Author: Ben

This week on the podcast Nathaniel committed a betrayal second only to that of Judas Iscariot by tricking me into another 2-hour discussion of Hulk Hogan’s life. As part of my committment to writing a pseudo-intellectual literary essay on each of our episodes, I am now forced to come up with something more to say about the Philosophy of Hulk...

In his “Apology,” Plato tells us that Socrates said, “The life which is unexamined is not worth living.” This quote is often taken out of context to mean that we should always be examining ourselves, and the world, in pursuit of wisdom and virtue. In context, Socrates was speaking a little more specifically about his examination of the lives and...

Eagle-eyed readers may have noticed that I’ve been doing something a little different with my last few posts on the blog. I’ve been focusing more on small essays. It’s a little goal of mine to try to find an interesting…dare I say, intellectual…angle on the things we’ve been reading. The killers, Jeff and Jane, presented a bit of a challenge...

I have a fascination with systems of thought: philosophies, theologies, doctrines, ideologies, beliefs, superstitions, etc. I’m very interested in how people navigate reality and try to make sense of the world around them. This week on the podcast we discussed Silent Invasion The Pennsylvania UFO-Bigfoot Casebook by Stan Gordon. This book chronicles Stan Gordon and a team of like-minded paranormal...

Ordinarily, in these blog posts, I try to explore aspects of a topic that weren’t fully addressed in the corresponding episodes of the podcast. When it comes to these Mass Effect episodes, it’s difficult to imagine any aspect of the story that was not covered, perhaps to death, in the 4 hours we were on mic. There was something that...

Recently on the podcast we covered The Hound of the Baskervilles. This was my co-host’s first Holmes story and he was unimpressed. I mentioned on the podcast that if I had known he had never read any Holmes story before that I would have recommended that he choose a different one. I have read every Sherlock Holmes story ever published...