Bad Philosophy

Kevin and Stephen deconstruct the hot horror genre gem Cabin in the Woods after their trip to the theater.

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Aaron Sorkin, Alan Tudyk, Bradley Whitford, Breaking Bad, Brick, Cabin in the Woods, cinema, Clarks 2, Drew Goddard, Duncan Jones, Eleven Minutes Ago, Game of Thrones, Hardcore Pawn, horror, I Heart Huckabee's, Joss Whedon, Kevin, Mad Men, Metacritic, Monty Python, Moon, Pawn Stars, Primer, Rian Johnson, Rotten Tomatoes, sacrifice, Shakespeare, Sigourney Weaver, Source Code, Stephen, Susan Sarandon, The Hobbit, The Hunger Games, The Muppets, The Shield, The Wire, Top Gun, Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, TV

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

In these tough economic times, it’s always nice to be able to take a break from all the chaos and watch the demented apparition of a shark tear through the souls of Peter Jackson’s brethren. Not sure what the hell we’re talking about? Well, here’s the dealio. Kevin and I reconvened for another romp into […]

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3D, alcohol, books, Britannica, comic books, cyber-terrorism, Dave Chappelle, drugs, education, elementary school, Ghost Shark 2, Glenn Beck, Gregory Brothers, harm principle, John Stuart Mill, justice, Kevin, Kickstarter, law, Live Free or Die Hard, lunch, malt liquor, marijuana, Martin Luther King Jr, movies, New Zealand, Oxford English Dictionary, philosophy of law, Reefer Madness, Rifftrax, Shakespeare, Star Wars, Stephen, The Internet, The Pirate Bay, The Room, The Wire, The Yes Men, Troll 2, Westboro Baptist Church, Wikipedia

Eastern thought has been a curiosity for Western culture ever since Marco Polo made his epic journey to Asia in the 1200s. The legacy of this curiosity lives on, and so Bad Philosophy has decided to undertake the momentous task of reconciling Eastern and Western philosophy in a single episode (because we’re just awesome like that). Joining me for his first episode ever is mechanical engineering graduate student Sean Mullen, alongside an uncharacteristically in-person Kevin Saunders. NUF (Numero Uno Fanboy) Jed Cummins worked the camera (sort of) and despite many technical difficulties we actually managed some good conversation. So grab a fortune cookie, sit down on your tatami, and have a listen…

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4chan, AARP, afterlife, Anathem, Aristotle, Ashton Kutcher, Asian philosophy, atheism, Buddhism, Catholicism, celebrity, China, Christianity, Confucianism, Daoism, enlightenment, heaven, Hinduism, Jediah, Judaism, Kaballah, karma, Kevin, koans, Madonna, Marco Polo, My Name is Earl, mysticism, NBC, New Age, paradox, Protestantism, proverbs, reciprocity, reincarnation, religion, Rule 34, Sean, Shakespeare, Snopes, Star Wars, Stephen, the Bible, theatre, time, United States, Wikipedia, yin yang, zen, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance