Very Bad Wizards is a podcast featuring a philosopher (Tamler Sommers) and a psychologist (David Piz
It’s the episode that Tamler has been waiting for – a long deep dive into Andrei Tarkovsky’s mysteri
David and Tamler dive into Seneca’s “On the Happy Life” and stoicism, the topic selected by our belo
David and Tamler wind their way through another Borges story - "The Immortal"- about a Roman soldier
We often think of metaphors as poetic flourishes, a nice way to punctuate your ideas and make them m
David and Tamler gild and stain David Hume’s essay “The Sceptic†with their sentiments. If noth
In this podcast we examine a recent argument for the view that chess is not, in fact, a game. We dis
We welcome Sam Harris back to the show for a deep dive into Stanley Kubrick’s confounding 1968 maste
We dive into David Foster Wallace’s sprawling 1993 essay “E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Ficti
David and Tamler take their first real look at pragmatism via Richard Rorty’s “Solidarity or Objecti
David and Tamler return to Borges land to get lost in the infinite, this time with his legendary and
David and Tamler continue their discussion of Leo Tolstoy’s 'Confession.' When we left him last time
We have a sneak peek for our listeners--the first episode our new Patreon bonus series on David Milc
David and Tamler find themselves unable to attach rational meaning to a single act in their entire l
David and Tamler mask up and wander through the audio and visual orgy of Stanley Kubrick’s final mas
David and Tamler descend into the dark pits of Hell to look Satan in the eyes and discover the natur
David and Tamler lose themselves in Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s (pr. ‘chick sent me high’) classic pap
Ivan Ilyich is a man. All men are mortal. So Ivan Ilyich is mortal. Sure absolutely, that’s true for
David and Tamler explore the many variations of simulation theory, the view that our universe is jus
We welcome Paul Bloom to talk about the first season of "Severance," the new mind-bending and mind-s
Panpsychism didn't give us river spirits or mischievous sootballs, so this time we go straight to th
