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Decoding the Gurus

Very Bad Gurus with David Pizarro & Tamler Sommers

Decoding the Gurus

Christopher Kavanagh and Matthew Browne

Science, Society & Culture, Leisure, Social Sciences

4.21.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2022

⏱️ 136 minutes

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Summary

In the most ambitious crossover since the Fraggles met the Muppets, this week we have a special joint episode with moral psychologist David Pizzaro and famed philosopher and ghost detective, Tamler Sommers. Also known as the hosts of a small academic podcast Very Bad Wizards.

Stealing the format of their show we have a culture war heavy intro section featuring discussion of Joe Rogan censorship, covid debates, Japanese maid cafes, and the great ghost debate of 2022. Following that we move on to an in-depth round-table discussion of the 2012 Paul Thomas Anderson movie 'The Master'. The movie explores the relationship between a wastrel and a cult leader and features performances by Joacquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Amy Adams. There is no denying it's an acting masterclass (and thematically relevant for the show!) but is it any good?

Join us and help us as we attempt to decode with the wizards.

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0:00.0

You're going to. Oh, Hello and welcome to the Code in the Guru's podcast,

0:24.8

anthropologists and a psychologist listen to the greatest minds the world has

0:31.3

to offer and we try to understand what they're talking about and

0:34.7

I've got Chris Kavanaugh with me right now and Chris is fresh as a newborn bunny this morning.

0:41.7

He was up very early in the morning making sense with sense makers and

0:46.7

well talking about vaccines and public information and the heterodox sphere around all the controversies there and so yeah good job Chris I'm halfway through watching it I thought you were you were pretty pretty good

1:01.4

That's right I had a hardcore sense-making session at around 5 a.m. for me. I don't like to brag about these things,

1:10.8

but you know, on the store. I already went on there and talked about the

1:15.9

grometer it's an interesting channel because it hosts a lot of wackadoodles

1:29.2

that's it and it a lot of wackadoodles. And it also very recently had Curtis Jarvin who's not somebody I am particularly favorably disposed towards, like the philosopher fascist king of the Tech Silicon Valley

1:37.2

set. But I was not there to sense make with him. I talked to Z-D and David Fuller and Ben Burgess, the philosopher and

1:49.7

we were discussing about truth and trustworthiness and the COVID era.

1:56.5

I actually think it was a surprisingly productive discussion with an odd combination of people because we talked a lot about issues in the

2:07.0

heterodox sphere and at one point David Fuller said and I believe I'm quoting here,

2:14.3

the, it's time the heterodox sphere grew the fuck up.

2:18.6

Something along those lines.

2:21.3

So that was refreshing to hear.

2:23.0

Yeah, you were saying before, while preparing for it, the topic of the debate was kind of more about what's wrong with the institutions and the orthodoxy,

2:34.3

but the conversation seems to be bending more

2:38.2

towards what's wrong with the independent commentators

2:42.1

and the heterodox fear. and I think he might have had

2:44.4

something to do with that Chris.

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