As a study aid for our episode 117, here's an unrehearsed, dramatic read-through of the text we'll be discussing, a Greek tragedy written around 441 BCE, telling the myth of the cursed line of Oedipus, mother-f*#king king of Thebes. It features Mark, Seth, Wes, and Dylan, plus special guest starts Lucy Lawless as Antigone, Paul Provenza as Creon, Alice Sinclair as Ismene, and Continue Reading …
Not Ep. 87 Addendum: Citizen Outtakes from “No Exit”
Some bonus footage from our recent No Exit performance. Here you'll hear a couple of minutes of us chatting as we share our preconceptions about the play and give excuses for being unprepared; next, about 5 minutes of blooper-type material, as we make jokes that interrupt the performance and have a few car crashes trying to determine the best way to deliver some of this very Continue Reading …
Not Ep. 87: Sartre’s “No Exit” Read with Lucy Lawless & Jaime Murray
In support of our ep. #87 discussing Sartre, the PEL Players present our 2nd annual dramatic reading of a work of philosophical theater. Mark Linsenmayer and Wes Alwan are joined by real actresses Lucy Lawless (Xena, Battlestar Galactica, Parks & Recreation, etc.) and Jaime Murray (Defiance, Dexter, Warehouse 13, etc.), who are pals through working together on Continue Reading …
Not Ep 69: “Gorgias” Full Cast Audioplay (Part Two)
Continuing our reading of the Platonic dialogue, Socrates (Mark) and Callicles (Dylan) duke it out. Continue Reading …
Not Ep 69: “Gorgias” Full Cast Audioplay (Part One)
Three podcasters and two listeners join to read Plato's fabulous dialogue, which is discussed in PEL Episode 69. Listening to this will be MIGHTY good preparation for listening to that discussion. Socrates (Mark) and his pal Chaerephon (Eileen), at the behest of Callicles (Dylan), call on the famous orator/teacher Gorgias (Seth) to ask him what this oratory crap is all Continue Reading …
Audiobook: Bertrand Russell’s “On Denoting”
Mark Linsenmayer reads the 1905 article, which serves to supplement our Frege and Russell episodes. For Frege, a word can have both a meaning (its sense) and a denotation (its referent). So "Clark Kent" and "Superman" have the same referent, but different senses. But since actually, Superman is a fictional character, technically speaking, neither of those terms has a Continue Reading …
Audiobook: W.V.O. Quine’s “Two Dogmas of Empiricism”
Mark Linsenmayer reads the 1951 article, discussed on our episode 66. Read about the essay. Continue Reading …
Audiobook: W.V.O. Quine’s “On What There Is”
Dylan Casey reads the 1948 article, discussed on our episode 66. Read about the essay. Continue Reading …