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Very Bad Wizards

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Episode 330: A Fact-Based Podcast (Gogol's "The Overcoat") artwork

Episode 330: A Fact-Based Podcast (Gogol's "The Overcoat")

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1:16:44Apr 14, 2026
Episode 329: Why We Suffer artwork

Episode 329: Why We Suffer

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1:20:12Mar 31, 2026
Episode 328: Weapons Free artwork

Episode 328: Weapons Free

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1:42:36Mar 17, 2026
Episode 327: You Ain't So Smart (Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People") artwork

Episode 327: You Ain't So Smart (Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People")

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1:32:33Feb 24, 2026
Episode 326: The Most Important Episode of Your (Academic) Life artwork

Episode 326: The Most Important Episode of Your (Academic) Life

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59:10Feb 10, 2026
Episode 325: It Is Happening Again artwork

Episode 325: It Is Happening Again

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1:12:12Jan 27, 2026
Episode 324: Irruption of the Sacred artwork

Episode 324: Irruption of the Sacred

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1:07:27Jan 13, 2026
Episode 323: Debate Me 'Phro artwork

Episode 323: Debate Me 'Phro

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1:08:09Dec 23, 2025
Episode 322: A Theater of Simultaneous Possibilities (William James' "The Stream of Thought") artwork

Episode 322: A Theater of Simultaneous Possibilities (William James' "The Stream of Thought")

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1:21:00Dec 9, 2025
Episode 321: The Journey Begins (Plus Blind Ranking Philosophers) artwork

Episode 321: The Journey Begins (Plus Blind Ranking Philosophers)

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1:29:41Nov 25, 2025
Episode 320: Forgive Me (Kafka's "A Hunger Artist") artwork

Episode 320: Forgive Me (Kafka's "A Hunger Artist")

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1:29:19Nov 11, 2025
Episode 319: The Shadow of the Object (Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia") artwork

Episode 319: The Shadow of the Object (Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia")

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1:35:10Oct 28, 2025
Episode 318: A PTA Meeting artwork

Episode 318: A PTA Meeting

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1:48:58Oct 14, 2025
Episode 317: For Shame artwork

Episode 317: For Shame

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1:23:30Sep 30, 2025
Episode 316: A Four-Letter Man (Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber") artwork

Episode 316: A Four-Letter Man (Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber")

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1:33:15Sep 16, 2025
Episode 315: Ceaseless Striving (Schopenhauer's Pessimism) artwork

Episode 315: Ceaseless Striving (Schopenhauer's Pessimism)

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1:30:00Sep 2, 2025
Episode 314: The In-Betweeny Place artwork

Episode 314: The In-Betweeny Place

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1:58:56Aug 12, 2025
Episode 313: The Spontaneous Eruption of Now artwork

Episode 313: The Spontaneous Eruption of Now

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1:15:30Jul 29, 2025
Episode 312: MechaSkeptic artwork

Episode 312: MechaSkeptic

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1:16:24Jul 15, 2025
Episode 311: The Way to Dusty Death (Shakespeare's "Macbeth") artwork

Episode 311: The Way to Dusty Death (Shakespeare's "Macbeth")

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1:26:06Jul 1, 2025
Episode 310: Bayes, Brains, and Buddhists artwork

Episode 310: Bayes, Brains, and Buddhists

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1:14:45Jun 10, 2025
Episode 309: Dissolving Into the One artwork

Episode 309: Dissolving Into the One

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1:23:21May 27, 2025
Bonus Episode: Va Va Boom (Robert Aldrich's "Kiss Me Deadly") artwork

Bonus Episode: Va Va Boom (Robert Aldrich's "Kiss Me Deadly")

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1:14:48May 20, 2025
Episode 308: The Gray Man who Dreamed (Borges' "Shakespeare's Memory") artwork

Episode 308: The Gray Man who Dreamed (Borges' "Shakespeare's Memory")

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1:14:50May 6, 2025
Episode 307: What's in the BOX? artwork

Episode 307: What's in the BOX?

