Today we're welcoming Cam Garrity, a puppeteer, podcaster, graphic artist, and so much more. We discuss the beauty of puppetry, while Cam gives us some insights into why it's such a wonderful medium.
Opening Invocation:
Kafka's "A Little Fable"
Our guest this week is Brenden Webber of the Philosophy Guy Podcast. We each list our top 3 voidy films and discuss their merits that make them void worthy.
Opening Invocation:
John Carpenter
Making The Void Livable:
The high school that put on a theatrical production of Alien.
This week we're joined by Toby Buckle of the Political Philosophy Podcast. We discuss the role of language in political debate. Special thanks to Toby for supplying us with his backup audio and special thanks to Brian Ziegenhagen for editing the show.
Opening Invocation:
Jake the Fake Jake
Political Philosophy Podcast: https://www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/
Aaron just couldn't get enough Ayn Rand from episode 83 that we decided to revisit one of her main philosophical principles: Egoism. We attempt to steel bot the idea and then tear it down to pieces.
Opening Invocation:
Ricklantis Mixup
Making The Void Livable:
Rock Climbing
Here to have out age old battle of free will with Aaron is none other than Darron (@NecessaryBeing). They get into the weeds discussing free will, determinism, and if it's possible for there to be a spectrum.
Opening Invocation:
Deacon of Doubt @DeaconDoubt
For our next installment of Better Know a Philosopher, we tackle Ayn Rand. We look at her life and work including Atlas Shrugged.
Opening Invocation:
Charles Bukowski (The Last Night of the Earth Poems)
Making the Void Livable:
Young people, like the ones who talking with Dianne Feinstein
Joining us for this episode is Mark from the How To Heretic Podcast. We talk about Mark's experience as a gay man growing up in Utah, the Mormon church, Pride, and many other topics.
Today, Aaron and GW discuss relevant topics like the terribleness of Black Face, and why you shouldn't blindly trust 23andMe. We look at not only the privacy issues, but the philosophical issues with a DNA database.
Open Invocation:
The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas
Hero of the Week???:
Philosophers in Space / Embrace The Void Facebook group
And now the continuation of our interview with Massimo.
Opening Invocation:
Evan Matthews and Ben Oldham
Hero of the Week:
Why we shouldn't use the word Hero.
In this installment we bring on a very special guest Massimo Pigliucci to discuss Stoicism. He has a PhD in Evolutionary Biology from the University of Connecticut and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Tennessee.
Opening Invocation:
Seneca, On Earthquakes
Time for another installment of our Better Know a Philosopher serise. We dive into Judith Jarvis Thomson, author of the famous Trolly Problem thought experiment and has an interesting thought experiment on abortion.
Opening Invocation:
Absurdist Existentialism
Hero of the Week:
Teachers
This week we're joined by Marie D'Elephant from Everyone's Agnostic Podcast. Marie talks about leaving her religion and how that impacted her to this day. We also discuss a myriad of topics relating to religion, death, and polyamory.
Opening Invocation:
The World Has Turned And Left Me Here by Weezer
Hero of the Week:
Marie's cat (and our pets in general)
A Quiet Place vs Birdbox. Aaron and GW evaluate each of these very void'y movies in terms of their believability, how they approached essentially the same story differently, and go over parts that may be problematic in some ways.
Opening Invocation:
Shardik thanks to Eric Brewer and Shannon Slayton
Hero of the Week:
Nancy Pelosi
We ring in the new year with Jon from the Wayward Willis Podcast as we discuss a range of topics surrounding religion. We focus quite a bit on Jon's experience growing up in a very Christian household, and then later raising a child in a secular household.
Hero of the Week:
People Losing Their Heros
Aaron and GW review the cult classic Cabin In The Woods. The satire and tentacles make it a prime Voidy movie.
Opening Invocation:
Mary Elizabeth Frye (last couplet lovingly added by Aaron)
Hero of the Week:
Greta Thunberg
Continuing with Peter Coffin.
Opening Invocation:
The Resistible Rise of Auturo Ui
Hero of the Week:
Nadia Murad
This is part one of a two part episode with Peter Coffin. A YouTube Documentarian, Author, and self-proclaimed Marxist. We first dive into capitalist systems, the open source movement, humans as labor, the state vs. the government, pokemon as a commentary on society, and so much more.
Opening Invocation:
Gestalt Buddhism
Let's get to know Epicurus who is definitely not Epictetus. This is the first time we've taking a close up look at one of the old Greek philosophers.
Opening Invocation:
South Wales Wassiling folk custom
Hero of the Week:
Luo Xixi
We're joined by the esteemed Michael Marsh Marshall of the Be Reasonable podcast. Aaron and Marsh dive into many areas including: the Socratic method, placebo affect, skepticism, and cannibalism.
Opening Invocation:
The Holocaust
With GW not being around, Bethany Furtrell joins Aaron to talk about the election results. They also talk about Aaron's woes of Monster Island and how the finical crisis is about to start its reunion tour.
Opening Invocation:
Kobe Bryant
Hero of the Week:
Eileen and Todd