30 July 2010
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Recently the wild and brilliant imagination of Christopher Nolan brought forth a true gem of a movie, Inception. It’s been making good money and getting rave reviews all around, and for good reason. It’s a heady and philosophical and hence right up our rabbit trail. This time Kevin Saunders and Kiki Canon joined me to […]
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Alamo Drafthouse, allegory of the cave, Batman Begins, Brick, CGI, Christopher Nolan, consequentialism, David Fincher, dreams, emotion, epistemology, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, ethics, Fight Club, Groundhog Day, happiness, Hollywood, ideas, Inception, Insomnia, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Kevin, Kiki, Leonardo DiCaprio, LOST, lucid dreams, M. Night Shyamalan, Memento, movie pickles, movies, perception, phenomenology, Plato, reality, Rifftrax, Spiderman, Stephen, The Dark Knight, The Matrix, The Prestige, The Sixth Sense, The Social Network, US Postal Service, zombies, zombocalypse
24 July 2010
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
After another long and completely unnecessary hiatus, we’re back for another rip-roaring episode! Last week Kevin joined me after returning from his whirlwind theatrical tour of the Czech Republic and greater Eastern Europe. This got us talking about language, culture, music and of course Homestar Runner. Have a listen! This Week’s Post-show Song Pimpage: 4 […]
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Android, Apple, architecture, art, blues, children, China, culture, Czech Republic, Disney World, Europe, Folk Alley, folk music, history, Homestar Runner, HTC Incredible, iPad, iPhone, jazz, Katy Perry, Kevin, Kukysevraci, Lady Gaga, language, Pandora, pop, Renaissance, Scotland, Stephen, theatre
09 July 2010
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Howdy, folks! Yes, you may throw tomatoes at me now. I really thought that graduating and coming home for the summer would leave me with more time. Sadly, this has not been the case. BUT we are back now, with an episode that’s almost a month old but still delightfully entertaining. Kiki and her friend […]
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advertising, Alex Day, Bess, Cars, Chris Carter, Clay Shirky, Dakota Fanning, drugs, Fringe, Jonathan Coulton, Kiki, Kristin Stewart, Lexus, LOST, Mystery Science Theater 3000, MythBusters, Neil Gaiman, Rifftrax, Robert Pattinson, sportsball, Stargate Universe, Stephanie Meyer, Stephen, supernatural, The Runaways, Tracy Ullman Show, True Blood, Twilight, X-Files
26 May 2010
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Tragedy struck the podcast this past week. As Kevin Saunders departed for his trip to Prague, the plane encountered unusually heavy turbulance over a remote region of the South Pacific (why the pilot was flying over the Pacific to get to Eastern Europe is perhaps an even greater mystery). Kevin’s plane and all aboard crash […]
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Babylon 5, Bonanza, Britton, Christianity, Chronicles of Narnia, Cloverfield, Daily Toreador, David Hume, Dharma Initiative, dreams, Fringe, good and evil, Harry Potter, heaven, hell, Hinduism, Jimmy Kimmel, John Locke, Kevin, LOST, purgatory, reality, religion, religious pluralism, samaras, Stephen, the Force, The Sixth Sense, time travel, TV Tropes, Twitter, Voyager, writing
25 May 2010
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
It should come as no surprise to y’all out there that a great percentage of the world indulges in the wily wonders of psychotropic drugs. Whether it’s that requisite pot of coffee in the morning or just… pot, lots of folks like to take a walk on the wild side of the mind every now […]
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alcohol, Amarillo, brain, Bryan M, caffeine, cocaine, Dallas, drugs, dualism, Fathead, Formspring, free will, Grapevine, harm principle, heroin, identity, Kevin, kittens, LSD, Lubbock, marijuana, marijuana legalization, monism, Nation States, nicotine, pharmaceuticals, philosophy of law, philosophy of mind, physicalism, prohibition, psychotropics, Rene Descartes, responsibility, Schrodinger's Cat, smoking, Stephen, Super Size Me, supervenience
