Tell Me Why I'm Wrong

Tell Me Why I'm Wrong

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Tell Me Why I'm Wrong episodes

  • S3E6: So Long and Thanks for All the Fish

    S3E6: So Long and Thanks for All the Fish:

    Sophie and Amos discuss the two premier pieces of fish-sex art in the Western Canon: The Shadow Over Innsmouth and The Shape of Water. They pick up on the conversation from two episodes ago and notice that these two works ascribe VERY different value judgments to the phenomenon of human/fish-man coupling.

    Links:

    • The Shape of Water
    — You can buy the movie here!
    1 hr 6 min
  • S3E5: Human Behavior

    S3E5: Human:

    • Sophie wonders what the heck is up with behaviorism in psychotherapy. It seems to her that it's very popular right now, and she wants to know why.
    • Amos has been learning about modern European history and he's noticed that the liberals seem to also be nationalists. He wants to understand the connection between these two ideologies, and Sophie is just the person to explain it.

      • Links:

      • Revolutions Podcast
      — This is a great show, and if you're at all interested in modern history, it's worth checking out.
    • B. F. Skinner - Wikipedia
    • Revolutions of 1848 - Wikipedia
    • David Hume - Wikipedia
      • 1 hr 12 min
    • S3E4: Homework, Part 2

      Season 3, Episode 4: Homework Part 2

      • Amos ask Sophie what she thought of yer boy Howard Philip. Is the prose terrible? (yes) Is it really that racist? (yes) Is it any good??
      • Sophie asks Amos what he thought about Two Years, Eight Months, and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie. Is it literary novel with genre pretensions? A genre novel with literary pretensions? Is Rushdie just goofing?
        • 1 hr 4 min
      • S3E3: Secret Ingredients

        Season 3, Episode 3: Secret Ingredients

        • Amos asks Sophie about the challenges of translation
        • Sophie asks Amos about finding your way through the epistemological morass of nutrition science.

          • Links:

          • The First Woman to Translate the ‘Odyssey’ Into English
          — This is one of the interviews that Amos mentions.
        • The Paleo Solution
          • — Amos mentions Robb Wolf too.
          1 hr 12 min
        • S3E2: Movies vs. Television

          Season 3, Episode 2: Movies vs. Television:

          • Sophie on why Amos thinks movies are great.
          • Amos on why Sophie thinks TV is great.

            • Links:

            • Metropolis (1927) - Official Trailer - YouTube
          • Metropolis - Dance Scene - YouTube
            • — This is the scene of robot Maria dancing all sexy.
          • The Good Place
            • — The show about a terrible person and a philosopher, that looks like a Katy Perry video.
          • Game of Thrones, Season 1 on iTunes
            • — Let's be honest, you've probably already seen it.
          • FIRE JOE MORGAN
            • — Michael Shur's old blog where he wrote as ken tremendous and made fun of bad sports journalism.
            1 hr 7 min
          • S3E1: Art & Experience

            S3E1: Art & Experience:

            • Amos on why the 4th wall is great.
            • Sophie wonders what the heck the deal with phenomenology is.

              • Links:

              • Fourth wall - Wikipedia
            • Immanuel Kant - Wikipedia
              • — He's responsible for the distinction between noumena (things accessible by mind or reason) and phenomena (things accessible to regular experience).
            • Edmund Husserl - Wikipedia
              • — Husserl invented the word "phenomenology."
            • Martin Heidegger - Wikipedia
              • — Heidegger was a big ole' Nazi and the creator of what most people mean when they talk about phenomenology.
              1 hr 13 min
            • Season 2 Bonus: Wonder Woman!

              Waaaay, back in S1E3, Sophie asked "Why is Wonder Woman in World War I?" We speculated about dramatic/thematic and cultural reasons why you might set a Wonder Woman movie in The Great War, and now that the movie is out, and you've all seen it (right?), they're hear to talk about it. Does the setting make sense? Is the movie any good? What's up with Ludendorff? Would we say that Steve Trevor is a typical example of his sex?

