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Episode 85: A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)

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The Dude's Solution Is to Just Not Do That Life

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The movie is about three men who plot to steal excess pennies from bank accounts. The characters both have this sort of let life happen to you rather than try to make things happen. So the dude's solution is to just not do that life. Right. This guy's solutions and that's not an option is tojust not care to make himself not care.

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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[all movie links are to imdb.com]

Paul's Top 5
Tamler's Top 5
David's Top 5
- Office Space
- Dr. Strangelove
  - Pinker, S. (1999). "The Doomsday Machine" in How the mind works. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 882(1), 119-127.
- Brazil
- Trading Places
  - Mr. Skin
- The Princess Bride

Special Guest: Paul Bloom.

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