{"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 325: It Is Happening Again","slug":"episode-325-it-is-happening-again","published_at":"2026-01-27T19:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/very-bad-wizards-200269/episode-325-it-is-happening-again","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/very-bad-wizards-200269","url":"https://78700ea2-cdf8-41c6-b616-fd5f05b760d7.libsyn.com/episode-325-it-is-happening-again","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/78700ea2-cdf8-41c6-b616-fd5f05b760d7/Very_Bad_Wizards_Episode_325_It_Is_Happening_Again.mp3?dest-id=4022211","summary":"David and Tamler return to Mircea Eliade's The Sacred and Profane and discuss the chapter \"Sacred Time and Myths.\" How does viewing time as circular give us a periodic window into the sacred? What does it mean to reactualize the creation of the universe in ritual and to view time as \"starting anew\"? How did Christianity radically change the experience of time by locating the incarnation of the sacred in the historical past? Plus, do you believe in conspiracy theories? A new study says you should think twice about putting them in your dating profiles. Green, R., Kamitz, L. C., Toribio-Flórez, D., Biddlestone, M., Gasking, F., Sutton, R. M., & Douglas, K. M. (2022). Conspiracy theories and online dating: It'sa (mis) match!. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin , 01461672251399448. Eliade, M. (1959). The sacred and the profane: The nature of religion (Vol. 81). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.","meta_description":"David and Tamler return to Mircea Eliade's The Sacred and Profane and discuss the chapter \"Sacred Time and Myths.\" How does viewing time as circular give…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4332,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/very-bad-wizards-200269/episodes/episode-325-it-is-happening-again/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-325-it-is-happening-again.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}