Bad Philosophy

We’ve got ourselves a new president in these grand United States of America, and in celebration of that common knowledge we dedicated this BF to discussing… pretty much anything except that. Jessica Story joined us for the first time, bringing a flare of femininity to the show in a shameless attempt to lure in the other 51% of the world’s population. But demographics be damned! We had rabbit trails to follow, cookies to chew, and Rubik’s cubes to solve… all in a high-quality multi-track audio extravaganza. You thought we could never get more BF? Well I’ve got news for you: Yes we can. And… we did…

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2008 election, AARP, Abraham Lincoln, altruism, American Sign Language, Amish, Barack Obama, basketball, BCS, Big 12, Bill Clinton, Blackberry, blogging, cereal, Chef Boyardee, communism, cookies, Cory Doctorow, Creative, Crunch Berries, Daily Toreador, damage, democracy, dogs, Dr. Pepper, dyslexia, education, Facebook, facial hair, football, Freudian slip, George Bush, Gordon Hall, government, guns, Guns N Roses, house of cards, hurricanes, iPhone, Iraq War, Isaac Hayes, Jessica, Joe Biden, John Kerry, John McCain, ketchup, Kevin, Levar Burton, lobbying, Lucky Charms, Manifest Destiny, marijuana, Martin Luther King Day, Matt, Mennonites, nanobots, NCAA, NRA, Oklahoma!, Oreo, philosophy of language, Plantronics, politics, Presidential Inauguration, property, Richard Nixon, Rubik's Cube, school vouchers, september 11th, Shaft, Sigmund Freud, sneezing, socialism, Someone Comes to Town Someone Leaves Town, Starbucks, Stephen, Super Smash Bros, tango, Teddy Roosevelt, Texas A&M, that's what she said, the future, The Jetsons, The Luvre, the pyramids, Twitter, tyranny, universal healthcare, Ustream, Wal-Mart, Xeni Jardin

As we enter 2009, the last year of the Noughties, we here at BF decided to do a little retrospective on the previous year, highlighting some things that piqued our interest in 2008. Not only that, we decided to make some outlandish predictions as well. If you’re still hungover from last night’s revelry, we forgive you. If not, join me, Kevin, and Jed for some laid-back BF action. We even created a resolution for once-again-absent Matt Legler, who was stuck in the middle of nowhere unfortunately. Oh, and as a New Year’s bonus, I cooked up a brand new intro. Bon appetit!

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2008 election, 2012: The Movie, AIM, alcohol, Andromeda Strain, Apple, AT&T, Austin, Azure, Barack Obama, Batman, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Bill Clinton, black holes, British Parliament, C-SPAN, California, cell phones, CNN, Colorado, computers, Digital TV Transition, Dollhouse, Dr. Horrible's Sing-a-long Blog, Dungeons and Dragons, Economic Crisis of 2008, economics, entropy, filibuster, Firefly, Flickr, FOX News, genetic engineering, George Bush, Germany, gold standard, Google, government, Gregorian calendar, Halo, Halo: Landfall, HEB, Hulu, inflation, iPhone 3G, Iraq War, Japan, Jayne hat, Jediah, Joss Whedon, juggling, Jurassic Park, Kevin, Lake Malta, Large Hadron Collider, larping, Leo Laporte, Lubbock, MacRumors, mainstream media, Mayans, Michael Crichton, Microsoft, Nathan Fillion, Neil Patrick Harris, pantheism, Poland, Prey, RadioShack, RaiderVille, reality distortion field, Robert's Rules of Order, Ron Paul, rowing, RSS, SkyNet, Skype, speculative fiction, Sprint, State of Fear, Stephen, Steve Jobs, Terminal Man, Terminator, Texas, Texas Tech University, text messaging, The Dark Knight, the end of the world, The Internet, The Machine Girl, TV, TWiT Live, University of Texas, Verizon, VoIP, Writer's Strike, Yahoo!, Yahoo! Pipes, Yoakum

As Oscar Wilde once said, “The best laid plans of mice and men often go to EPIC FAIL.” Such was our experience this past Friday, as guest after guest bailed on us and we exhausted our respective phone books and Facebook friend lists trying to procure a replacement. Ultimately, we ended up with Hayslip again, […]

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Back from the dead (or so you thought!), BF is coming at you with our long-overdue ultra-cliche excessively-hyphenated Halloween episode! Our panel of friendly ghosts, including Lost Episode veteran Michael Hayslip and first-time guest but long-time #1 fan Jediah Cummins, takes a spooky ride through the cultural, historical, and religious facets of the holiday. But […]

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2008 election, Ayn Rand, Canada, candy, Catholicism, Ceres, children, chiropractic, Christianity, Christmas, classification, costumes, dating, Death of a Salesman, Dia de Los Muertos, Dr. Horrible, Easter, evangelism, faith, fear, free will, Guy Fawkes, Halloween, harvest, hell, hell house, HijiNKS Ensue, How I Met Your Mother, Hulu, Jediah, Jerry Seinfeld, Joss Whedon, Judaism, Kevin, Kids Vote, Kim Carrey, Mean Girls, Michael H, Nickelodeon, ninjas, non-conformity, paganism, planets, Pluto, polling, Portal, Pride and Prejudice, Psycho, Rocketeer, Sarah Palin, science, sluts, Snickers, Stephen, taxonomy, Thanksgiving, The Fountainhead, The Mask, The Riddler, Trick or Treat, working out, X-Men