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PMP#23: The Singer Not the Song w/ Ken Stringfellow

Season 1 Episode 23

Do you just embrace the pure sound of music or does context matter to you, i.e. the artist's intentions and body of work?

Ken Stringfellow (Posies, R…

6 years, 6 months ago

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PMP#22: Untangling Time Travel

Season 1 Episode 22

Time travel rules in The Terminator franchise are notoriously inconsistent. Can we change the future or not?

Mark, Erica, and Brian are joined by Ken…

6 years, 7 months ago

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PMP#21: Role-Playing Video Games

Season 1 Episode 21

What constitutes a video RPG? Is there any actual role-playing involved? Our editor Tyler Hislop rejoins Mark, Erica, and Brian to discuss those vide…

6 years, 7 months ago

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NOT PMP#21: Mark’s Thanksgiving Fireside Chat

Season 1

After 20 weeks of regularly scheduled, reliable programming, we are taking a week off to eat some mashed potatoes and things. We will not be taken fo…

6 years, 7 months ago

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PMP#20: Improv Comedy w/ Tim Sniffen

Season 1 Episode 20

What role does improv comedy play in popular culture? It's deployed by certain film directors (e.g. Christopher Guest), in some of the TV work of Lar…

6 years, 7 months ago

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PMP#19: Race and the Target Audience w/ Rodney Ramsey

Season 1 Episode 19

Are YOU the target audience of what you watch? While shows used to be aimed at a white majority or "niche group," now much media aims itself seemingl…

6 years, 7 months ago

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PMP#18: Stephen King’s Media Empire

Season 1 Episode 18

Is the most popular writer of our time actually a good writer? Or maybe he used to be good? While you've been thinking about those questions, King al…

6 years, 8 months ago

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PMP#17: Comedy as Philosophy w/ Daniel Lobell

Season 1 Episode 17

Are stand-up comedians the Modern Day Philosophers? This claim forms the premise of Daniel’s podcast where interviews some of our best known and love…

6 years, 8 months ago

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PMP#16: 25 Years After FRIENDS

Season 1 Episode 16

Mark, Erica, and Brian examine the conventions, techniques, and staying power of the beloved '90s sitcom. Are we supposed to identify with, or idoliz…

6 years, 8 months ago

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PMP#15: Opera As Pop

Season 1 Episode 15

Opera used to be a central part of European pop culture, Pavarotti was as big a pop star as they come. But still, it's now the quintessential art-for…

6 years, 8 months ago

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