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Not Ep 117: “Antigone” Full-Cast Audioplay (Citizen Edition)

June 7, 2015 by Mark Linsenmayer 2 Comments

An unrehearsed read-through of the Greek Tragedy from 441 BCE by the PEL Players featuring Lucy Lawless and Paul Provenza, plus some cast discussion of Greek drama and our selected translation, as well as Citizen-exclusive outtakes.

End song: “Antigone” by Mark Lint (2015)

Not Ep. 87 Addendum: Citizen Outtakes from “No Exit”

January 5, 2014 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

A couple of minutes of us chatting with Lucy Lawless and Jaime Murray as we share our preconceptions about the play and give excuses for being unprepared, about 5 minutes of blooper-type material, then the rest is our talking afterward about some of our choices in silly voices, what we think Sartre was talking about, what we were all up to in our lives that week, etc.

Not Ep. 87: Sartre’s “No Exit” Read with Lucy Lawless & Jaime Murray

January 2, 2014 by Mark Linsenmayer 1 Comment

The PEL Players present our 2nd annual dramatic reading of a work of philosophical theater.

End song: “No Exit” by Mark Lint

Not Ep 69: “Gorgias” Full Cast Audioplay (Part Two)

January 12, 2013 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Continuing our reading of the Platonic dialogue, Socrates (Mark) and Callicles (Dylan) duke it out.

Not Ep 69: “Gorgias” Full Cast Audioplay (Part One)

January 12, 2013 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Three podcasters and two listeners join to read Plato’s fabulous dialogue. 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 about.

After first trouncing Gorgias’s student Polus (Evan), Socrates then eviscerates Gorgias himself, arguing that oratory is just a worthless form of flattery, like pastry baking (?!?!), feeding people what they want to hear while doing nothing to improve them. As part one concludes, Callicles steps up and gives Socrates a smackdown, arguing that orators, who argue the affairs of the state, have power, and hence happiness, and even though we may give lip service to the idea that exerting power unjustly is shameful, the law of nature says that more power is always better, and screw justice. And screw philosophy too!

Audiobook: Bertrand Russell’s “On Denoting”

November 20, 2012 by Mark Linsenmayer 1 Comment

Bertrand Russell article, "On Denoting" from 1905

Mark Linsenmayer reads the 1905 article, which serves to supplement our Frege and Russell episodes.

Audiobook: W.V.O. Quine’s “Two Dogmas of Empiricism”

November 20, 2012 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Mark Linsenmayer reads the 1951 article, discussed on our episode 66.

Audiobook: W.V.O. Quine’s “On What There Is”

November 20, 2012 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Dylan Casey reads the 1948 article, discussed on our episode 66.

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