Very Bad Wizards
a philosopher and a psychologist ponder human morality
We found 4 episodes of Very Bad Wizards with the tag “movies”.
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Episode 218: ...But You Can't Hide (Michael Haneke's "Caché")
August 3rd, 2021 | 1 hr 59 mins
caché, conceptual analysis, corny, movies
David and Tamler go deep on Michael Haneke’s unnerving psychological thriller Caché. An upper middle class French intellectual couple receives mysterious videotapes of the exterior of their house, forcing them to confront their past and present. Can we run from our history? Or will it always find a way to break through? And who’s sending the tapes? Plus, VBW does conceptual analysis - what does it mean to be “corny”?
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Episode 194: God Has No Mother (with Chris Matheson)
August 11th, 2020 | 1 hr 53 mins
atheism, chris matheson, comedy, movies
David and Tamler welcome special guest Chris Matheson - co-writer of the "Bill and Ted" movies and author of "The Story of God" and "The Buddha’s Story" - to talk about religion, immortality, comedy, Freud, and why the secret ingrediet to good satire is love. Plus David and Tamler do a conceptual analysis of stoner movies and discuss their favorites.
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Episode 114: Great Vengeance and Furious Anger (Top 5 Movies About Revenge)
May 4th, 2017 | 1 hr 21 mins
movies, passover, revenge, vengeance
Somehow, after 113 episodes David and Tamler have never done a top 5 movie episode about revenge (so unbelievable that we had to double-check). That changes today. Among the things we learned: good revenge movies are harder to find than we thought, revenge (at least, movie revenge) is messy, and David knows at least one movie that Tamler has never heard of. Plus, should Jews be celebrating the killing of Egyptian first borns? Or atoning for it? (Or perhaps just pouring out a little more wine at Passover?)
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Episode 104: Smelling Salts for Morality: Our Top 3 Movies About Empathy (with Paul Bloom)
December 13th, 2016 | 1 hr 33 mins
empathy, movies, paul bloom
Paul Bloom joins Tamler and David to discuss their picks for the top three movies about empathy.