feed01.fireside.fm Tue, 16 Dec 2025 10:36:58 -0600 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Tell Me Why I'm Wrong http://www.tmwiw.net Mon, 07 May 2018 12:46:10 -0400 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. en-us © 2025 Copyright 2016 by Amos & Sophie episodic A bi-weekly show featuring two friends setting each other straight about history, politics, philosophy, and everything else. Amos & Sophie 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. no Amos & Sophie TMWIWInfo@gmail.com yes S3E6: So Long and Thanks for All the Fish http://www.tmwiw.net/s3e6 0512531e-228d-4dbf-b0ff-1aa370ba7e3a Mon, 07 May 2018 12:00:00 -0400 Amos & Sophie full Amos & Sophie 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. 1:05:23 no 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 Innsmouth and The Shape of Water. They pick up on the conversation from two episodes ago and notice that these two works ascribe VERY different value judgments to the phenomenon of human/fish-man coupling. 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 Innsmouth and The Shape of Water. They pick up on the conversation from two episodes ago and notice that these two works ascribe VERY different value judgments to the phenomenon of human/fish-man coupling.

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Sophie and Amos discuss the two premier pieces of fish-sex art in the Western Canon: The Shadow Over Innsmouth and The Shape of Water. They pick up on the conversation from two episodes ago and notice that these two works ascribe VERY different value judgments to the phenomenon of human/fish-man coupling.

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]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/nPDy2PbL+Lwd_sCHz ]]> Amos Worth Sophie Dart S3E5: Human Behavior http://www.tmwiw.net/s3e5 f12077cf-b36a-4fc1-8b6f-b4b2868104d4 Mon, 30 Apr 2018 12:00:00 -0400 Amos & Sophie full Amos & Sophie 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. 1:11:33 no 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 know why. Amos has been learning about modern European history and he's noticed that the liberals seem to also be nationalists. He wants to understand the connection between these two ideologies, and Sophie is just the person to explain it. 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 know why.
  • Amos has been learning about modern European history and he's noticed that the liberals seem to also be nationalists. He wants to understand the connection between these two ideologies, and Sophie is just the person to explain it.

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  • 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 know why.
  • Amos has been learning about modern European history and he's noticed that the liberals seem to also be nationalists. He wants to understand the connection between these two ideologies, and Sophie is just the person to explain it.

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]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/nPDy2PbL+haUyeThY ]]> Amos Worth Sophie Dart S3E4: Homework, Part 2 http://www.tmwiw.net/s3e4 cf4807ef-be7f-4617-be64-ccae191e8857 Mon, 02 Apr 2018 12:00:00 -0400 Amos & Sophie full Amos & Sophie 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. 1:03:45 no 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? (yes) Is it any good?? Sophie asks Amos what he thought about Two Years, Eight Months, and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie. Is it literary novel with genre pretensions? A genre novel with literary pretensions? Is Rushdie just goofing? 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? (yes) Is it any good??
  • Sophie asks Amos what he thought about Two Years, Eight Months, and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie. Is it literary novel with genre pretensions? A genre novel with literary pretensions? Is Rushdie just goofing?
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  • Amos ask Sophie what she thought of yer boy Howard Philip. Is the prose terrible? (yes) Is it really that racist? (yes) Is it any good??
  • Sophie asks Amos what he thought about Two Years, Eight Months, and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie. Is it literary novel with genre pretensions? A genre novel with literary pretensions? Is Rushdie just goofing?
]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/nPDy2PbL+xPn8F1J6 ]]> Amos Worth Sophie Dart S3E3: Secret Ingredients http://www.tmwiw.net/s3e3 93410510-5659-41f7-a5c6-e9281a8f8387 Mon, 12 Feb 2018 12:00:00 -0500 Amos & Sophie full Amos & Sophie 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. 1:11:19 no Season 3, Episode 3: Secret Ingredients Amos asks Sophie about the challenges of translation Sophie asks Amos about finding your way through the epistemological morass of nutrition science. Season 3, Episode 3: Secret Ingredients

  • Amos asks Sophie about the challenges of translation
  • Sophie asks Amos about finding your way through the epistemological morass of nutrition science.

