Well, we made it. A hundred and fifty episodes! Wow. If you’ve been with us since the beginning, OH MY GOD THANK YOU. And if you haven’t, well… we hope you enjoy us, stick around, and maybe say something to us from time to time. Anyways, Kevin and I have some mildly crazy ideas to share with you about the future of the show. Have a listen!
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“Back to the Future Theme” (Spotify)
Nary a hipster conversation on the world of 21st century cinema goes by without mention of Shane Carruth’s chart-inducing indie film Primer. Carruth’s second film, Upstream Color, weaves a more subtly mind-bending narrative. Kevin and Brian having recently watched it prompted us to dive into the movie’s multi-layered thematic storytelling and explore some related (and not-so-related) tangents. Have a listen!
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“Nobody Likes Me” by The Rockin’ Worms (Spotify)
What is Buddhism? More precisely, what does it mean to be “Buddhist?” Perhaps surprisingly, potential answers to this vary greatly whether one approaches Buddhism from a theoretical or a practical framework. Roughly representing these approaches respectively, Dr. Mark Webb and newcomer Sebastian Bentkowski joined me to explore, compare, and contrast. Does a dog have Buddha-nature? The answer might surprise you. Have a listen!
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Another year has come and gone, y’all. Babies were born, folks passed away, and cats walked on two legs. The world kept spinning (at least we’re pretty sure it did). As always, this episode we bring you our annual round-up of last year’s predictions followed by our predictions for 2014. We’re happy to welcome back Matt Legler, who plans to scuba dive in the Caribbean several times in the upcoming year. Yep. Your life sounds pretty boring now, doesn’t it? Well anyways… enjoy the show, and Happy New Year!
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“New Years End” by God is An Astronaut
Just in time for the conclusion of Finals Week, we bring you Part Deux of our “critically acclaimed” series on paternalism / maternalism in contemporary academia. BIG apologies for the delay on this one. I dropped the ball. Screwed the pooch. Zigged when I should’ve zagged. BUT the episode is here! We even got the venerable Shawn Brackett back on to reprise his role as our resident Expert on All Things Higher Education (eat your heart out, Rick Harrison). He even ran a whole marathon recently, so please send him some huge props for that. Enjoy the show…
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Show Notes
This Week’s Post-Show Song
“End of the World” by Hunter Hunted
