Episode 224: Hurts So Good (With Paul Bloom)
Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2021
⏱️ 103 minutes
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VBW favorite Paul Bloom joins us to talk about the pleasures of suffering, flow states, Sisyphus, meaning, and dating questions. Check out his new book The Sweet Spot which comes out today! Plus what are NFTs and why does everyone hate them?
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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 | It is a good viewpoint to see the world as a dream. |
| 0:47.9 | They think they've lost and with no more brains than you have. |
| 0:51.8 | They do our attention. |
| 0:53.1 | Come on, man. |
| 0:57.9 | Anybody can have a brain. |
| 1:01.8 | You're a very bad man. |
| 1:04.3 | That's a very good man. |
| 1:05.6 | It's just a very bad wizard. |
| 1:08.6 | Welcome to very bad wizards. |
| 1:10.0 | I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston. |
| 1:13.1 | Dave, David Lynch is doing NFTs now. |
| 1:17.0 | What the hell is the world coming to? |
| 1:20.6 | Wait, I thought that David Lynch doing them would make you all of a sudden become like a crypto nerd |
| 1:26.1 | and just be like tweeting about your favorite Bitcoin and how the economy is changing. |
| 1:32.4 | Not even David Lynch can convince you. |
| 1:34.5 | No, I think he probably could. |
| 1:37.5 | I remember back in 2017, 2018, but I think it was end of 2017 where I'm just so obsessed with |
| 1:46.4 | Twin Peaks and David Lynch at that point. |
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