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Futbol AmericasFutbol Americas: Tyler Adams Suffers InjuryAlexis Nunes and Shaka Hislop react to Tyler Adams suffering an apparent knee injury vs. Manchester United. Then, a discussion on how Bayern Munich should manage Alphonso Davies ahead of the 2026 World Cup. Plus, a discussion on Real Madrid's Brazilian connection between Vini Jr and Rodrygo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2025-12-1648 min
ESPN FCFutbol Americas: Tyler Adams Suffers InjuryAlexis Nunes and Shaka Hislop react to Tyler Adams suffering an apparent knee injury vs. Manchester United. Then, a discussion on how Bayern Munich should manage Alphonso Davies ahead of the 2026 World Cup. Plus, a discussion on Real Madrid's Brazilian connection between Vini Jr and Rodrygo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2025-12-1648 min
Subtext: Conversations about Classic Books and FilmsThe American Dream in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” (Re-Release for 100th Anniversary)
Hard to believe that Subtext has been around for five years, and Gatsby for 100. To celebrate these anniversaries (and our hiatus in recordings for a long summer vacation), here’s a re-release of one of our early episodes (from November 2020).
We all know this story, in part because it captures a period that will always have a special place in the American imagination. Prosperous and boozy, the Jazz Age seemed like one great party, held to celebrate the end of a terrible world war; the liberating promise of newly ubiquitous technologies, including electricity, the telephone, and the au...
2025-09-021h 23
Philosophy vs. ImprovConsent to Improv w/ Sukaina Hirji
Sukaina teaches philosophy at U. of Pennsylvania, combining work from ancient Greek, contemporary moral, and feminist philosophy. She lets Mark and Bill know about critiques by feminist philosophers of the idea of consent. We talk a bit about moral agency, teaching dynamics given these kids today, Aristotelian virtue, and testing personality types by turning them up to 11. Also, did our last episode involve improv against the someone’s will?
Follow Sukaina on Twitter and Instagram. Check out her work at sukaina-hirji.com.
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2023-12-201h 04
Nakedly Examined Music PodcastNEM#207: Jason Narducy: Punk Matured
Jason plays bass for Bob Mould’s band, is a touring member of Superchunk, and has been making the promo rounds as he tours as guitarist with actor Michael Shannon to play R.E.M.’s debut Murmur live for its 40th anniversary. He’s a singer-songwriter who played as Verbow in the 90s, and more recently as Split Single.
We discuss two Split Single tunes: “Bitten by the Sound” from Amplificado (2021), “Monolith” from Fragmented World (2014), plus Verbow’s “Fan Club” from Chronicles (1997). End song: “Blood Break Ground” from Callado (2022). Intro: “He’s a Panther” by Verböten (his first band, when he wa...
2023-12-111h 05Philosophy vs. ImprovLegacy Mops w/ Kevin Allison
Kevin is the creator and host of the storytelling podcast RISK! and is the alphabetically foremost member of the MTV-televised, newly reformed, celebrity-infested sketch comedy troupe The State. He tells us he was also the creative director of an improv troupe for a year, but it’s not his primary jam, so we talk about that before launching into a scene about a suspicious hotel.
How does one engineer one’s legacy? Can you, or will history inevitably either reduce your greatest contributions to mere noise or reinterpret them in light of, for instance, your final, embarrassing mome...
2023-12-041h 00Nakedly Examined Music PodcastNEM#206: Wreckless Eric: “Without Sound, You’ve Got Nothing”
Eric Goulden started in 1977 as label-mate to Elvis Costello and Ian Dury, but after three albums he went indie and was an early practitioner of home recording, releasing albums in the second half of the ’80s under various band names like Captains of Industry and The Len Bright Combo. He eventually re-embraced his Wreckless Eric moniker and now records on his own and with his wife Amy Rigby, bringing his total output to around 29 albums. He sees the songwriting portion as a minor part of what he does; it’s all about creating unique and exciting sounds for the reco...