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  • Amos asks Sophie about the challenges of translation
  • Sophie asks Amos about finding your way through the epistemological morass of nutrition science.

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]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/nPDy2PbL+wvAh2Qqv ]]> Amos Worth Sophie Dart S3E2: Movies vs. Television http://www.tmwiw.net/s3e2 ee38866a-1a20-4ad9-ba42-6c8f0dcfffb5 Mon, 29 Jan 2018 14:00:00 -0500 Amos & Sophie full Amos & Sophie Sophie loves TV. Amos loves Movies. Only one can be right! 1:06:45 no Season 3, Episode 2: Movies vs. Television: Sophie on why Amos thinks movies are great. Amos on why Sophie thinks TV is great. Season 3, Episode 2: Movies vs. Television:

  • Sophie on why Amos thinks movies are great.
  • Amos on why Sophie thinks TV is great.

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  • Sophie on why Amos thinks movies are great.
  • Amos on why Sophie thinks TV is great.

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]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/nPDy2PbL+9-lgD2OG ]]> Amos Worth Sophie Dart S3E1: Art & Experience http://www.tmwiw.net/s3e1 842f321b-6df6-4359-8c41-37cedc9dd300 Mon, 15 Jan 2018 12:00:00 -0500 Amos & Sophie full Amos & Sophie 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! 1:12:03 no S3E1: Art & Experience: Amos on why the 4th wall is great. Sophie wonders what the heck the deal with phenomenology is. S3E1: Art & Experience:

  • Amos on why the 4th wall is great.
  • Sophie wonders what the heck the deal with phenomenology is.

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  • Amos on why the 4th wall is great.
  • Sophie wonders what the heck the deal with phenomenology is.

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]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/nPDy2PbL+tcB__M2g ]]> Amos Worth Sophie Dart Season 2 Bonus: Wonder Woman! http://www.tmwiw.net/s2bonus 1b7435fe-937e-403d-9f72-e1c3d0b4498b Mon, 14 Aug 2017 12:00:00 -0400 Amos & Sophie full Amos & Sophie 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! 1:07:56 no 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 Wonder Woman movie in The Great War, and now that the movie is out, and you've all seen it (right?), they're hear to talk about it. Does the setting make sense? Is the movie any good? What's up with Ludendorff? Would we say that Steve Trevor is a typical example of his sex? 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 Wonder Woman movie in The Great War, and now that the movie is out, and you've all seen it (right?), they're hear to talk about it. Does the setting make sense? Is the movie any good? What's up with Ludendorff? Would we say that Steve Trevor is a typical example of his sex?

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]]> 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 Wonder Woman movie in The Great War, and now that the movie is out, and you've all seen it (right?), they're hear to talk about it. Does the setting make sense? Is the movie any good? What's up with Ludendorff? Would we say that Steve Trevor is a typical example of his sex?

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]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/nPDy2PbL+Lb2iLMaC ]]> Amos Worth Sophie Dart S2E6: Reductions http://www.tmwiw.net/s2e6 84b0491b-eedc-4ee0-b7dd-ca827216140f Tue, 01 Aug 2017 12:00:00 -0400 Amos & Sophie full Amos & Sophie 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. 1:04:01 no 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 change is always and everywhere the result of technological change. They tell each other why their wrong. Listen all the way through for the surprise ending! 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 change is always and everywhere the result of technological change. They tell each other why their wrong. Listen all the way through for the surprise ending!

