Very Bad Wizards
Philosophy and psychology talk; experiments and thought experiments checkable
49:06Odysseus's wife recognised her beggar husband early — she just didn't say so
The hosts argue Penelope has already recognised her disguised husband: her uncharacteristic laugh, her reading of her son's sneeze as a death omen for the suitors, and her talk of proper bride-gifts are all signals — and Odysseus gets them.
1:37:44Ranking Psychology's Classic Experiments: Many Conclusions Don't Survive Replication
The Milgram shock experiment still replicates, which is itself absurd; and the Good Samaritan experiment had only 40 subjects total, so even if they got it right, they got it right by accident.
1:02:43The Most At Home Person in the Odyssey Is a Slave Who Was Sold
Odysseus wanders twenty years and can't get home; Telemachus grows up among the suitors; the only person who treats Ithaca as solid ground is Eumaeus, the swineherd sold into slavery as a child — because it's the only place he has ever known.
55:41Odysseus Reaches Ithaca but Won't Admit Who He Is: What Is He Avoiding by Lying?
He has already set foot on his homeland, yet he first invents a Cretan identity and won't tell the truth even to his most loyal swineherd — because the real question isn't whether he can get home, but whether he can still recognize himself.