08 October 2012
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Kevin and Stephen expected something very different out of Looper, but liked what they got… kind of. Hooray time travel stories!
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advertising, Brave, Bruce Willis, Daikatana, deconstruction, Django Unchained, ethics, film, Hayden Christianson, Hollywood, Hustle, Inception, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jumper, Kevin, Kickstarter, Looper, Lord of the Rings, marketing, Mars Trilogy, Michael Bay, morality, movies, neo noir, Peter Jackson, post-structuralism, Quentin Tarantino, Rian Johnson, Sense 8, Stephen, telekinesis, The Avengers, The Hobbit, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, The Muppets, The Vault, The Wachowskis, time travel, transgender
30 July 2012
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
New guest Bryson Rushing joins Kevin, Stephen, and John Elliott to debate the nature of science, the Higgs Boson, and avian progressive rock bands.
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ATLAS, beer, Big Bang, black holes, Brick, Bryson, Buddha, causation, CERN, CMS, correlation, DARPA, Eagle Scout, Einstein, faith, geocentrism, heliocentrism, Higgs Boson, idealism, Inception, induction, internal consistency, John Elliott, Kevin, Large Hadron Collider, LHC, Looper, NeXT, Pascal's Wager, physics, post-structuralism, probability, religion, Russell's Teapot, science, scientific method, Standard Model, statistics, Stephen, structuralism, Texas Tech University, The Internet, The Matrix, Tim Berners-Lee, Tycho Brahe, World Wide Web
11 June 2012
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
The future is a funny thing. We’ve talked on the show before about the many theories that abound about how we’ll evolve as a species and a society. Especially since the introduction of Google Glasses the future (or a future) feels closer than ever. This episode Kevin and I discuss the many ways that a continuous, […]
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Aaron Franklin, advertising, Android, Anthony Bourdain, art, Atari, car names, cell phones, computers, Deep Space Nine, droid, Franklin Barbecue, gift economy, Google, Google Glasses, guilt, IBM, identity, journalism, Kevin, Motorola, No Reservations, Oscars, PC, perception, Personal Computer, post-structuralism, Project Glass, RAZR, Ready Player One, Rudy Rucker, singularity, social networking, society, Stephen, Texas Instruments, Zoolander
28 February 2012
By StephenTorrence
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.
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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
17 January 2012
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Synecdoche: New York punches Stephen and Kevin in the brain, sending them into passionate elucidations on this strange and wonderful world
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4chan, blank slate, brain, Charlie Kaufman, death, deconstruction, Derrida, empiricism, epistemology, evolution, evolutionary psychology, gender feminism, Godel's Incompleteness Theorem, history, Inception, Kevin, language, life, love, mathematics, meta, mind, Monty Python, noble savage, numbers, perception, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Platonic ideal, post-modernism, post-structuralism, recursion, Robot 9000, Stephen, Stephen Pinker, Synecdoche, Synecdoche New York, taxonomy, theatre, truth, XKCD
