Tell Me Why I'm Wrong
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Tell Me Why I'm Wrong
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 hopefully you do, too.
Recent Episodes
20 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...
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 wan...
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 r...
S3E3: Secret Ingredients
Season 3, Episode 3: Secret Ingredients
Amos asks Sophie about the challenges of translation
Sophie asks Amos about finding your way throu...
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.
S3E1: Art & Experience
S3E1: Art & Experience:
Amos on why the 4th wall is great.
Sophie wonders what the heck the deal with phenomenology is.
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...
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 chang...
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 G...
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 I...
S2E3: National Pastimes
Sophie on why American history is boring and "under-theorized." Amos tries to explain what's interesting about it, but still isn't sure what "under-th...
S2E2: We Hate Science
Amos vs. the Internet's "love" of "science", Neil deGrasse Tyson, and "glib science boosterism"
Sophie vs. science as a hegemonic, totalizing fo...
S2E1: Hobby Horses
Sophie is very concerned because she doesn't have any hobbies and she wants some. Amos has the opposite problem. He has so many hobbies, but has troub...
Season 1 Bonus: L'Esprit d'Escalier
Bonus bonus: Amos here. I remembered the thing that I forgot. It was about Nazis. I was taking a "Transformational Leadership" class through his work...
S1E6: Ways of (Not) Knowing Redux
“Why Political Comparisons are (mostly) Bullshit”
Sophie on Misuses of History (II)
“Why Nate Silver is the Worst (not really, but everyon...
S1E5: Self & Other
Episode 3: "Self & Other"
“Self?”
Amos on what's awesome and troubling about Zen Buddhism. Bonus #StarWars content for maximum engagement...
S1E3: Great War Double Feature
“Why Is Wonder Woman in World War I?” Amos on the power and popularity of (mid-20th C) superheroes.
“Why Isn’t Austria Part of Germany?” Sophie...
S1E2: Epic!
Episode 2: “Epic!”
A. “Who Cares About Poems?”
Sophie on why nobody pays attention to poetry anymore, but really, maybe no one ever d...
S1E1: Ways of (Not) Knowing
Episode 1: “Ways of (Not) Knowing”
“Why I’m Scared I might become an Anti-Vaxxer”
Amos on epistemology and the allure of knowledge-system...