Episode 287: Gods With Anuses (The Denial of Death Pt. 1)

Very Bad Wizards

Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

David faces his greatest fear as he and Tamler dive into Ernest Becker’s 1973 Pulitzer Prize winner The Denial of Death. Blending existentialist ideas within a psychoanalytic framework, Becker argues that the ultimate source of human motivation is not the repression of sexual drives (as Freud thought) but our terror of death and the yearning for an immortality we can never possess. This episode focuses on Part One of Becker’s book, and we’ll conclude the discussion in the next episode.

Plus are gun owners really dissatisfied with their penis size? We look at the numbers.

Hill, T. D., Zeng, L., Burdette, A. M., Dowd-Arrow, B., Bartkowski, J. P., & Ellison, C. G. (2024). Size matters? Penis dissatisfaction and gun ownership in America. American journal of men's health, 18(3), 15579883241255830.

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Transcript

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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.
0:17.0	Conan, what is best in life? To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and they hear a lamentation of their women.
0:25.2	That is good. That is good. That is good. 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.
1:21.0	Dave, even though haters like you have been doubting them all season,
1:26.2	the Celtics have finally done it.
1:27.9	They got their 18th championship.
1:30.9	Care to apologize to this team in the city of Boston?
1:34.0	No, but you know the only person I'm going to apologize?
1:36.0	Well, first of all, congratulations.
1:38.0	He was well deserved.
1:40.0	Is your coach, Joe Missoula.
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