Episode 194: God Has No Mother (with Chris Matheson)
Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2020
⏱️ 114 minutes
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Summary
David and Tamler welcome special guest Chris Matheson - co-writer of the "Bill and Ted" movies and author of "The Story of God" and "The Buddha's Story" - to talk about religion, immortality, comedy, Freud, and why the secret ingredient to good satire is love. Plus David and Tamler do a conceptual analysis of stoner movies and discuss their favorites.
Special Guest: Chris Matheson.
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Links:
- Chris Matheson (screenwriter) - Wikipedia
- The Story of God by Chris Matheson [amazon.com affiliate link]
- The Trouble with God by Chris Matheson [amazon.com affiliate link]
- Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure - Wikipedia
- Bill & Ted Face the Music - Wikipedia
- The Roast of Richard Pryor (very NSFW) [youtube.com]
- Dark Side of the Rainbow - Wikipedia
- Friday (1995 film) - Wikipedia
- Tom and Jerry (Gene Deitch Era) - Terrible TV Shows Wiki
- Fantastic Planet - Wikipedia
- Aqua Teen Hunger Force - Wikipedia
- The Return of the Pink Panther (1975) - IMDb
- Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004) - IMDb
- Step Brothers (2008) - IMDb
- This Is the End (2013) - IMDb
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - IMDb
- Inherent Vice (2014) - IMDb
- Playtime (1967) - IMDb
- Spirited Away (2001) - IMDb
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) - IMDb
- Dazed and Confused (1993) - IMDb
- Jackie Brown (1997) - IMDb
- Tin Men (1987) - IMDb
Transcript
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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. |
| 0:09.4 | 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. |
| 0:17.0 | The experiment was perfect. |
| 0:20.2 | It was corrupted by our effectiveness. |
| 0:30.6 | We know our attention to that man behind the curtain. |
| 0:39.2 | Who are you? |
| 0:41.2 | Who are you? |
| 0:42.8 | I'm very bad man. |
| 0:44.2 | I'm a very good man. |
| 0:46.1 | Good man. |
| 0:50.4 | They think he's lost, and with no more brains than you have. |
| 0:54.3 | We know our attention to that man. |
| 1:00.4 | Anybody can have a brain. |
| 1:04.4 | You're a very bad man. |
| 1:06.8 | I'm a very good man. |
| 1:08.6 | Just a very bad wizard. |
| 1:11.3 | Welcome to very bad wizards. |
| 1:12.5 | I'm Tamar Summers from the University of Houston. |
| 1:15.0 | Dave, we have a most excellent guest coming up in the second segment. |
| 1:18.9 | How would you describe him? |
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