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Episode 153: Moral Prodcasting

29 June 2014 By StephenTorrence 1 In Podcast

Where do moral values come from? Kevin and Stephen tackle this question personally and theoretically.

behaviorism, Boy Scouts, Community, consequentialism, ethics, Facebook, Golden Rule, Kenan Malik, law, McSweeney’s, morality, Net Neutrality, Nietzsche, normative ethics, pain, philosophy of mind, politeness, postmodernism, reality TV, religions, Slavoj Zizek, Starbucks, utilitarianism, virtue ethics

Episode 152: Help Me, Internet

13 May 2014 By StephenTorrence 0 In Podcast

Is the Star Wars franchise at risk of inbreeding under Disney’s command? This Star Wars Day, Kevin and I share our latest musings on the beloved cultural force.

Alex Cox, Cheers, Community, Disney, Epic Mickey, Game of Thrones, Gene Roddenberry, George Lucas, Grand Budapest Hotel, gravity, Harry Potter, HBO, income inequality, J. J. Abrams, Joseph Campbell, Kevin, Kingdom Hearts, long tail, Marvel, May the Fourth, Mystery Science Theater 3000, narrative, Nate Silver, Nintendo, Patreon, Playboy, plutocracy, Roger Rabbit, Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, Star Trek, Star Wars, Star Wars Day, Stephen, storytelling, television, The Guild, Transformers, Veronica Mars, VHX, Wes Anderson, Wookiepedia

Episode 143: Are We Recording?

03 October 2013 By StephenTorrence 1 In Podcast

Kevin and Stephen fight a Story War and discuss Honest Trailers, PoMo theatre, the Monomyth, and much more on this week’s free-flowing F-isode.

A New Kind of Science, Boing Boing, Breaking Bad, Cabin in the Woods, Community, complexity, Dan Harmon, Disney, feminism, FEZ, Flatland, Hercules, Honest Trailers, horror, Indie Game: The Movie, James Woods, Joseph Campbell, Kevin, Netrunner Android, Norman Leary, Orange is the New Black, racism, sexism, Steam, Stephen, Stephen Wolfram, Story War, Suzan-Lori Parks, The America Play, The Hero's Journey, The West Wing, theatre, TV, Valve, Weeds, XKCD, You're Next

Episode 115: Scorns and Flattery

28 February 2012 By StephenTorrence 0 In Podcast

Canadian dramedy Slings and Arrows has made quite an impression on Stephen. In this episode he breaks it down with the help of theatre guru Kevin Saunders.

Academy Awards, Aristotle, Arrested Development, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Community, death, E.T., flowers, Hamlet, Heroes, heterosexuality, homosexuality, irony, James Kakalios, Joss Whedon, Kenneth Branagh, Kevin, life, love, MacBeth, modernism, Much Ado About Nothing, Oscars, Pandora, post-modernism, post-structuralism, Rifftrax, Robert Wilson, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare, Slings and Arrows, Stephen, structuralism, Synecdoche New York, The Physics of Superheroes, theatre, Tony Awards, Top Gun, TV Tropes, West Side Story, Wikipedia