Bad Philosophy

I know, I know… I was horribly late with the editing on this one, but I swear that two weeks ago we recorded a new BF on the first day of the new decade! This one was a pretty straightforward retrospective, but the first time we actually had an episode one year ago that we [...]

Ep055 Twenty, Not Two Thousand [ 51:37 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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2010, 2012, Apple, AT&T, automated cars, bittorrent, cloud computing, Cory Doctorow, Dollhouse, economy, Facebook, Flickr, Ford SYNC, Foursquare, Google, Gowalla, GPS, Hulu, iGuide, iPhone, IPTV, Iraq, iRobot, iSlate, iTunes, Joss Whedon, Kevin, Korea, Large Hadron Collider, Matt, Microsoft, Mike Leach, Milk, Minority Report, MySpace, New York City, recession, RFID, Rotten Tomatoes, SkyNet, social media, Stephen, tablet, Terminator, Texas Tech University, texting, The Jetsons, The Pirate Bay, Total Recall, Twitter, underwear, VH1, Windows 7, Wolverine, Yahoo!, year

Unless you’ve been living under a diamond the size of Manhattan recently, you’ve no doubt noticed the release of the much-hyped movie Avatar, James Cameron‘s latest bulldozer-full of eye candy. It’s got noble savages, heavy-handed environmentalism, and more stunning CGI visuals than anything George Lucas could ever hope to conjure forth. Shortly after BF newcomer [...]

Ep054 Eywa Ex Machina [ 43:07 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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3D, Alamo Drafthouse, aliens, Avatar, biology, consciousness, Dances with Wolves, dwarves, emergence, environmentalism, film, gnomes, hobbits, James Cameron, Joss Whedon, Jurassic Park, Kevin, Kristin, Mark Cuban, movies, Native Americans, noble savage, Pokemon, porn, racism, Samurai Pizza Cats, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, Sigourney Weaver, Smurfs, spiritualism, Star Wars, Stephen, The Core, The Matrix, unobtainium, worship

First off, I would like to express my apologies for the lack of WIN here recently on BF. We are college students after all, with all the lack of sleep, homework, and other rigmarole that entails. BUT we’re back for another episode, though the relevance is about a week late. If you’ve been following Dollhouse, [...]

Ep053 Kevin Squared [ 28:55 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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alternate reality game, Battlestar Galactica, Dollhouse, Dr. Horrible, Eliza Dushku, Enver Gjokaj, Family Guy, Firefly, FOX, Futurama, Jonathan Frakes, Joss Whedon, Kevin, Kevin Miller, Skype, spoiler alert, Summer Glau, Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles, The Simpsons, webisodes, Windows 7, XKCD, XKCD Sucks

Joining us for Kevin’s last live episode was Bryan Mitchell and Numero Uno Fanboy Jed Cummins. We had some audio woes (read: Bryan turned his microphone off) and video stream woes that ruined the opening bit, but through the magic of GarageBand I have made all right with the world. We talked Dollhouse, philosophy of mind, and Swine Flu, leading Kevin to do a classic rant on politics. Relish this episode, everyone, it’s special…

Ep031 Farewell to a Legend [ 42:35 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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AIDS, alcohol, anarchocapitalism, anime, autocracy, beer, Bryan, Centers for Disease Control, Congress, consciousness, Cory Doctorow, democracy, Dollhouse, education, Egypt, epidemic, ethics, Family Guy, government, health, Hobbes, human rights, idealism, identity theory, illegal immigration, influenza, Isaac Asimov, Jediah, Jon Stewart, Joss Whedon, Kevin, l33t, Little Brother, Locke, Lubbock, mainstream media, martial law, paranoia, philosophy of mind, political philosophy, pork, rape, rational anarchy, robots, sex, society, South Park, Star Trek, Stephen, swine flu, TASS, Texas Tech University, The Day After Tomorrow, The Happening, The Stand, thermodynamics, This Week in Tech, Three Laws of Robotics, Twitter, UIL, US Constitution, Vietnam, World Health Organization