Podcast Episodes
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Episode 190
David and Tamler talk about police violence, the protests, and Harry Frankfurt's journal article turned bestseller "On Bullshit." Plus we dive into a…
6 years, 1 month ago
The Anality of Evil (Freud's "Civilization and its Discontents")
Episode 189
David and Tamler dive into Sigmund Freud's world of unconscious drives, death instincts, and thwarted incestuous urges in his classic text "Civilizat…
6 years, 2 months ago
Conceptual Mummies (Nietzsche's "Twilight of the Idols")
Episode 188
Socrates was ugly and tired of life, so he made a tyrant of reason. Philosophers are mummies who hate the body and the senses. Reason is a tricky old…
6 years, 2 months ago
More Zither
Episode 187
With a global pandemic and a collapsing economy upon us, it's time to ask ourselves some tough questions. Sex robots or platonic love robots - what a…
6 years, 3 months ago
The One with Peter Singer
Episode 186
The legendary Peter Singer joins us to talk about effective altruism, AI, animal welfare, esoteric morality, future Tuesday indifference, and more. I…
6 years, 3 months ago
The Devil's Playground
Episode 185
David and Tamler begin by talking about the question on everyone's mind right now – are we obligated to be pansexual? Then, since many of us have mor…
6 years, 4 months ago
Bonus Episode: Top 5 Deadwood Characters
Here's something that might help with the Coronavirus blues: we're releasing our latest Patreon bonus episode for everyone. In this (unedited) episod…
6 years, 4 months ago
Tainted Glove
Episode 184
David and Tamler start off talking about the infamous Richard Dawkins eugenics tweet. What does it mean for eugenics to "work"? And given the sensiti…
6 years, 4 months ago
Accept the Mystery (with Paul Bloom)
Episode 183
VBW favorite Paul Bloom takes a short break from his Sam Harris duties to help us break down the Coen Brothers' ode to uncertainty, A Serious Man. Do…
6 years, 5 months ago
The Paper That Launched a Thousand Twitter Wars (With Yoel Inbar)
Episode 182
Podcasting legend Yoel Inbar (from Two Psychologists Four Beers) joins us to break down Tal Yarkoni's "The Generalizability Crisis," the paper that l…
6 years, 5 months ago