2023-11-221h 14
Energi TalksTalking 'The Water Brothers' with Alex and Tyler MifflinMarkham interviews Alex and Tyler Mifflin about their TVO Original series 'The Water Brothers,' an eco-adventure documentary series that explores the world, uncovering the most challenging water stories of our time. Alex and Tyler investigate the problems and search for solutions, talking to conservationists, scientists, and citizens around the world.
2023-11-1731 minPhilosophy vs. ImprovPop Spice
Recorded on 9/11 (a date not known primarily for its improv activities), only now making its way to you, this discussion between Mark and Bill talk child deification, pop philosophy vs. pop improv, foreign accents, and guns in schools in the hands of improvisers.
The image is from this Reddit article asking for ideas on how to “spice up” a potential tattoo drawing of mice by the poster’s daughter. The comments on the page are not flattering.
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2023-11-1553 minPhilosophy vs. ImprovTEAM PLAY GENERALS with Linda Orr and Andrew Lavin
Returning freedom fighters Andrew and Linda and join Bill and Mark to talk about philosophical liberalism: Its rationales and varieties. Plus, preschool orientation, and Greek gods creating a new world.
Follow Linda @IrisCutter. Her weekly improv show is with the troupe Dumb John. Listen to Andrew’s philosophy podcast, Reductio, which has dwelt further on Rawlsian liberalism, as has Mark on PEL.
The episode image is from the U.S. Department of Defense, which apparently either commissions child art or more likely collects art from the children of military personnel. We honor their service and th...
2023-11-061h 15Nakedly Examined Music PodcastNEM#205: Tom Heyman: Unreliable Narrator
Tom is best known as a steel guitar player who has guested with artists like Alejandro Escovedo, John Doe, and Sonny Smith. He started in the late ’80s as the lead guitarist and backup songwriter for the Philadelphia energetic alt-country band Go to Blazes. After five albums with them, he moved to San Francisco in 1997 and has since released six solo albums of Dylan-esque, lyrically driven folk-rock.
We discuss “Desperate” from 24th Street Blues (2023), “Chickenhawks and Jesus Freaks” from That Cool Blue Feeling (2013), “Bloody Sam” by Go To Blazes from Any Time… Anywhere (1994), and listen to “Etch A Sketch” from Sho...
2023-11-061h 09Nakedly Examined Music PodcastNEM#204: Tim and Sue Lee Learn Their Craft, from Windbreakers to Bark
Tim first released music as co-frontman of The Windbreakers (with Bobby Sutliff) in Mississippi in 1982, with seven releases in under that moniker plus other collaborations coming out in the ’80s. He recorded two solo albums as the ’80s ended and then retired from the road and recording until the late ’90s, when he started again releasing solo albums, with his wife Susan Bauer Lee joining as a bass player and songwriting collaborator.
After four albums under Tim’s name, the two released six albums as The Tim Lee 3 and then formally became a duo called Bark, with Sue tran...
2023-10-151h 30Philosophy vs. ImprovVirtual Socrates w/ David Chalmers
The New York University Prof and author of many influential books including the new Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy joins Mark and Bill to simulate debates about AI, cybersex, actor vs. character, and keeping children safe from reality.
We refer to Nick Bostrom’s argument that we’re most likely now in a simulation. In a past episode, we discussed Robert Nozick’s “experience machine.” If you somehow didn’t know what we were talking about re. Rudy Giuliani in Borat 2, watch it. Check out Mark’s previous interview with David.
The art is by Socr...
2023-10-1358 minPhilosophy vs. ImprovCutting Every Edge w/ Jeremy Richards
The author of The Accomplished Creative, a sort of anti-self-help book based around Jeremy’s improv experience and what he learned as a philosophy major, joins Mark and Bill to talk impostor syndrome and benign violations, get real meta about Die Hard scenarios, and have a cheese intervention.
Follow @JeremyRichards. Listen to Jeremy’s podcast Think Like An Improviser. His Seattle improv venue is Unexpected Productions. Jeremy also wrote a musical about Nietzsche.
