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Very Bad Wizards

Very Bad Wizards is a podcast featuring a philosopher (Tamler Sommers) and a psychologist (David Pizarro), who share a love for ethics, pop culture, and cognitive science, and who have a marked inabil... Read more

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I Want to Half-Believe

I Want to Half-Believe

Last December, with Argentina minutes away from a World Cup championship, friend of the show Yoel texted David “congratu... Read more

8 Aug 2023

1hr 22mins

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Episode 265: Kekulé (Oh Yeah!)

Episode 265: Kekulé (Oh Yeah!)

The Summer of Cormac McCarthy continues – this time we dive into his one piece of non-fiction, the short essay “The Keku... Read more

25 Jul 2023

1hr 20mins

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[BONUS] Overton Windows Episode 1: Israel and Palestine

[BONUS] Overton Windows Episode 1: Israel and Palestine

A new mini-series with Tamler Sommers and Robert Wright on the range of politically acceptable discourse for a given top... Read more

18 Jul 2023

1hr 8mins

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Episode 264: The Rule You Follow (The Coen Brothers' "No Country for Old Men")

Episode 264: The Rule You Follow (The Coen Brothers' "No Country for Old Men")

David and Tamler dive into the Coen brothers’ bleak and beautiful adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s 2005 novel "No Country... Read more

11 Jul 2023

2hr 10mins

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Episode 263: Free Yoel

Episode 263: Free Yoel

A VBW exclusive report! For years David and Tamler have been a little dismissive of fears about cancel culture in academ... Read more

27 Jun 2023

1hr 35mins

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Episode 262: Supposing Truth is a Woman (Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil")

Episode 262: Supposing Truth is a Woman (Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil")

David and Tamler dive into the first two parts of Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil which contain some of Nietzsche’s bes... Read more

13 Jun 2023

1hr 28mins

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Episode 261: Death of the Author

Episode 261: Death of the Author

What’s the meaning of a work of art? Does the text mean just what the author intends it to mean? Does it matter what Kub... Read more

30 May 2023

1hr 22mins

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Episode 260: The Scream That Never Found a Voice (Murakami's "Sleep")

Episode 260: The Scream That Never Found a Voice (Murakami's "Sleep")

David and Tamler take the first excursion into the work of Haruki Murakami and talk about his short story “Sleep.” A thi... Read more

9 May 2023

1hr 29mins

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Episode 259: Losing Time ("Tár" with Paul Bloom)

Episode 259: Losing Time ("Tár" with Paul Bloom)

The great Paul Bloom returns to the show to explore the many mysteries of Todd Field’s 2022 film “Tár.” Is it a ghost st... Read more

25 Apr 2023

1hr 56mins

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Episode 258: Mystic Peeza

Episode 258: Mystic Peeza

David and Tamler talk about William James’ chapter on mysticism from his book "Varieties of Religious Experience." What ... Read more

11 Apr 2023

1hr 33mins

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