Episode 230: Be Happy (Lars von Trier's "Melancholia")
Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2022
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Summary
David and Tamler sink deeper and deeper into Melancholia, Lars von Trier’s harrowing and stunningly beautiful depiction of depression, anxiety, and a wedding reception that just won’t end. They bring Freud’s “Mourning and Melancholia” into the conversation and confront the question: what if the depressed and anxious people are right?
Plus Whoopi, M&Ms, baby brain waves, Rogan – we empty out the opening segment Slack.
Note: We recorded the opening segment before the latest development in the Joe Rogan story, but we briefly address that in the promo segment right after the break.
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Links:
- The impact of a poverty reduction intervention on infant brain activity | PNAS
- Landmark Poverty Experiment Shows Extra Money Changes Babies' Brains
- M&Ms characters redesigned for a "more dynamic, progressive world," Mars announces - CBS News
- Mourning and Melancholia - Wikipedia
- Melancholia (2011 film) - Wikipedia
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 love to say, |
| 0:13.6 | and knowing my dad some very inappropriate jokes. |
| 0:16.8 | I don't understand how people live. |
| 0:19.6 | It's amazing to me that people wake up every morning and say, |
| 0:22.4 | yeah, another day, let's do it. How do people do it? |
| 0:52.4 | They think they've lost, and with no more brains than you have. |
| 0:57.8 | They do our attention. |
| 0:59.7 | Come on, man. |
| 1:01.7 | Anybody can have a brain? |
| 1:06.2 | You're a very bad man. |
| 1:10.1 | I'm a very good man, just a very bad wizard. |
| 1:15.5 | Welcome to very bad wizards. |
| 1:16.9 | I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston. |
| 1:19.5 | Dave, whoopi Goldberg has been suspended for two weeks from ABC's The View, |
| 1:25.4 | for saying that the Holocaust was about race, wasn't it? |
| 1:29.5 | No, I'm not sure which one is supposed to be bad. |
| 1:33.3 | Which one's the right one? |
| 1:34.3 | Yeah, which one's the good one? |
| 1:35.5 | But assuming we can figure that out, do you think her suspension should have been longer? |
| 1:41.5 | Yes, if only to give her more time to be a guest on the Picard Star Trek revamp, |
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