05 August 2016
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Is ALL culture appropriation? Shawn Brackett joins Kevin and Stephen to unpack this and other juicy questions… from Canada!
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America, beliefs, Calgary, Canada, Colonialism, cultural appropriation, cycles, empathy, Hamilton, history, identity, intentionality, John Travolta, Kevin, kilts, language, loops, mental decolonization, Monica Lewinsky, Mr Personality, neoliberalism, nuance, power, racism, reality TV, Scotland, Shawn, Stephen, subjugation, Texas, textbooks, the 90’s, The People vs. OJ Simpson, tradition, United States
28 February 2016
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Why give flowers on Valentine’s Day when you could be getting naked and splattering blood on people in public? The Bad Philosophers discuss…
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2016 Election, Africa, Ana Huertas, Bernie Sanders, Bolivia, campaign finance, capitalism, Catholic Church, Chaucer, chocolate, chocolate diamonds, climate, Colonialism, De Beers, deconstruction, Donald Trump, Ecuador, ethics, Ethiopia, farming, feminism, fertility, flowers, food, globalization, Hallmark, Hillary Clinton, history, holidays, Kenya, Kevin, labor, Lupercalia, media, Nerdfighters, NPR, OKCupid, orgies, paganism, patriarchy, Planet Money, politics, rituals, Rome, slavery, Stephen, The Open Veins of Latin America, tipping, Valentine's Day, YouTube
30 December 2012
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Is Doctor Who a religion? Kevin and Stephen respond to Idea Channel and ruminate on Facebook, memory and identity
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atheism, authenticity, censorship, Christianity, Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, cosmology, David Tennant, definition, Doctor Who, Emile Durkheim, Facebook, history, identity, Instagram, journalism, Kevin, Matt Smith, memory, My Little Pony, obscenity, Pastafarianism, PBS Idea Channel, poststructuralism, PRI, Prometheus, radio, RadioLab, religion, religious exclusivism, Richard Dawkins, science, science fiction, scientology, Star Trek, Star Wars, Stephen, This American Life, truth
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
