhancing drugs for this one.

Links

Performance-enhancing drugs [wikipedia.org]
Benzedrine [wikipedia.org]
What do Auden, Sartre, and Ayn Rand have in common? Amphetamines [slate.com]
Lyle Alzado [wikipedia.org]
"Turin Sample: The nonsense of Olympic doping rules" by William Saletan [slate.com]
"Brain Gain: The underground world of 'neuroenhancing' drugs" by Margaret Talbot [newyorker.com]
Adderall [wikipedia.org]
Modafinil (Provigil) [wikipedia.org]
"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems" -Paul Erdos [amphetamines.org]
Up the down steroid [southparkstudios.com]
Sanford and Son: "Gorilla Cookies" [youtube.com]

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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 out a lot to say,
0:13.6	and knowing my dad some very inappropriate jokes.
0:17.2	A lot of you don't drink no smoke.
0:18.8	Some people here tonight don't eat butter, no salt, no sugar, no lard,
0:24.0	because they want to live and give up that good stuff.
0:27.2	You don't feel like a damn fool enough to ask for your dying for nothing.
0:58.0	They think people and with no more brains than you have.
1:01.2	They know our children.
1:03.2	They're not bad.
1:05.2	They're not bad.
1:07.2	They're not bad.
1:09.2	Anybody can have a brain.
1:11.2	You're a very bad man.
1:13.2	I'm a very good man.
1:15.2	Just a very bad wizard.
1:19.2	Welcome to very bad wizards.
1:21.2	I'm David Pizarro from Cornell University.
1:23.2	Tamler, what current podcast enhancing drugs are you on?
1:25.2	I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston.
1:29.2	Well, I'm on my third hour of Viagra erection.
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