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Episode 163-164: Destroy the Past!

03 February 2016 By StephenTorrence 1 In Podcast

Kevin hosts Stephen and new guest Ana Huertas, reflecting on their 2015 experiences, the pending apocalypse, and beards

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Ana Huertas, anarchism, Barton the Armadillo, beards, board games, books, Breaking Bad, Catastrophic, climate change, Cory Doctorow, ecovillages, Emma Goldman, Formidable Vegetable Sound System, gender, J. J. Abrams, Joss Whedon, K. Tempest Bradford, Kevin, Mad Max Fury Road, New Years, Octavia Butler, oil, peak oil, permaculture, process work, regeneration, resilience, resolutions, Rian Johnson, running, salad, Serial, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Stephen, sustainability, Syrian refugee crisis, tabletop games, Tao Te Ching, The Bechtel Test, The Dispossessed, The World, Transition Towns, travel, Ursula K. LeGuin, ZEGG

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

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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

Rule Set Update E

11 January 2016 By StephenTorrence 0 In Rule Set Update

After WAY too long, Stephen finally gets around to posting this incredibly important announcement episode.

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@midnight, Aaron Sorkin, Bill Mollison, Bill Nye the Science Guy, Chris Eccleston, Chris Hardwick, comedy, David Holmgren, dinosaurs, Doctor Who, growth, javascript, Karen Litfin, Kevin, limits to growth, Masanobu Fukuoka, Patton Oswald, peak oil, permaculture, Ray Kurzweil, Stephen, Steve Jobs, tabletop, The Nerdist, The Singularity, The West Wing, Tim Ferris, Toby Hemenway, transhumanism, Wil Wheaton

Episode 162: Plain Old Smut

09 August 2015 By StephenTorrence 0 In Podcast

Fan Fiction, cultural appropriation, and deep geekery with guest expert Katherine

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50 Shades of Grey, Barbie Life in the Dreamhouse, BDSM, Big Bang Theory, Cards Against Humanity, China Miéville, Colonialism, cultural appropriation, Dead Poet’s Society, Doctor Who, erotica, fan fiction, FanFiction.net, fiction, gender, gender bias, Ghost, Hannibal, Harry Potter, He-man, head cannon, historiography, Katherine, Kevin, language, Leonard Nemoy, Les Miserables, My Immortal, My Little Pony, Neil Gaiman, romance novels, Shakespeare, Sherlock Holmes, smut, social justice, Star Trek, Stephen, Steven Universe, supernatural, The Highlander, The Tomorrow People, Twilight, writing

Episode 161: Zero to WHAT?

26 April 2015 By StephenTorrence 4 In Podcast

Special guest Dania Toth joins us to talk startups, success, and beer.

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Adelbert’s Brewery, beer, Center 61, consequentialism, corporate social responsibility, Dani, Dave Eggers, deontology, Dogfish Head Brewery, ecology, Elon Musk, entrepreneur, environmentalism, ethics, Facebook, John Mackey, Kevin, Marc Andreesen, Onion Talks, Peter Thiel, Philosophizer, Ruth Glendinning, Silicon Valley, social entrepreneurship, startups, Stephen, success, sustainability, Ten Acre Organics, uncertainty, Unltd USA, Whole Foods, Zero to One

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