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Very Bad Wizards

Very Bad Wizards is a podcast featuring a philosopher (Tamler Sommers) and a psychologist (David Pizarro), who share a love for ethics, pop culture, and cognitive science, and who have a marked inability to distinguish sacred from profane. Each podcast includes discussions of moral philosophy, recent work on moral psychology and neuroscience, and the overlap between the two.

Website ↗ Last published 29 October 2026 361 posts collected by Sputnik

Said on Very Bad Wizards

“For a Westerner, the thought that you can find yourself is accompanied by, let me go travel on my own. And it's like, where do you think yourself is? You think you're going to find an Indiana Jones warehouse where they keep all the selves?” — David Pizarro, Very Bad Wizards
David Pizarro · 27 Oct 2026 Listen →
“It's like tenting your house. And yeah, the termites should die and probably the roaches ... nobody's going to shed a tear. But you might get some little poor rabbit or frog that was in your crawl space and that's going to die too because the house needs to be cleansed because it's rotten.” — Tamler Sommers, Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers · 8 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Why do we want that car to go down? … I think it's because we just watched him do all this work. He really takes us through the cleanup. And it's like, we didn't just watch all that and now the car won't go down.” — Tamler Sommers, Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers · 6 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I kind of like the reading that there are clear traditions where she knows and clear traditions where she doesn't know. … I like the Schrödinger's Penelope here.” — Tamler Sommers, Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers · 1 Oct 2026 Listen →

Hosts

Very Bad Wizards is hosted by Tamler Sommers and David Pizarro .

Recent Episodes

  1. 29 Oct 2026

    The Lotus Eaters Episode 13: An Odyssey Dream Cast [unlocked]

  2. 27 Oct 2026

    Episode 343: Culture and the Concept of a Person

  3. 22 Oct 2026

    The Lotus Eaters Episode 12: Reunited in Ithaca [unlocked]

  4. 8 Oct 2026

    The Lotus Eaters Episode 11: Cleaning House

  5. 6 Oct 2026

    Episode 342: A Boy's Best Friend (Hitchcock's "Psycho")

  6. 1 Oct 2026

    The Lotus Eaters Episode 10: Like-Minded [unlocked]

  7. 24 Sep 2026

    The Lotus Eaters Episode 9: An Ode to Argos [unlocked]

  8. 22 Sep 2026

    Episode 341: Psychology Ranked (With Paul Bloom)

    With Paul Bloom

  9. 17 Sep 2026

    The Lotus Eaters Episode 8: Home and Homelessness [unlocked]

  10. 10 Sep 2026

    The Lotus Eaters Episode 7: Lying Odysseus [unlocked]

  11. 8 Sep 2026

    Episode 340: The Sublime Folly of Hope

  12. 3 Sep 2026

    The Lotus Eaters Episode 6: Psyches [unlocked]

Guests

Paul Bloom (17 episodes), Yoel Inbar (16 episodes), Christina Hoff Sommers (5 episodes), Sam Harris (5 episodes), Laurie Santos (3 episodes), Robert Wright (3 episodes), Molly Crockett (2 episodes), Vlad Chituc (2 episodes), Eric Schwitzgebel (2 episodes), Barry Lam (2 episodes), Dan Ariely (2 episodes), Joshua Knobe (2 episodes), and 31 more.