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2023-09-2657 minPhilosophy vs. ImprovTEAM PLAY CIRCUS with Adal Rifai and Jenny Hansen
It’s our season three premiere, and the elephants are in the room! It’s St. Lawrence University philosophy prof Jenny (a frequent PEL guest) in the ring with UIC Theater instructor/Podcaster with Hey Riddle Riddle and Hello From the Magic Tavern Adal, along with Mark and Bill, of course. And the Bullshot is flying! Who will be hit? Who will master the rings? Who will shoot from the hip? Who will tell it like it is? Who will have the narrowest viewpoint? The big promotion? The most clear and succinct tattoo?
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2023-09-151h 09Philosophy vs. ImprovElu-Sedations w/ Matt Teichman
Philosopher Matt, host of the Elucidations podcast and frequent PEL guest, finally gets in on Philosophy vs. Improv in this, our Season Two Finale. And many is he a de dicto. Or is he a de re? Slowly learn the difference as we make things personal through scenes of shit-talking and crime reporting.
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2023-08-2955 minNakedly Examined Music PodcastNEM#201: Ivan Neville Gets Personal (but Still Funky)
Ivan is the keyboardist/singer/multi-instrumentalist son of Aaron Neville and has played with the Neville Brothers, The Rolling Stones and Keith Richards’ solo band, The Spin Doctors, Soul Asylum, and Robbie Robertson among others. He has released eight albums since 1988, half of these under the band name Dumpstaphunk (a collaboration that includes his cousin Ian Neville).
We discuss “Pass It Around” and listen to “Hey All Together” from Touch My Soul (2023), “They Don’t Care” by Dumpstaphunk from Dirty Word (2013), “What You Want from Me” from Saturday Morning Music (aka Scrape) (2002), and “Stay What You Are” (feat. Aaron Neville) fro...
2023-08-211h 16Philosophy vs. ImprovYes, and Technological Dystopia w/ Anthony LeBlanc
How does new technology affect ethics? Anthony (who is on strike, but that doesn’t apply to improv) is an improviser with a computer science degree who now coaches kid TV actors. We talk personal identity, transhumanism, genetic engineering, AI, organizational ethics, Black Mirror, Beastars, and transporter virginity.
Listen to more transporter talk on The Partially Examined Life’s episode on Derek Parfit.
Follow Anthony @anthonyleblanc and @anthonypaulleblanc.
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2023-08-171h 03Philosophy vs. ImprovAvant Garde Accounting
The guests are away, and so Billy and Markaroony will play. This fast-paced, sweet-moving discussion covers the genius individual artist and how that might or might not allow collaboration, genres and definitions, strife, and more. Mark just can’t WAIT for a canoe, and getting CRAZY at the salad bar. Oops, we forgot to determine a winner, so YOU decide.
The image was pulled from Reddit and is supposed to depict Nostradamus picking lottery numbers, which is not really relevant to anything we discussed apart from the word “numbers.”
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2023-08-0451 minPhilosophy vs. ImprovHappier Cancer w/ Monica McCarthy
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Monica is an actor and writer who ran a live-on-stage philosophy podcast called The Happier Hour, and so naturally we talk about happiness, or flourishing (eudaimonia).
Can babies with cancer be relied upon to responsibly spend donations? How can Bill get his hands on one of those rings of Gyges? Is philosophy necessary for the good life? Is hum...
2023-07-191h 00Philosophy vs. ImprovInterpreting the Monkey Man w/ Chris George
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Chris has an act called “I Am the Show” where he improvises to a film that he hasn’t seen that’s playing silently, making up all the dialogue and sound effects. Here’s an example.
Mark and Bill talk to Chris about being a spectator or critic of art: To understand a work, is it good or necessary to try to divine the artist’s intentions, or is meaning in art something that happens after a work becomes an objective thing, such that the artist’s intentions are...
2023-07-0657 minPhilosophy vs. ImprovOversouled Behavior w/ Genevieve Joy
We are ALL this mess.
