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Episode 165: A Dozen Zombies

28 February 2016 By StephenTorrence 1 In Podcast

Why give flowers on Valentine’s Day when you could be getting naked and splattering blood on people in public? The Bad Philosophers discuss…

2016 Election, Africa, Ana Huertas, Bernie Sanders, Bolivia, campaign finance, capitalism, Catholic Church, Chaucer, chocolate, chocolate diamonds, climate, Colonialism, De Beers, deconstruction, Donald Trump, Ecuador, ethics, Ethiopia, farming, feminism, fertility, flowers, food, globalization, Hallmark, Hillary Clinton, history, holidays, Kenya, Kevin, labor, Lupercalia, media, Nerdfighters, NPR, OKCupid, orgies, paganism, patriarchy, Planet Money, politics, rituals, Rome, slavery, Stephen, The Open Veins of Latin America, tipping, Valentine's Day, YouTube

Weekly Why 016: Fuck Marshall McLuhan!

24 January 2016 By StephenTorrence 0 In Podcast, Weekly Why

Local poet Marc Powell joins Stephen for some high-frequency riffing on world systems, philosophy …and each other

activism, Adam Smith, addiction, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Anarcho-Syndicalism, art, Austin, Beehive Collective, beer, bees, Capital Factory, capitalism, cartoons, celebrity, communication, conservative fusionism, culture, David Holmgren, death, EFF-Austin, environmentalism, Facebook, FarmVille, flooding, food, gentrification, Heidegger, hubris, humility, Iain McGilchrist, IMF, intellectualism, Ivan Illich, John Michael Greer, Jon Lebkowsky, language, Marc Powell, Masanobu Fukuoka, meta, mythology, Neal Postman, Neil Degrasse-Tyson, permaculture, poetry, politics, privilege, progress, reality, religion, Richard Dawkins, Roland Barthes, San Francisco, science, Silicon Valley, Socrates, somatic experience, Stephen, stereo, Taoism, technology, The Holy Mountain, The Internet, The Peripheral, The Singularity, Tony Robbins, TV, Wendell Berry, William Gibson, World Bank

Episode 130: High Framerate Train Wreck

07 January 2013 By StephenTorrence 2 In Podcast

WOW! Another year is upon us. The world didn’t end in 2012, even though it gave us an extra day to contemplate our doom. So once again we’re back for our annual retrospective / prediction-fest. Kevin joined me to welcome newcomer and fellow philosopher Oso Perez to the show. This episode may not shock you, but it might move you to reflect, resolve, and predict a bit for yourself. Leave your own New Years thoughts in the comments! Hope y’all enjoy our first episode of 2013…

2012, 2012 apocalypse, 2013, 3D, 48fps, A Good Day to Die Hard, Aaron Sorkin, Alamo Drafthouse, Apple, AppleBee's, Arrested Development, Austin, Avatar, Barack Obama, Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome, Breaking Bag, Car2Go, CES, Chilantro BBQ, Chinese, Cloud Atlas, crowd funding, economics, emoji, Everything is a Remix, Facebook, fiscal cliff, FitBit, food trucks, Franklin Barbecue, FTL: Faster Than Light, Galaxy Moviehouse, Game of Thrones, Godspell, Google, Gourdough's, HFR, Homeland, Homestuck, house of cards, Hunger Games, IndieGoGo, Japanese, Jawbone Up, Jesus Christ Superstar, Kevin, Kickstarter, Lark, Leap of Faith, Mandarin, Moneyball, Movie Grill, Netflix, New Years, Newsies, Nike Plus Fuelband, Once, Oso, Parker, PBS, Peep Show, perception, politics, Project Glass, retrospective, Rosetta Stone, Rush Hour, science fiction, Sight, special effects, Star Wars, Stephen, Steve Jobs, The Dark Knight Rises, The Dark Tower, The Hobbit, The Newsroom, The Social Network, The Thing, The West Wing, The Woman Who Died a Lot, theatre, Thor, Tony Awards, Ulysses, Walter Isaacson, wearable technology, ZipCar