{"podcast":{"title":"Very Bad Wizards","slug":"very-bad-wizards-200269","podcast_index_feed_id":200269,"rss_url":"https://feeds.libsyn.com/474285/rss","website_url":"http://sites.libsyn.com/474285/site","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/5/2/6/a/526ac0bca875678727a2322813b393ee/VBW_logo2.jpg","author":"Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro","episode_count":341,"summary":"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.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-15T10:17:05.112025+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/very-bad-wizards-200269"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 324: Irruption of the Sacred","slug":"episode-324-irruption-of-the-sacred","published_at":"2026-01-13T19:57:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/very-bad-wizards-200269/episode-324-irruption-of-the-sacred","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/very-bad-wizards-200269","url":"https://78700ea2-cdf8-41c6-b616-fd5f05b760d7.libsyn.com/episode-324-irruption-of-the-sacred","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/78700ea2-cdf8-41c6-b616-fd5f05b760d7/Very_Bad_Wizards_Episode_324_Irruption_of_the_Sacred.mp3?dest-id=4022211","summary":"David and Tamler consecrate their podcast with a discussion of \"The Sacred and the Profane\" by Mircea Eliade. We focus on the first chapter on sacred spaces, where the divine breaks through (or irrupts ) our homogenous and chaotic reality, creating a center that gives us meaning and allows us to orient our lives. Plus speaking of the profane, a new study shows that cursing makes you stronger – but why in god's living fuck do they always end up spewing nonsense about the \"underlying psychological mechanisms\"? Stephens, R., Dowber, H., Richardson, C., & Washmuth, N. B. (2025). \" Don't hold back\": Swearing improves strength through state disinhibition. American Psychologist . Eliade, M. (1959). The sacred and the profane: The nature of religion (Vol. 81). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.","meta_description":"David and Tamler consecrate their podcast with a discussion of \"The Sacred and the Profane\" by Mircea Eliade. We focus on the first chapter on sacred spac…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4047,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/very-bad-wizards-200269/episodes/episode-324-irruption-of-the-sacred/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/very-bad-wizards-200269/episode-324-irruption-of-the-sacred.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}