Genevieve is a comedian, podcaster, and she was a philosophy major who’s studying for her doctorate in Divinity (in the Science of Mind/New Thought tradition). We talk about the idea that “we are all one” (and thus we are all God, if you want to call the sum of all things by that name) that’s in various traditions. Ralph Waldo Emerson called this the “oversoul.”
Unique to this episode, we pretty much front-load the philosophy and spend our second half under the bleachers not making out, get bored at the Grand Ca...
2023-06-2354 minNakedly Examined Music PodcastNEM#197: Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah’s African Head Charge
Bonjo started in the ’70s as a session hand percussionist with groups like the Foundations and Desmond Dekker, played for a few years with Creation Rebel, and became a band leader in 1980, first recording a bit as Noah House of Dread, then joining with British producer Adrian Sherwood to create African Head Charge, which has had more than 20 releases, all recorded with percussion (and maybe chanting) first, and then psychedelic synth, bass, and other instruments added. More at africanheadcharge.bandcamp.com.
We discuss “Microdosing” and listen to “A Bad Attitude” from A Trip to Bolgatanga (2023), “Fear of a Man God” f...
2023-06-231h 07Philosophy vs. ImprovDo You Want to Be Here? w/ Brain in a Vat
Mark Oppenheimer and Jason Werbeloff of the Brain in a Vat podcast join Bill and Mark L. (aka Alf) to talk about rationality, broadly construed, while not moving a couch and not giving each other Christmas presents.
Does “reason” by itself tell us what to do and what to believe? Is trypophobia really just bigotry? (It is not.) What’s the rationale for making negative comments online about a podcast? Are bigots bigger than bigamists? Was Ayn Rand a cannibal?
The image is from this site, and truly, you do not want to be there.
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2023-06-1055 min
Pretty Much Pop: A Culture PodcastPMP#148: Resource Management Video GamesMark, Al, our editor Tyler Hislop, and Dr. Jamie Madigan of the Psychology of Video Games podcast talk about a wide range crafting and building games from Minecraft to Starcraft to Sim City to Civilization to Rimworld to Subnautica. Given what a time commitment these typically require, what makes some of them worthwhile?
For more, visit prettymuchpop.com. Hear bonus content at patreon.com/prettymuchpop or by subscribing via Apple Podcasts to the Mark Lintertainment Channel.
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2023-04-2453 min
The Partially Examined LifePEL Presents PMP#148: Resource Management Video GamesMark, Al, our editor Tyler Hislop, and Dr. Jamie Madigan of the Psychology of Video Games podcast talk about a wide range crafting and building games from Minecraft to Starcraft to Sim City to Civilization to Rimworld to Subnautica. Given what a time commitment these typically require, what makes some of them worthwhile?
For more, visit prettymuchpop.com. Hear bonus content at patreon.com/prettymuchpop or by subscribing via Apple Podcasts to the Mark Lintertainment Channel.
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2023-04-2153 minPhilosophy vs. ImprovReturn Policy Violations
A completely normal customer service transaction
It’s back to just Mark and Bill today. We talk about the lost art of prank phone calls and act out some “customer service nightmares” with an eye to the foundations of law and creativity that defies artistic rules. The scenes are longer and riskier than normal. Long-overdue apologies to Dirwin Zook.
The image is by apparently a pretty disturbed child and somehow came up when I was looking for images of shopping, so I’m going to say that’s what it is.
Audio editing by Tyler Hislop.
2022-12-0750 minPhilosophy vs. ImprovThe Worth of a Human Life w/ Carneades the YouTube Star
The anonymous policy wonk who runs the Carneades.org YouTube channel joins Mark and Bill to discuss the core concept of his new book, Are All Lives Equal?: Why Cost-Benefit Analysis Values Rich Lives More and How Philosophy Can Fix It.
Should economics really be measuring the value of life at all? Can it do this in any principled way? Can economists really understand how much joy cat videos really bring us? What should parasitic micro-organisms value? Does the choo-choo train of peas going in a child’s mouth continue in a similarly fun way within the bo...
