Sadistically Speaking
87 episodes - English - Latest episode: 9 months ago -Rant, Rant, Rant! Discussion and debate in today's world is in a sad state. This podcast is focused on the discussion of ideas independent of political tastes. Sometimes controversial, mostly lame.
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Episode 37 - Are You Morally Superior To A 5th Grader?
May 17, 2021 18:00 - 18 minutes - 12.9 MBWhy do we choose to do the right thing? Are we out for numero uno? Do we believe in the "rule of law"? Or do we actually have an individual philosophy of morality? A discussion of moral choices with reference to the Prisoner's Dilemma and Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development and Kenny Loggins! (JK, no Kenny Loggins references which now seems like an oversight.)
Episode 36 - You Are A Kant
May 13, 2021 17:00 - 11 minutes - 7.99 MBEveryone thinks they are a good person but most of us are unwilling to refrain from small selfish decisions that become real problems when multiplied by the masses....like hoard toilet paper! It is easy not to commit major sins....much harder to do the small things that make the world a better place. #ManKant
Episode 35 - Mother's Day Is Offensive To Trans Child Bearers
May 07, 2021 14:00 - 17 minutes - 12 MBPolitical Correctness was rampant back in the late 80s and early 90s. Now, rules for inclusive language have returned with a vengeance. The opposition to this movement has resulted in odd alliances that cross political affiliations, like Ben Shapiro, Bill Maher, Glenn Greenwald, and Jordan Peterson. Time to fight the linguistic fascism. Also: Gofourth among the Packers, Beat Teams from every City!
Episode 34 - ECHO CHAMBER - Echo Chamber - echo chamber
April 23, 2021 16:00 - 12 minutes - 8.72 MBThe internet was supposed to give us exposure to a wider variety of thoughts, ideas, music and make us less tribal. Unfortunately, completely free choice for humans leads to exactly the opposite. We use this choice to isolate ourselves from dissent or other world views. #beaarthurisasexybiatch
Episode 33 - Guns, Car Crashes & Sabre-Tooth Tigers, Oh My
April 22, 2021 16:00 - 15 minutes - 10.7 MBHumans use the Availability Heuristic to estimate the probability of events and determine fear levels. Unfortunately, while the idea of relying on what comes easily to mind worked for our ancestors, it is completely fucked by our modern way of gaining knowledge. As a result, we have a lot of irrational fears. Also, please don't hold back information about active fugitives. You may not see color but I still have cones in my retina!
Episode 32 - My Sign Is Fuck Off
April 17, 2021 14:00 - 14 minutes - 9.93 MBAstrology is dumb and is based on confirmation bias and some questionable learning mechanisms. But who cares right? It's harmless. Is it? Doesn't it go against a sense of self-empowerment and reinforce using stereotypes to prejudge people?
Episode 31 - Fuck It, Let's Talk About Gun Control
April 09, 2021 17:00 - 17 minutes - 12.3 MBGuns suck. People suck. But the gun control debate is based on a false narrative. Gun homicides are down versus the 80s and 90s. Mass shootings are not driving the gun violence statistics. It is suicide that accounts for most gun deaths in the U.S. That is where we should be directing our attention. Also, WTF Sweden!
Episode 30 - Time To Take Off The Jesus Training Wheels
April 08, 2021 14:00 - 15 minutes - 10.9 MBMany of us have the same religious/spiritual beliefs - all humans are equal and connected; we can witness God in nature and art; bunnies are cool. The continued obsession with the story of Jesus is actually blocking us from this beautiful foundation for religion. Happy Feast of Eostre!
Episode 29 - Closing The Gender Pregnancy Gap
April 01, 2021 16:00 - 14 minutes - 10.3 MBA recent report claims that the global gender wage gap increased because of the pandemic. This report illuminates the lie that the gender gap is about equal pay for equal work. This push for gender equality of outcomes in all areas is condescending to women and completely irrational. The female who should really be pissed off is the recently demoted voice of Siri.
