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.
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 Innsmo...
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 wants to ...
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 racist?...
Season 3, Episode 3: Secret Ingredients Amos asks Sophie about the challenges of translation Sophie asks Amos about finding your way through the epist...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...