22 April 2013
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Bitcoins are back! Or are they? Simon Ponder joins Kevin and Stephen to find out whether they’re worth Beliebing in.
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Bitcoin, Boston Marathon bombing, Carlos Arredondo, cocaine, currency, Dot Com bubble, drugs, economics, fiat currency, gambling, Kevin, Lindon Dollars, PBS Idea Channel, ponzi scheme, Prague, real estate bubble, Satoshi Nakamoto, Scotland, Second Life, Silk Road, Simon, speculation, Stephen, The Love Guru, Val Kilmer, value, Yap
15 August 2011
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Ever get the urge to just go out with a few friends and completely wreck your entire neighborhood, steal some crap, and set it all on fire when you’re done? No? Congratulations! You may not be among the 11,000 feral, uneducated, illiterate, uncultured under-citizens of the U.K. who took part in the country’s worst riots [...]
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anarchy, causality, crime, David Cameron, determination, drugs, economics, England Riots, entitlement, Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Growing Pains, harm principle, John Stuart Mill, Kevin, London, marijuana, Max Hastings, morality, paternalism, police, poverty, race relations, rational anarchy, riots, Saved By The Bell, social services, speed, Stephen, Tottenham, U-Box, UK Riots, United Kingdom, V for Vendetta, Wayne Rooney, Will Smith
24 July 2011
By StephenTorrence
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To quote a tired but relevant saying, we like to believe that “our courts are the great levelers.” They exist to ensure that criminals be punished, that the innocent are heard, that justice be done for one and all. But every once in a while someone goes through our courts and gets away with murder. [...]
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alcohol, Bones, Breaking Bad, caffeine, Carson, Casey Anthony, Caylee Anthony, chloroform, cigarettes, cocaine, coffee, crime, crystal meth, CSI, death sentence, democracy, Dexter, drugs, epistemology, ethics, firearms, guns, Hitler, JonBenet, law, law enforcement, legal positivism, legal validity, marijuana, Matt, meta, methamphetamine, Monty Python, morality, Nancy Grace, natural law, NCIS, OJ Simpson, punishment, separation thesis, Social Thesis, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stephen, tobacco, vigilantism
02 June 2011
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Theatre Alert! Trey Parker and Matt Stone (of South Park infamy) recently launched a Broadway musical that’s getting the exact opposite flavor of attention their work usually garners. Praise is sweeping across the play from all directions. However, we love our dirt here at BF, so in this episode we explored the ‘dark’ side of [...]
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Africans, Amy, Austin, Avenue Q, Baltimore, broadway, David Simon, drugs, education, epistemology, Jackass, Johnny Knoxville, Kevin, Matt Stone, Mormonism, NPR, post-colonialism, racism, sound, South Part, Special Olympics, Stephen, synesthesia, Texenza, The Book of Mormon, The Ringer, The Wire, Tony Awards, transcription, Trey Parker, Uganda
16 May 2011
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
So in case you hadn’t heard, a few weeks ago we shot some guy in the eye and dumped him in the ocean, then cheered exuberantly about it for a few days. With this hefty moral conundrum we began our first ever all-Formsqueeze episode, answering a slew of YOUR questions from our Formspring account.We covered [...]
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A&W Root Beer, Afghanistan, Amazon Mechanical Turk, Audible, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Coke Zero, consequentialism, death penalty, deontology, drugs, Epicurus, ethics, Formspring, Geraldo Rivera, Glee, God, Heart Attack Grill, Hitler, Hopdoddy, Joan of Arc, Jonathan Coulton, Joss Whedon, Kevin, KFC Double Down, Kiki, Kinect, Man vs. Food, Mark Hamill, moon landing, Mystery Men, Netflix, Osama Bin Laden, Pakistan, Pandora's Star, Peter F. Hamilton, porn, Reanimator, retributivism, sci-fi, SeaQuest, slash fiction, Stargate, Stargate Universe, Startide Rising, Stephen, Syfy, The Daily Show, theatre, transcription, Triple Double Oreo, Uplift Saga, war, Welch's Grape Soda, Wishbone, Xbox
