{"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 330: A Fact-Based Podcast (Gogol's \"The Overcoat\")","slug":"episode-330-a-fact-based-podcast-gogol-s-the-overcoat","published_at":"2026-04-14T18:57:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/very-bad-wizards-200269/episode-330-a-fact-based-podcast-gogol-s-the-overcoat","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/very-bad-wizards-200269","url":"https://78700ea2-cdf8-41c6-b616-fd5f05b760d7.libsyn.com/episode-330-a-fact-based-podcast-gogols-the-overcoat","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/78700ea2-cdf8-41c6-b616-fd5f05b760d7/Very_Bad_Wizards_Episode_330_Gogols_The_Overcoat.mp3?dest-id=4022211","summary":"David and Tamler return to the strange world of Nikolai Gogol and discuss his absurdist masterpiece \"The Overcoat,\" a story that both calls for and steadfastly resists interpretation. But first we discuss a forthcoming Phil Studies article \"Philosophy as Fact-Based Discipline: 200 Philosophical Facts.\" Wait until you hear what they are. Frances, B. (2026). Philosophy as fact-based discipline: 200 philosophical facts. Philosophical Studies , 183 (2), 551-581. [springer.com] The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol [wikipedia.org]","meta_description":"David and Tamler return to the strange world of Nikolai Gogol and discuss his absurdist masterpiece \"The Overcoat,\" a story that both calls for and steadf…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4604,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/very-bad-wizards-200269/episodes/episode-330-a-fact-based-podcast-gogol-s-the-overcoat/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-330-a-fact-based-podcast-gogol-s-the-overcoat.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}