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Bonus Episode: The Ambulators (A "Deadwood" Podcast)

We have a sneak peek for our listeners--the first episode our new Patreon bonus series on David...

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Episode 242: Losing My Religion

David and Tamler find themselves unable to attach rational meaning to a single act in their...

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Episode 241: Very Bad Orgies (Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut")

David and Tamler mask up and wander through the audio and visual orgy of Stanley Kubrick’s final...

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Episode 240: Evil

David and Tamler descend into the dark pits of Hell to look Satan in the eyes and discover the...

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Episode 239: Lose Yourself

David and Tamler lose themselves in Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s (pr. ‘chick sent me high’) classic...

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

Ivan Ilyich is a man. All men are mortal. So Ivan Ilyich is mortal. Sure absolutely, that’s true...

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Episode 237: Glitches Ain't Shit

David and Tamler explore the many variations of simulation theory, the view that our universe is...

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Episode 236: Your Outie Is Skilled at Lovemaking (With Paul Bloom)

We welcome Paul Bloom to talk about the first season of "Severance," the new mind-bending and...

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Episode 235: Animated Objects

Panpsychism didn't give us river spirits or mischievous sootballs, so this time we go straight to...

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Episode 234: Like A Dog (Kafka's "The Trial" Pt. 2)

David and Tamler conclude their discussion of "The Trial," Franz Kafka's darkly comic vision of...

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Episode 233: Keeping It Surreal (Kafka's "The Trial" Pt. 1)

David and Tamler wander through the bewildering dream-like world of Franz Kafka’s "The Trial." In...

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Episode 232: Mind Over Matter

It’s the topic voted on by our beloved Patreon patrons, panpsychism! David and Tamler delve into...

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Episode 231: Ideal Critics (Hume's "Of the Standard of Taste")

Many of us think that aesthetic appreciation is ultimately subjective, but at the same time it...

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Episode 230: Be Happy (Lars von Trier's "Melancholia")

David and Tamler sink deeper and deeper into Melancholia, Lars von Trier’s harrowing and...

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Episode 229: Skin Deep?

We think racism is wrong but what about “lookism” – a bias that favors attractive people over...

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Episode 228: Forever Jung

David and Tamler confront their shadows and dive into Carl Jung’s theory of the collective...

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Episode 227: A Terrible Master (David Foster Wallace's "This Is Water").

David and Tamler dive into David Foster Wallace’s celebrated and surprisingly earnest Kenyon...

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Episode 226: Unraveling Time Traveling (with Barry Lam and Christina Hoff Sommers)

First, it’s the return of the annual drunken Thanksgiving segment! Tamler and based wicked...

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Episode 225: Forbidden Modules

David and Tamler talk about the often rancorous debate among cognitive scientists and...

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Episode 224: Hurts So Good (With Paul Bloom)

VBW favorite Paul Bloom joins us to talk about the pleasures of suffering, flow states, Sisyphus,...

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