2022-11-1755 minPhilosophy vs. ImprovSituatedness in Three Persons w/ Sarah Shockey
What is personhood? How can a group best collaboratively invent a scene? Sarah is a host of Marty and Sarah Love Wrestling and a repeat guest on Hello From the Magic Tavern. We fit in THREE scenes, some discussion of the various layers of what it is for something to be (or not be) person, and some musings about the weather and such.
Follow us @sarahjoyshockey, @btarnett, and @MarkLinsenmayer.
Image swiped from here. Can you find all three persons in this picture?
Audio edited by Tyler Hislop.
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2022-11-0158 minPhilosophy vs. ImprovRules and Voices with Stephen West (Philosophize This!)
Stephen West from the juggernaut Philosophize This! podcast joins Mark and Bill to learn to say no and talk about reason vs. emotion in grounding ethics. What do the voices in your head (or at your lunch table) say to you?
The image came from this site, somehow depicting what went on in both of our improv scenes here.
Audio edited by Tyler Hislop.
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2022-10-1451 minPhilosophy vs. ImprovCutting Edge Post-Patternation
Mark and Bill break former patterns by each bringing in not a lesson but a question, which we knew about beforehand, and those questions are about pattern-breaking and about what current philosophers worry about. With special surprising scenes conveying cutting-edge podcasting/instructional techniques.
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2022-10-0449 min
The Partially Examined LifeREISSUE/RE-EDIT-Ep. 1: "The Unexamined Life Is Not Worth Living"To celebrate (and postpone) our big ep. 300, here's a brand new mix and edit by Tyler Hislop (and Mark) from the original voice files of our very first discussion, covering Plato's "Apology." Recorded by Mark, Seth, and Wes on April 19, 2009. Contact us to let us know what you think of it. Get more at partiallyexaminedlife.com. Visit partiallyexaminedlife.com/support to get ad-free episodes and tons of bonus discussion. Sponsors: Get a discount on the #1 meal kit for eating well at GreenChef.com/PEL135. Visit NordVPN.com/PEL for a risk-free massively discounted 2...
2022-09-051h 18Philosophy vs. ImprovSeason One Final Round
It’s all down to this. Which discipline, which host will prevail? Will a third-party cheater bust in and take the big prize? All stakes are on the table, and if this thinking isn’t critical enough, if these scenes aren’t congruent enough, if we fail the big scan-tron test that is life, then it’s all been for nothing. Get out your cushion and get in the lotus position, clear your mind, and tune in for this, the most exciting single podcast episode you’ve ever heard in your whole goddamned life.
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2022-08-2756 minPhilosophy vs. ImprovAuthentic Authenticity w/ Skye Cleary
Skye teaches and Columbia and the City University of New York, and she recently published How to Be Authentic: Simone de Beauvoir and the Quest for Fulfillment.
She joins Mark and Bill to talk about what authenticity might mean for an existentialist, how it relates to truth, responsibility, and picking a theme for your birthday party.
For more on this ladder of authenticity, i.e. Beauvoir’s take on ways of lacking, see PEL’s episodes on her Ethics of Ambiguity.
The art was snatched off naturalsciences.org, author unknown. Why is it a pi...
2022-08-1255 minPhilosophy vs. ImprovSubmarine Observations w/ Chris Rathjen
We talk about observations and how they relate to theories and other types of preconception. Is there such a thing as pure observation?
For our pen-pen-ultimate episode here of season one, I must say that these were some of my favorite scenes we’ve ever done. We tour a submarine and plan a party. There is no Chumbawamba in either case.
Improv guy Chris starred in the Improvised Star Trek podcast (and stage show) and has been a recurrent guest and now an editor on Hello From the Magic Tavern (hear his first appearance as Bar...