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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein - Wikipedia — Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (/ˈvɪtɡənˌstaɪn/;[6] German: [ˈvɪtgənˌʃtaɪn]; 26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein - Wikipedia — Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (/ˈvɪtɡənˌstaɪn/;[6] German: [ˈvɪtgənˌʃtaɪn]; 26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.
]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/nPDy2PbL+5LlfnM1Z ]]> Amos Worth Sophie Dart S2E5: Homework http://www.tmwiw.net/s2e5 95f9b952-7b04-44a5-a65f-d76b28bdbfa9 Tue, 04 Jul 2017 12:00:00 -0400 Amos & Sophie full Amos & Sophie 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. 1:29:20 no 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 Guillermo Del Toro movies, Pan's Labyrinth and Pacific Rim. Now it's time to find out what each of them thought! 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 Guillermo Del Toro movies, Pan's Labyrinth and Pacific Rim. Now it's time to find out what each of them thought!

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]]> 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 Guillermo Del Toro movies, Pan's Labyrinth and Pacific Rim. Now it's time to find out what each of them thought!

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]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/nPDy2PbL+4dDZL0yq ]]> Amos Worth Sophie Dart S2E4: Ancient Greece, Which was in Europe, is (was) Not America http://www.tmwiw.net/s2e4 275b94f5-8be8-4e96-bffc-0dd8bc00edcb Sun, 11 Jun 2017 20:00:00 -0400 Amos & Sophie full Amos & Sophie 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. 49:35 no 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 Iliad. Sophie wonders how far you can push that comparison. Amos says you can push it as far as you want, you're not the boss of me. Sophie says, I mean come on, don't be ridiculous. The past is the past, and we're here now. I know it's the past, I'm just saying that the chapter 1% Pathologies raises some interesting points of comparison. You don' t need to be a jerk about it. A jerk? You think I'm being a jerk? I'll show you a jerk. O you who art clothed in shamelessness, most covetous of all men! Thou heavy with wine, with the face of a dog and the heart of dear! Never have you had the spirit to arm yourself for war with the men, nor to go on ambush with the best of the Achaeans. Devourer of the people, since you lord it over worthless men. 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 Iliad. Sophie wonders how far you can push that comparison. Amos says you can push it as far as you want, you're not the boss of me. Sophie says, I mean come on, don't be ridiculous. The past is the past, and we're here now. I know it's the past, I'm just saying that the chapter 1% Pathologies raises some interesting points of comparison. You don' t need to be a jerk about it. A jerk? You think I'm being a jerk? I'll show you a jerk. O you who art clothed in shamelessness, most covetous of all men! Thou heavy with wine, with the face of a dog and the heart of dear! Never have you had the spirit to arm yourself for war with the men, nor to go on ambush with the best of the Achaeans. Devourer of the people, since you lord it over worthless men.

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]]> 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 Iliad. Sophie wonders how far you can push that comparison. Amos says you can push it as far as you want, you're not the boss of me. Sophie says, I mean come on, don't be ridiculous. The past is the past, and we're here now. I know it's the past, I'm just saying that the chapter 1% Pathologies raises some interesting points of comparison. You don' t need to be a jerk about it. A jerk? You think I'm being a jerk? I'll show you a jerk. O you who art clothed in shamelessness, most covetous of all men! Thou heavy with wine, with the face of a dog and the heart of dear! Never have you had the spirit to arm yourself for war with the men, nor to go on ambush with the best of the Achaeans. Devourer of the people, since you lord it over worthless men.

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]]> https://fireside.fm/player/v2/nPDy2PbL+hM5_lWPs ]]> Amos Worth Sophie Dart S2E3: National Pastimes http://www.tmwiw.net/s2e3 cb92ce49-eb3b-4dae-94ed-dcdd4ba3e44e Mon, 08 May 2017 12:00:00 -0400 Amos & Sophie full Amos & Sophie Amos and Sophie discuss two activities that bind this nation together: arguing about politics and watching TV. 1:12:26 no 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-theorized" means. Amos on why the "Golden Age" of television is over. Sophie agrees, but has a weird way of looking at the whole golden age thing.
  • 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-theorized" means.
  • Amos on why the "Golden Age" of television is over. Sophie agrees, but has a weird way of looking at the whole golden age thing.

