Embrace The Void
Embrace The Void
Welcome friends, to a podcast for a darker timeline. Maybe the darkest of all timelines. Definitely not one of the good timelines. Maybe it’s always been a dark timeline, maybe the Hadron collider screwed us over. Science may never know. What we do know is that we live in the void. The void, a place where a chittering mass of void crabs can infest a person suit and win the presidency. The void, a place where we're just clever enough to know that climate change is happening, but not quite clever enough to do anything about it. The void seems terrible and cruel, but it loves you, in its own ironic way.
Episodes
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Feb 28, 2019 • 1h 5min
EV - 082 Heretic Life in Utah with Uncle Mark
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.
Feb 15, 2019 • 59min
EV - 081 23andVoid
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 OmelasHero of the Week???:Philosophers in Space / Embrace The Void Facebook group
Feb 7, 2019 • 58min
EV - 080 How To Not Be Like Spock With Massimo Pigliucci Part 2
And now the continuation of our interview with Massimo.Opening Invocation: Evan Matthews and Ben OldhamHero of the Week: Why we shouldn't use the word Hero.
Feb 2, 2019 • 57min
EV - 079 How To Be Like Spock with Massimo Pigliucci Part 1
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
Jan 27, 2019 • 1h 2min
ETV - 078 Better Know Judith Jarvis Thomson
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 ExistentialismHero of the Week:Teachers
Jan 17, 2019 • 1h 6min
EV - 077 Losing My Religion
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 WeezerHero of the Week: Marie's cat (and our pets in general)
Jan 12, 2019 • 1h 6min
EV - 076 A Quiet Box
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 SlaytonHero of the Week:Nancy Pelosi
Jan 4, 2019 • 60min
EV - 075 Void Punishment
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
Dec 27, 2018 • 1h 3min
EV - 074 Cabin In The Void
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
Dec 20, 2018 • 1h 5min
EV - 073 Abundant Peter Coffin's Part 2
Continuing with Peter Coffin.Opening Invocation:The Resistible Rise of Auturo UiHero of the Week:Nadia Murad
