Best Mark Linsenmayer Podcasts (2025)

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NEM#230: Dean Wareham (Luna, Galaxie 500) Waxes Poetic 1:04:57

2h ago1:04:57

1:04:57

Dean has released about 20 albums, starting with three ’88-’90 with his Harvard classmates as Galaxie 500, then started fresh in New York as Luna, releasing 7 albums and some EPs through 2005 (plus a later reunion), then continued with his Luna bassist and now spouse Britta Phillips as Dean and Britta for 5 albums, interspersed with now four albums…

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S7E13 - Run Walk or Frawl - with guest Rich Baker 35:17

2d ago35:17

35:17

Ambassador Frawl from the planet Chillaxon brings his culture’s philosophy of chill and relaxation to Booth 42. Trellis and Horatio do their best not to harsh his buzz.By The Improv in Action Network

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Ep. 365: Scheler on Love (Part One) 46:12

5d ago46:12

46:12

On The Nature of Sympathy (1922), Part II: "Love and Hatred." What is love, and how does it relate to ethics and to sympathy? For Scheler, love is a primitive, spontaneous movement from lower to higher values: We see the best in the love one and thereby help enable them to attain that excellence. So is love foundational for value, or is value found…

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PEL Presents PMP#194: Adolescence Wrecks Us 52:38

8d ago52:38

52:38

We watched the 4-part British crime series that's become #1 in 80 countries, breaking Netflix's records for an original series. And man, was it a bummer. But important! We reflect on the purpose of the show, its one-take-per-episode format, the choice of whose perspectives to show, the crazy good acting by such a young person, and we get a little e…

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PMP#194: Adolescence Wrecks Us 52:38

10d ago52:38

52:38

We watched the 4-part British crime series that's become #1 in 80 countries, breaking Netflix's records for an original series. And man, was it a bummer. But important! We reflect on the purpose of the show, its one-take-per-episode format, the choice of whose perspectives to show, the crazy good acting by such a young person, and we get a little e…

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S7E12 - EeeeKa The Godess of Small Irritations - with guest Ali Davis 32:18

9d ago32:18

32:18

Eeeeka, the goddess of small irritations, finds that the seeds of her work are growing much fruit in Booth 42. Trellis and Horatio have been accidentally worshipping her by naturally irritating other beings for years.By The Improv in Action Network

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Ep. 364: Max Scheler on Sympathy (Part Three) 50:23

12d ago50:23

50:23

Mark, Wes, and Dylan reconvened for one more hour on Part I, "Fellow Feeling" (ch. 3-4) in The Nature of Sympathy (1913/1922). We continue to try to figure out the razor's edge of "fellow feeling proper" that does not rely on the sympathizer identifying in any way and look into psychological and metaphysical ways that people can identify with other…

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PEL Presents PvI#91: Community Breakdown (or Breakdance?) w/ Nick Armstrong 1:01:03

12d ago1:01:03

1:01:03

Mark and Bill are joined by the actor/improviser who directs Camp Improv Utopia and is involved in managing improv spaces such as Denver's Rise Comedy. We talk about the notion of community, with a scene about the neighborhood watch and a return to Empty Street to deal seriously in a public-service-announcement/after-school special sort of way with…

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PvI#91: Community Breakdown (or Breakdance?) w/ Nick Armstrong 1:06:32

13d ago1:06:32

1:06:32

Mark and Bill are joined by the actor/improviser who directs Camp Improv Utopia and is involved in managing improv spaces such as Denver's Rise Comedy. We talk about the notion of community, with a scene about the neighborhood watch and a return to Empty Street to deal seriously in a public-service-announcement/after-school special sort of way with…

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S7E11 - Three Guests In One - with guest Breeze Geier 32:12

16d ago32:12

32:12

Glorp, Pasco, and Jim are three alternating and distinct personalities sharing the same body and that’s perfectly natural on their home planet of Trisket.By The Improv in Action Network

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Ep. 364: Max Scheler on Sympathy (Part Two) 52:11

20d ago52:11

52:11

Continuing on The Nature of Sympathy (1913/1922), Part I: "Fellow Feeling," Ch. 1-4. We look more closely at the text, getting further into how fellow feeling relates to ethics, and why the moral sentimentalists (like Hume) were wrong about this. Get more at partiallyexaminedlife.com. Visit partiallyexaminedlife.com/support to get ad-free episodes …

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PMP#193: Severance: Mystery Box in Progress 59:08

