
Episode 85: A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)
Very Bad Wizards
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The Man of Two Brains by Steve Martin
There's another interesting question. Whether any of the psychopaths in the movie are actually psychopaths because they all care about something deeply, right? The Christopher Walken character cares deeply for his daughter. Sam Rockwell character care is very much about his friendship with the main character. And then even Woody Harrelson just loves that shitsu. That really like the McGuffin in the movie is that shitsu and a good example of Paul's point that these people aren't that interesting. Whenever you see Hollywood try to write a psychopath like a, you know, Dexter or something, you can't maintain that, right? You need them to care about something or else they are just not
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