Bad Philosophy

In case you haven’t heard, Charlie Sheen has been #WINNING lately. Or so he claims, at least. For some people, “winning” is banging 7-gram rocks with porn stars in a hotel room. For others, it’s resurrecting an ancient brand with crazy new products through the power of pop music. For us on BF, it’s getting [...]

Ep086 Reeks of Humanity [ 59:44 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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20/20, ABC, abstinence, addiction, agriculture, Alcoholics Anonymous, basketball, Born This Way, BYU, celebrity, CES, Charlie Sheen, Clear Channel, cocaine, cyberpunk, David Bowie, drugs, Emilio Estevez, ethics, farming, feminism, gay marriage, geology, Green Day, health, Hipstamatic, hipsters, Hunter S. Thomson, kangaroos, Keith Richards, Kevin, Kiki, Lady Gaga, Lightroom, Martin Sheen, Mel Gibson, misogyny, Mormons, music, obesity, photography, Polaroid, polygamy, porn, Sean Penn, sex, sexuality, Sheen's Korner, Simon, smoking, Stephen, SXSW, SXSWi, The Rolling Stones, The Who, tigerblood, Twitter, Two and a Half Men, winning, women

Yep, we’re back. It may be a week late, and these stories are probably completely irrelevant by now, but just pretend we’ve brought you a time machine and taken you back to last week for a look at the news! Yeah, it may be last week’s news, but… TIME MACHINE. Anyways, Kiki joined me for [...]

Ep073 The Royal We [ 1:11:22 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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3D Realms, Adam Savage, adult content, American Idol, Anderson Cooper, Apple, arcades, Catholicism, CDs, Chuck Norris, communism, Craigslist, Doctor Who, Doom, Double Rainbow, Duke Nukem Forever, ethics, Family Guy, Gearbox, government, graphic design, harm principle, health insurance, healthcare, Hebrew, i09, iOS, iTunes 10, Johnny Carson, Kiki, language, Latin, linguistics, memes, memetics, Michael Moore, MMA, music, music theory, NOVA, Old English, PAX, Penny Arcade, politics, privacy, prostitution, Randy Pitchford, religion, Richard Dawkins, Russia, Seth MacFarland, Sicko, Simon Cowell, Stephen, Steve Jobs, subsidized medicine, TechCrunch, transubstantiation, Yakov Smirnoff

Can you believe it? Fifty episodes! FIVE OH! Well… that is if you sorta count Episode Zero, don’t count the Lost Episode, count Episode 21b as Episode 21, count Episode 42b as Episode 42, count Episodes 46 and 49 even though they’re video only and… aw, screw it, just humor us, okay? So in homage [...]

Ep050 Includes Teeth [ 43:13 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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balloon boy, blogging, Bryan M, consciousness, CPR, David, Dungeons and Dragons, Ender's Game, error reporting, Facebook, First Amendment, Freebirds, Google Wave, Homeward Bound, Hot Pockets, Hot Topic, Jerry Seinfeld, Jim Gaffigan, John Stuart Mill, Katie, Kevin, Matt, metaphysics, Michael A, Microsoft, Milo and Otis, Monty Python, music, mustaches, MythBusters, Nightmare Before Christmas, Penny Arcade, physics, programming, radio, Saturday Night Live, Speaker for the Dead, statistics, Stephen, time, Twitter, Weekend Update, Wikipedia

Stop me if you’ve heard this one… a pianist, a mathematician, and a crab walk into a bar. No wait… I forget how the rest goes. Anyway, this week Julie Meadows, now back from the future, joined me alongside sneezing philosopher Michael Hayslip and spaghetti extraordinaire Kevin Saunders to talk about some music. I think [...]

Ep045 Bach in Business [ 58:31 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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aesthetics, Amadeus, art, Bach, Beethoven, definition, Glenn Gould, John Cage, Johnny Cash, Julie, Kevin, meta, Michael H, motion capture, Mozart, music, Nine Inch Nails, Philip Glass, philosophy of language, philosophy of music, piano, post-modernism, Socrates, sound, Stephen, Susan Langer, synesthesia, theater, Tom and Jerry, Vladimir Horowitz, William Westney