Bad Philosophy

We’re back! Pardon the week off. We had to deal with a rather unexpected chainsaw-wielding polar bear invasion, but all is good now… except for Kevin’s leg … Anyway! This week BF took a trip to the movies, grilling Hollywood’s latest Oscar fetish, Slumdog Millionaire with first-time guest Eric Braden. We also delved into the realm of free will vs. determinism, where Eric and I pulled no punches in our quest to disprove the other. Oh, and the audio was FRAKKING AMAZING if I do say so myself. Enjoy, peeps!

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24, Adaptation, Al Qeada, Albert Einstein, American Dream, Batman, Beauty and the Beast, Best Picture, Bill Clinton, causation, charity, Charlie Kaufman, Christopher Nolan, Dan Brown, Danny Boyle, destiny, determinism, education, epistemology, Eric Braden, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, ethics, evolutionary psychology, fatalism, fate, Forrest Gump, free will, Frost/Nixon, God, guilt, Harry Potter, Heath Ledger, Hollywood, Jack Nicholson, Joker, Kevin, LEGOs, Leibniz, LOST, love, memes, metaphysics, MIA, Milk, multiple universes, Mumbai, neoconservatives, Nietzsche, Occam's Razor, Oscars, Patrick Swayze, Peter Travers, Pixar, poverty, Pulp Fiction, quantum mechanics, reality, Richard Dawkins, Roadhouse, Robert Wright, Slumdog Millionaire, Star Wars, Stephen, string theory, Ted Stevens, The Big Lebowski, The Coen Brothers, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Reader, Titanic, Trainspotting, Wall-E, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Wikipedia, Woody Allen

When a man and a woman love each other very much… they listen to Bad Philosophy together! This week neither panelist woes nor audio troubles nor the relentless Lubbock wind could keep us from recording BF. Numero Uno fanboy Jed brought Danielle, a [female] friend from Colorado, onto the show to talk about BABIES. You […]

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adoption, babies, bureaucracy, cell phones, child support, children, college, Colorado, Cricket, Danielle, destiny, determinism, Digital TV Transition, education, electromagnetic spectrum, ethics, fate, FCC, free will, government, GRE, He's Just Not That Into You, high school, India, Jed, Kevin, love, Lubbock, mafia, mathematics, maturity, Mrs. Baird's, New Year's resolutions, non sequitur, pregnancy, romance, sex, Slumdog Millionaire, smoking, socioeconomic status, standardized testing, Stephen, TAAS, TAKS, Texas Tech University, thermodynamics, Valentine's Day, video games, water, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire