Episode 247: Open the Pod, Dave (with Sam Harris)

Very Bad Wizards

Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2022

⏱️ 155 minutes

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Summary

We welcome Sam Harris back to the show for a deep dive into Stanley Kubrick's confounding 1968 masterpiece "2001: A Space Odyssey." How long is the Dawn of Man? What does the second monolith do exactly? Why are the humans so banal and expressionless? What are HAL'S motivations? Has he planned his mutiny from the start, or does the Council's deception make him manlfunction? Or something else? Who is the Council anyway? Was HAL meant to go through the stargate? What is the final leap forward in consciousness? The hotel room, the starchild, all the rectangles, rectangles everywhere, the music – what does it all mean????

Plus Sam has some thoughts about our Rorty episode and David tries to rile Tamler up about Kanye's antisemitism.

note: there's a bit of an abrupt transition between our brief opening and Sam telling a story about Rorty in around the 9 minute mark... couldn't be helped.

Special Guest: Sam Harris.

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.
0:09.3	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.
0:17.1	Take a few steps back.
0:18.8	You ain't got the answers, Swag!
0:24.6	Look, ladies, arms, hands, and both hands.
0:27.5	Way to our attention to that man behind the curtain.
0:37.5	Who are you?
0:39.5	Who are you?
0:41.5	I'm very bad man.
0:43.5	I'm a very good man.
0:45.5	Good man.
0:47.5	Blasting teeth lost, and with no one raising your abs.
0:51.5	Way to our attention to that man.
0:55.5	Anybody can have a brain.
0:59.5	You're a very bad man.
1:03.5	I'm a very good man.
1:05.5	Just a very bad wizard.
1:09.5	Welcome to very bad wizards.
1:11.5	I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston.
1:13.5	Dave, I've done too much podcasting this week.
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