Thinkery

In this thrilling 20th episode of Thinkery, Paul and Brian talk about THINGS like:Children be crazy.Our guest-selection process!Who does more work on the show? What should our new logo be?Go away, Jindal! Or, why are there so many candidates still running for the GOP nomination?Do we have to make public comments about every bad thing that happens?Are pre-filled cards genuinely creative for some people?Brian doesn't own a Brandy snifter.AND MUCH MORE, WE THINK!If you like the show, won't you show the world that you like it by talking about it to your friends, possibly when they're waiting for their coffee and they have nowhere else to go because your office coffee-maker is crap? Or perhaps by leaving us a review on iTunes, or sharing a link to our show on Facebook, Twitter, or anywhere you'd like? We'd be honoured. And relieved.Follow us on Twitter! (@thinkerypodcast, @paulfidalgo, or @dotboom)Follow us on Facebook too, because WHY NOT? (https://www.facebook.com/The-Thinkery-Podcast-1606010776341107/

If I had a 19-related joke, IT WOULD GO HERE. But since I don't, I'll tell you what's in this episode!Paul and Brian talk about things, again, because THAT'S WHAT THEY DO. What did they talk about this time, you ask? SIMPLE:Paul’s having a political Twitter fight with a Libertarian!Will Mitt Romney — who might be a literal chameleon — run for President in 2016? No!We do a post-mortem on our last two episodes, which were so good because of our guests!Our listenership is getting bigger!BUT WHAT IF WE GOT TO TALK TO PETER CULLEN?If Jeb Bush could kill Baby Hitler, would he? His answer might not surprise you!Would Paul or Brian run for office?Gamble gamble gamble, and Brian’s going to have the best meal YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW!CS LEWIS IS THE WORSTPaul deals with a skunk, and Brian has been bitten by weird animals!Ben Carson’s portrait of him and Jesus is transcendent. And is he insane?If you want to see what Brian and Paul are on about in between episodes, follow them on Twitter at @dotboom, @paulfidalgo, and @

It's a very special 18th episode of the show as Paul and Brian welcome the awesome John Champion from the Mission Log Podcast! Holy cow did we have a great conversation, which you're going to love! We talked about awesome stuff like:There will be a new Star Trek show in 2017!Paul and John have a CFI connection!What would Star Trek be like if it was created now?Would the stories be told the same way?What would the crew look like?Would there be multiple different Federations instead of just one?Would there still be money?Find out the answers to these questions, right now, by listening! And when you're done, follow us on Twitter:@paulfidalgo - Paul!@dotboom - Brian!@thinkerypodcast! - The ShowMr. John Champion is on Twitter at @dvdgeeks, as well!Mission Log is @missionlogpod!If you haven't listened to Mission Log Podcast, subscribe to it, it's really good! At the very least, go to missionlogpodcast.com and find an episode to listen to. Once you've done that, please leave a review of our show (and John's!) o

A Soul with an Expiration Date (Guest-Starring Matt Dillahunty!)Matt Dillahunty (host of the excellent Atheist Experience TV Show, creator of Atheist Debates, and internationally renowned pipe model!) joins Paul and Brian to talk about a whole mess of things. What do we talk about with our esteemed and awesome guest? Things like these:Matt has a cool Skype avatar, and Paul wants to pretend to smoke a pipe!Does Matt relish the one-note “I’ve got a bible verse will stump you” questions he gets?Why isn’t Matt burnt out yet?How can programmers be religious?How does it feel to be a full-time professional heathen, Matt?Is the Sermon on the Mount full of good advice?Criticize bad arguments, even if they’re being made by people on your side!Why can’t we all get along?Tom Flynn is a Christmas Curmudgeon!What value does atheism have as a label?Internet Polls are not good political predictors!The GOP Presidential campaign is a hilariously sad trainwreck!There are too many satirical websites these days!Is absolute certai

It's our sweet sixteen! And what's the best possible way to celebrate our sixteenth-a-versary? By talking into a microphone about a bunch of topics, like these beauties:We're both fathers, and that's awesome. Paul's son is reading his first non-picture book!Brian's son is learning a whole bunch of new words!How can any dad not look at their kids and want to spend every minute with them?How can anyone in their twenties be prepared to have kids? The Canadian Parliamentary system is way different than the American system. And Brian's vote ultimately didn't count! But the guy he liked won!Both America and Canada need more proportional systems!Why do Canadians vote so much more than Americans? Jeb! Jeb. Jeb?Sometimes Trump makes sense!The only real Transformers are G1 Transformers!And more things about Transformers!If you like the show, won't you subscribe? If you already subscribe, won't you leave us a review on a place like iTunes, or tell your friends about us? It would be pretty badass if you di