2022-07-2355 minPhilosophy vs. ImprovPossible Diners w/ Barry Lam
Barry teaches at Vassar and hosts a documentary-style philosophy podcast called Hi-Phi Nation, and his most recent season had a four-episode run on David Lewis, America’s foremost philosopher of possible worlds (also covered by PEL), after Dr. Strange, of course.
So we talk about that notion, in the philosophy of metaphysics and language, and also in the literal physics sense that Hollywood has so much fun with lately. And WE have fun with it in a couple of variations on a classic diner scene. Cheese salad, anyone?
Image by Batiste, apparently, from paintingvalley.com. Au...
2022-07-1049 minPhilosophy vs. ImprovVirtuous Garbage Director w/ Jack Newell
Bill is a sad but steadfast street sweeper. Mark has secret character traits. Filmmaker Jack C. Newell is our inaugural non-philosopher, non-improviser guest, and his film knowledge leads to us talking about ethics in terms of film tropes plus some meta-historical-reenactment. Learn more about Jack’s (non-garbage!) work at jackcnewell.com.
Image by The Children of Arendal. The whale has eaten some trash! Audio editing by Tyler Hislop.
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2022-06-1659 minPhilosophy vs. ImprovSigns, Signs, Ubiquitous Signs w/ Brooke Breit
Contemplate the difference between signs, symbols, and symptoms. Did our improv scene get Zoom-bombed, or is that just real life intruding? THINK OF THE CHILDREN (eating Doritos)! What flavor of chip is Bill trying to teach today? Why is Brooke sad?
Brooke is of course an improviser and has also been on TV and works for Jackbox Games. Follow her @brookebreit,
For more information about this whole signs vs. symbols thing, listen to The Partially Examined Life #290.
Image by Ryan, age 4, from this page. Audio editing by Tyler Hislop.
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2022-05-0546 minPhilosophy vs. ImprovIn Historica Res
…which, as I was saying, is right in the middle of a sentence or scene! Sheesh!
How should our personal and family histories shape our behavior, both in real life and in improv scenes? Do these histories, these stories we tell ourselves, nail us down as people? Are we all old before our time? Are those your real parents? Hang on to your poser wallet!
Image by Julia as found here. Audio editing by Tyler Hislop.
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2022-04-2245 minPretty Much Pop: A Culture PodcastPMP#121: Protesting Protest SongsAre protest songs effective, either as protest or songs? Four songwriters including your host Mark Linsenmayer, Lilli Lewis, Rod Picott, and PMP's audio engineer Tyler Hislop discuss how protest works in various musical genres, who it's aimed at, and when it goes wrong. Has the day of the protest song passed, or is it alive and well?
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2022-04-2151 minPhilosophy vs. ImprovEnhanced Interrogation w/ Adal Rifai
Today’s episode is about questioning: how one might question, what sets the parameters for a proper answer, and how to give those answers in an informative and/or dramatically effective way. Watch out for dream pigs! Also, how to get into the VIP room at Stuckey’s. Perhaps a pair of paralegals can help.
In the post-game, included JUST THIS ONCE for public enjoyment, we reflect on improv in the real world and some potential spin-off improv podcasts from our episode.
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2022-03-111h 11Philosophy vs. ImprovNormaliticitizationism w/ Andrew Lavin
We are joined by the young purveyor of the Reductio podcast, who wrote his dissertation on normality, which was such a normie thing to do. Can “abnormality” be morally neutral, or is that term cursed? We talk disability studies. You down with OTPs? Repeat after mes! How many towels do you need?
Listen to Andrew explain his dissertation uninterrupted. Here’s that offensive theme from Tropic Thunder.
Image by Emily, cribbed from this article. Audio editing by Tyler Hislop.
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2022-02-2646 minPretty Much Pop: A Culture PodcastPMP#117: Roguelikes Like HadesSupergiant's Hades is now the first video game ever to have won a Hugo award and has set a new standard in the Roguelike genre. What is this genre, and what makes Hades unique?
With guests Jamie Madigan from psychologyofgames.com, Al Baker, and Tyler Hislop.
