09 August 2014
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Kevin and Stephen reminisce on nostalgia, avoid personal pronouns for 10 minutes, and contemplate Linklater’s “Boyhood”
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Boyhood, breakfast tacos, chess boxing, coffee, context, David Foster Wallace, forgetting, Harry Potter, Infinite Jest, Instagram, Into the Woods, Kevin, Linguistic Labyrinth, Mad Men, memory, Midnight in Paris, nostalgia, Patton Oswalt, pi, Pirate Radio, Power Rangers, randomness, Revenge of the Nerds, Richard Linklater, salvia, sexism, Stephen, The Boat That Rocked, Twilight Imperium, Woody Allen
13 May 2014
By StephenTorrence
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.
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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
17 April 2014
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Is consumer capitalism played-out? Why is Roberto Unger so angry? And could cats save us all? Kevin and I ponder these questions and more.
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activism, Alton Brown, Android, anger, Barack Obama, breast cancer, capitalism, CCC, charity, Civil Rights Movement, consequentialism, Cory Doctorow, CSR, deontology, extrinsic value, FDR, Godel's Incompleteness Theorem, Google, Great Depression, healthcare, idealism, Infinite Cat Project, intrinsic value, Kevin, Marxism, minimum income, PBS Idea Channel, pessimism, Philosophy Bites, Planet Money, podcasts, power, protest, RadioLab, realism, Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Rosa Parks, RSA, schizophrenia, slacktivism, socialism, Spider Robinson, Stephen, The Cold Equations, Theodore Sturgeon, Tumblr, United States, WPA, Zoom
22 March 2014
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
WOW! 150 episodes. To celebrate, Kevin and I have some mildly crazy ideas to share with you about the future of the show.
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Andrew Looney, AV Club, Bruce Sterling, Cartoon Network, CRUD, databases, Fluxx, game theory, games, Kevin, programming, Reddit, rules, Stephen, Stephen Wolfram, structure
19 January 2014
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Dr. Mark Webb and Sebastian Bentkowski join Stephen to discuss their varying paths into Buddhism, comparing theory / practice and all the MU! in between.
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Austin Zen Center, Buddha, Buddhism, bullet hell shooters, Catholicism, causation, cedar pollen, Charlie Chaplin, Christianity, Dr. Webb, ecstatic dance, Ender's Game, enlightenment, fencing, Flow, Freud, Islam, Judaism, koans, meditation, memes, PBS Idea Channel, philosophy of religion, postmodernism, poststructuralism, reductionism, reincarnation, Sebastian, Shikantaza, Slavoj Zizek, Snapchat, Springer Press, Stephen, Suzuki Roshi, The Great Dictator, utilitarianism, video games, violence, Wu Wei, Zazen, zen, Zoltan Zabo
