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Very Bad Wizards

Episode 4: Revenge, Pt. 1

Very Bad Wizards

Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.83K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2012

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Dave allows Tamler to rant about Sam Harris’s strawman attacks on moral relativism before launching into discussion about revenge, justice, True Grit, and Michael Dukakis. Though they differ on many issues, Tamler and Dave agree that it’s hard to satirize a guy with shiny boots.  

Links

Sam Harris in the Huffington Post.

“Brute force is better with Nazis.”

The answer that launched a series of Bush presidencies.

“This ain’t no coon hunt.”

·Justice and Honor, Tamler’s Psychology Today blog post.

"Partial Desert" blog post at Flickers of Freedom.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a psychologist, Dave Pizarro,

0:07.6

having an informal discussion about issues in science and ethics.

0:11.0

Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm out of lead to say, and knowing

0:15.6

my dad, some very inappropriate jokes.

0:18.8

As for you, my fine friend, you're a victim of disorganized thinking.

0:23.2

I'm a very good man, I'm a very good man, I'm a very good man, I'm a very good man,

0:49.8

I'm a very good man, just a very bad wizard.

1:12.8

Welcome to very bad wizards, I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston.

1:16.8

And I'm David Pizarro from Cornell University.

1:20.8

I will go up to the six finger man and say hello.

1:26.4

My name is Inuva Montoya, who killed my father, prepared to die.

1:34.6

Today's episode, Prevenge.

1:38.1

One of my favorite topics of all time.

1:40.6

Yeah, and I don't know if I'd call that one of my favorite movies of all time, but I remember

1:45.9

when I was interviewing William Ian Miller, that's how you know him because you work on

1:54.2

disgust and you're all into that kind of stuff, but I know him for his work on revenge and

2:00.5

honor cultures, and he called Princess Bride the best revenge movie ever made.

2:07.8

He's an expert, it is a great movie man, I don't know about the greatest revenge movie,

2:12.6

but I just rewashed it with my daughter, who's seven years old, and she was skeptical

2:19.9

because it doesn't look like a kid's movie at first, but she loved it.

2:26.8

And I don't know if she got the whole revenge thing, but I hope she did.

2:30.4

Yeah, no, I mean, I've been watching that with Eliza since I was, well, not I was.

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