Bad Philosophy

Take a moment to picture something that truly, deeply disgusts you; that photo in the lobby of your doctor’s office, rubbing felt the wrong direction, your own face in the mirror every morning… y’know, that sorta stuff. As it turns out, people get disgusted by relatively similar things, at least according to a couple of [...]

Ep097 Ewww! [ 41:14 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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aliens, alternate reality games, Battleship, Boing Boing, death, disease, disgust, dolphins, food, free will, Greek, hagfish, iLoveBees, Julie, Kevin, kosher, language, Liam Neeson, Malaysia, MythBusters, pirates, radio drama, sex, South Korea, Stephen, Taken, World War Z, zombies

Do you like money? Sure! Have you ever asked yourself why money is valuable? Maybe. Perhaps you’ve even asked yourself how you could make money better. Well, a few years ago a guy named Satoshi Nakamoto did that and more. He invented Bitcoin, the peer-to-peer digital currency that’s taking the Interwebs by storm. Here to [...]

Ep088 Some People Talking About Bitcoin [ 58:18 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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500 Days of Summer, alchemy, Amanda Seyfried, Android, Bitcoin, Blue Moon, Buffy Summers, Cryptonomicon, currency, cyberpunk, Darrell Duane, digital currency, Discovery Channel, Dwalla, eCache, eCash, economics, fan fiction, Federal Reserve, Gavin Andresen, Glenn Beck, gold, inflation, Jean-Luc Picard, Joseph Gorden-Levitt, Kevin, Kiki, Liberty Reserve, mining, money, Neal Stephenson, Omega Tau, p2p, Pat Robertson, PayPal, Planet Money, Ron Paul, Security Now, sex, slash fiction, Slashdot, Square, Stephen, The Internet, value, Venmo

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

Imagine if falling in love was as easy as taking a pill. Scary? Exciting? Kind of rad? Well, to make up for the distinct lack of anything resembling actual philosophy last week, we decided to delve straight into this and other hardcore questions, courtesy of George Saunders and his recent short story in The New [...]

Ep082 Saunders on Saunders [ 51:04 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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Anathem, apocalypse, Battlefield Earth, brain, connectome, consequentialism, Cryptonomicon, deontology, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, drugs, emotion, Escape from Spiderhead, ethics, experimentation, George Saunders, harm principle, identity theory, Kevin, love, MLK Day, Neal Stephenson, Panera Bread, personal identity, phenomenology, Philip K. Dick, philosophy of mind, psychotropic drugs, Rifftrax, science, scientology, sex, Snow Crash, Stephen, The Baroque Cycle, The Giver, The New Yorker, zombies