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  • 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-theorized" means.
  • Amos on why the "Golden Age" of television is over. Sophie agrees, but has a weird way of looking at the whole golden age thing.

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    ]]>     https://fireside.fm/player/v2/nPDy2PbL+AYPK0gFQ ]]> Amos Worth Sophie Dart     S2E2: We Hate Science http://www.tmwiw.net/s2e2 dc511eab-a228-446d-bd34-c5bf6fd95597 Thu, 20 Apr 2017 12:00:00 -0400 Amos & Sophie full Amos & Sophie 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. 1:07:04 no Amos vs. the Internet's "love" of "science", Neil deGrasse Tyson, and "glib science boosterism" Sophie vs. science as a hegemonic, totalizing force that is responsible for everything wrong with the world
  • Amos vs. the Internet's "love" of "science", Neil deGrasse Tyson, and "glib science boosterism"
  • Sophie vs. science as a hegemonic, totalizing force that is responsible for everything wrong with the world

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  • Amos vs. the Internet's "love" of "science", Neil deGrasse Tyson, and "glib science boosterism"
  • Sophie vs. science as a hegemonic, totalizing force that is responsible for everything wrong with the world

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    ]]>     https://fireside.fm/player/v2/nPDy2PbL+LTA36tzQ ]]> Amos Worth Sophie Dart     S2E1: Hobby Horses http://www.tmwiw.net/s2e1 f76a187a-5f79-4d48-a49d-e4e9ae1ceb4a Mon, 03 Apr 2017 21:00:00 -0400 Amos & Sophie full Amos & Sophie 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! 1:13:51 no 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 trouble staying interested for something for the long-term. Can these two friends help each other out? Will Sophie find a passion for rug-hooking? Will Amos recover from the Typhus and devote himself to his studies? 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 trouble staying interested for something for the long-term. Can these two friends help each other out? Will Sophie find a passion for rug-hooking? Will Amos recover from the Typhus and devote himself to his studies?

    ]]>     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 trouble staying interested for something for the long-term. Can these two friends help each other out? Will Sophie find a passion for rug-hooking? Will Amos recover from the Typhus and devote himself to his studies?

    ]]>     https://fireside.fm/player/v2/nPDy2PbL+XB5D77wZ ]]> Amos Worth Sophie Dart     Season 1 Bonus: L'Esprit d'Escalier http://www.tmwiw.net/s1bonus 0bebd0d4-ae97-4915-9b4e-11f31e60d2a6 Mon, 27 Feb 2017 09:00:00 -0500 Amos & Sophie full Amos & Sophie 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. 1:14:50 no 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 a little while back. At the end of the day, the trainer gave a list of examples of transformation leaders, people who used expression of their values to lead people to do great things. It included some people you might expect, like MLK. It also included Erwin Rommel, the German general from WWII who fought Patton in North Africa. I raised my hand and pointed out that Rommel was, literally, a Nazi. The trainer acknowledged this, but said He didn't execute prisoners. He was involved in a plot against Hitler. I responded that you don't get points for going after Hitler in 1944, and that not committing war crimes seems like a pretty low bar for "transformational leadership." The whole thing was creepy. 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 a little while back. At the end of the day, the trainer gave a list of examples of transformation leaders, people who used expression of their values to lead people to do great things. It included some people you might expect, like MLK. It also included Erwin Rommel, the German general from WWII who fought Patton in North Africa. I raised my hand and pointed out that Rommel was, literally, a Nazi. The trainer acknowledged this, but said

    1. He didn't execute prisoners.
    2. He was involved in a plot against Hitler.

    I responded that you don't get points for going after Hitler in 1944, and that not committing war crimes seems like a pretty low bar for "transformational leadership." The whole thing was creepy.