Epidode 28 - Twerkin' With The Devil
March 29, 2021 19:00 - 13 minutes - 9.49 MBLil Nas X has a new video with some devilish man sex. This is mostly silly just like past attempts to use the devil as an add on to music mystique. On the other hand, those parents who are upset that Lil Nas X has changed from his wonderful child-friendly Old Town Road clearly never understood those lyrics. Finally, this is a brave step for Lil Nas X but only if he is not protected through censorship from the outrage that he clearly meant to elicit.
Episode 27 - The Failed Dialectic Of The Anti-Vaxxer: Fuck 'Em All
March 26, 2021 17:00 - 19 minutes - 13.1 MBA recent video of Dr. Sherri Tenpenny decrying the Covid vaccines has raised my ire. Not just because she is shamelessly promoting false narratives to promote herself but because it makes clear that we are not debating important topics in this country, which allows dumb ideas to grow in the dark and virtue signalling crap to sprout in the light.
Episode 26 - Cancel David Bowie For China Girl
March 23, 2021 16:00 - 11 minutes - 8.05 MBThe media needs a villain and white men seem pretty good at this moment. The latest claims are racism and increase in hate crimes against Asian Americans. What support do they have for these claims? And are white guys being absolved by a sexual addiction defense?
Episode 25 - Vaccine Risk Is Lower Than Moron Risk
March 22, 2021 17:00 - 9 minutes - 6.27 MBThe illusory correlation between vaccines and autism has cost lives because measles has reappeared despite the fact that you autism rates are slightly lower among vaccinated children. I thought that was a sign of moronic behavior until the recent scare about links between blood clots and COVID vaccine even though the reported blood clot rate is 1000 times LOWER than normal.
Episode 24 - Lockdown Madness - Proud Floridian
March 18, 2021 16:00 - 14 minutes - 9.67 MBDid the pandemic lockdowns work? This is really an important question considering the loss of freedom, effects on mental health, unexplained death increases and major impact on the economy. There have been some recent comparisons of Florida and California as ends of the spectrum, but the numbers are not being analyzed in a rational unbiased way. Turns out Florida now needs to help bail out the lockdown states.
Episode 23 - My Handshake Scares All The Boys In The Yard
January 19, 2021 19:00 - 8 minutes - 6.13 MBThis pandemic is hell for the socially awkward like myself. We need a deadline for the current ambiguous social standards so we can go back to giving handshakes without anxiety.
Episode 22 - Ringing in the New Year with the Dalai Lama
January 05, 2021 18:00 - 5 minutes - 3.57 MBTime for some inspirational quotes from His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. Hope they help inspire you for the New Year. Surprise!
Episode 21 - Should Anyone Believe in Jesus?
January 03, 2021 16:00 - 12 minutes - 8.44 MBDoes it matter if Jesus as portrayed in the New Testament was "real"? I argue that it is not important...in fact, it is more important that he is not an individual person but a story of how each human has divinity. The revolution of the Christian faith was the democritization of divinity.
Episode 20 - Covid 19 Deaths: If Only Millennials Knew Math
December 04, 2020 19:00 - 12 minutes - 8.93 MBRecent controversies on excess death from Covid 19 miss the point. There are certainly more deaths this year but the biggest excess death is among Millennials and it is much larger than would be expected from the pandemic. Why doesn't this concern us?
Episode 19 - In Defense of Not Voting
November 30, 2020 14:00 - 11 minutes - 7.82 MBThe right to vote in the United States is important....but so is the right NOT to vote. More people voting does not logically lead to better governance. Countries with mandatory voting demonstrate this.
Episode 18 - I Wish Science Was More Like Sports
October 22, 2020 13:00 - 11 minutes - 8.17 MBSports guy uses data and theories to predict the future but we think that most people can't understand science.....which uses data and theories to predict the future. Less Fauci....more Nick Wright.
Episode 17 - All Hail The Celebrity Scientist
October 19, 2020 17:00 - 9 minutes - 6.79 MBOur love affair with celebrity scientists like Dr. Fauci and Dr. Neil Degrasse Tyson perverts the basic democratic and anti-authoritarian nature of science. The media gets to decide who the truth tellers are.
Episode 16 - Santa LeBron
October 17, 2020 17:00 - 6 minutes - 4.7 MBI think I have ignored for too long that LeBron James is just a capitalist bitch.
