Everytime Joe Biden was mentioned in Very Bad Wizards
Everytime Joe Biden was mentioned in Very Bad Wizards
Episode 220: On Your Marx
Very Bad WizardsIn 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
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[BONUS] Overton Windows Episode 1: Israel and Palestine
Very Bad WizardsA 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, 2023·1h 8m·5.0(1)Episode 182: The Paper That Launched a Thousand Twitter Wars (With Yoel Inbar)
Very Bad WizardsPodcasting 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, 2020·1h 58m·0(-)Episode 196: The Loneliest Paper in Philosophy
Very Bad WizardsShe’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, 2020·1h 49m·0(-)Episode 190: We Pod. We Pod-Cast. We Podcast. (Frankfurt’s “On Bullshit”)
Very Bad WizardsDavid 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, 2020·2h 1m·0(-)Episode 205: Making Your Nervous System Your Ally (William James on "Habit")
Very Bad WizardsEver 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, 2021·1h 32m·0(-)Episode 274: Can I Get a Kidney Voucher? (with Vlad Chituc)
Very Bad WizardsRETURNING 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, 2023·1h 35m·4.8(4)Episode 200: Our 200th Episode Spectactular
Very Bad WizardsDavid 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, 2020·1h 44m·0(-)Episode 238: I Am Not Ivan Ilyich...Am I?
Very Bad WizardsIvan 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, 2022·1h 58m·0(-)Episode 177: Pure Linguistic Chauvinism
Very Bad WizardsTamler 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, 2019·2h 4m·0(-)Episode 201: Very Bad Lizard People
Very Bad WizardsDavid 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, 2020·1h 56m·0(-)Episode 210: The Priming of the American Mind (with Jesse Singal)
Very Bad WizardsJournalist, 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, 2021·2h 1m·0(-)Episode 198: Is Mental Illness a Myth? (Thomas Szasz's "The Myth of Mental Illness")
Very Bad WizardsDavid 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, 2020·1h 32m·0(-)Episode 199: When Philosophy Goes Sideways
Very Bad WizardsDavid 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, 2020·1h 39m·0(-)Episode 195: Jesus on Trial (Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov")
Very Bad WizardsDavid 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
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