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
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
30 July 2010
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Recently the wild and brilliant imagination of Christopher Nolan brought forth a true gem of a movie, Inception. It’s been making good money and getting rave reviews all around, and for good reason. It’s a heady and philosophical and hence right up our rabbit trail. This time Kevin Saunders and Kiki Canon joined me to […]
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Alamo Drafthouse, allegory of the cave, Batman Begins, Brick, CGI, Christopher Nolan, consequentialism, David Fincher, dreams, emotion, epistemology, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, ethics, Fight Club, Groundhog Day, happiness, Hollywood, ideas, Inception, Insomnia, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Kevin, Kiki, Leonardo DiCaprio, LOST, lucid dreams, M. Night Shyamalan, Memento, movie pickles, movies, perception, phenomenology, Plato, reality, Rifftrax, Spiderman, Stephen, The Dark Knight, The Matrix, The Prestige, The Sixth Sense, The Social Network, US Postal Service, zombies, zombocalypse
22 December 2009
By StephenTorrence
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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 […]
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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
27 August 2009
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Imagine yourself in a movie theater. It is the only place you’ve ever known. The smell of popcorn, the sticky floors, and of course the endless projected movies on the screen are your reality. What would you believe about “the real world” if this was all you knew? Would you even believe there was one […]
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allegory of the cave, Anathem, Aristotle, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Bruce Willis, Descartes, District 9, education, geometry, Kant, Keanu Reaves, Kevin, Leibniz, Mac, mathematics, Meno, Occam's Razor, philosophy of mind, Plato, reality, robots, Santa Claus, Stephen, Surrogates, The Matrix, The Republic, Tolkien, truth, virtual reality
