Very Bad Wizards
Hosted by Tamler and David · Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
4.8from 4,369 ratings
- 362
- Episodes
- 77
- Transcribed
- 4,369
- Ratings
- Weekly
- 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
- 5 Nov 2026
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[…] Yeah. Yeah, like, they don't have bottle episodes. You know, like, that was the thing that, you know, Breaking Bad would talk about a lot. The bottle episodes. Yeah. You know, like, they're caught out in the desert cooking and, like, they lose power. Yeah. Or he's chasing the fly in the lab. Yeah. […]
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 2,698 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 1,671 ratings
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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.
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