SIO400: Good Will Hunting, Bad Science Thingy

Serious Inquiries Only

Thomas Smith

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4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Seriously Awful Movies 3, Good Will Hunting, was approximately 3 episodes worth of content. So, we thought it would be fun to put out some of that for everyone! Dr. Alan Smerbeck and returning SAMtacular guest Omar Najam join us as we explore the science (?) in Good Will Hunting. Is this how therapy actually works? Is Robin Williams even a therapist? Is this movie actually any good? Stormy also tells us about the actual disease Robin Williams died of, and how his case was a cautionary tale of why we shouldn't do armchair diagnosis. If you want to hear more of this SAM, head on over to patreon.com/seriouspod and pledge 2nd tier or above to snag access to these episodes, ad-free shows, and more!

Coming up VERY SOON: You can catch Omar on the brand new Dungeons and Dragons series DesiQuest! Their first episode premieres 11/14! Omar's annual 13 Days 13 Shorts project just wrapped up a couple of weeks ago. You can still see all of the submissions from folks around the world - and maybe get inspired to participate next year!

The Share Banned Books project is going strong! Huge kudos to Stormy (and you all!) for donating books and serving as librarians for your community's Little Library. Please check it out and contribute if you can!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Serious Incwards Only This is episode 400
0:23.6	Uh, that's, that's ends the celebration of the numerology of the episode.
0:29.6	Now, how's it going?
0:30.5	I'm Thomas Smith today.
0:32.9	I've got a really fun thing for you.
0:34.7	So here's the thing.
0:35.6	This is a selection from seriously awful movies, three, which was Goodwill hunting.
0:40.6	And we had stormy decisis on Dr.
0:43.2	Alan smurbeck and Omar Najam on to have a good time and roast this movie,
0:48.6	but also honestly, it's, it's a pretty good movie actually.
0:53.0	So we also, it was, it was fun because it was like, there's great things about it.
0:57.1	There's also really dumb, uh, unscientific things about it.
1:00.4	Stormy had a great time being the sort of the negatron of this one,
1:04.5	despite my feeling like it was actually pretty good movie.
1:07.7	Stormy, uh, stormy had a lot of complaints, which is good because that's what we
1:11.0	come to seriously awful movies for.
1:12.8	If you've never checked it out, that's the goal.
1:14.8	It's to have some fun, make some jokes, but also learn about the real science
1:18.9	behind some, some Hollywood stuff.
1:21.1	Now I won't always turn these into a regular episode, as I'm sure you've
1:24.3	noticed, but this one, we recorded like three episodes worth of content.
1:28.6	That's why it took me quite a long time to get the edit done.
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