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2022-02-2350 minPhilosophy vs. ImprovMonetize Your Syphilitic Storytelling w/ Linda Orr
Is money the root of all evil, or does it save us from needless cabaret bartering? What is money qua social construction? Should we retain the chocolate fountain? Are you ready to run? Did you bring your NFTs to trade for blue powder? Bill is master of the frustration scene.
Here’s the Stanford article about money and finance.
Listen to Linda and her husband Noah (who was also just our guest) on this other podcast, and also this one. Follow Linda @IrisCutter.
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2022-02-1248 minPhilosophy vs. ImprovQuestionable Causal Practices
We are guest free! We are unrestrained in exploring various conversational topics in a facetious manner, from hairballs to boogers to color vision among inanimate objects and rules for unicorn play. When the bad-ass, smelly, screaming white ball hits the 5 ball, how does the causality work? Is skepticism about physical forces just conspiracy theory?
Image from this NY Times article, perhaps about COVID? But I’m imagining that those two upper left circle figures are differentially colored billiard balls. Audio editing by Tyler Hislop of Pixel Box Media.
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2022-01-3037 min
Goon Pod'Spike' - the new play by Ian Hislop and special guest Nick NewmanA new play about Spike Milligan opens on Thursday 27th January at the Watermill Theatre in Newbury. Written by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman (The Wipers Times, Trial By Laughter) SPIKE stars John Dagleish, Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Jeremy Lloyd, George Kemp and Stephen Fry.
Focusing on arguably Spike’s most consistently creative period of his career – the 1950s and The Goon Show – the play examines his somewhat fractious relationship with the BBC drawn from reams of often hilarious correspondence which passed between Milligan and Corporation executives over the course of the show’s run and to which the writers...
2022-01-2658 minPhilosophy vs. ImprovGame Time w/ C. Thi Nguyen
Thi is a philosopher of games, making him a perfect match for this podcast. Why are games worthy of philosophical study? What counts as a game, anyway? We play a frustration game, finish each others’ sentences, and ask dumb questions on a museum tour. It’s an unusually discussion-focused episode!
Picture is by Zahra, grabbed from this article. Audio editing by Tyler Hislop of Pixel Box Media.
Thi sticks around for the post-game, and we talk about gaming rules, algorithms, quantification, RPGs (he recommends Apocalypse World and Microscope RPG). Bill recommends Painting with John. Get all...
2022-01-171h 11Philosophy vs. ImprovThings Mean Things w/ Tommy Maranges (aka Philosophy Bro)
Can we have an entertaining discussion inspired by Aristotle’s most boring book? Bill leads Mark and our guest Tommy through some let’s-describe-what’s-in-an-imaginary-room exercises.
Dark Tourist, I’m Sorry, the bookCan we have an entertaining discussion inspired by Aristotle’s most boring book, The Categories? Bill leads Mark and our guest Tommy through some let’s-describe-what’s-in-an-imaginary-room exercises. Then Tommy is supposed to give a comedy TED Talk, and chooses Mediterranean food. But what about his estranged father and all those corpses?
For the real skinny on Categories, listen to Partially Examined Life #279. Hear Tommy as Ph...
2021-12-3147 min
Trev’s Golf TalksTrending Topics of Golf (Featuring Tyler Traficante)In this episode Tyler and I will dive deep into some of the biggest news stories in golf and you will hear his perspectives
2021-12-3009 minPhilosophy vs. ImprovPunishment w/ Noah Gregoropoulos
There’s trouble at the work site! There are secret shifts of emotion going on. Do they make sense? Later, a guy’s car is blocking a driveway. Does he deserve the electric chair, or a beer? It depends on your theory of punishment.
Ep. art cribbed from a Psychology Today article. Audio editing by Tyler Hislop at Pixelbox Media.
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2021-12-2247 minPhilosophy vs. ImprovSentient Garage
The scene is its own entity. What else might be its own entity? Can a machine that passes the Turing test know what it’s like to be a bat? We bring in emotions from irrelevant contexts, and we keep hearing them long after they’re gone.
