Episode 306: What to Expect When You're Expecting (David Lynch's "Eraserhead" with Barry Lam)

Very Bad Wizards

Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Summary

David and Tamler welcome Barry Lam back to the show. In the first segment we violate one of our own rules by talking about his new book "Fewer Rules, Better People", a full frontal attack on David’s strict Kantian worldview. Then we dive DEEP into David Lynch’s first movie, "Eraserhead," and eventually arrive at a few coherent interpretations of Lynch’s “most spiritual film."

Barry Lam [ucr.edu]

Fewer Rules, Better People: The Case for Discretion by Barry Lam [amazon.com affiliate link]

Eraserhead [wikipedia.org]

David Lynch BAFTA interview (Origin of "Eraserhead is my most spiritual film" quote) [youtube.com]

Transcript

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0:00.0	Very Bad Wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and psychologist Dave Vizarro, having an informal discussion about issues in 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 some very inappropriate jokes.
0:17.5	This is weird.
0:20.3	She's just plain weird.
0:24.6	Like I just don't belong.
0:30.6	The great end boss has spoken.
0:34.6	Play no attention to that man behind the curtain!
0:40.3	Who are you?
0:45.3	Who are you?
0:47.3	I'm a very bad man.
0:49.3	I'm a very good man.
0:51.3	Good man.
0:52.3	They think deep thoughts, and with no more brains than you have. man, good man.
0:58.0	They think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have.
1:02.0	May no attention tonight, man.
1:07.0	Anybody can have a brain?
1:11.4	You're a very bad man. I'm a very good man. Just a very bad man. I'm a very good man.
1:13.1	Just a very bad wizard.
1:15.9	Welcome to Very Bad Wizards.
1:17.4	I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston.
1:19.8	Dave, today Barry Lamb joins us again to talk in the main segment about David Lynch's
1:25.1	eraser head.
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