Tell Me Why I'm Wrong

Amos & Sophie
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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.

  1. 05/07/2018

    S3E6: So Long and Thanks for All the Fish

    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.

  2. 04/30/2018

    S3E5: Human Behavior

    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.

  3. 04/02/2018

    S3E4: Homework, Part 2

    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?

  4. 02/12/2018

    S3E3: Secret Ingredients

    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.

  5. 01/29/2018

    S3E2: Movies vs. Television

    Season 3, Episode 2: Movies vs. Television: Sophie on why Amos thinks movies are great. Amos on why Sophie thinks TV is great.

  6. 01/15/2018

    S3E1: Art & Experience

    S3E1: Art & Experience: Amos on why the 4th wall is great. Sophie wonders what the heck the deal with phenomenology is.

  7. 08/14/2017

    Season 2 Bonus: Wonder Woman!

    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?

  8. 08/01/2017

    S2E6: Reductions

    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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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.

Information

  • Creator
    Amos & Sophie
  • Years Active
    2016 - 2018
  • Episodes
    20
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Copyright 2016 by Amos & Sophie
  • Show Website
    Tell Me Why I'm Wrong