Episode 243: Finding My Religion
Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
4.8 β’ 3K Ratings
ποΈ 16 August 2022
β±οΈ 93 minutes
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Summary
David and Tamler continue their discussion of Leo Tolstoy's 'Confession.' When we left him last time, the famous author had bottomed out just years after writing two of the greatest novels ever written. Our eventual death, Tolstoy thought, strips life of all meaning and purpose β all answers to the question "so what?". How does he emerge from this state of suicidal depression? What role does faith or "irrational knowledge" play in his account? What's the meaning of the cryptic dream at the conclusion of the memoir?
Plus, bombarded with this recommendation, we were going to talk about a certain article that came out in Qualitative Research about masturbating to Japanese shota comics β we even had a guest β but had to scrap it. Instead, we discuss a recent study on conspiracy theories that shows that liberals are just as likely to believe in them as conservatives. Mostly we just talk about the conspiracies.
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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. |
| 0:17.1 | I'm sorry I did that. I'm embarrassed that I did that. I did a bad thing, |
| 0:23.6 | but I'm a good person. |
| 0:53.6 | I'm a very good man. Just a very bad wizard. |
| 1:15.8 | Welcome to very bad wizards. I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston. |
| 1:19.9 | Dave, we had YoL in bar on for an opening segment, but we had to scrap it. |
| 1:25.6 | So now we don't have any guests for this episode. How are we going to make up for the lost revenue? |
| 1:30.8 | What we do is we, like I have a plan, don't worry. We mentioned YoL once. |
| 1:35.4 | We'll mention Paul Bloom maybe once or twice in a flattering light, and then I'll just |
| 1:39.5 | in worst of. Yeah, I mean, we probably can't charge them the whole appearance fee. It's not going to be the whole 10k or whatever. |
| 1:50.1 | Yeah, but I think that works. Like everyone's a winner. You know, they get really influencers talking |
| 1:56.5 | positively about them. You're of course referring to a conspiracy theory recently petaled on Reddit |
| 2:04.3 | that Paul Bloom was paying to appear on our show, which I get it. I get why you would think that |
| 2:11.2 | somebody would pay you to be on very bad wizards. But in this case, this is merely a conspiracy. |
| 2:21.6 | You know, I remember at some point realizing that in the music business, I don't know, like at least for sure |
| 2:26.5 | and rap, you could just pay Snoop like 50k to like be on your song. Like here, I thought it was |
| 2:31.4 | something organic. Like, oh, he must be really like, you know, co-signing this artist. Yeah. Snoop has a |
| 2:36.7 | price, of course. It's like cameo, but to be on the song. But like it is, it is, there's an |
| 2:44.4 | interesting topic there about authenticity where cameo, you just know, like there's like a little |
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