16 May 2011
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
So in case you hadn’t heard, a few weeks ago we shot some guy in the eye and dumped him in the ocean, then cheered exuberantly about it for a few days. With this hefty moral conundrum we began our first ever all-Formsqueeze episode, answering a slew of YOUR questions from our Formspring account.We covered [...]
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A&W Root Beer, Afghanistan, Amazon Mechanical Turk, Audible, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Coke Zero, consequentialism, death penalty, deontology, drugs, Epicurus, ethics, Formspring, Geraldo Rivera, Glee, God, Heart Attack Grill, Hitler, Hopdoddy, Joan of Arc, Jonathan Coulton, Joss Whedon, Kevin, KFC Double Down, Kiki, Kinect, Man vs. Food, Mark Hamill, moon landing, Mystery Men, Netflix, Osama Bin Laden, Pakistan, Pandora's Star, Peter F. Hamilton, porn, Reanimator, retributivism, sci-fi, SeaQuest, slash fiction, Stargate, Stargate Universe, Startide Rising, Stephen, Syfy, The Daily Show, theatre, transcription, Triple Double Oreo, Uplift Saga, war, Welch's Grape Soda, Wishbone, Xbox
24 July 2010
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
After another long and completely unnecessary hiatus, we’re back for another rip-roaring episode! Last week Kevin joined me after returning from his whirlwind theatrical tour of the Czech Republic and greater Eastern Europe. This got us talking about language, culture, music and of course Homestar Runner. Have a listen!
This Week’s Post-show Song Pimpage: [...]
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Android, Apple, architecture, art, blues, children, China, culture, Czech Republic, Disney World, Europe, Folk Alley, folk music, history, Homestar Runner, HTC Incredible, iPad, iPhone, jazz, Katy Perry, Kevin, Kukysevraci, Lady Gaga, language, Pandora, pop, Renaissance, Scotland, Stephen, theatre
16 April 2010
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Every once in a while we here at BF like to have a gratuitously self-indulgent show that focuses purely on our own half-baked accomplishments and personal history. This time it was all about the K-man, mister Kevin Saunders himself. We had live Skype callers on the show once again, talked a little history, and answered [...]
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Bad Astronomy, Canada, census, Dollhouse, education, Foursquare, Freebirds, genealogy, high school, history, Jackass, Jonathan Coulton, Kevin, Large Hadron Collider, Lubbock, Lubbock Tweetup, physics, questions, Stephen, Texas Tech University, theatre, time travel, Twitter
03 April 2010
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
When was the last time you read a newspaper? Oh… you’re reading one now. Well um… I guess I’ll just let you finish then. No, it’s cool, take your time. … Done? Okay, awesome. So… wow, this is a bit awkward. Our topic this week is actually the “death” of newspapers, which probably sounds a [...]
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4chan, About.com, aesthetics, AOL Seed, Apple iPad, Ashley, Austin Statesman, Bill O'Reilly, billboards, blogging, Bobby Knight, broadcasting, capitalism, context, corporations, court, CourtTV, Craigslist, crowdsourcing, Glenn Beck, Haiti, healthcare, Huffington Post, Hunter S. Thompson, hyper-local, Iran, Jolt, journalism, Kevin, local, Lubbock Avalanche Journal, Mountain Dew, New York Times, newspapers, Pepsi, radio, sensationalism, Simon, Skype, Stephen, Stickam, SXSW, Texas Tech University, theatre, Timothy Cole, Twitter, Wikipedia
28 November 2009
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Have you ever been sitting in a horror movie and right after that moment when the bad guy leaps out and you spring about four inches off your seat, turned to yourself and gone “Why did I do that? I know this isn’t real.” If so, then you’ve most definitely experienced the Paradox of Fiction. [...]
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aesthetics, Batman, belief, Blair Witch Project, children, Cloverfield, Colin Radford, comics, Dan Arieli, Dr. Hick, emotion, epistemology, fear, fiction, Gran Torino, Guitar Hero, Harry Potter, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, horror, Jackie Chan, Kevin, make-believe, meta, Michael Myers, movies, paradox of fiction, Plato, Predictably Irrational, rationality, Saturday Night Live, Saw, sharks, Sherlock Holmes, Stephen, Superman, theatre, zombies
