Episode 324: Irruption of the Sacred

Very Bad Wizards

Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2026

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

David and Tamler consecrate their podcast with a discussion of "The Sacred and the Profane" by Mircea Eliade. We focus on the first chapter on sacred spaces, where the divine breaks through (or irrupts) our homogenous and chaotic reality, creating a center that gives us meaning and allows us to orient our lives. Plus speaking of the profane, a new study shows that cursing makes you stronger – but why in god's living fuck do they always end up spewing nonsense about the "underlying psychological mechanisms"?

Stephens, R., Dowber, H., Richardson, C., & Washmuth, N. B. (2025). "Don't hold back": Swearing improves strength through state disinhibition. American Psychologist.

Eliade, M. (1959). The sacred and the profane: The nature of religion (Vol. 81). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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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.
0:09.0	Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm not allowed to say,
0:13.0	and knowing my dad, some very inappropriate jokes.
0:17.0	Nothing will make sense to your American hearings, and you will doubt everything that we do.
0:22.6	In the end, you will understand you.
0:26.6	The great end, boss has spoken.
0:32.6	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.
1:16.1	Welcome to Very Bad Wizards.
1:17.8	I'm Tamler Summers.
1:19.1	Dave, happy New Year.
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