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Very Bad Wizards

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Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

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 inability to distinguish sacred from profane. Each podcast includes discussions of moral philosophy, recent work on moral psychology and neuroscience, and the overlap between the two.

#332

Episode 327: You Ain't So Smart (Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People")

David and Tamler return to the Southern Gothic well and talk about Flannery O'Connor's sho... more

24 Feb 2026

1 HR 32 MINS

1:32:33

24 Feb 2026

#331

Episode 326: The Most Important Episode of Your (Academic) Life

Are you a college student or about to be one? Do you have friends or family in college? Th... more

10 Feb 2026

59 MINS

59:10

10 Feb 2026

#330

Episode 325: It Is Happening Again

David and Tamler return to Mircea Eliade's The Sacred and Profane and discuss the chapter ... more

27 Jan 2026

1 HR 12 MINS

1:12:12

27 Jan 2026

#329

Episode 324: Irruption of the Sacred

David and Tamler consecrate their podcast with a discussion of "The Sacred and the Profane... more

13 Jan 2026

1 HR 07 MINS

1:07:27

13 Jan 2026

#328

Episode 323: Debate Me 'Phro

David and Tamler dive into Plato's Euthyphro, part of our intermittent Back 2 Basics serie... more

23 Dec 2025

1 HR 08 MINS

1:08:09

23 Dec 2025

#327

Episode 322: A Theater of Simultaneous Possibilities (William James' "The Stream of Thought")

David and Tamler return to William James' monumental "Principles of Psychology", this time... more

09 Dec 2025

1 HR 21 MINS

1:21:00

09 Dec 2025

#326

Episode 321: The Journey Begins (Plus Blind Ranking Philosophers)

David and Tamler begin their long journey home to Homer's Odyssey, the tale of king Odysse... more

25 Nov 2025

1 HR 29 MINS

1:29:41

25 Nov 2025

#325

Episode 320: Forgive Me (Kafka's "A Hunger Artist")

David and Tamler return to one of their favorites, Frans Kafka, this time on his beautiful... more

11 Nov 2025

1 HR 29 MINS

1:29:19

11 Nov 2025

#324

Episode 319: The Shadow of the Object (Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia")

David and Tamler transfer their libidinal energy to Freud's 1917 article "Mourning and Mel... more

28 Oct 2025

1 HR 35 MINS

1:35:10

28 Oct 2025

#323

Episode 318: A PTA Meeting

David and Tamler share some brief thoughts about Paul Thomas Anderson's latest masterpiece... more

14 Oct 2025

1 HR 48 MINS

1:48:58

14 Oct 2025

#322

Episode 317: For Shame

What is the psychology of shame? Is the experience of shame a human universal? How can we ... more

30 Sep 2025

1 HR 23 MINS

1:23:30

30 Sep 2025

#321

Episode 316: A Four-Letter Man (Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber")

David and Tamler go big game hunting and explore their first Hemingway short story "The Sh... more

16 Sep 2025

1 HR 33 MINS

1:33:15

16 Sep 2025

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