    ]]>     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 a little while back. At the end of the day, the trainer gave a list of examples of transformation leaders, people who used expression of their values to lead people to do great things. It included some people you might expect, like MLK. It also included Erwin Rommel, the German general from WWII who fought Patton in North Africa. I raised my hand and pointed out that Rommel was, literally, a Nazi. The trainer acknowledged this, but said

    1. He didn't execute prisoners.
    2. He was involved in a plot against Hitler.

    I responded that you don't get points for going after Hitler in 1944, and that not committing war crimes seems like a pretty low bar for "transformational leadership." The whole thing was creepy.

    ]]>     https://fireside.fm/player/v2/nPDy2PbL+aXtEsL3I ]]> Amos Worth Sophie Dart     S1E6: Ways of (Not) Knowing Redux http://www.tmwiw.net/s1e6 81c82d58-f033-43a8-9441-4802aa953fcc Wed, 15 Feb 2017 20:00:00 -0500 Amos & Sophie full Amos & Sophie 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. 1:05:23 no “Why Political Comparisons are (mostly) Bullshit” Sophie on Misuses of History (II) “Why Nate Silver is the Worst (not really, but everyone loves to give him a hard time)” Amos on Political Science and Straight-Line Modeling
  • “Why Political Comparisons are (mostly) Bullshit” Sophie on Misuses of History (II)
  • “Why Nate Silver is the Worst (not really, but everyone loves to give him a hard time)” Amos on Political Science and Straight-Line Modeling

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  • “Why Political Comparisons are (mostly) Bullshit” Sophie on Misuses of History (II)
  • “Why Nate Silver is the Worst (not really, but everyone loves to give him a hard time)” Amos on Political Science and Straight-Line Modeling

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    ]]>     https://fireside.fm/player/v2/nPDy2PbL+d6oxvLId ]]> Amos Worth Sophie Dart     S1E5: Self & Other http://www.tmwiw.net/s1e5 63f2abf8-4309-4195-81b2-2674ae7ff8b8 Mon, 30 Jan 2017 12:00:00 -0500 Amos & Sophie full Amos & Sophie 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. 1:21:53 no Episode 3: "Self & Other" “Self?” Amos on what's awesome and troubling about Zen Buddhism. Bonus #StarWars content for maximum engagement and SEO optimization. “Other?” Sophie on why Democratic Socialism is a thing and not the thing that Bernie Sanders talks about. Episode 3: "Self & Other"

    1. “Self?”
      Amos on what's awesome and troubling about Zen Buddhism. Bonus #StarWars content for maximum engagement and SEO optimization.

    2. “Other?”
      Sophie on why Democratic Socialism is a thing and not the thing that Bernie Sanders talks about.

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    1. “Self?”
      Amos on what's awesome and troubling about Zen Buddhism. Bonus #StarWars content for maximum engagement and SEO optimization.

    2. “Other?”
      Sophie on why Democratic Socialism is a thing and not the thing that Bernie Sanders talks about.

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    ]]>     https://fireside.fm/player/v2/nPDy2PbL+gkB0O_Vj ]]> Amos Worth Sophie Dart     S1E4: Tech vs. Tech http://www.tmwiw.net/s1e4 e481bc6b-ba27-4f18-99a1-0b735d6cdbb6 Mon, 16 Jan 2017 20:00:00 -0500 Amos & Sophie full Amos & Sophie Sophie and Amos settle once and for all whether or not technology is good (or bad?). Spoiler: some of each! They also touch on aesthetics and politics, and Amos puts some friends and loved ones on blast. 1:06:24 no Sophie on why she hates technology Amos on why he loves technology
  • Sophie on why she hates technology
  • Amos on why he loves technology

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  • Sophie on why she hates technology
  • Amos on why he loves technology

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    ]]>     https://fireside.fm/player/v2/nPDy2PbL+T483uFJr ]]> Amos Worth Sophie Dart     S1E3: Great War Double Feature http://www.tmwiw.net/s1e3 084dec3a-d5bf-4744-a1ea-fbfd3ccfd9f7 Fri, 06 Jan 2017 13:45:00 -0500 Amos & Sophie full Amos & Sophie Sophie and Amos celebrate the centennial of 1917 by discussing what the hell Wonder Woman is doing in WWI, why people keep making/watching superhero movies, and why Austria and Germany are two separate countries *even though* they speak the same language. 1:01:44 no “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 on 20th C Europe and wars and stuff.
  • “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 on 20th C Europe and wars and stuff.

