Very Bad Wizards
Hosted by Tamler and David · Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
4.8from 4,345 ratings
- 354
- Episodes
- 62
- Transcribed
- 4,345
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2012
- First episode
About Very Bad Wizards
Very Bad Wizards is a podcast featuring a philosopher (Tamler Sommers) and a psychologist (David Pizarro), who share a love for ethics, pop culture, and cognitive science, and who have a marked inability to distinguish sacred from profane. Each podcast includes discussions of moral philosophy, recent work on moral psychology and neuroscience, and the overlap between the two.
- Publisher
- Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
- Category
- society & culture · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 30 Aug 2012
- Latest episode
- 22 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
62 of 354 episodes have a transcript.
22 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 341: Psychology Ranked (With Paul Bloom)
17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
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Episode 341: Psychology Ranked (With Paul Bloom)
Published 22 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] But the idea that the act of answering a question or something shapes forever how you'll remember something really forces you to think about memory in a very different way. Yeah. People even reported seeing glass at the scene of the accident, even though there wasn't any there. No, they would ask them questions about, was there glass at the scene of an accident or something? Yeah. Yeah. It really did change, you know, that and that whole body of work, starting with that, changed the way that the law has to deal with these things. Dave, you know more about this than I do, but Lufthus is a rather controversial character in our field. […]
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- Paul Bloom
- Robert Wright
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Reach and audience
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 2,690 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 1,655 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 68 / 100
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- 96
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 98
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Who hosts Very Bad Wizards?
Tamler and David host the show. Published by Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro.
How often do new episodes come out?
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