Episode 253: Tarkovsky's Starchild
Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2023
⏱️ 128 minutes
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Summary
It’s the episode that Tamler has been waiting for – a long deep dive into Andrei Tarkovsky’s mysterious masterpiece "Stalker." A writer and professor are led by their guide (Stalker) into a cordoned off “zone” that may have been visited by a meteorite (or aliens) a couple of decades earlier. Their destination – a room in the zone that according to legend grants people their deepest desire, the one that has made them suffer the most. We gush over Tarkovsky’s filmmaking, his use of sound and music, and the richness of the questions this movie raises about meaning, art, delusion, desire, science, and faith.
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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. |
| 0:16.8 | Just sitting here thinking is pretty rough when you spend most of your life not thinking. |
| 0:46.8 | Good man. |
| 0:50.8 | They think he's lost and with no more brains than you have. |
| 0:54.8 | They do our attention. |
| 0:55.9 | Come on man. |
| 1:00.8 | Anybody can have a brain. |
| 1:04.8 | You're a very bad man. |
| 1:07.3 | That's a very good man. |
| 1:09.1 | Just a very bad wizard. |
| 1:11.8 | Welcome to very bad wizards. |
| 1:13.1 | I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston. |
| 1:15.5 | Dave, for the last two years, I've been convinced against all reason that I couldn't get COVID. |
| 1:21.7 | And I talked a lot of shit. |
| 1:23.6 | And it became part of how I understood myself, like what I took myself to be. |
| 1:28.7 | But I got it last week and now I have to reconstruct a whole new identity for myself. |
| 1:34.8 | What should it be? |
| 1:35.6 | What should I be? |
| 1:36.4 | You, well, it's going to take a lot of soul searching. |
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