Episodes
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S3E6: So Long and Thanks for All the Fish
May 7th, 2018 | 1 hr 5 mins
Sophie and Amos wrap up Season 3 with an all fish-sex episode! They mostly talk about Guillermo Del Toro's new-ish film The Shape of Water, but they also throw in some talk about H.P. Lovecraft's short story The Shadow Over Innsmouth.
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S3E5: Human Behavior
April 30th, 2018 | 1 hr 11 mins
Sophie asks Amos what the deal is with behaviorism in psychology. Amos asks Sophie about the relationship between liberalism and nationalism in 19th Century Europe.
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S3E4: Homework, Part 2
April 2nd, 2018 | 1 hr 3 mins
Sophie and Amos are back at it. They making each other read some stuff that they ambivalent about. Sophie makes Amos read Two Years, Eight Months, and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie and Amos assigns a whole bunch of H.P. Lovecraft short stories.
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S3E3: Secret Ingredients
February 12th, 2018 | 1 hr 11 mins
Sophie and Amos are at it again, this time talking about what the deal with translation is, and revisiting S1E1 with a conversation about the science of nutrition.
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S3E2: Movies vs. Television
January 29th, 2018 | 1 hr 6 mins
Sophie loves TV. Amos loves Movies. Only one can be right!
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S3E1: Art & Experience
January 15th, 2018 | 1 hr 12 mins
Sophie and Amos are back! They kick off Season 3 talking about the pros and cons of the fourth wall and then move into HEATED discussion of phenomenology!
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Season 2 Bonus: Wonder Woman!
August 14th, 2017 | 1 hr 7 mins
Sophie and Amos are back for a chat about the movie Wonder Woman. They talked about it a little bit back in S1E3, and follow up now that they've actually seen it. This episode is FULL OF SPOILERS!
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S2E6: Reductions
August 1st, 2017 | 1 hr 4 mins
Sophie and Amos really tell each other why they're wrong this time! Sophie is wrong about words having meanings, and Amos is wrong about all cultural change being technological change.
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S2E5: Homework
July 4th, 2017 | 1 hr 29 mins
Sophie and Amos talk about the stuff they were assigned to watch. Amos asks Sophie about some movies by Guillermo Del Toro. Sophie asks Amos about Community, created by Dan Harmon.
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S2E4: Ancient Greece, Which was in Europe, is (was) Not America
June 11th, 2017 | 49 mins 35 secs
Sophie and Amos record secret content that they refuse to share with you. They discuss how Amos relates everything to the Iliad, specifically Chris Hayes's book Twilight of the Elites.
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S2E3: National Pastimes
May 8th, 2017 | 1 hr 12 mins
Amos and Sophie discuss two activities that bind this nation together: arguing about politics and watching TV.
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S2E2: We Hate Science
April 20th, 2017 | 1 hr 7 mins
Sophie and Amos are angry and they know who to blame: science! Amos is angry about the nexus of science and identity politics. Sophie just hates science.
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S2E1: Hobby Horses
April 3rd, 2017 | 1 hr 13 mins
Sophie asks Amos how to have hobbies and Amos wants Sophie to explain how to stay interested in something for more than six months. Typhus!
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Season 1 Bonus: L'Esprit d'Escalier
February 27th, 2017 | 1 hr 14 mins
Sophie and Amos do the numbers on Season 1 and tie up a few loose ends. As usual, there's a lot of talk about Nazis.
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S1E6: Ways of (Not) Knowing Redux
February 15th, 2017 | 1 hr 5 mins
Sophie and Amos return to discuss different ways of understanding the world. Amos explains what's wrong with obsessing about statistical models for understanding politics, and Sophie unloads on historical analogies.
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S1E5: Self & Other
January 30th, 2017 | 1 hr 21 mins
Zen and the Art of Political Revolution. Not the title of some douchey business book, but our topics for this episode. Amos sets Sophie straight on what the deal with Zen is, and Sophie sets Bernie Sanders straight on what the deal with Democratic Socialism is.