Very Bad Wizards

Very Bad
Wizards is a collaboration between <a href="http://www.class.uh.edu/faculty/tsommers/" rel="nofollow">Tamler
Sommers</a>, a philosopher at the University of
Houston, and <a href="http://peezer.net/" rel="nofollow">David Pizarro</a>, a psychologist at Cornell University. We first met at a
conference on ethics about 10 years ago, and have been arguing (and
occasionally agreeing) about morality ever since, often over drinks. At some point we realized that our
conversations were entertaining and repugnant enough that other people might
enjoy eavesdropping. We were both big
fans of podcasts and decided to start our own. 
 

The title
of our podcast is sampled from the title of one of Tamler's books A Very Bad Wizard: Morality Behind the
Curtain (a title he stole from an obscure movie about a wizard). David creates most of the music--you can see
our original soundtrack <a href="http://www.soundcloud.com/peezismyname" rel="nofollow">here</a>. 

For the
last four years we’ve had a blast arguing about Kant, gender, emotions,
religion, free will, revenge, blame, honor, restorative justice, artificial
intelligence, porn, death, moral objectivity, Straw Dogs, comedy, Mr.
Robot, and much more. Every so often
we’ll even have a special guest to lend some respectability to the show. We have a fantastic intelligent group of
listeners from all over the world who aren’t shy about telling us when we’re
wrong. We love interacting with them on
Facebook, twitter, and email. 
 It’s been a
labor of love but it has been a lot of labor. 
For every episode we put in hours upon hours of work recording, editing,
preparing, and producing the podcast. We
also have plenty of expenses, from equipment to hosting fees, which keep
growing along with our audience. Thanks to Patreon, if you’re a fan of the
podcast you can help support some of this work by pledging a certain amount per
episode. We appreciate all levels of
support! We hope to keep doing this
podcast for a long time. 
 Repugnantly
yours, 
 David and
Tamler

Free

At this level, patrons will get ad-free episodes and links to digital downloads for a series that collects a set of David's instrumental beats (“Beats without Rhymes”).  There are currently 5 volumes of beats accessible to patrons.

Ad-Free Episodes and David's Beats

At this level, our patrons will receive Dave’s beats, ad free episodes, and all of our bonus episodes including our monthly AUAs, The Overton Windows with Robert Wright, and the best podcast of all time The Ambulators, a deep dive into every episode of Deadwood.

Bonus Segments, Beats, Ad-Free Eps

At this level, you'll get the bonus episodes, David's beat collections, access to our 5-part series on the Brothers Karamazov, and (new!) access to Dave's Psych 101 lectures from Cornell (13 video lectures, posted once a month). In addition, you'll have the opportunity to suggest ideas for topics. We'll compile them, and then you can vote on the topic you'd like us to talk about. You'll also get early access to that episode.

All Bonus Content/Vote on Episode Topic

All previous rewards (ad-free episodes, beats, voting on listener-suggested episodes, The Brothers Karamazov mini-series, Dave's Psych 101 video lectures) PLUS a chance to participate with David and Tamler interactively.  Every month we'll solicit questions from our top tier patrons and then post an exclusive video with our answers.  Only our $10/and up patrons will have access to the videos.

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