If this show was a person, it’d be slamming his door and his parents wouldn’t understand him because he’s 15 episodes old!No, that joke totally made sense.This week, on the episode where the show tries valiantly to grow its first facial hair, Paul and Brian talk about things, like:Releasing creative products is exhilarating and depressing!Who will survive to the Republican primaries?Why aren’t people taking Bernie Sanders more seriously?Memes that have a good point but get facts wrong really chap our asses!People who make graphics of inspirational things they’ve said themselves are crazy egotistical!In fact, WHAT IS THE DEAL WITH INSPIRATIONAL MEME GRAPHICS?Walt Mossberg’s writing for Verge, but Mosspuppet would’ve been cheaper!Brian’s childhood tormentors were very, very incompetent. Why don’t Paul’s bullies remember what they did?In fact, who cares about kids from your childhood, anyway?We have more listeners than we had last week!More, possibly!If you like the show, please subscribe to it and tell you

We talk and talk and talk and you listen, because it's Thinkery! This time, Paul and Brian talk about stuff like:Do podcasts suck because they lack conflict? YES THEY DOAre mass shootings committed by marginalized white guys actually a sign of cultural progress? Plus other things I didn't write down when we were recording. BELIEVE IT!As ever, if you like the show, please subscribe and share it with your friends. And if you want more than just to hear our melodic voices once a week, but want to read short, out-of-context snippets of text from us, follow us on Twitter! We're here!@paulfidalgo, @dotboom, and @thinkerypodcastAlso, you can email us if you have long-form vitriol, at thinkerypodcast@gmail.com. BRING IT!

In this thrilling episode, your intrepid hosts host a conversation between themselves!Thrill to such varied topics as:If Arnold Schwarzenegger didn't have his Awesome Austrian Accent (AAA!), would we like him as much?If Darth Vader hadn't sounded like James Earl Jones, would Star Wars have been a juggernaut?Something about the iPhone 6s, I think!Is there Too Much Damn Journalism?Follow us on Twitter, please! We're @Paulfidalgo (Paul), @dotboom (Brian), and @thinkerypodcast (The show!)Also, if you like the show and you aren't subscribed, subscribe with iTunes, Stitcher, Overcast, or whatever you use to listen to podcasts! And if you do like the show, won't you please share this with people you love, and leave us a review? INSERT JOKE THAT ISN'T A JOKE ABOUT OUR FRAGILE EGOS HERE!

Witness the penultimate episode before episode 13! Soon we'll be able to make some kind of joke about a baker's dozen!(Episode 13 has no special significance, but I try to come up with something funny to say at the beginning of these descriptions, and sometimes it's hard)What do Paul and Brian talk about this week? Ask and ye shall receive, puny mortals:Paul raps about a little thing he likes to call 'radical transparency!'Paul says: "I CAN'T EVEN THINK WHAT IS LIFE!"Where are all the grown-ups?The US Election remains a horror show!Are we frauds? Probably!What does it mean to call yourself an expert?Follow us on Twitter! Paul is @fidalgo, Brian is @dotboom, and the show is @thinkerypodcast!If you like the show, please subscribe, leave a review on your podcatcher of choice, like iTunes or Stitcher, and tell people about the show if you want! It'll soothe our fragile ego like moisturize on the skin of a grizzled farm hand.  

The Internet’s own Andy Ihnatko (!) joins Paul and Brian this episode, and they have a fantastic conversation about so many things! What do they talk about while Paul tries to keep it together? Here’s a sampling!How to address Andy!Ahmed Mohammed didn’t deserve the handcuffs!Curiosity needs to be cultivated, damn you!Ahmed Mohammed didn’t also didn’t deserve *quite* so much of the attention he’s getting (good and bad)!Micro-transactions of aggression!Politics, amiright?How not to be a dick online!Should Brian feel bad about Mosspuppet? Comic book continuity is a waste of time!Project Runway is an amazing show, with a host who’s like a comforting blanket made of warm milk!

By the power of Greyskull, it's our first ever guest, Swoopy! The co-creator of the excellent Skepticality podcast is well-known in the online skeptical arena, and also just happens to be super fun to talk to! What do Paul and Brian talk with her about? GLAD YOU ASKED:Swoopy, because she's our guest, and she does stuff!Religious accommodation comes to Costco in an interesting way!Apple!Are Paul and I *really* bothered by his height?Why do people care about the royal family?And more, in all likelihood!You can find our excellent guest on Twitter, where she's @swoopy!You can find Paul @paulfidalgo, and Brian @dotboom!If you like the show, won't you leave us a positive review wherever you download it from? And subscribe! And tell your friends! And shave our url (thinkerypodcast.com) into the side of your dog, if you have one!

This time:Paul and Brian stress over having guests on the show in the future!Kim Davis is wrong, but attacking her is counter-productive!Presidential candidate Lawrence Lessig doesn’t know how to avoid deflating people!Men who have issues with gay men are worried they’ll accidentally be attracted to them! Follow us on Twitter: @paulfidalgo, @dotboom, @thinkerypodcast!Email us: thinkerypodcast@gmail.comSubscribe to the show on iTunes or wherever, and leave a review if you like it!

