Episode 183: Accept the Mystery (with Paul Bloom)
Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2020
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
VBW favorite Paul Bloom takes a short break from his Sam Harris duties to help us break down the Coen Brothers' ode to uncertainty, A Serious Man. Does inaction have consequences? Can you understand the cat but not the math? Why are there Hebrew letters carved into the back of a goy's teeth? Dybbuk or no Dybbuk? Why does God make us feel the questions if he's not gonna give us any answers?
Plus, Paul defends the psych establishment against critiques from the podcast peons at Two Psychologists Four Beers and Very Bad Wizards.
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| 0:00.0 | Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a 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. |
| 0:16.9 | I don't follow your math, but I'm moved by your passion. Go on. |
| 0:30.0 | Who are you? Who are you? I'm very bad men. |
| 0:42.8 | I'm a very good man. Good man. |
| 0:46.4 | Just a very bad wizard. Welcome to very bad wizards. I'm Tamla Summers from the University |
| 1:14.1 | of Houston, Dave and Paul. We're going to talk about a serious man today. |
| 1:19.9 | Is that the most Jew movie you've ever seen? |
| 1:25.4 | All right. Let's have Paul answer that first. |
| 1:28.1 | It is the Julius movie in the world. It is not a movie about Jews. It's not a movie told |
| 1:35.2 | from the perspective of Jews. It is above and beyond. It is filled with Jewishness. |
| 1:42.8 | It is pure Jew. It is pure. And we'll get to talk about this, but I was doing reading what |
| 1:48.0 | people had to say about the movie. And some people were not pleased. It is not a flattering picture |
| 1:53.2 | of our people. I saw that in your detailed secondary literature bibliography. I read the abstract of |
| 2:02.2 | one of them, yeah, pointing complaining about the depiction of Jews. I used to hold Fiddler on the |
| 2:10.6 | roof in the highest regard in terms of my anthropological knowledge of your people. |
| 2:22.6 | When you ask, is it the Jewish? I don't know because what is my standard? This is certainly |
| 2:28.4 | some depiction of Jews. So I don't know what it means to be a very, very Jewish except for |
| 2:36.4 | that everybody who plays somebody on this movie has been a guest star on either curb your enthusiasm |
| 2:44.7 | or the Larry Sanders show. So by the process of induction, I have concluded that this must be |
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