Very Bad Wizards is a podcast featuring a philosopher (Tamler Sommers) and a psychologist (David Piz
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
The morality of zoophilia has received shockingly little attention in contemporary ethical discourse
It’s the first annual “Concept-Con” – a not at all cringe episode where David and Tamler apply the m
David and Tamler conclude their three-part discussion of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian. We talk a
In part 2 of our journey into Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, Tamler and David talk about the kid
In part one of our two-part episode on Cormac McCarthy’s blood-soaked phantasmagorical 1985 masterpi
David and Tamler return to the work of old favorite William James and argue about the 6th lecture (i
Last December, with Argentina minutes away from a World Cup championship, friend of the show Yoel te
The Summer of Cormac McCarthy continues – this time we dive into his one piece of non-fiction, the s
A new mini-series with Tamler Sommers and Robert Wright on the range of politically acceptable disco
David and Tamler dive into the Coen brothers’ bleak and beautiful adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s 20
A VBW exclusive report! For years David and Tamler have been a little dismissive of fears about canc
David and Tamler dive into the first two parts of Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil which contain som
What’s the meaning of a work of art? Does the text mean just what the author intends it to mean? Doe
