How to Communicate to Someone That You Should Be Donating Your Money to an Effective Charity

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This episode of very bad wizards is also brought to you by givewell.org again as we always say one of our favorite sponsors because they just do so much good in the world. Last night we had frenemy of the podcast uh Sean Nichols the philosopher and his girlfriend rachina also a philosopher over to dinner last night and Nikki also a philosopher got into an argument about how best to communicate to another person that they should be donating their money to an effective cause. The longest segment ever all right we'll be back to talk about David Foster Wallace's story good old neon.

Our whole lives we’ve been frauds. We’re not exaggerating. Pretty much all we’ve ever done is try to create a certain impression of us in other people. Mostly to be liked or admired. This episode is a perfect example, Tamler pretending to be a cinephile (check out his four favorite pieces of 2019 “pop culture” in the first segment), David trying to connect with the people (Baby Yoda, Keanu Reeves etc.) – and of course what could be more fraudulent than a deep dive into a David Foster Wallace story, rhapsodizing over the endless sentences, the logical paradoxes, the seven-layer bean-dip of metacommentary (Jesus Christ I’m surprised there aren’t like eight footnotes in this episode description), and meanwhile the Partially Examined Life dudes refresh their overcast feeds and wonder through the tiny keyhole of themselves how David and Tamler have sunk so low that they’d ramble on about “Good Old Neon” like a couple of first year Comp-Lit grad students trying to impress that girl who works at the Cajun bakery.