Episode 291: Shoe Shining

Very Bad Wizards

Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2024

⏱️ 132 minutes

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Summary

Cornell philosopher David Shoemaker joins us for a long winding journey up to the Overlook Hotel, a DEEP dive on Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. We tackle all the big questions - is the hotel truly haunted? What if anything does it symbolize? Why are there two Gradys and two sets of daughters? How does the filmmaking – and the Steadicam in particular - amplify our sense of dread? Does Jack shine too? How does he get out of the storage closet? Is Shelly Duval’s performance actually brilliant? What the fuck is up with Bill? Should the Overlook have included a land acknowledgment? And lots more. Come listen to us, forever and ever and ever….

David Shoemaker's website [sites.google.com]

Wisecracks by David Shoemaker [amazon.com afilliate link]

Review of Wisecracks by Kieran Setiya [atlantic.com]

The Shining [wikipedia.org]

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 science and ethics.
0:09.4	Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm not allowed to say and knowing my dad
0:14.5	some very inappropriate jokes.
0:17.0	Canalingis and psychiatry brought us to this. The Great End of The Great End Us has spoken.
0:27.0	Pay no attention to that man behind a curtain. Who are you?
0:37.0	Who are you?
0:39.0	Who are you?
0:41.0	A very bad man.
0:42.0	I'm a very bad man?
0:42.8	I'm a very good man.
0:44.4	Good man.
0:45.8	They think deep thought and with no more brains than you have.
0:51.8	Pay no attention to that man.
0:59.0	Anybody can have a brain.
1:00.0	You're a very bad man. brave.
1:03.0	You're a very bad man.
1:05.0	I'm a very good man.
1:07.0	Just a very bad wizard.
1:10.0	Welcome to very bad wizards.
1:11.0	I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston.
1:14.1	Dave, I'm pretty sure nobody could call you brat.
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