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Very Bad Wizards

Episode 305: Emile Is the Name of the Goat (with Paul Bloom)

Very Bad Wizards

Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.83K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

VBW favorite Paul Bloom joins us to break down the Severance season finale and season 2 in general. We all agree that it’s a much-needed return to form and debate some of the choices and questions the episode raises. Plus, an evolutionary account of the ‘ick’  and the adaptive trait of graceful ping-pong ball chasing. 

Collisson, B., Saunders, E., & Yin, C. (2025). The ick: Disgust sensitivity, narcissism, and perfectionism in mate choice thresholds. Personality and Individual Differences, 238, 113086.

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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 Vizarro,

0:06.0

having an informal discussion about issues in science and ethics. Please note that the discussion

0:10.7

contains bad words that I'm not allowed to say, and knowing my dad, some very inappropriate jokes.

0:16.8

The good news is, hell is just the product of a morbid human imagination. The good news is, hell it's just the product of a morbid human imagination.

0:23.6

The bad news is whatever humans can imagine they can usually create.

0:30.6

The great end boss has spoken. Play no attention to that man behind the curtain.

0:42.3

Who are you?

0:48.3

Who are you?

0:50.3

I'm a very bad man.

0:52.3

I'm a very good man. Good man.

0:55.4

They think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have.

1:01.8

May no attention tonight, man.

1:05.2

Anybody can have a brain?

1:10.2

You're a very bad man. Anybody can have a brain?

1:14.2

You're a very bad man.

1:16.3

I'm a very good man.

1:18.9

Just a very bad wizard.

1:21.1

Welcome to Very Bad Wizards.

1:23.2

I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston.

1:25.2

We have Paul Bloom with us today.

1:28.9

Paul, you were David's mentor when he was in grad school.

1:31.7

Did you see the spark of Kier in him?

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