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
The Lotus Eaters Episode 12: Reunited in Ithaca [unlocked]
Oct 22, 20261h 1m
The Lotus Eaters Episode 11: Cleaning House
Oct 8, 20261h 6m
Episode 342: A Boy's Best Friend (Hitchcock's "Psycho")
Oct 6, 20261h 53m
The Lotus Eaters Episode 10: Like-Minded [unlocked]
Oct 1, 20261h 3m
The Lotus Eaters Episode 9: An Ode to Argos [unlocked]
Sep 24, 202649 min
Episode 341: Psychology Ranked (With Paul Bloom)
Sep 22, 20261h 37m
The Lotus Eaters Episode 8: Home and Homelessness [unlocked]
Sep 17, 20261h 2m
The Lotus Eaters Episode 7: Lying Odysseus [unlocked]
Sep 10, 202655 min
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
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