
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 340: The Sublime Folly of Hope
Sep 8, 20261h 15m

The Lotus Eaters Episode 6: Psyches [unlocked]
Sep 3, 202658 min

The Lotus Eaters Episode 5: Circe, Cyclops, and Psychedelics (Oh My!)
Aug 27, 202654 min

Episode 339: On Hating and Despising Philosophy
Aug 25, 20261h 21m

The Lotus Eaters Episode 4: I Am Odysseus [unlocked]
Aug 20, 202645 min

The Lotus Eaters Episode 3: The Halfway House to Humanity [unlocked]
Aug 13, 202641 min

The Lotus Eaters Episode 2: Intangible as Wind [unlocked]
Aug 6, 202654 min

The Lotus Eaters Episode 1: The Journey Begins [unlocked]
Aug 6, 20261h

Episode 338: The Lotus Eaters (Nolan's "The Odyssey")
Aug 4, 20261h 1m

Episode 337: First Contact? (Tarkovsky's "Solaris")
Jul 28, 20261h 45m

Episode 336: That Oceanic Feeling (Stanisław Lem's "Solaris")
Jul 14, 20261h 35m

Episode 335: The Wright Stuff
Jun 30, 20261h 30m
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