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1:16:37Apr 22, 2025
Episode 306: What to Expect When You're Expecting (David Lynch's "Eraserhead" with Barry Lam) artwork

Episode 306: What to Expect When You're Expecting (David Lynch's "Eraserhead" with Barry Lam)

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2:04:08Apr 8, 2025
Episode 305: Emile Is the Name of the Goat (with Paul Bloom) artwork

Episode 305: Emile Is the Name of the Goat (with Paul Bloom)

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1:44:26Mar 25, 2025
Episode 304: The Planes Don't Land artwork

Episode 304: The Planes Don't Land

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1:40:28Mar 11, 2025
Episode 303: Measure This artwork

Episode 303: Measure This

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1:26:20Feb 25, 2025
Episode 302: Metaphysical Edging artwork

Episode 302: Metaphysical Edging

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1:17:08Feb 11, 2025
Episode 301: Believing is Seeing? artwork

Episode 301: Believing is Seeing?

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1:29:34Jan 28, 2025
Episode 300: If We Only Had A Brain artwork

Episode 300: If We Only Had A Brain

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1:48:01Jan 14, 2025
Episode 299: Oh the Humility! artwork

Episode 299: Oh the Humility!

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2:06:33Dec 24, 2024
Episode 298: Pass the Peace Pipe artwork

Episode 298: Pass the Peace Pipe

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1:20:38Dec 10, 2024
Episode 297: No Pleasure in Meanness (Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find") artwork

Episode 297: No Pleasure in Meanness (Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find")

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1:41:24Nov 26, 2024
Episode 296: The Other CRT artwork

Episode 296: The Other CRT

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1:03:23Nov 12, 2024
Episode 295: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner artwork

Episode 295: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

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1:33:58Oct 29, 2024
Episode 294: The Scandal of Philosophy (Hume's Problem of Induction) artwork

Episode 294: The Scandal of Philosophy (Hume's Problem of Induction)

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1:13:30Oct 8, 2024
Episode 293: Who Is the Dreamer? (Borges' "The Circular Ruins") artwork

Episode 293: Who Is the Dreamer? (Borges' "The Circular Ruins")

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1:25:33Sep 24, 2024
Episode 292: Boundary Issues artwork

Episode 292: Boundary Issues

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1:15:17Sep 10, 2024
Episode 291: Shoe Shining artwork

Episode 291: Shoe Shining

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2:12:12Aug 27, 2024
Episode 290: Blinded by the Light (Plato's Cave Pt. 2) artwork

Episode 290: Blinded by the Light (Plato's Cave Pt. 2)

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1:37:16Aug 6, 2024
Episode 289: Shadows on the Wall (Plato's Cave Pt. 1) artwork

Episode 289: Shadows on the Wall (Plato's Cave Pt. 1)

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1:12:18Jul 23, 2024
Episode 288: The Despised Foot (The Denial of Death Pt. 2) artwork

Episode 288: The Despised Foot (The Denial of Death Pt. 2)

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1:30:05Jul 9, 2024
Episode 287: Gods With Anuses (The Denial of Death Pt. 1) artwork

Episode 287: Gods With Anuses (The Denial of Death Pt. 1)

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1:31:06Jun 25, 2024
Episode 286: Laugh and the World Laughs With You artwork

Episode 286: Laugh and the World Laughs With You

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2:12:47Jun 11, 2024
Episode 285: On Culture and Agriculture artwork

Episode 285: On Culture and Agriculture

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1:25:44May 28, 2024
Episode 284: Reel Choices artwork

Episode 284: Reel Choices

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1:22:34May 15, 2024
Episode 283: When Elephants Podcast artwork

Episode 283: When Elephants Podcast

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1:23:53Apr 30, 2024
Episode 282: Fearful Symmetry (Borges' "Death and the Compass") artwork

Episode 282: Fearful Symmetry (Borges' "Death and the Compass")

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1:25:12Apr 16, 2024