It’s a brand-new episode of the show all the very few people are talking about yet! What do Paul and Brian talk about? WE’LL TELL YOU:One of us won’t miss John Stewart!One of us has seen the horrendous carnage of nature, in a storage container in his closet!Both of us wonder if raising livestock to eat can be an act of kindness!The two of us compare heights, and one of us wins! Paul doesn’t win!And much more, probably!Follow us on Twitter, at:@paulfidalgo (Paul)@dotboom (Brian)@thinkerypodcast (The show)Check out the site at thinkerypodcast.com, and find our page on Facebook and like it! And tell almost everyone you know about it, even if you don’t like it!

It’s a new episode, and it’s bigger and shorter than ever! What do Paul and Brian talk about this time? Lots of things, like:Kids, and taking care of them!Paul wants to save his precious, delicate phone!Is the universe real? Who cares!Amazon Prime, and the lunacy of saying you get ‘free 2-day shipping!’How can an established company still be a startup?And more, possibly!You can follow us on Twitter at @paulfidalgo (Paul), @dotboom (Brian), and @thinkerypodcast (The show!)You can check us out online at thinkerypodcast.com, if you like!If you’re enjoying the show, please rate us and leave a comment on iTunes or your pod catcher of choice. It helps us, in some ill-defined way!

It’s another episode of Thinkery, with 100% new content and 60% new jokes! And Brian is literally sitting in a closet for optimal sound quality!  Plus, we talk about these specific topics:More listeners — and attention — makes us deeply uncomfortable, but we want them!Creativity is mechanical, and the muse is mythical!How Brian and Paul met!Richard Dawkins is the stripper you take home with you!Why people disappoint you!The Berenstain Bears are fracturing reality!Was Brian wrong when he made fun of alien blood?Mind control fungus!You can follow Paul on Twitter at @paulfidalgo, and Brian at @dotboom.Email us at thinkerypodcast@gmail.com!Visit our website at thinkerypodcast.com, for some reason!If you like the show, please tell your friends, or share it on Twitter or Facebook, or leave a review for the show on iTunes. It would make us briefly happy!

On this week’s all-new episode of Thinkery:* Brian contemplates doing more Mosspuppet and also feels terrible about how his crowdfunding campaign went!* Christians should have no problem with abortion!* Darth Vader’s ‘redemption’ is morally simplistic!* Is there a god or afterlife in Star Wars?* Neither Paul nor Brian can read fiction anymore!* Will Voyager outlast us all? What would Paul and Brian do with a time machine? Their answers may shock you!We’d love to hear your feedback! You can email us at thinkerypodcast@gmail.com, or message Paul on Twitter at @paulfidalgo or Brian on Twitter at @dotboom. You can also message our podcast Twitter account, which is @thinkerypodcast!We’ve got a website, too, which is thinkerypodcast.com. ThereIf you’re enjoying the show, and you have a few free seconds, won’t you tell someone about the show or post a review for us on iTunes? It would make us — well, not happy, but less sad. Help make us less sad by saying nice things to massage our terribly delicate egos.

In this episode, Paul’s computer broke, forcing him to use something non-magical! Brian had an actual reasonable conversation in YouTube comments! CS Lewis is an unconvincing hack and Christian Apologetics are embarrassingly bad! We’re somewhere on the atheist scale! What IS knowledge, anyway? When we meet aliens for the first time, will they want to murder us, or sell us Amway? What’s the culture of heaven, and will you eventually be able to have sex with everyone?For more Paul, go to @paulfidalgo or patheos.com/blogs/imortal!For more Brian, go to @dotboom! To contact us, email us at thinkerypodcast@gmail.com!Or check us out at thinkerypodcast.com!

It’s another episode of the show THEY don’t want you to hear! In this episode we talk about Rick Perry’s electoral desperation, our grand plans to monetize the empire that this show obviously already is, how the idea that everyone should be inclusive is actually exclusionary, why if you don’t do your job you should be fired, and how most of the people who watched Man of Steel must have done so with their eyes closed and their ears plugged.You can follow Paul on Twitter at @paulfidalgo, and you can following Brian at @dotboom. The show has a Twitter account, too! It’s @thinkerypodcast. And a website, which it thinkerypodcast.com!

Even though we are Icarus-like in our flights of fancy, we didn't burn out and crash drowning into the ocean after episode 1, so we're back! This time we ask if gender is just a style, we debate whether it's ethical to bring a child into the world, and debate the merits of sociopathy. Plus we've got theme music now!Paul is on Twitter at @paulfidalgo, and Brian is on Twitter at @dotboom. You can find out minimally more about the show at thinkerypodcast.com.

It's the very first episode of Thinkery! We talk about growing bugs, how Christianity is like the X-Men, Donald Trump's electoral chances, Marvel's lack of diversity, and probably some other things.