In this episode Jad and Kevin discuss an article Kevin found about a kid getting expelled from his school for having a weapon in his car. Well maybe it wasn’t a weapon. In fact, maybe […]
At last we reach the end of a five part series focused on the objectification of women. We’ve been joined for this entire conversation with local Austin artist, Adrienne Parker, and began our discussion around […]
We are joined once again by local Austin artist, Adrienne Parker as she discusses a controversial music video with us called Blurred Lines by Robin Thicke. For our third part of this series we consider […]
As a continuation of our Monday Morning Campaign Update series, Kevin and Jad talk about some of the interesting candidate questionnaires Kevin has been receiving on the campaign trail. The short of the story is […]
In this final part of a three part series, we conclude our discussion regarding justice within a society. Our friend, Tom de Lorenzo, is back to help us play this one out. For this third […]
This week Jad and I get into a short discussion about children. Jad and his wife are preparing for the birth of their first child and Jad is especially interested in avoiding a life of […]
On June 25th of 2013, Texas State Senator Wendy Davis led what was, depending on your point of view, either a very famous or very notorious eleven-hour filibuster against a Republican bill restricting abortion access […]
This week Jad and I consider the idea of how a government forms – essentially out of thin air. Once a government gets up and running, we go on to consider how people are convinced […]
In this episode we travel back in time to November 14th, 2012, just a week after President Obama was re-elected. (caption: Devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy in late 2012.) Our episode this week focuses on […]
This week we conclude our two-part episode on finding common ground. In the first part of this discussion, Jad, Tom and I discuss varying methods, strategies, and pitfalls for finding common ground in which to […]
This week we begin the first of a two-part episode primarily focused on the idea of finding common ground in political discourse. In a round-about way we’ve actually discussed the topic many times before, but […]
In this week’s episode, Jad and I discuss one of Kevin’s all time favorite political and economic topics: risk and reward. Jad starts our episode off with a fictitious example of how the concept politically […]
This week we do a shorter segment on a topic dear to the both of us – educating children. We talk a little bit about public schooling, Catholic schooling, and religious beliefs that are taught […]
We’ve got some pretty tough topics to tackle this week. With a spotlight still on the 2012 presidential election, and in addition many other incidental points discovered along the way, we discuss the emptiness of […]
