The Influence of Paul's Style on My Work

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Tambor: Paul has always been not an interview, even when we're talking about some piece he wrote in the New Yorker Atlantic or whatever. It really was Paul's style of talking and being sort of excited about ideas and not being afraid to disagree and challenge me. Susan Carrey is my main advisor, more than anybody influenced how I deal with graduate students. And then definitely Steve Pinker. A lot of my writing and my talks are a sort of conscious attempt to do what he does.

What better way to celebrate our 150th episode than to bring back our favorite guest – Paul Bloom! We riff on a series of topics: the new “grievance studies” hoax, sex robot brothels, perverse desires, and perverse beliefs. Then we get a little navel gazey (OK maybe more than a little) and talk about podcasting as a form of media and discussion, good teaching, and what we’ve learned about our listeners and ourselves. (Note: the audio may sound a little echoey towards the end because of how far we’ve crawled up our own asses.) This was a fun one, enjoy!

Special Guest: Paul Bloom.

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