Very Bad Wizards is a podcast featuring a philosopher (Tamler Sommers) and a psychologist (David Piz
David and Tamler lead off with a breakdown of the new commercial for “friend (not imaginary)” a new
Cornell philosopher David Shoemaker joins us for a long winding journey up to the Overlook Hotel, a
David and Tamler continue their discussion of Plato’s allegory of the cave. We talk about the connec
Over the years we’ve referred repeatedly to Plato’s cave, Platonic forms, and phrases like “copies o
David and Tamler conclude their discussion of Ernest Becker’s The Denial of Death. We talk about Bec
David faces his greatest fear as he and Tamler dive into Ernest Becker’s 1973 Pulitzer Prize winner
David and Tamler dive into the mysteries at the heart of Park Chan-wook’s deeply disturbing masterpi
It’s an old-school episode as David and Tamler dive into some intriguing research on the origins of
David and Tamler choose an episode topic that will define the identity and meaning of the Very Bad W
David and Tamler talk about Caitrin Keiper’s wonderful sprawling essay on elephant life and society
A Rabbi is found dead in a hotel room, stabbed in the chest. The room is filled with Kabbalah texts
We dig into the biggest rivalry in Tamler’s profession, analytic vs. continental philosophy. Are ana
Phil Ford and J.F. Martel from the great "Weird Studies" podcast join us for a whirling discussion o
David and Tamler conclude their discussion of Lee Chang-dong’s "Burning" – we talk about the hunger
David and Tamler fall under the spell of Lee Chang-dong’s 2018 masterpiece Burning, a movie where no
David and Tamler play the old hits – Thomas Nagel and sex robots. In the main segment we talk about
David and Tamler are back for the new year and one of our resolutions was to do more episodes on Wil
An episode interesting from every point of view, we train our eyes on Jorge Luis Borges’ “The Aleph.
RETURNING guest Vlad Chituc joins us for a wide-ranging discussion about donating his kidney to a st
David and Tamler board the train for Hayao Miyazaki’s mystical dreamy coming of age masterpiece Spir
