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Very Bad Wizards podcast

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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.

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.

 

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#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

#320

Episode 315: Ceaseless Striving (Schopenhauer’s Pessimism)

David and Tamler tackle the topic chosen by our beloved Patreon supporters in the first VB... more

02 Sep 2025

1 HR 30 MINS

1:30:00

02 Sep 2025

#319

Episode 314: The In-Betweeny Place

David and Tamler go long on McDonagh’s 2008 masterpiece "In Bruges." We talk about the ter... more

12 Aug 2025

1 HR 58 MINS

1:58:56

12 Aug 2025

#318

Episode 313: The Spontaneous Eruption of Now

David and Tamler try to wrap their heads around the metaphysics of past and future via the... more

29 Jul 2025

1 HR 15 MINS

1:15:30

29 Jul 2025

#317

Episode 312: MechaSkeptic

David and Tamler return to David Hume’s somewhat slippery brand of skepticism, this time f... more

15 Jul 2025

1 HR 16 MINS

1:16:24

15 Jul 2025

#316

Episode 311: The Way to Dusty Death (Shakespeare's "Macbeth")

David and Tamler screw their courage to the sticking place and talk about their first Shak... more

01 Jul 2025

1 HR 26 MINS

1:26:06

01 Jul 2025

#315

Episode 310: Bayes, Brains, and Buddhists

David and Tamler try to wrap their heads around the predictive processing theory of the mi... more

10 Jun 2025

1 HR 14 MINS

1:14:45

10 Jun 2025

#314

Episode 309: Dissolving Into the One

David and Tamler heed the call to journey into the realm of Joseph Campbell. What are the ... more

27 May 2025

1 HR 23 MINS

1:23:21

27 May 2025

#313

Bonus Episode: Va Va Boom (Robert Aldrich's "Kiss Me Deadly")

We kick off our Bonus "Noir Summer" series with Robert Aldrich's "Kiss Me Deadly" (1956). ... more

20 May 2025

1 HR 14 MINS

1:14:48

20 May 2025

#312

Episode 308: The Gray Man who Dreamed (Borges' "Shakespeare's Memory")

David and Tamler return to their happy place and talk about two pieces by JL Borges – the ... more

06 May 2025

1 HR 14 MINS

1:14:50

06 May 2025

#311

Episode 307: What's in the BOX?

David and Tamler talk about two famous puzzles that for different reasons have bedeviled t... more

22 Apr 2025

1 HR 16 MINS

1:16:37

22 Apr 2025

#310

Episode 306: What to Expect When You're Expecting (David Lynch's "Eraserhead" with Barry Lam)

David and Tamler welcome Barry Lam back to the show. In the first segment we violate one o... more

08 Apr 2025

2 HR 04 MINS

2:04:08

08 Apr 2025

#309

Episode 305: Emile Is the Name of the Goat (with Paul Bloom)

VBW favorite Paul Bloom joins us to break down the Severance season finale and season 2 in... more

25 Mar 2025

1 HR 44 MINS

1:44:26

25 Mar 2025

#308

Episode 304: The Planes Don't Land

What has four thumbs and can effortlessly glide from the a priori to the a posteriori in a... more

11 Mar 2025

1 HR 40 MINS

1:40:28

11 Mar 2025

#307

Episode 303: Measure This

Everyone knows Tamler hates numbers but he’s not the only one who worries about them. We t... more

25 Feb 2025

1 HR 26 MINS

1:26:20

25 Feb 2025

#306

Episode 302: Metaphysical Edging

What makes something weird? What makes something eerie? David and Tamler wander into Mark ... more

11 Feb 2025

1 HR 17 MINS

1:17:08

11 Feb 2025

#305

Episode 301: Believing is Seeing?

It’s Back 2 Basics: Psychology edition! Do coins look bigger to poor people? Do hills look... more

28 Jan 2025

1 HR 29 MINS

1:29:34

28 Jan 2025

#304

Episode 300: If We Only Had A Brain

David and Tamler celebrate their 300th episode with a deep dive into the movie that inspir... more

14 Jan 2025

1 HR 48 MINS

1:48:01

14 Jan 2025

#303

Episode 299: Oh the Humility!

David and Tamler wrap up the new year talking about intellectual virtues and Rachel Fraser... more

24 Dec 2024

2 HR 06 MINS

2:06:33

24 Dec 2024

#302

Episode 298: Pass the Peace Pipe

Why do we punish people? How did our punishment practices evolve and what is their primary... more

10 Dec 2024

1 HR 20 MINS

1:20:38

10 Dec 2024

#301

Episode 297: No Pleasure in Meanness (Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find")

David and Tamler face off with the Misfit in Flannery O’Connor’s classic short story “A Go... more

26 Nov 2024

1 HR 41 MINS

1:41:24

26 Nov 2024