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Welcome to rationally speaking, the podcast where we explore the borderlands between reason and nonsense.

I'm your host, Massimo Pilducci, and with me, as always, is my co-host, Julia Galev.

Julia, what are we going to laugh about, I'm sorry, talk about today.

Well, Massimo, as your Freudian slip, suggests we are today going to focus on humor, specifically the psychology and philosophy of humor.

Where does it come from?

Why do we find certain things funny and other things not so much?

And so on.

So listen to this.

Yeah.

So Plato and a planet waspus walk into a bar.

Oh, here we go.

The bartender gives the philosopher a quizzical look.

And Plato says, what can I say?

It was dark in the cave.

I hope we have a laugh track.

Benny can edit in.

Yes, I'm sure we need a laugh track for this thing. Anyway,

so that is just one of many jokes, of course, about philosophy. That is, that comes from a book

by the same title, Plato and Platt. It was walking to a bar by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein.

It's actually a good book. It explores all the major areas of philosophy essentially by

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