What Do You Know About Hard Luck?

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How can you talk about musicals at a time like this with corpses piling up in the street? You want to show hungry people sleeping in doorways? The newspapers around them. And all I'm asking you is what do you know about hard luck? Yes. These are troubleless times. A little sex in it. How about a nice musical? In the case of Sullivan's Travels, it's a more comic take and he's a much more likable character. But Byron Fink I think is the movie that captures the Donald Trump phenomenon.

Philosophers can be funny and funny movies can be philosophical. David and Tamler welcome frequent VBW guest and arch-enemy of empathy Paul Bloom to discuss their five favorite comic films with philosophical/psychological themes. Groundhog Day was off-limits for our top five (we would've all chosen it) so we start by explaining why it's the quintessential movie for this topic.

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