In what might very well be the last episode before we're pulled off the air, Tamler outlines his data-free "theory" of what makes something offensive. What makes a joke about race, ethnicity, gender, disability funny sometimes, and deeply hurtful at other times? What makes Louis CK so goddamn funny and Andrew Dice Clay just...an asshole? Is Family Guy racist? Throughout the episode, David defends the victims of hatred and is a voice of empathy and reason, while Tamler drops the c-word multiple times, jumps to racist conclusions, and makes fun of David's partial Arab heritage. Links <ul> <li>Louis CK and his friends <a href= "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-55wC5dEnc">discuss the word f@**%t</a></li> <li>Wikipedia on <a href= "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faggot_(slang)">F****</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunt">C***</a> [wikipedia.org]</li> <li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRGBgrv1d0o">Bill Burr on the c-word</a> [youtube.com]</li> <li><a href="http://ihnatko.com">Andy Ihnatko's</a> podcast on <a href="http://5by5.tv">5by5.tv</a>, where he discusses why <a href="http://5by5.tv/ia/67">Family Guy is not funny</a></li> <li><a href= "http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/05/07/charles_ramsey_amanda_berry_rescuer_becomes_internet_meme_video.html"> The Troubling Viral Trend of the "Hilarious" Black Neighbor</a> by Aisha Harris [slate.com]</li> </ul> <a href="https://www.patreon.com/verybadwizards" rel= "payment">Support Very Bad Wizards</a>

Episode 23: Straw Dogs (with Yoel Inbar)

Very Bad Wizards is a podcast featuring a philosopher (Tamler Sommers) and a psychologist (David Pizarro), who share a love for ethics, pop culture, and cognitive science, and who have a marked inability to distinguish sacred from profane. Each podcast includes discussions of moral philosophy, recent work on moral psychology and neuroscience, and the overlap between the two.