Episode 273: Ah. Ah. (Miyazaki's "Spirited Away")
Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2023
⏱️ 118 minutes
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Summary
David and Tamler board the train for Hayao Miyazaki’s mystical dreamy coming of age masterpiece Spirited Away. This is a true VBW deep dive. Plus a study by our secret crush suggests we may not be optimizing the value of our conversations.
Spirited Away [wikipedia.org]
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| 0:00.0 | Very Bad Wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a psychologist Dave Vizarro, |
| 0:06.0 | having an informal discussion about issues and science and ethics. |
| 0:09.4 | Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm not allowed to say and knowing my dad |
| 0:14.5 | some very inappropriate jokes. See Joy that's the beauty of argument because if you |
| 0:19.2 | argue correctly you're never wrong. The way then has spoken. attention to that man behind a curtain. Who are you? |
| 0:38.0 | Who are you? |
| 0:40.0 | Who are you? |
| 0:41.0 | A very bad man. I'm A very bad man. |
| 0:43.0 | I'm a very good man. |
| 0:45.0 | Good man. |
| 0:46.0 | They think deep thoughts, |
| 0:50.0 | and with no more brains than you have. |
| 0:52.0 | Pay no attention. thought and with no more brains than you have. |
| 0:53.0 | Made no attention to that man. |
| 0:59.0 | Anybody can have a brain. |
| 1:05.0 | You're a very bad man. I'm a very good man. |
| 1:07.0 | Just a very bad wizard. |
| 1:10.0 | Welcome to very bad wizards. |
| 1:11.0 | I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston. |
| 1:14.0 | Dave, today we're going to talk about one of the best movies of all time spirited away. |
| 1:18.0 | But, will our conversation end when we want it to? |
| 1:25.0 | You know, I was thinking about this. I think that our conversations always end way later than either of us all of them. |
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