Episode 318: A PTA Meeting

Very Bad Wizards

Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2025

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

David and Tamler share some brief thoughts about Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest masterpiece One Battle After Another before going deep on his most underrated movie Inherent Vice. We explore the many connections between the two movies - Pynchon adaptations, shadowy forces, snitches who abandon their families, the blend of comedy and political fatalism, and the intrinsic and external forces that threaten relationships and resistance to power. [Note: some spoilers to OBAA in the opening segment but we note where they begin, and of course full spoilers to Inherent Vice.] A really fun discussion about maybe the best filmmaker working today.

One Battle After Another [wikipedia.org]

Inherent Vice [wikipedia.org]

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.
0:17.1	I may not be as well connected and for sure not as much into revenge as you folks are.
0:23.6	But if you jive with me, my man, I say you.
0:29.6	The maiden boss has spoken.
0:36.6	Play no attention to that man behind the curtain.
0:41.3	Who are you?
0:47.3	Who are you?
0:49.3	I'm a very bad man.
0:51.3	I'm a very good man.
0:53.3	Good man. I'm a very good man. Good man. They think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have.
1:01.0	May no attention to that man.
1:05.0	Anybody can have a brain?
1:10.0	You're a very bad man. I'm a very good man. Anybody can have a brain?
1:13.6	You're a very bad man. I'm a very good man.
1:15.6	Just a very bad wizard.
1:18.6	Welcome to Very Bad Wizards.
1:19.6	I'm Tamler Summers.
1:21.6	Dave, apparently the rapture happened at some point last week,
1:25.6	but you're still here.
1:29.9	What happened?
1:32.1	I think God listened to 317 episodes.
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