Episode 66: Übermensch at Work

Very Bad Wizards

Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2015

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Special guest Yoel Inbar (author of Hitchcock’s Women: From Margaret Sullivan to Tippi Hedren) joins us to talk about Hitchcock’s long take masterpiece/gimmick Rope. Based loosely on the case of Leopold and Loeb, Rope tells the story of two young men who have read Nietzsche and decide to murder a schoolmate in order to cement their Übermensch status. Did they read Nietzsche correctly? Is conventional morality nothing but a construct to keep the inferior masses in line? Are professors accountable for what they teach? (Please God, no.) Plus, we delve deeper into Julie and Mark’s motivation, and Yoel plays a round of “Does the government deem this trademark scandalous?”

Links

Yoel Inbar [yoelinbar.net]
Very Bad Wizards Episode 22: An Enquiry Concerning Slurs and Offensiveness [verybadwizards.com]
Rope [IMDB.com]
Leopold and Loeb [wikipedia.org]
Leopold and Loeb's Criminal Minds (Smithsonian Magazine)
The Leopold and Loeb Trial Page (UMKC Law)
Paul Gauguin [wikipedia.org]
The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham [wikipedia.org]
Nietzsche's Moral and Political Philosophy [plato.stanford.edu]
Damasio, A. "Remembering When," Scientific American, 2002. [antonellapavese.com]
What's the matter with a little brother sister action? by Tamler Sommers [psychologytoday.com]

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0:00.0	Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a psychologist, Dave Pizarro,
0:06.1	having an informal discussion about issues and signs and ethics.
0:09.5	Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm out of allow to say,
0:13.8	and knowing my dad some very inappropriate jokes.
0:17.2	She said potten mis here while I go into the kitchen with fuck the chicken.
0:20.8	He's listening down in his body.
0:26.8	It's a sheer, if this is gonna be that kind of part,
0:29.7	I'm gonna stick my dick in the mouth, put it in the mouth.
0:50.8	Who are you? Who are you? I'm very bad man.
0:56.8	I'm a very good man. Good man.
1:00.8	They think things are false and with no more brains than you have.
1:05.8	They know our attention.
1:08.8	Can I stand?
1:12.8	Anybody can have a brain?
1:16.8	You're a very bad man.
1:18.8	I'm a very good man. Just a very bad wizard.
1:23.8	Welcome to very bad wizards. I'm Dave Pizarro from Cornell University.
1:26.8	Tamler in the movie we're gonna discuss. There's this great quote.
1:29.8	I mean, I think it's the quote of the movie where they're discussing a publisher
1:33.8	who only prints the philosophy books.
1:35.8	And the philosophy books are described as having small prints, big words, and no sales.
1:41.8	So I know you're working on a new book. Is this what we can expect?
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