27 January 2014
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Kevin, Brian, and Stephen burrow deep inside Shane Carruth’s mind-bending film Upstream Color
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Abita, Acquire, beer, Brian Eno, Brian Morgan, Bubble, Clue, Director’s Cut, evil, Fiasco, Fund Anything, Her, identity, improv, Inception, Inside Llewyn Davis, intelligence, Jack Black, Kevin, Kevin Smith, Margot at the Wedding, Mark Hamill, Martin Scorsese, mind control, Monopoly, Naked in a Fish Bowl, Penn and Teller, pigs, Primer, PTSD, RadioLab, rape, Red State, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Rubber, Session, sexual assault, Shane Carruth, sitcom, Sonic, Soylent Green, Speed Racer, Stephen Wolfram, Steven Soderbergh, Terrence Malick, The Matrix, The Wachowskis, Tusk, TV, Upstream Color, Walden
25 November 2012
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
When James Bond isn’t busy fighting himself nowadays, he’s busy being the blandest (or the boldest) he’s ever been in the franchise. But how much “Bond” is too much for Bond? If the last 50 years have shown us anything, it’s that the perfect mix of Bond-i-ness may be more complex than shaking a martini. After seeing the unfortunately-named Skyfall, Kevin and I had some thoughts to share on this beloved series. So put on your best suit and hop in an Aston Martin, it’s time for some Philosophy. Bad Philosophy.
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343 Studios, 50 Years of James Bond The Movie, artificial intelligence, Bond vs. Bond, Bungie, Casino Royale, Christopher Nolan, cinematography, Cloud Atlas, Dan Arieli, Daniel Craig, David Fincher, David Lynch, Die Another Day, Disney, ethics, film, Gore Verbinski, Halo 4, Inception, James Bond, Judy Dench, Kevin, komodo dragon, LucasFilm, Marathon, movies, ONI, Pierce Brosnan, Pirates of the Caribbean, Predictably Irrational, Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, Star Wars, Stephen, The Avengers, The Wachowskis
08 October 2012
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Kevin and Stephen expected something very different out of Looper, but liked what they got… kind of. Hooray time travel stories!
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advertising, Brave, Bruce Willis, Daikatana, deconstruction, Django Unchained, ethics, film, Hayden Christianson, Hollywood, Hustle, Inception, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jumper, Kevin, Kickstarter, Looper, Lord of the Rings, marketing, Mars Trilogy, Michael Bay, morality, movies, neo noir, Peter Jackson, post-structuralism, Quentin Tarantino, Rian Johnson, Sense 8, Stephen, telekinesis, The Avengers, The Hobbit, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, The Muppets, The Vault, The Wachowskis, time travel, transgender
30 July 2012
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
New guest Bryson Rushing joins Kevin, Stephen, and John Elliott to debate the nature of science, the Higgs Boson, and avian progressive rock bands.
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ATLAS, beer, Big Bang, black holes, Brick, Bryson, Buddha, causation, CERN, CMS, correlation, DARPA, Eagle Scout, Einstein, faith, geocentrism, heliocentrism, Higgs Boson, idealism, Inception, induction, internal consistency, John Elliott, Kevin, Large Hadron Collider, LHC, Looper, NeXT, Pascal's Wager, physics, post-structuralism, probability, religion, Russell's Teapot, science, scientific method, Standard Model, statistics, Stephen, structuralism, Texas Tech University, The Internet, The Matrix, Tim Berners-Lee, Tycho Brahe, World Wide Web
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
