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Episode 341: Psychology Ranked (With Paul Bloom)

Episode 341

David and Tamler welcome Paul Bloom back to the show for a definitive ranking of classic psychology experiments. Will the shocking results of the Mil…

23 hours ago

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

In this episode, Tamler and David discuss The Odyssey Books 15 & 16, in which father and son (and father figure and son) are reunited, and in which t…

6 days, 3 hours ago

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The Lotus Eaters Episode 7: Lying Odysseus [unlocked]

Tamler and David discuss Books 13 & 14 of The Odyssey. Odysseus finally makes it to Ithaca and meets up with Athena, gets a disguise, and has a chat …

1 week, 6 days ago

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Episode 340: The Sublime Folly of Hope

Episode 340

Why do baseball players have so many superstitious rituals compared to athletes in other sports? How does this relate to the magic rituals of the Tro…

2 weeks ago

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The Lotus Eaters Episode 6: Psyches [unlocked]

David and Tamler discuss The Odyssey's iconic books 11 & 12, in which our hero visits the ghosts of the dead, hears the call of the sirens, and survi…

2 weeks, 6 days ago

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The Lotus Eaters Episode 5: Circe, Cyclops, and Psychedelics (Oh My!) [unlocked]

Tamler and David discuss the action-packed books 9 & 10 of The Odyssey, in which Odysseus makes some questionable choices, the crew encounters cannib…

3 weeks, 5 days ago

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Episode 339: Is Analytic Philosophy Truthmaxxing?

Episode 339

Since well before the big bang, people have been bitching about Tamler's chosen field. We talk about Bernard Williams' (qualified) defense of analyti…

4 weeks ago

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The Lotus Eaters Episode 4: I Am Odysseus [unlocked]

Tamler and David discuss books 7 & 8 of The Odyssey--while at Alcinous' palace in Phaeacia, Odysseus listens to poetry, plays some games, cries some …

1 month ago

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The Lotus Eaters Episode 3: The Halfway House to Humanity [unlocked]

Tamler and David discuss books 5 & 6 of The Odyssey, where we follow Odysseus as he finally leaves Calypso's Island and returns to the realm of the h…

1 month, 1 week ago

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The Lotus Eaters Episode 2: Intangible as Wind [unlocked]

Welcome to The Lotus Eaters! This is part 2 of our 12 part series on Homer's Odyssey that will be released every Thursday. The series was supported b…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

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