In service to our all-mighty listeners, this one's for you. We bring up a few listener questions to discuss, reevaluate our Patreon, and change how we do our hero of the week.
Opening Invocation:
Green Lantern
Hero of the Week:
Perman Hardy
Which financial donation model for Embrace The Void would you prefer?
http://www.strawpoll.me/14583227
Today we have a very special guest, and friend of the show, Abe. We discuss his journey and experience as a former edge lord and follower of Carl Sargon, and Milo Yiannopoulos. Examining what types of arguments convinced him, and what it was that got him to change his mind.
Opening Invocation
Philosophy of Personhood
Hero of the Week
Women from Project Veritas that tried to tell a fake Roy Moore story to The Washington Post
This episode we have a special guest: Dr. Kristi Winters. Starting from the basics we define the term which has been getting a lot of use lately: intersectionality. Diving into what it is and how it can help us understand the societies we live in.
References:
On Suicide
Weapons of Math Destruction
Dr. Kristi Winters:
https://www.youtube.com/user/drkmwinters
Opening Invocation:
Get Out
Hero of the Week:
Evangelical Pastors supporting Roy Moore
The world is on fire, and we didn't start it. Today we talk about some recent news regarding the recent indictments and update everyone with our doomsday predictions. In our main segment we dive into tribalism and talk about the good and the bad.
References:
Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them by Joshua Greene
Hero of the Week:
2 Mass-murdering douche canoe's
Opening Invocation:
Norse Mythology
This time around we examine toxic masculinity with Thomas Smith of such podcasts as Serious Inquiries Only. We explore the differences between biological distinctions from gender norms, the roles it can negatively impact young boys, how we can fight against it, and probably the most socially obvious manifestations in sports including MMA.
We don't have a hero of the week because it was either cut that or remove roughly 10 minutes from the main segment, and we opted for the very engaging conversation about toxic masculinity.
References
The Lucifer Effect
It's Alright To Cry - Song
Thomas Smith
https://www.patreon.com/seriouspod/posts
https://www.patreon.com/law
Guest Appearances
https://www.patreon.com/kevinandbenedict
Opening Invocation
Star Trek
With Natalie Newell and Jerimiah Traeger we dive into scientism, logical positivism, anti-vaxers, the scientific method, combating personal biases, and we tie this bow with ripping into Harvey Weinstein.
Natalie Newell:
https://www.patreon.com/tSEpodcast
https://www.facebook.com/ScienceMomsDoc/
https://www.facebook.com/NatalieCNewell/
https://www.facebook.com/RomanticNihilism/
Jerimiah Traeger:
http://www.podcasts.com/the-sjw-circle-jerk-85
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/tippling/
Books:
Weapons of Math Destruction
Opening Invocation:
Fermi paradox and simulation theory.
Void Hero of the Week:
Harvey Weinstein
This is the first in a series where we review a book: SUPERINTELLIGENCE by Nick Bostrom. This series will be for patrons only, but we're releasing the first to everyone as a teaser.
In today's episode we explore what Buddhism is, and how the philosophy is the roots for a lot of void philosophy. We talk about the "self", Buddhist monks, why kneeling lives matter, why has nobody dealt with Flint, and what group is all to blame.
Cold Open:
Stopping by the Void on a Snowy Evening
With apologies to Robert Frost
By Anthoni Fortier
Hero of the Week:
Graham-Cassidy bill
In this weeks podcast, we're joined by Ris and Bethany of the Inciting Incident Podcast. Here we discuss what a purist position is, how it relates to politics and social issues, and how it can be damaging. We compare it to a pragmatist point-of-view.
Also, GW had a bad mic cable so some of the audio quality sucks. Send hate mail to GW via voidpod@gmail.com.
Joss Wheadon speeches
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDmzlKHuuoI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn866ryQ5RY
Hero of the Week:
Joel Osteen
We're back for a recap! In this episode we take a look at what's happened over the last two months while Aaron's been away. We reevaluate our long standing debate on if we're in the darkest of all possible timelines or just a dark timeline.
Opening:
The bible, I guess?
Hero of the week:
Christopher Cantwell,
Anthony Scaramucci
This week we dive into Gestalt Therapy: what it is, how it's applied, and what it could mean in the ongoing conversation about conscience.
This Week In News with Kevin and Benidict
Cold open is a reference from Trainspotting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Naf_WiEb9Qs
In this episode we're joined with Is This Reel Life podcasters Bethany and Kristen. We attempt to define the term cultural appropriation, and try to find where the line is between what is unacceptable and what is just acceptable acculturation.
This weeks cold open is original and inspired by a recent story about Hobby Lobby.
Thanks to our guest Dr. Jesse Rabinowitz that we now know about what the technical definition of narcissism is, we can examine Trumps behavior that we've all observed to see if he is a textbook narcissist.
Dr. Jesse Rabinowitz is a clinical Psychologist who helps us understand what narcissism is, how it can be identified, and how it impacts the people around them.
Here's a link to the DSM-5 definition of narcissism:
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/narcissistic-personality-disorder/basics/symptoms/CON-20025568
Throwing back to episode 4, we answer the question: was our episode on penis demons meant to be a hoax? We also cover Stoicism and how it can be applied to current events, specifically the shooting at the baseball field with Senator Scalise.
Void Hero Of The Week: Jay Sekulow
Guest Thomas Smith from the podcasts Serious Inquires Only and Opening Arguments joins us to fight Aaron about if Hamilton is a good musical or not.
Void Hero Of The Week: Man Fleeing London Attack With Beer
Guest Mischa Stanton helps us with trying to define art, and decide if there are objective truths in aesthetics.
A list of void related books, movies, and other media: https://voidpod.com/voidcraft/
Void hero of the week: Roger Ailes
Mischa's podcasts:
TheFarMeridian.com
arsParadoxica.com
This episode we dive heavy into philosophy to discuss meta ethics. Tackling the differences between objective moral truths, subjective moral truths, and how they could co-exist. We cover the large problems with measuring meta-ethics and ways it does and does not relate to other sciences.