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Episode 230: Be Happy (Lars von Trier's "Melancholia")

Episode 230: Be Happy (Lars von Trier's "Melancholia")

FromVery Bad Wizards


Episode 230: Be Happy (Lars von Trier's "Melancholia")

FromVery Bad Wizards

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Length:
110 minutes
Released:
Feb 8, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

David and Tamler sink deeper and deeper into Melancholia, Lars von Trier’s harrowing and stunningly beautiful depiction of depression, anxiety, and a wedding reception that just won’t end. They bring Freud’s “Mourning and Melancholia” into the conversation and confront the question: what if the depressed and anxious people are right?
Plus Whoopi, M&Ms, baby brain waves, Rogan – we empty out the opening segment Slack. 
Note: We recorded the opening segment before the latest development in the Joe Rogan story, but we briefly address that in the promo segment right after the break.
Released:
Feb 8, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

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.