Episode 270: Take Me to the River (Blood Meridian, Pt. 3)
Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2023
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
David and Tamler conclude their three-part discussion of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian. We talk about the Judge’s coin trick by the fire and the question of the supernatural in the novel. Next we dive into the imbecile’s “baptism” by the river, and then try to wrap our heads around the cryptic epilogue. Baffled at first, we ultimately arrive at the definitive interpretation of the epilogue’s meaning. Finally we offer Hollywood some suggestions for choosing the director and cast for the long sought-after film adaptation.
Plus, we have nothing but praise for this study on measuring passive aggression. We really like it - I mean, we have a couple of issues with the methodology and the survey questions, but no, really, it’s a great paper… for a journal like that…
21 Questions to Identify a Passive-Aggressive Person by Mark Travers [psychologytoday.com]
Blood Meridian [wikipedia.com]
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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 | How can you help me? |
| 0:19.5 | Perhaps someday I could tell you the nature of evil. |
| 0:25.3 | Would you like to know how to solve the problem of evil? |
| 0:30.0 | The pain in my head is broken. |
| 0:34.0 | A new attention to that pain behind the curtain. |
| 0:42.0 | Who are you? |
| 0:44.0 | Who are you? |
| 0:46.0 | I'm very bad men. |
| 0:48.0 | I'm a very good man. |
| 0:50.0 | Good men. |
| 0:52.0 | They think they've lost, and with no more brains than you have. |
| 0:58.0 | They do our attention to that pain. |
| 1:06.0 | Anybody can have a brain. |
| 1:10.0 | You're a very bad man. |
| 1:12.0 | They're a very good man. |
| 1:14.0 | Just a very bad wizard. |
| 1:16.0 | Welcome to very bad wizards. |
| 1:18.0 | I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston. |
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