Bad Philosophy

The original BF cast returns to celebrate 100 episodes and three years of Bad Philosophy, talking free speech and a whole lot of nostalgia.

Ep100 Three. Hundred! [ 49:23 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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1st Amendment, Alias, AnimeFest, Anonymous, BART, Bay Area Rapid Transit, C-SPAN, censorship, David, free speech, Freebirds, government, J. J. Abrams, Kent State Massacre, Kevin, mathematics, Matt, physics, police, protests, social media, Stephen, Texas Tech University, This Week at Texas Tech, wiretapping

For the past couple of decades the indomitable Kevin Smith has proudly distinguished himself as a maker of funny, poignant, and outrageously vulgar cinema. We at BF are huge fans of Smith’s work and felt that it was high time to devote an episode of our show to discussing the facets of his genius. Appropriately [...]

Ep070 The Internet Says No [ 57:34 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Army of Darkness, Askewniverse, Ben Affleck, Chasing Amy, Clerks, Clerks II, comics, Cop Out, Dilbert, Dogma, Dude Where's My Car?, Fred Phelps, furries, gender, God, Good Will Hunting, graphic novels, Green Hornet, Hollywood, homosexuality, hype, J. J. Abrams, Jay and Silent Bob, Jeffrey Combs, Jersey Girl, Joss Whedon, Just a Geek, Kevin, Kevin Smith, Kickass, Kiki, larping, Lord of the Rings, Mallrats, Matt Damon, movies, Plato, profanity, Red State, religion, Rosario Dawson, Sam Raimi, Scott Adams, Scott Pilgrim, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Sean William Scott, Seth Rogan, Smodcast, Spiderman, Stephen, The Avengers, Watchmen, Westboro Baptist Church, Wil Wheaton, Zack and Miri Make a Porno

Technology is a tricky thing. When it works, it’s wonderful, and when it doesn’t… heads explode. For the most part, BF’s first foray into high-tech recording went swimmingly. We did have a couple of complications, but despite having to crowd around a single AKG condenser microphone, our intrepid panel managed to record one of the [...]

Standard Podcast [ 59:06 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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aliens, Alvin Plantinga, antimatter, ants, beavers, biology, brains, Cars, cats, certainty, Christianity, circularity, civilization, cogito ergo sum, consistency, contradiction, culture, David Brin, dinosaurs, DNA, dogs, dolphins, Dr. Mark Webb, Dreamworks, dualism, elephants, Enterprise, environmentalism, epistemology, ethics, evolution, extinction, fallibilism, G. E. Moore, Godel's Incompleteness Theorem, good and evil, Harold and Kumar, Heroes, J. J. Abrams, John Hawthorne, Jurassic Park, Karel Capek, Kevin, knowledge, limits, logic, mammoths, mathematics, matter, natural selection, nature, nomos, objectivity, original sin, originality, Over the Hedge, physicalism, Pixar, probability, Ratatouille, rationality, religion, Rene Descartes, Rossum's Universal Robots, science, science fiction, Shrek, significant self-support, skepticism, speculative fiction, Star Trek, Stargate, Startide Rising, Steaz, Stephen, Stickam, suffering, supernatural, Sylar, technology, telekinesis, The Matrix, Toy Story, trees, truth, USDA organic, Wall-E, war, War and Peace, whales, wizards, World of Warcraft, zoos