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PREMIUM-PEL Nightcap Early March 2023
Mark, Wes, Dylan, and Seth reflect on the interpretive challenges of the Daodejing, and in the full Nightcap, take on the question of whether philoso…
3 years, 6 months ago
Ep. 311: Understanding the Dao De Jing (Part Two)
Continuing on the central Daoist text with guest Theodore Brooks. We explore practical vs. metaphysical interpretations of the Dao, the relation of t…
3 years, 7 months ago
PEL Presents NEM#190: Jad Fair (Half Japanese): Being Productive = Being Yourself
Jad estimates he's released over 180 albums between his band, solo, and collaborative work. He started Half Japanese with his brother David in 1975.
…3 years, 7 months ago
PEL Presents PMP#145: Growing Up Sitcommed
Mark, Sarahlyn, Lawrence, and guest Landen Celano from the Grunt Work podcast talk about talk about our ambivalence toward the three-camera, laugh-tr…
3 years, 7 months ago
Ep. 311: Understanding the Dao De Jing (Part One)
On the Daodejing (Tao Te Ching) by Laozi (ca. 500 BCE), with guest Theodore Brooks.
We talk about the wildly different, interpretive translations of …
3 years, 7 months ago
PEL Presents Philosophy vs. Improv #48: Debates in the Orthaganon
Mark and Bill act out a couple of scenes of a person trying to convince a stubborn person of something. But there's a twist in the characterization! …
3 years, 7 months ago
PREMIUM-PEL Nightcap February 2023
Mark, Wes, and Seth anticipate our Dao De Jing and Dostoevsky recordings and talk about Russian literature. In the full episode, we also talk about c…
3 years, 7 months ago
Ep. 310: Wittgenstein On World-Pictures (Part Two)
Concluding our discussion of On Certainty, with guest Chris Heath.
We try one last time to get a handle on Wittgenstein's philosophy of science. How…
3 years, 7 months ago
PEL Presents PMP#144: Androids and Us
Do movie robots want to love us, be us, or kill us? Mark, Lawrence, Sarahlyn, and Al talk through various ethical and narrative problems having to d…
3 years, 7 months ago
PEL Presents Philosophy vs. Improv #47: What's In the Chili? w/ Rachael Mason
Rachael was a mentor of Bill's and works with him at the newly reopened iO Theater. So it's like we have TWO improv instructors here. We run some sc…
3 years, 7 months ago