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
13 September 2011
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
This episode Kiki turns 30 and we’re there to celebrate with friends Katey and Bess, talking “sea plankton,” hurricane preparation, and hardcore anglophilia.
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anglophilia, AppleBee's, art, Bess, Blue's Clues, Bud Light, cloning, copyright, Doctor Who, England, Facebook, fan fiction, Fringe, happy birthday song, hell, history, Hurricane Irene, Katy, Kiki, McDonald's, Misfits, New York, pedophilia, Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes, Snickers, Stephen, strippers, superheroes, Taco Bell, tattoos, The Wire, TV, United Kingdom
07 October 2010
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
This past weekend, the Facebook movie (aka. “The Social Network”) premiered in US theaters, racking up a cool $22 million at the box office. Even before the film launched, This Week in Google discussed the film’s “anti-geek” tone and Jeff Jarvis slammed it in his review. Copyright reform advocate Lawrence Lessig also critiqued the film [...]
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Aaron Sorkin, Africa, Alamo Drafthouse, aliens, AOL, Bill Gates, Bosnia, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Car Talk, cell phones, Citizen Kane, college, copyright law, David Fincher, Divya Narendra, drugs, Dude Where's My Car?, Eduardo Savarin, entrepreneurialism, Facebook, FaceMash, Fight Club, film, Hackers, Harvard, High School Musical, history, Jaws, Jeff Jarvis, Justin Timberlake, Kevin, Kiki, law, Lawrence Lessig, lawyers, Leo Laporte, Linux, LiveJournal, M. Night Shyamalan, Mark Zuckerberg, media, Metallica, Nicholas Brendon, Rifftrax, Sean Parker, Second Life, social networking, society, sociology, Sports Night, Starbucks, Stephen, Stephen Colbert, Steve Jobs, The Accidental Billionaires, The Internet, The New Yorker, The Social Network, The West Wing, Theater Hopper, Tom Brazelton, Tron, twins, Twitter, Weird Al Yankovic, Winklevoss Twins
24 July 2010
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
After another long and completely unnecessary hiatus, we’re back for another rip-roaring episode! Last week Kevin joined me after returning from his whirlwind theatrical tour of the Czech Republic and greater Eastern Europe. This got us talking about language, culture, music and of course Homestar Runner. Have a listen!
This Week’s Post-show Song Pimpage: [...]
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Android, Apple, architecture, art, blues, children, China, culture, Czech Republic, Disney World, Europe, Folk Alley, folk music, history, Homestar Runner, HTC Incredible, iPad, iPhone, jazz, Katy Perry, Kevin, Kukysevraci, Lady Gaga, language, Pandora, pop, Renaissance, Scotland, Stephen, theatre
16 April 2010
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Every once in a while we here at BF like to have a gratuitously self-indulgent show that focuses purely on our own half-baked accomplishments and personal history. This time it was all about the K-man, mister Kevin Saunders himself. We had live Skype callers on the show once again, talked a little history, and answered [...]
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Bad Astronomy, Canada, census, Dollhouse, education, Foursquare, Freebirds, genealogy, high school, history, Jackass, Jonathan Coulton, Kevin, Large Hadron Collider, Lubbock, Lubbock Tweetup, physics, questions, Stephen, Texas Tech University, theatre, time travel, Twitter