              Links:

              • Wonder Woman - Wikipedia
            • Wonder Woman on iTunes
              • — You can preorder the movie here, if you want.
            • Tell Me Why I'm Wrong: S1E3: Great War Double Feature
              • — Inception!
            • Amazon.com: Wonder Woman (2017) (BD) [Blu-ray]: Charles Roven, Rebecca Roven, Stephen Jones, Zack Snyder, Wesley Coller, Deborah Snyder, Richard Suckle, Geoff Johns, Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Robin Wright, Connie Nielsen, Lucy Davis, David Thewlis, Patty Jenkins, Allan Heinberg: Movies & TV
              • — Or here!
            • Erich Ludendorff - Wikipedia
              • — Check out his sweet mustache!
              1 hr 8 min
            • S2E6: Reductions

              A couple themes have been coming up throughout the show. Sophie thinks words mean things. Amos is a vulgar Marxist, and thinks that all cultural change is always and everywhere the result of technological change. They tell each other why their wrong. Listen all the way through for the surprise ending!

              Links:

              • Ludwig Wittgenstein - Wikipedia
              — Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (/ˈvɪtɡənˌstaɪn/;[6] German: [ˈvɪtgənˌʃtaɪn]; 26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.
              1 hr 5 min
            • S2E5: Homework

              A little while back, Sophie and Amos assigned each other homework. Sophie told Amos to watch a bunch of episodes of Community, and Amos assigned two Guillermo Del Toro movies, Pan's Labyrinth and Pacific Rim. Now it's time to find out what each of them thought!

              Links:

              • Pan's Labyrinth - Wikipedia
            • Pan's Labyrinth — iTunes
              • — Buy it here!
            • Saturn Devouring His Son - Wikipedia
              • — This painting was an inspiration for the Pale Man.
            • Pacific Rim (film) - Wikipedia
            • Pacific Rim — iTunes
              • — And buy this one here!
            • Hellboy (film) - Wikipedia
              • — This one wasn't assigned, but we talked about it a little.
            • Hellboy — iTunes
              • — You should buy this one too!
            • Community (TV series) - Wikipedia
            • Community — iTunes
              • — You can buy Community here, or you can watch it for free on Hulu.
              1 hr 30 min
            • S2E4: Ancient Greece, Which was in Europe, is (was) Not America

              Amos read Twilight of the Elites by Chris Hayes a few months ago, and one section in particular made him think about the obnoxious characters in the Iliad. Sophie wonders how far you can push that comparison. Amos says you can push it as far as you want, you're not the boss of me. Sophie says, I mean come on, don't be ridiculous. The past is the past, and we're here now. I know it's the past, I'm just saying that the chapter 1% Pathologies raises some interesting points of comparison. You don' t need to be a jerk about it. A jerk? You think I'm being a jerk? I'll show you a jerk. O you who art clothed in shamelessness, most covetous of all men! Thou heavy with wine, with the face of a dog and the heart of dear! Never have you had the spirit to arm yourself for war with the men, nor to go on ambush with the best of the Achaeans. Devourer of the people, since you lord it over worthless men.

              Links:

              • Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy: Chris Hayes: 9780307720467: Amazon.com: Books
              — This is the book Amos read.
            • Amazon.com: The Iliad (9780140275360): Homer, Robert Fagles, Bernard Knox: Books
              • — This is Amos's favorite English translation of the Iliad. It's not the most accurate, but it's great poetry. If you care about accuracy, you should just learn Greek.
            • Greek
              • — And if you're up for and want to learn Ancient Greek, this is the place for autodidacts.
              50 min

            About Tell Me Why I'm Wrong

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            Each episode, we do two segments, with one of us starting off with a confident but possibly erroneous take on a subject and the challenge to “Tell me why I’m wrong.” Then we switch. We learn, and…