Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers and David Pizarro
Two philosophers dissecting literary classics and philosophical texts with irreverent humor.
Why we picked this
We picked Very Bad Wizards because no other philosophy podcast sounds like this. Hosts David Pizarro and Tamler Sommers trade arguments about free will, moral psychology, and AI sycophancy with the looseness of two people at a bar, not a lectern. They treat academic texts and Flannery O'Connor stories with equal seriousness and equal willingness to curse. The show trades polished monologues for real-time disagreement, dead-end tangents, and jokes that land because the hosts actually know the material. Subscribe for philosophy that refuses to behave.
Recent episodes
Episode 333: P-hacking the Mind
May 26, 202654 min
Episode 332: Talking to Myself ("The Other" by Jorge Luis Borges)
May 12, 20261h 54m
Episode 331: Who's Your Law Daddy? (Plato's "Crito")
Apr 28, 20261h 31m
Episode 330: A Fact-Based Podcast (Gogol's "The Overcoat")
Apr 14, 20261h 16m
Episode 329: Why We Suffer
Mar 31, 20261h 20m
Episode 328: Weapons Free
Mar 17, 20261h 42m
Episode 327: You Ain't So Smart (Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People")
Feb 24, 20261h 32m
Episode 326: The Most Important Episode of Your (Academic) Life
Feb 10, 202659 min
Episode 325: It Is Happening Again
Jan 27, 20261h 12m
Episode 324: Irruption of the Sacred
Jan 13, 20261h 7m
Episode 323: Debate Me 'Phro
Dec 23, 20251h 8m
Episode 322: A Theater of Simultaneous Possibilities (William James' "The Stream of Thought")
Dec 9, 20251h 21m
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