24d ago59:08

59:08

Mark, Lawrence, Sarahlyn and Al here discuss the sci-fi/office dramedy in light of its second season. We might normally wait until the end of the show, but given that season 1 was 2022, and it took three years to get us season 2, who knows it it'll actually finish? And who knows if it will not be massively disappointing at that point? We strike whi…

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PEL Presents PMP#193: Severance: Mystery Box in Progress 55:12

24d ago55:12

55:12

Mark, Lawrence, Sarahlyn and Al here discuss the sci-fi/office dramedy in light of its second season. We might normally wait until the end of the show, but given that season 1 was 2022, and it took three years to get us season 2, who knows it it'll actually finish? And who knows if it will not be massively disappointing at that point? We strike whi…

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S7E10 - Talkin Trash with Steve - with guest Mark Kendall 28:38

23d ago28:38

28:38

Steve is the lead sanitation engineer around, but when he travels the galaxy, he’s not just searching for trash, he’s seeking out treasure.By The Improv in Action Network

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NEM#229: Peter Holsapple (dB’s, Continental Drifters) Pays Tribute to His Adolescence 1:18:30

26d ago1:18:30

1:18:30

Peter recorded with Chris Stamey as early as 1972, and they reconvened as The dB’s in the ’80s. Peter has released six albums as the dB’s, three more as a duo with Chris, four co-fronting the Continental Drifters, and three solo albums. He has also been a supporting/touring member in several bands including REM (e.g. on the Out of Time album), Hoot…

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Ep. 364: Max Scheler on Sympathy (Part One) 46:57

27d ago46:57

46:57

On The Nature of Sympathy (1913, expanded 1922), Part I: "Fellow Feeling," Ch. 1-4. What is it to feel sympathy (aka "fellow feeling") for another person? It is NOT to "identify" with that person; ethics requires that the person be irreducibly Other, not part of my (extended) ego. Get more at partiallyexaminedlife.com. Visit partiallyexaminedlife.c…

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PEL Presents NEM#229: Peter Holsapple (dB's, Continental Drifters) Pays Tribute to His Adolescence 1:18:30

28d ago1:18:30

1:18:30

Peter recorded with Chris Stamey as early as 1972, and they reconvened as The dB's in the '80s. Peter has released six albums as the dB's, three more as a duo with Chris, four co-fronting the Continental Drifters, and three solo albums. He has also been a supporting/touring member in several bands including REM, Hootie and the Blowfish, and current…

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PEL Presents Closereads: Husserl on Perceiving Minds 1:02:21

30d ago1:02:21

1:02:21

On Edmund Husserl's Ideas, Vol. 2 (1928), Section 3, "The Constitution of the Spiritual World," Ch. 1, "Opposition Between the Naturalistic and Personalistic Worlds." Given Husserl's method of "reduction" whereby he sets aside the metaphysical status of objects in the natural world (are they mind-independent or merely ideas?), we wanted to see how …

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S7E9 - We will Mohave Another - with guest Jake Jake Friedman-Hurvitz 31:45

1M ago31:45

31:45

Mohave Cashew is from the moon Renato where the inhabitants subsist mainly on snails consumed using ensnailers. Also his funnel shaped mouth also functions as an arm.By The Improv in Action Network

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PvI#90: Empty Street 54:26

1M ago54:26

54:26

Mark and Bill introduce a new potential setting and some characters for ongoing use in future improvisations. We talk about techniques for doing that and wrap up by getting an update from Bill on his substitute teaching and talking about what makes for a good teacher. You can choose to watch this on unedited video. Learn more about your ad choices.…

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Ep. 363: Franz Brentano's Moral Epistemology (Part Two) 49:56

1M ago49:56

49:56

Continuing on "The Origin of the Knowledge of Right and Wrong" (1889), getting into how we measure the comparative value of things. While Brentano does observe actual practices in these areas, his phenomenology detects moral facts that can be used to cast judgments of people's actual practices, saving him from relativism. Get more at partiallyexami…

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PEL Presents PvI#90: Empty Street 48:57

1M ago48:57

48:57

Mark and Bill introduce a new potential setting and some characters for ongoing use in future improvisations. We talk about techniques for doing that and wrap up by getting an update from Bill on his substitute teaching and talking about what makes for a good teacher. Hear more at philosophyimprov.com. Support the podcast and listen ad-free at phil…

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PMP#192: Exhibitionist Reality TV 1:00:21

1M ago1:00:21

1:00:21

We acknowledge this hugely popular form of "entertainment" recently embodied by The Baldwins, but popularized by shows like The Osbournes and The Kardashians, wherein some celebrity and/or family just shows off their life, Mark, Lawrence, Sarahlyn and Al are joined by returning guest Kayla Dryesse to talk about why this kind of show exists, its var…