Episode 15 - Would Jesus Wear A Mask? (Part 2)
October 16, 2020 20:00 - 9 minutes - 6.47 MBA second episode on moral posturing and hypocrisy in our safety/health behaviors. In this case, we compare DUI and driving while on a cell phone.
Episode 14 - Would Jesus Wear a Mask? (Part 1: Seatbelts)
October 15, 2020 16:00 - 10 minutes - 7.15 MBSelective Moral Outrage and Health/Safety Superstitions. Why are we morally outraged at someone who does not wear a seat belt but not someone who speeds? Is this another example of hypocrisy in our approach to safety/health issues?
Episode 11 - Cancelling Oz
October 15, 2020 16:00 - 2 minutes - 2.03 MBFrank L. Baum wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz but he wrote some nasty crap. The director of the classic 1939 movie was a baaad man. Time to cancel Oz....or relax.
Episode 13 - WAP Trilogy II - It Turns Out I Was Always A Feminist
August 19, 2020 22:00 - 15 minutes - 10.8 MBIf the Wet Ass Pussy Song/Video is Feminist, I am all in.
Episode 12 - The WAP Trilogy I - Words, Words, Words
August 19, 2020 17:00 - 12 minutes - 8.53 MBThe beginning of the infamous Wet Ass Pussy Trilogy. This podcast wonders about the weird standards for censoring words....like Wet Ass Pussy
Episode 10 - NASA Destroys Systemic Racism!
August 09, 2020 14:00 - 8 minutes - 5.71 MBNASA has done it! They have deleted the last totems to systemic racism by getting rid of the names of the Eskimo Nebula and Siamese Twin Galaxies. This ridiculous and meaningless action demonstrates the toothless actions of organizations in their claimed commitment to increasing diversity and destroying institutionalized racism.
Episode 9 - Yo Mama Is A Facist
August 08, 2020 15:00 - 7 minutes - 4.97 MBEveryone is throwing around the word Fascism. But what does it actually mean? And whom does it apply to? And can I dangle a preposition? I can if I want! Linguistic Fascist!
Episode 6 - Corona Porn
August 08, 2020 15:00 - 7 minutes - 5.24 MBThis rant concerns the media's fascination with Coronavirus and Fauci and all of the hypocrisy associated with it.
Episode 7 - Mastur Of De Bate
August 08, 2020 15:00 - 10 minutes - 7.24 MBDebate in this country is pathetic. Here is a call for debate as an art form and two examples of people fucking up political debates
Episode 8 - Test Anxiety
August 08, 2020 15:00 - 11 minutes - 7.82 MBThis rant includes some math on the likelihood of having Covid19 if you get a positive test
Episode 2 - Hope I Die Before I....Too Late
August 08, 2020 14:00 - 13 minutes - 9.25 MBIn this rant, I suggest that we turn to a modified Logan's Run solution and actually allow old people to die. Doing so would have a remarkably positive effect on our society and on my ability to grocery shop efficiently.
Episode 3 - Love And Marriage Go Together Like Saurkraut And Ice Cream
August 08, 2020 14:00 - 16 minutes - 11.2 MBIn this episode Karoline and Lauren and I discuss the question "Why is Marriage Still A Thing?" I argue against government recognizing this relationship and then argue that marriage itself is an awful idea. It is only slightly less bitter than it sounds.
Episode 4 - 50 Shades Of Black
August 08, 2020 14:00 - 29 minutes - 19.9 MBThis is a discussion with my friends Ianessa and Karoline about the gradients of blackness that are often ignored in the racial discussions both in America and Brazil.
Episode 5 - The Power Of Why
August 08, 2020 14:00 - 9 minutes - 6.59 MBThis is a short rant about the importance of asking people why they believe the things they do
Episode 1 - The Beginning Is The Start
August 08, 2020 14:00 - 15 minutes - 11 MBThis is the introductory episode of Sadistically Speaking wherein the motivation for starting a podcast is described and the plan for its future is laid out. Side rants on the Covid Lockdown and current racial discussions are included for a little taste. My Mother suggested that I be careful not to be too naughty.