Episode 005: Leveraging Excellence
Why do bad things happen to good people? Do cheaters ever prosper? And what the heck does it mean to “leverage excellence” anyway? We’re not quite sure, but apparently it has something to do with...
View ArticleWeekly Why 001: RaiderVille Diaries Part I
Every once in a while, people come together for an event spontaneously, forming a community of like minds that lives, breathes, and functions like a full-fledged village. This week, leading up to the...
View ArticleWeekly Why 002: RaiderVille Diaries Part II
We’re back for the second installment of the RaiderVille Diaries, joined this time by yet another first-time guest, Lexi Ellis. We managed to cram four people into the midget tent and muse about the...
View ArticleWeekly Why 003: RaiderVille Diaries Part III
This is it! ESPN Game Day is here in Lubbock, TX and we here at Bad Philosophy are pleased to bring you this final chapter in the RaiderVille Diaries series from the line outside Jones AT&T...
View ArticleEpisode 011: Half-Hour of “Huh?”
As Oscar Wilde once said, “The best laid plans of mice and men often go to EPIC FAIL.” Such was our experience this past Friday, as guest after guest bailed on us and we exhausted our respective phone...
View ArticleEpisode 015: Save KTXT!
Something appalling just happened here at Texas Tech. On the evening of December 10th, Tech decided to pull the plug on our 47-year-strong campus radio station, KTXT 88.1 FM. This move came with no...
View ArticleEpisode 016: Ecomikindle
One may be the loneliest number that you’ll ever do, but two is certainly NOT as bad as one when it’s Bad Philosophy. Kevin and I convened over Skype this week in leu of any other panelists. We...
View ArticleEpisode 017: The Last of the Noughties
As we enter 2009, the last year of the Noughties, we here at BF decided to do a little retrospective on the previous year, highlighting some things that piqued our interest in 2008. Not only that, we...
View ArticleEpisode 020: Library Nurse Curses
We’re in a crisis today, peeps. Healthcare in the United States is whack, and everybody’s got a plan to fix it. We may not be Obama’s advisory board, but we’ll be darned if BF is gonna sit on the...
View ArticleEpisode 021b: Guerrilla Fascism
Stay calm. You’re not imagining things. That “b” is real, and we have a good explanation for it… sort of. As you well know, we here at Bad Philosophy have had our [some might say disproportionate]...
View ArticleEpisode 023: The Birds and the Babies
When a man and a woman love each other very much… they listen to Bad Philosophy together! This week neither panelist woes nor audio troubles nor the relentless Lubbock wind could keep us from recording...
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Episode 026: Digg Phallusophy
Have you ever actually rubbed elbows with a celebrity? Everyone talks about doing that, but seriously, have you ever actually gone up to a star and asked “can I rub my elbow against your elbow?” Hmm…...
View ArticleEpisode 029: A BF Orange
Easter time is here again, and what better way to celebrate than with some ultraviolence, m’droogs? That’s right, this week BF took a dive down the proverbial rabbit hole into the dark dystopian future...
View ArticleEpisode 031: Farewell to a Legend
Seasons come and seasons go, but here at Bad Philosophy one thing has never really changed: the utter ubiquity of one Kevin Saunders. Fortunately for him but unfortunately for us, the big man himself...
View ArticleEpisode 039: What’s the Right Thing Again?
Ethics is a tricky subject. For some, it’s subjective; anything goes. For others, it can be quite objective; right and wrong can be determined. Here at Texas Tech, ethics has become a full-blown...
View ArticleEpisode 043: Endless Meltdown
It should be no surprise to you that we here are, for the most part, poor college students doing this for a hobby. Nevertheless, in this exciting world of new media opportunities and inexplicable...
View ArticleEpisode 047: A Big To Do About WOO
Input, Achiever, Restorative, Deliberative… to many these are but a few odd-sounding words, but to those of us here at BF they are the vocabulary of success and self-knowledge itself. They are...
View ArticleEpisode 048: Full of WINtegrity
We hear a lot of talk these days about “Integrity,” and how it’s all good to have and such. But what does it even mean to have integrity? In this episode BF took a trip to Curzertown (the realm of...
View ArticleEpisode 055: Twenty, Not Two Thousand
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...
View ArticleEpisode 061: Newspaper Zombies
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...
View ArticleEpisode 062: iKevin2.0.net@blogspot.com
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,...
View ArticleEpisode 063: A Big Shiny Piece of Paper
Here at Texas Tech things were shaken up a bit recently with the resignation of Dr. Gary Bell, someone beloved to all of us in the Honors College. Dr. Bell basically built the Honors College over the...
View ArticleEpisode 077: The Untimely Death of Stephen
Imagine having an army of workers ready to do your bidding, no matter how menial and trivial, as long as you pay them some semblance of a decent wage. That’s Amazon Mechanical Turk in a nutshell, with...
View ArticleEpisode 083: An Unexceptional Episode
President Obama’s State of the Union address? Meh. Practicing all your life one of two classical instruments because your mother says so? Snore. Ricky Gervais at the Golden Globes? F***ING AWESOME....
View ArticleEpisode 089: You Asked For It
At any given moment thousands of people around the world are praying (and since it’s Easter today you can probably tack a few more zeroes onto that estimate). Whether it’s praying for the destruction...
View ArticleEpisode 099: Snarktacular
99 episodes of BF on the wall, 99 ep-i-sodes… Come on, sing it with me! We made it, people! Well… almost. For this last episode we decided to go TOTALLY RANDOM. Unencumbered by topicality and full of...
View ArticleEpisode 100: Three. Hundred!
Every once in a blue moon, the stars align, the burritos are just *that* good, and the right people end up coming together somewhat consistently over a three-year period to make something truly...
View ArticleEpisode 107: Killer Hipstinct
Have you ever found yourself uttering anything like the following phrases? “Oh, I was totally into that band before they sold out” or “Forget polyester, tweed is where it’s at” or maybe “Gosh, I wish...
View ArticleEpisode 117: Mintyvan
Bullies. Troublemakers. Destroyers. We all know them, we all detest them, and some of us actively fear them. But are “Jokers,” the wildcards of society, actually a fundamental reason why society works?...
View ArticleEpisode 124: Finches on a Guitar
It may be “old news” already, but recently the scientific community dropped a slow-motion bomb shell on the world — after years of non-black-hole-creating operation, the Large Hadron Collider has...
View ArticleEpisode 138: No Longer a Thing
Let’s be honest, it feels really good to be right, to be correct, to stand on an epistemic foundation and know that no matter what, no one can come along and challenge the rock-solidity of that...
View ArticleEpisode 145: Ternalism (Part 1)
How did you feel about the staff at your university when they enforced policy? When they told you that something wasn’t in your best interest? When they offered to help you through tough times? It’s...
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