Episode 226: Unraveling Time Traveling  (with Barry Lam and Christina Hoff Sommers)
Very Bad Wizards7 Joulu 2021

Episode 226: Unraveling Time Traveling (with Barry Lam and Christina Hoff Sommers)

First, it's the return of the annual drunken Thanksgiving segment! Tamler and based wicked stepmom Christina Hoff Sommers fight about JFK, systematic racism, corporations, and how to pronounce valium. (We find more common ground than usual though on Covid and Havana Syndrome.) Then podcast auteur Barry Lam joins David and Tamler to talk about David Lewis on time travel, the new season of Barry's excellent podcast Hi-Phi Nation, and then a deep dive on maybe the best time travel movie of all time - Shane Carruth's mind-melting cult classic "Primer."

Special Guests: Barry Lam and Christina Hoff Sommers.

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