Very Bad Wizards

Science Podcasts

Very Bad Wizards is a podcast featuring a philosopher (Tamler Sommers) and a psychologist (David Pizarro), who share a love for ethics, pop culture, and cognitive science, and who have a marked inability to distinguish sacred from profane. Each...

Episodes

Episode 332: Talking to Myself ("The Other" by Jorge Luis Borges)

Episode 331: Who's Your Law Daddy? (Plato's "Crito")

Episode 330: A Fact-Based Podcast (Gogol's "The Overcoat")

Episode 329: Why We Suffer

Episode 328: Weapons Free

Episode 327: You Ain't So Smart (Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People")

Episode 326: The Most Important Episode of Your (Academic) Life

Episode 325: It Is Happening Again

Episode 324: Irruption of the Sacred

Episode 323: Debate Me 'Phro

Episode 322: A Theater of Simultaneous Possibilities (William James' "The Stream of Thought")

Episode 321: The Journey Begins (Plus Blind Ranking Philosophers)

Episode 320: Forgive Me (Kafka's "A Hunger Artist")

Episode 319: The Shadow of the Object (Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia")

Episode 318: A PTA Meeting

Episode 317: For Shame

Episode 316: A Four-Letter Man (Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber")

Episode 315: Ceaseless Striving (Schopenhauer’s Pessimism)

Episode 314: The In-Betweeny Place

Episode 313: The Spontaneous Eruption of Now