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...
01:30:18
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...
01:30:18
Episode 242: Losing My Religion
David and Tamler find themselves unable to attach rational meaning to a single act in their...
01:33:13
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...
02:35:16
David and Tamler descend into the dark pits of Hell to look Satan in the eyes and discover the...
01:33:55
David and Tamler lose themselves in Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s (pr. ‘chick sent me high’) classic...
01:23:27
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...
01:58:27
Episode 237: Glitches Ain't Shit
David and Tamler explore the many variations of simulation theory, the view that our universe is...
01:43:18
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...
02:10:36
Panpsychism didn't give us river spirits or mischievous sootballs, so this time we go straight to...
01:51:05
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...
01:53:02
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...
01:53:28
It’s the topic voted on by our beloved Patreon patrons, panpsychism! David and Tamler delve into...
01:39:20
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...
01:50:59
Episode 230: Be Happy (Lars von Trier's "Melancholia")
David and Tamler sink deeper and deeper into Melancholia, Lars von Trier’s harrowing and...
01:49:59
We think racism is wrong but what about “lookism” – a bias that favors attractive people over...
01:39:07
David and Tamler confront their shadows and dive into Carl Jung’s theory of the collective...
01:28:58
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...
01:32:39
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...
01:56:49
Episode 225: Forbidden Modules
David and Tamler talk about the often rancorous debate among cognitive scientists and...
01:42:26
Episode 224: Hurts So Good (With Paul Bloom)
VBW favorite Paul Bloom joins us to talk about the pleasures of suffering, flow states, Sisyphus,...
01:42:38