Bad Philosophy

Kevin, Brian, and Stephen burrow deep inside Shane Carruth’s mind-bending film Upstream Color

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Abita, Acquire, beer, Brian Eno, Brian Morgan, Bubble, Clue, Director’s Cut, evil, Fiasco, Fund Anything, Her, identity, improv, Inception, Inside Llewyn Davis, intelligence, Jack Black, Kevin, Kevin Smith, Margot at the Wedding, Mark Hamill, Martin Scorsese, mind control, Monopoly, Naked in a Fish Bowl, Penn and Teller, pigs, Primer, PTSD, RadioLab, rape, Red State, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Rubber, Session, sexual assault, Shane Carruth, sitcom, Sonic, Soylent Green, Speed Racer, Stephen Wolfram, Steven Soderbergh, Terrence Malick, The Matrix, The Wachowskis, Tusk, TV, Upstream Color, Walden

Dr. Mark Webb and Sebastian Bentkowski join Stephen to discuss their varying paths into Buddhism, comparing theory / practice and all the MU! in between.

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Austin Zen Center, Buddha, Buddhism, bullet hell shooters, Catholicism, causation, cedar pollen, Charlie Chaplin, Christianity, Dr. Webb, ecstatic dance, Ender's Game, enlightenment, fencing, Flow, Freud, Islam, Judaism, koans, meditation, memes, PBS Idea Channel, philosophy of religion, postmodernism, poststructuralism, reductionism, reincarnation, Sebastian, Shikantaza, Slavoj Zizek, Snapchat, Springer Press, Stephen, Suzuki Roshi, The Great Dictator, utilitarianism, video games, violence, Wu Wei, Zazen, zen, Zoltan Zabo

Matt Legler joins Stephen and Kevin to look back at our prediction Wins and Fails for 2013, then look ahead at what’s in store for 2014

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Anchorman, Arrested Development, Austin, Austin City Limits, Black Mirror, Bradley Cooper, cable, CastAR, Coin, Colorado, Czech, Edge of Tomorrow, Fund Anything, Godzilla, Google Fiber, Google Glass, Her, house of cards, Husbands, Inside Llewyn Davis, Jawbone Up, Jeff Jarvis, Kevin, Kickstarter, Manos: The Hands of Felt, Matt, MYO, Netflix, Nymi, Orange is the New Black, Pacific Rim, Paradise Lost, Patreon, patronage, Paul Walker, Planet of the Apes, Quicksilver, Red vs. Blue, Skulpt Aim, STARLING Eyewear, Stephen, TED Talks, The Stand, The West Wing, The Wolf of Wall Street, Transcendence, TV, Uber, Your Whole Entire Life, Zach Braff, ZipCar

Shawn takes a break from running marathons to join Stephen and Kevin as they wrap up an in-depth discussion of paternalism in American Higher Education.

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Aristotle, art, Arthur Chickering, attribution, big data, creativity, diversity, education, FERPA, higher education, Internal Family Systems, Jean Piaget, Kevin, NASPA, parenting, patents, podcasting, Shawn, Stephen, Stitch Fix, student affairs, Switzerland