Episode 50: Keeping it Unreal

Very Bad Wizards

Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2014

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Dude, do you ever think about how, like, we could be all be in the Matrix? Seriously, no no, dude, I'm being serious. It's like, none of this might be real, you know?

Actually we don't know. We honestly can't believe we made it to 50 episodes, so we must be brains in a vat. But we play along and celebrate with...a movie episode! We list our five favorite films about the subjective or questionable nature of reality. Our only rule: we couldn't choose The Matrix. Listen to this episode--your Mom says it's psychologically taut.

Links

Kramer, A. D., Guillory, J. E., & Hancock, J. T. (2014). Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Rashomon (David) [imdb.com]
Exit Through the Gift Shop (Tamler and David) [imdb.com]
Banksy on "Life Remote Control" (clip, youtube.com)
- Paul Bloom on art and forgery [ted.com]
Spirited Away (Tamler) [imdb.com]
My Neighbor Totoro (David) [imdb.com]
- Mr. Snuffleupagus [wikipedia.org]
Adaptation (Tamler) [imdb.com]
Donnie Darko (David) [imdb.com]
Stories we Tell (Tamler) [imdb.com]
Waking Life (David) [imdb.com]
- Robert Solomon [wikipedia.org]
Mulholland Drive (Tamler) [imdb.com]

Tamler's Honorable Mentions

Primer
Dark City
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Memento
The Truman Show
Rosemary's Baby
The Shining
Purple Rose of Cairo
The Conversation
Shutter Island

Some SPOILER ALERT Links

Tim Minchin summarizes Donnie Darko in song [youtube.com]
Everything you were afraid to ask about Mulholland Drive by Bill Wyman, Max Garrone, and Andy Klein [salon.com]

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a psychologist, Dave Pizarro,
0:06.3	having an informal discussion about issues and science and ethics.
0:09.7	Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm out of allow to say, and knowing
0:14.4	my dad some very inappropriate jokes.
0:17.8	What we publish on this is going to get a lot of attention from who, from other researchers,
0:22.3	academics.
0:23.3	Academics?
0:24.3	What they gonna study, you'll study.
0:27.3	When do this shit change?
0:34.3	The lady on has spoken.
0:38.3	A new attention to that man behind the curtain.
0:44.3	Who are you?
0:47.3	Who are you?
0:48.3	I'm very bad man.
0:49.3	I'm a very good man.
0:50.3	I'm a very good man.
0:57.3	I'm a very good man.
1:00.3	I'm a very good man.
1:01.3	Good man.
1:02.3	I'm raising things on.
1:03.3	And with no more brains than you have.
1:04.3	Pay no attention.
	...

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