Episode 30: The Greatest Books Ever Written

Very Bad Wizards

Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2013

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Dave and Tamler celebrate their one year anniversary and 30th episode with one of their least cynical episodes yet. They talk about 5 philosophy/psychology(-ish) books that influenced and inspired them throughout the years. They also respond to a listener email that accuses them (mostly Tamler) of being "reckless and irresponsible" in their discussion of responding to insults.

Episode Links

(Please note that the Top 5 links below are to purchase books through amazon.com via the Very Bad Wizards amazon affiliate account)

Tamler's Top 5

5. The Razor's Edge

4. Culture Of Honor: The Psychology Of Violence In The South (New Directions in Social Psychology)/Humiliation: And Other Essays on Honor, Social Discomfort, and Violence

3. The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science)

2. Passions Within Reason: The Strategic Role of the Emotions

1. Jacques the Fatalist and His Master (Penguin Classics)

David's Top 5

5. Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman

4. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

3. The Modularity of Mind: An Essay on Faculty Psychology

2. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

1. Passions Within Reason: The Strategic Role of the Emotions

Honorable Mentions

Revenge: A Story of Hope. Laura Blumenfeld

Mortal Questions by Thomas Nagel

The Fragility of Goodness by Martha Nussbaum

Not by Genes Alone: by Peter Richerson and Richard Boyd

The Principles of Psychology by William James

Descartes Error by Antonio Damasio

Beyond Good and Evil

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper

The Hedgehog and the Fox by Isaiah Berlin

Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong by J.L. Mackie

Finally...

David shows Richard Dawkins "Lemon Party"

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and 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 not allowed to say,
0:13.6	and knowing my dad, some very inappropriate jokes.
0:16.8	God damn it! I don't know how to express myself unless to angry and personal attack!
0:20.8	I'm getting very upset!
0:30.0	Who are you? Who are you? I'm a very bad man!
0:43.2	I'm a very good man. Good, bad man.
0:46.4	I'm a very good man. Just a very bad wizard.
1:09.6	Welcome to very bad wizards. I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston.
1:13.6	Dave, it's our one-year anniversary. How do you plan to celebrate?
1:18.4	Happy anniversary, I'm Tamler. I'm Tamler. I'm Dave Pizarro from Cornell University.
1:23.0	I'm going to celebrate by getting really drunk and watching straw dogs over and over again
1:27.9	until I finally realize what it's like to be you and really like that movie.
1:34.0	That will be on the same page. Does help to drink. I mean, I will say that helps you appreciate what
1:40.2	you should already appreciate so great. But like a lot of life, alcohol just helps you get where
1:46.0	you ought to be anyway. I actually think we have a good episode today for our 30th episode and our
1:55.6	one-year anniversary because it's sort of a celebratory episode. Yeah, I didn't think we'd make it this far.
2:02.4	No, nobody did. Anyone who knew us, when I told about this, they'd be like, oh yeah, that sounds
2:11.6	good. They might as well have just been making the jerk-off motion.
2:18.2	That's how I felt when you pitched it to me. That's true. But that's because I was actually
2:21.9	talking about how long ago did I pitch this to you? Oh man, let's see. August 30th is when we did
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