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🗓️ 30 July 2019
⏱️ 110 minutes
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David and Tamler try to control their emotions (with varying success) as they go deep into Franz Kafka's masterful novella "The Metamorphosis." What kind of a story is this? A Marxist or religious allegory? A work of weird fiction? A family drama? A dark comedy? Why does a story about a man who turns into a giant insect get under our skins so much?
Plus a study that links insomnia to our fear of death. What a cheerful summer episode! (Actually we're fairly proud of this one... As always we suggest reading the text before you listen or soon after).
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0:00.0 | Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and psychologist, Dave Pizarro, |
0:05.9 | having an informal discussion about issues and signs and ethics. |
0:09.3 | Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm out of allow to say, |
0:13.6 | and knowing my dad some very inappropriate jokes. |
0:16.8 | I'm a little offense, some of dad does. That's a weak guess, thinking. You're equivocating like a mother fuck. |
0:22.0 | The pain in my head is broken. |
0:29.2 | Later I attention to that man behind the curtain. |
0:33.2 | Who are you? Who are you? I'm very bad man. |
0:44.0 | I'm a very good man. Good man. |
0:47.0 | Just a very bad wizard. Welcome to very bad wizards. I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston. |
1:15.2 | Dave, today we're going to talk about death anxiety and insomnia and Kafka's metamorphosis. |
1:21.7 | Are we slowly turning into anti-needleists? |
1:27.3 | I mean, to deal with this depression that comes from my death anxiety, I feel like I'm |
1:33.2 | slowly but surely getting there. You were halfway there anyway. |
1:38.0 | I'm just sitting all afternoon, just sitting in my chair reading this shit and just like fighting |
1:42.8 | back panic attacks. |
1:47.2 | Me, I was weeping. I've never wept. I don't remember weeping when I've read something |
1:55.2 | I did the end of metamorphosis, both times. |
1:59.5 | You don't cry easily. |
2:02.0 | I don't cry at sad things easily. I cry very easily at happy things when I cry at art or |
2:12.0 | entertainment. It's because either something really happy and moving happened, |
2:18.8 | maybe that involves parents and children and families. If something is just really good, |
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