Episode 331: Who's Your Law Daddy? (Plato's "Crito")

Very Bad Wizards

Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2026

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

In another Back 2 Basics episode, David and Tamler talk about Plato's "Crito," a dialogue that takes place two days before Socrates' death by hemlock. His friend Crito wants him to escape, but Socrates will only agree if they judge that it's the right thing to do. One imagined debate between him and the Laws of Athens later, Socrates decides to accept his punishment.

Plus we open with "Contrarian Corner" (Cinema Edition), in which we list our top 3 movies where we just don't understand all the love.

Crito (Plato's Dialogue) [wikipedia.org]

Transcript

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0:00.0	Very Bad Wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and psychologist Dave Vizarro,
0:06.0	having an informal discussion about issues in science and ethics.
0:09.4	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.
0:17.0	We don't need to nothing.
0:22.6	We do what we do is...
0:25.6	Entiendes.
0:27.6	The maiden boss has spoken.
0:32.6	Play no attention to that man behind the curtain.
0:44.3	Who are you?
0:46.3	Who are you?
0:48.3	A very bad man.
0:50.3	I'm a very good man.
0:52.3	Good man. They think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have.
1:00.0	May no attention tonight, man.
1:04.0	Anybody can have a brain?
1:09.0	You're a very bad man.
1:13.0	I'm a very good man.
1:14.9	Just a very bad wizard.
1:17.8	Welcome to Very Bad Wizards.
1:19.5	I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston.
1:22.6	Dave, there's a new Russia gate.
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