Episode 295: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2024
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
David and Tamler hop into their Scooby Van and drive into Tobe Hooper’s mad and macabre horror classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. How does this endlessly imitated movie still have the power to scare the shit out of people fifty years after its release? We talk about the sounds, smells, heat, and sweat (but not so much the blood) that pour out of the screen. And we dare to ask the question: are the Sawyers – a family of craftsmen and artists, committed to sustainability and fine dining – actually the victims here? Plus we take and fail a test to see if we can identify fake Republicans and Democrats.
Both Democrats and Republicans can pass the Ideological Turing Test [experimental-history.com]
The Ideological Turing Test [ituringtest.com]
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre [wikipedia.org]
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| 0:00.0 | Very Bad Wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a psychologist Dave Vizarro, |
| 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 |
| 0:15.0 | some very inappropriate jokes. |
| 0:17.0 | Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? |
| 0:25.0 | Go on singing. |
| 0:29.0 | The way in |
| 0:30.0 | The way then has The Great End Us has spoken. |
| 0:35.0 | Play no attention to that band behind the curtains. Who are you? A very bad man? I'm a very good man, good man. |
| 0:54.0 | They think deep thought, and with no more brains than you have. |
| 1:00.0 | Pay no attention to that man. |
| 1:04.0 | Anybody can have a brain. |
| 1:08.0 | You're a very bad man. |
| 1:12.0 | I'm a very bad man. |
| 1:13.0 | I'm a very good man. |
| 1:15.0 | Just a very bad wizard. |
| 1:18.0 | Welcome to very bad wizards. |
| 1:20.0 | I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston. |
| 1:22.0 | Dave, this is our fall Halloween special episode. |
| 1:27.0 | Or should I not say fall? |
| 1:30.0 | I mean, I feel like you've already alienated a bunch of our listeners. I feel like we should go back and edit out all mention of seasons. |
| 1:38.0 | Yeah, no, I know. |
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