Very Bad Wizards

Episode 263: Free Yoel

A VBW exclusive report! For years David and Tamler have been a little dismissive of fears about...

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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 and Good and Evil which...

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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?...

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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...

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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...

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Episode 258: Mystic Peeza

David and Tamler talk about William James’ chapter on mysticism from his book "Varieties of...

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Episode 257: Aural Fixation

David and Tamler deliver a PODCAST episode, one of many that comes from the INTERNET, that you’ll...

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Episode 256: The Right to Punish?

Here’s an episode with something for both of us – a healthy serving of Kantian rationalism for...

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Episode 255: Beloved Child of the House (Susanna Clarke's "Piranesi")

David and Tamler get lost in the world of Susanna Clarke’s "Piranesi," a hauntingly beautiful and...

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Episode 254: Nobody's Parfit

Tamler’s earlier self committed to doing an episode on Parfit, and David holds his current self...

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Episode 253: Tarkovsky's Starchild

It’s the episode that Tamler has been waiting for – a long deep dive into Andrei Tarkovsky’s...

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Episode 252: Yes We Sene-can

David and Tamler dive into Seneca’s “On the Happy Life” and stoicism, the topic selected by our...

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Episode 251: First Order, Then Chaos

David and Tamler wind their way through another Borges story - "The Immortal"- about a Roman...

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Episode 250: Metaphors All the Way Down

We often think of metaphors as poetic flourishes, a nice way to punctuate your ideas and make...

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Episode 249: Phlegm and Carelessness (Hume's "The Sceptic")

David and Tamler gild and stain David Hume’s essay “The Sceptic” with their sentiments. If...

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Episode 248: Checkmate, Grasshopper

In this podcast we examine a recent argument for the view that chess is not, in fact, a game. We...

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Episode 247: Open the Pod, Dave (with Sam Harris)

David and Tamler welcome Sam Harris back to the show for a deep dive into Stanley Kubrick’s...

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Episode 246: Existential Poker-Face (David Foster Wallace's "E Unibus Pluram")

We dive into David Foster Wallace’s sprawling 1993 essay “E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S....

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Episode 245: Pragmatically Speaking

David and Tamler take their first real look at pragmatism via Richard Rorty’s “Solidarity or...

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Episode 244: Thanks for the Memories? (Borges' "Funes the Memorious)

David and Tamler return to Borges land to get lost in the infinite, this time with his legendary...

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