Episode 284: Reel Choices

Very Bad Wizards

Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2024

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

David and Tamler choose an episode topic that will define the identity and meaning of the Very Bad Wizards podcast going forward – our top 3 existentialist movies. Plus, you’re gonna be shocked to hear this, you might want to sit down, but there has been surprisingly little research on the metaphysics of puns. We look at a recent paper that remedies this appalling gap in the literature – and maybe the biggest surprise of all, Tamler has some nice things to say about it.

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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. You know what your problem is Lewis? No, I mean I
0:22.0	ain't gonna fuck with you and nothing I'm just trying to tell you something for your own good, alright?
0:25.0	You think you a good guy. The waiting us has spoken.
0:35.0	Pay no attention to that man. good man. They think they're lost and with no more brains than you abs.
1:00.0	They think they've lost and with no more brains than you abs. Pay no attention to that man.
1:04.0	Anybody can have a brain.
1:08.0	You're a very bad man.
1:12.0	I'm a very bad man. I'm a very good man.
1:14.0	Just a very bad wizard.
1:17.0	Welcome to very bad Wizards.
1:19.0	I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston.
1:22.0	Dave, this is our first episode after officially deciding to go ad free on the podcast.
1:28.0	But I need to ask, did we make a huge mistake? I've thought about that a lot.
1:37.0	I mean, look, I think we did the right thing you know but boy things were a bit easier when back in the
1:46.3	that ad money was coming in was flowing in yeah now I think we did the right thing too and
1:51.2	once we get the Patreon kind of what we're going to do all
1:53.8	sort it out too I think it'll be it'll be fine for us not as good there's always
1:58.9	door dash yeah whober driving you know's true. Do you know the origin of the salad days?
2:06.8	No, I don't think I know that phrase.
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