Everytime Joe Biden was mentioned in Very Bad Wizards

  1. Episode Image for Episode 220: On Your Marx

    Episode 220: On Your Marx

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    In honor of Labor Day, David and Tamler dive into two works by Karl Marx - "The Communist Manifesto" and "Estranged Labor." What is Marx's theory of historical change? Why does capitalism produce an al

    Sep 7, 2021
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  2. Episode Image for [BONUS] Overton Windows Episode 1: Israel and Palestine

    [BONUS] Overton Windows Episode 1: Israel and Palestine

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    A new mini-series with Tamler Sommers and Robert Wright on the range of politically acceptable discourse for a given topic and how this “Overton window” changes over time. This episode is available

    Jul 18, 2023
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  3. Episode Image for Episode 182: The Paper That Launched a Thousand Twitter Wars (With Yoel Inbar)

    Episode 182: The Paper That Launched a Thousand Twitter Wars (With Yoel Inbar)

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    Podcasting legend Yoel Inbar (from Two Psychologists Four Beers ) joins us to break down Tal Yarkoni's "The Generalizability Crisis,” the paper that launched a thousand Twitter wars. Psychologists ma

    Feb 11, 2020
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  4. Episode Image for Episode 196: The Loneliest Paper in Philosophy

    Episode 196: The Loneliest Paper in Philosophy

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    She’s beautiful, smart, funny, and head over heels in love with you. There’s only one problem – she’s from a possible world, not the actual one. What we thought would be a funny opening segment

    Sep 8, 2020
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  5. Episode Image for Episode 190: We Pod. We Pod-Cast. We Podcast. (Frankfurt’s “On Bullshit”)

    Episode 190: We Pod. We Pod-Cast. We Podcast. (Frankfurt’s “On Bullshit”)

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    David and Tamler talk about police violence, the protests, and Harry Frankfurt's journal article turned bestseller ”On Bullshit." Plus we dive into a comic masterpiece of late capitalism: the Univers

    Jun 9, 2020
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  6. Episode Image for Episode 205: Making Your Nervous System Your Ally (William James on "Habit")

    Episode 205: Making Your Nervous System Your Ally (William James on "Habit")

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    Ever wonder why you’re still listening to VBW all of these years? Or why you check your phone 50 times a day? Or why you put on your pants the same way every morning? (If you still wear pants these d

    Jan 26, 2021
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  7. Episode Image for Episode 274: Can I Get a Kidney Voucher? (with Vlad Chituc)

    Episode 274: Can I Get a Kidney Voucher? (with Vlad Chituc)

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    RETURNING guest Vlad Chituc joins us for a wide-ranging discussion about donating his kidney to a stranger, the effective altruism movement, and his sexuality. Was EA’s turn to ‘long-termist’ goa

    Dec 13, 2023
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    1h 35m
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  8. Episode Image for Episode 200: Our 200th Episode Spectactular

    Episode 200: Our 200th Episode Spectactular

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    David and Tamler celebrate their 200th episode with bourbon and a return to their potty humor roots. First we talk about holes, zoom dicks, and the election. Then we relitigate our bitter debate (from

    Nov 3, 2020
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  9. Episode Image for Episode 238: I Am Not Ivan Ilyich...Am I?

    Episode 238: I Am Not Ivan Ilyich...Am I?

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    Ivan Ilyich is a man. All men are mortal. So Ivan Ilyich is mortal. Sure absolutely, that’s true for Ivan Ilyich and for all men. But we’re not Ivan Ilyich and we’re not ‘all men’- so what do

    Jun 7, 2022
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  10. Episode Image for Episode 177: Pure Linguistic Chauvinism

    Episode 177: Pure Linguistic Chauvinism

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    Tamler learns something new about menstruation. David weighs in on the democratic debates and the impeachment hearings. Then we map the various social and political factions onto the factions in our re

    Nov 26, 2019
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  11. Episode Image for Episode 201: Very Bad Lizard People

    Episode 201: Very Bad Lizard People

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    David and Tamler dive deep into the psychology and epistemology of conspiracy theories. What makes people so prone to believe in complex malevolent plots that require meticulous organization and utter

    Nov 24, 2020
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  12. Episode Image for Episode 210: The Priming of the American Mind (with Jesse Singal)

    Episode 210: The Priming of the American Mind (with Jesse Singal)

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    Journalist, podcaster, and rapper Jesse Singal joins us to talk about his new book The Quick Fix, positive psychology (scam?), cancel culture in the media and academia (overblown?), Substack incentives

    Apr 6, 2021
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  13. Episode Image for Episode 198: Is Mental Illness a Myth? (Thomas Szasz's "The Myth of Mental Illness")

    Episode 198: Is Mental Illness a Myth? (Thomas Szasz's "The Myth of Mental Illness")

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    David and Tamler explore Thomas Szasz’s provocative and still relevant 1961 book “The Myth of Mental Illness,” the topic selected by our beloved Patreon supporters. When we think of mental disord

    Oct 6, 2020
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    1h 32m
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  14. Episode Image for Episode 199: When Philosophy Goes Sideways

    Episode 199: When Philosophy Goes Sideways

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    David and Tamler check out some recent work in metaphysics and applied ethics. Does playing a Nina Simone song sideways show that Einstein was wrong about spacetime? Does a Dali painting nailed to the

    Oct 20, 2020
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  15. Episode Image for Episode 195: Jesus on Trial (Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov")

    Episode 195: Jesus on Trial (Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov")

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    David and Tamler dive into the most celebrated and philosophically rich scenes in Dostoevsky’s masterpiece "The Brothers Karamazov." Alyosha gets in the middle of a rock-fight, Ivan Karamazov makes a

    Aug 25, 2020
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