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  • “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 on 20th C Europe and wars and stuff.

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    ]]>     https://fireside.fm/player/v2/nPDy2PbL+ImbLIPco ]]> Amos Worth Sophie Dart     S1E2: Epic! http://www.tmwiw.net/s1e2 59e7385e-ed30-474d-880a-d8230db5bcf1 Mon, 19 Dec 2016 12:00:00 -0500 Amos & Sophie full Amos & Sophie Amos and Sophie talk about whether and why no one cares about poetry, the possibility of poetry native to the internet, and why it's so hard to really understand "Ancient Greece." 1:00:53 no Episode 2: “Epic!” A. “Who Cares About Poems?” Sophie on why nobody pays attention to poetry anymore, but really, maybe no one ever did. B. “What is 'Ancient Greece,' and Why Is It Cool?” Amos on all the different kinds of Ancient Greece and the difficulties of historical imagination. Episode 2: “Epic!”

    A. “Who Cares About Poems?”
    Sophie on why nobody pays attention to poetry anymore, but really, maybe no one ever did.

    B. “What is 'Ancient Greece,' and Why Is It Cool?”
    Amos on all the different kinds of Ancient Greece and the difficulties of historical imagination.

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    A. “Who Cares About Poems?”
    Sophie on why nobody pays attention to poetry anymore, but really, maybe no one ever did.

    B. “What is 'Ancient Greece,' and Why Is It Cool?”
    Amos on all the different kinds of Ancient Greece and the difficulties of historical imagination.

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    ]]>     https://fireside.fm/player/v2/nPDy2PbL+u_RvFYLy ]]> Sophie Dart Amos Worth     S1E1: Ways of (Not) Knowing http://www.tmwiw.net/s1e1 ebcf994a-8f54-4609-b550-219558789170 Mon, 05 Dec 2016 12:00:00 -0500 Amos & Sophie full Amos & Sophie Sophie and Amos introduce themselves and then go on to talk about why Amos is afraid that he'll become an anti-vaxxer and why historical fiction is a complete waste of time. 52:51 no Episode 1: “Ways of (Not) Knowing” “Why I’m Scared I might become an Anti-Vaxxer” Amos on epistemology and the allure of knowledge-systems. Covers Stegasaurus burgers and the importance of social pressure. “Why Most Historical Fiction is a Waste of Time” Sophie on the uses and misuses of history (part 1). Includes a discussion of why Downton Abbey is the worst. Episode 1: “Ways of (Not) Knowing”

    1. “Why I’m Scared I might become an Anti-Vaxxer”
      Amos on epistemology and the allure of knowledge-systems. Covers Stegasaurus burgers and the importance of social pressure.

    2. “Why Most Historical Fiction is a Waste of Time”
      Sophie on the uses and misuses of history (part 1). Includes a discussion of why Downton Abbey is the worst.

    Links:

    ]]>     Episode 1: “Ways of (Not) Knowing”

    1. “Why I’m Scared I might become an Anti-Vaxxer”
      Amos on epistemology and the allure of knowledge-systems. Covers Stegasaurus burgers and the importance of social pressure.

    2. “Why Most Historical Fiction is a Waste of Time”
      Sophie on the uses and misuses of history (part 1). Includes a discussion of why Downton Abbey is the worst.

    Links:

    ]]>     https://fireside.fm/player/v2/nPDy2PbL+M-MKuSAq ]]> Sophie Dart Amos Worth