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S7E8 - As Busy as a Buck - with guest Madeline Evans 33:27

1M ago33:27

33:27

Buck the Beaver, son of Buckees of the galactically popular fuel-replenishing stations, drops by our booth to gnaw on the table legs and do some market research.By The Improv in Action Network

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Ep. 363: Franz Brentano's Moral Epistemology (Part One) 48:45

1M ago48:45

48:45

On "The Origin of the Knowledge of Right and Wrong" (1889). What justifies basic moral facts? Brentano claims that right there in our experience, we can rationally sense with complete certainty that certain kinds of preferences are good ones, and others are not. This take on intuitionism is a response to Kant that (like Kant) cuts between the tradi…

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PEL Presents PMP #192: Exhibitionist Reality TV 1:00:22

1M ago1:00:22

1:00:22

We acknowledge this hugely popular form of "entertainment" recently embodied by The Baldwins, but popularized by shows like The Osbournes and The Kardashians, wherein some celebrity and/or family just shows off their life, Mark, Lawrence, Sarahlyn and Al are joined by returning guest Kayla Dryesse to talk about why this kind of show exists, its var…

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S7E7 - The Zocratic Method - with guest Mark Linsenmayer 31:17

2M ago31:17

31:17

Zocrates shows us that if meaning doesn’t come from his home planet of Minong, it doesn’t have meaning at all.By The Improv in Action Network

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Ep. 362: Ecclesiastes: Biblical Existentialism? (Part Two) 51:12

2M ago51:12

51:12

Continuing on Ecclesiastes with guest Jesse Peterson, getting into some more close reading of particular sections. We make some connection from the author's observations to ancient Greek Skepticism, Epicureanism, and Stoicism. How is the world "absurd" according to this book? Get more at partiallyexaminedlife.com. Visit partiallyexaminedlife.com/su…

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PEL Presents PMP#191: Saturday Night Liver 56:10

2M ago56:10

56:10

Are we taking for granted this unique, talent-filled weekly nationally televised live comedy event that's been around for 50 years? (as in "What do we think this show is? Chopped liver?") Does its format even make sense at this time given YouTube and streaming? What will its legacy be? Mark, Lawrence, Sarahlyn, and Al discuss the casts, highlights,…

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PMP#191: Saturday Night Liver 56:10

2M ago56:10

56:10

Are we taking for granted this unique, talent-filled weekly nationally televised live comedy event that's been around for 50 years? (as in "What do we think this show is? Chopped liver?") Does its format even make sense at this time given YouTube and streaming? What will its legacy be? Mark, Lawrence, Sarahlyn, and Al discuss the casts, highlights,…

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NEM#228: John “JR” Robinson: Omnipresent Drummer 1:12:05

2M ago1:12:05

1:12:05

JR is one of our most recorded session drummers, playing on over 200 US Billboard Hot 100 songs and 50 Grammy winning tunes. He was Quincy Jones’ drummer of choice and played on “We Are the World” and with Michael Jackson, Chaka Khan, Lionel Richie, Herbie Hancock, Barbara Streisand, Daft Punk, Lady Gaga, and too many others to name. He was a membe…

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S7E6 - In Search of the Big Rock Candy Planet - with guest Jeff Milchalski 27:51

2M ago27:51

27:51

The Big Hoboswki, space hobo extraordinaire, takes a break from the space roads to rest his bindle in Booth 42 and tell us his tales from the hyperspace road.By The Improv in Action Network

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Ep. 362: Ecclesiastes: Biblical Existentialism? (Part One) 44:41

2M ago44:41

44:41

Ecclesiastes is often cited as one of the most philosophical books of the Bible, so we approached it in that spirit with the help of Jesse M. Peterson, whose soon-to-be-published book is called Qoheleth and the Philosophy of Value. Get more at partiallyexaminedlife.com. Visit partiallyexaminedlife.com/support to get ad-free episodes and tons of bon…

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PEL Presents NEM#228: John "JR" Robinson: Omnipresent Drummer 1:12:06

2M ago1:12:06

1:12:06

JR has drummed on over 200 US Billboard Hot 100 songs and 50 Grammy winning tunes. He was in Rufus w/ Chaka Khan in the late 70s/early 80s, has released two solo albums, written for soundtracks, produced other artists, and has led various combos over the years. He is currently promoting his auto-biography King of the Groove. We discuss "Gonna Be Al…

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