Episode 316: A Four-Letter Man (Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber")

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. I am not an evil man. No. The The green and hot has fallen. 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 apps. Pay no attention to that bitch. Anybody can have a brain. You're a very bad man. I'm a very good man. Just a very bad wizard. Welcome to Very Bad Wizards. I'm Tamara Summers from the University of Houston. Dave, because of our scheduling, we deprived ourselves and more importantly our listeners of a deep dive into the massive Cracker Barrel logo change controversy. As you know, I think a couple weeks ago, Cracker Barrel has gone back to the old logo with good old uncle Herschel after all that backlash. Where did you stand on Logogate? I'm glad you're asking this. You know? This is I do feel like this was a topic that we should have discussed. I am genuinely annoyed at the changing of logos to be more modern. I'm like, why? You just want attention. I'm a minimalist generally. Like, I like my shit, like, tidy and nice and neat. But these logos, these modern corporate logos take they strip all of the life away and, like, make it so generic. Like, I like the old man. I don't know what was wrong with the old man. I'm with Trump on this. Yeah. You were with MAGA on all of this. Did you see the the, like, the AI thing that Trump posted of, like, him shaking the hand of the Cracker Barrel guy? Yeah. It was so bad. So you were really, like, you I mean, it was just a terrible, like, shitty ass corporate logo just streamlined out of some, like, probably, like, 18 consultants that came up with this, like, streamlined thing based on, like, all this data they've been getting from focus groups or whatever the fuck. But why it did get politicized in a way that is actually quite baffling. It is weird. I was like, why do they care? Is is the old guy, like, a a represent, like, the good old racist days? And, like, we're trying to erase that? Like, that's what it felt like. That's what it felt like. And, of course, like, that was the farthest thing from anybody's mind, I think. It really is just some corporate, like, you know so one of the things that I saw like, I came to this, like, five or six days late. But this woman tweeted, I don't care how much this angers the left. I will never eat …