Episode 314: The In-Betweeny Place

Very Bad Wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and psychologist, Dave Fesaro, having an informal discussion about issues in science and ethics. Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm not allowed to say, and knowing my dad, some very inappropriate jokes. Do you know where dreams come from? Greatest hunt has spoken. Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain. Who are you? Who are you? A very bad man. I'm a very good man. Good man. They think they've lost and with no more brains than you have. Pay no attention to that man. Anybody can have a You're a very bad man. I'm a very good man, just a very bad wizard. Welcome to Very Bad Wizards. I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston. Dave, Sydney Sweeney's ad for American Eagles jeans sparked a lot of controversy last week because apparently, she wants to be taken seriously as an and then the jeans, good I you know what? I I don't have the heart to do to do this. Can you ask a question about this issue? Okay. How about, don't you think it's obvious that Sydney Sweeney should reproduce for the sake of all humans? Am I am I a eugenicist by thinking that some people should reproduce? No. And not just reproduce with anyone. I actually don't even A blonde guy. Do you even know about, like, why this was controversial? Like, I tried to ask Eliza, or Eliza tried to tell me about it, but I, like, I couldn't really, follow it. Like, I've been kind of trying to be off of Twitter, but I I came across a just people saying that this was just, like, shades of eugenics to say good genes, which was just like a pun on the genes, obviously. Right. But that, like, this is just, like, distasteful. And then, of course, you had people on the right saying, like, woke woke is now officially dead or something like that. Oh my god. Because nobody ever, like, had, like, a hot woman, advertising jeans before. You know? Like Whoever the ad executive who did this, like, worked. They worked. Yeah. Like, oh. Hats off. Like, everyone is talking about American Eagle jeans for the first time in my lifetime. Like, I have never like, I knew about the store. Like, I I guess I knew they did jeans, but that's that's it. And now, you know, I almost was able to ask an opening question about I mean, for the record, Sydney Sweeney is like your girl. Like, I don't I'm I'm I'm just indifferent, you know? I I'm on the side of non eugenics, so I guess I'm against You know, in Eastbound and Down, you know, there's ass men and there are Exactly. You are the foreigner. I am the goddess. Well, let's keep talking about sex. Oh, god. I I think that's why I couldn't come up with the …