Episode art by Alvin Alvaro. Audio editing by Tyler Hislop at Pixelbox Media.
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2021-12-1554 minPhilosophy vs. ImprovThe "Other" Story w/ Jenny Hansen
What is “othering”? Why did Bill get such a bad grade? Is it because of his feather quill pen? Don’t miss our anti-vaxxer drama!
This is our first episode with a real philosophy professor on it, and we get to talk about her experience as an academic as it relates to this most socially relevant philosophical topic. Listen to Jenny talk in more depth with Mark and co. on The Partially Examined Life.
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2021-12-0250 minPhilosophy vs. ImprovBroken Atomic Dogs
Let’s all lose our jobs and talk instead about fundamental ontology and social dynamics.
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2021-11-2441 minPhilosophy vs. ImprovUtopias w/ Jill Bernard and Michelle Gilliam
Hell is NOT other people, and the more the merrier, with our second episode with guests being with TWO guest improvisers, Jill, co-founder of HUGE Theater and her friend Michelle, owner of Improv MKE.
Bill and our guests each start a scene to explore something of what utopia might amount to, and of course how it will inevitably go bad. Then we discuss whether there is some single type of utopia, or whether human nature precludes this. Would YOU take a cookie?
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2021-11-1850 minPhilosophy vs. ImprovThe Imitation Game (with Toaster)
Riffing on resemblance. Eventually invoking the spirit of a toaster. Mark is wrong: the God Emperor of Dune can’t drink water at all, just dried food.
Learn about Del Close.
Philosophy barely makes it in, but if you want to chase down this nonsense about whether a robot cat is still a cat or not, check out the Twin Earth stuff in PEL’s Putnam episode.
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2021-11-0446 minPhilosophy vs. ImprovThe Legend of Kermit's Gold w/ Tim Sniffen
Do you believe in miracles? If doctors believed in miracles, would they just let surgeries finish themselves? Do assumptions of a logical universe make it not just unjustified by psychologically impossible for us to really believe in miracles?
Read about our VERY FIRST guest, Tim Sniffen at timsniffen.com. Follow him @MisterSniffen and hear him talking more with Mark about improv on Pretty Much Pop.
You can read more about Hume on miracles on the PEL blog.
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2021-10-2149 minPhilosophy vs. ImprovThere is no "I" in "Dahyulectecs"
Who stole Carmine’s lunch? I think you know. Are there only a certain number of “logical” directions from one idea to another? Are there no mistakes, or are there mistakes that know?
This week’s image (which definitely has an eye in it) cribbed from Child’s Own. Audio editing by Tyler Hislop.
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2021-10-1447 minPhilosophy vs. ImprovAction Idealism!
Are so-called “material objects” really just a scam? These two cut-ups (Bill and Mark) cut up the world in various ways, showing you how to teach, how to act, and how to haggle.
Learn more about Berkeley’s idealism with PEL #89.
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2021-10-0743 minPhilosophy vs. ImprovF*** Your Grapes
Beauty is cool, but is art always aiming at beauty? Generations disagree about their music. Snakes disagree about how much they should worry.
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2021-09-3040 minPhilosophy vs. ImprovStand by Me II
Bill gets really real, with his unlogical emotions. When we feel things, do we know why? Is there a why?
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2021-09-2334 minPhilosophy vs. ImprovThe Trolley Opportunity
Bill gets to have the power of live and death, with a bit of moral luck. Is he enthused?
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2021-09-1635 minPhilosophy vs. ImprovReasonable Beasts
Turkeys speculate in a game scene. Are they reasonable and/or jive turkeys? Then, geometry is subject to ad hominem attack in an instructive relationship scene.
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2021-09-0930 minPhilosophy vs. ImprovKeepin' It Super Real
Why is lying wrong? Scene conceptions clash. It is hard to lie in a pretend scene, because the pretending is already a lie. You can lie inside-out or outside-in.
The relevant PEL episode to find out about Kant on lying is #10.
Image cribbed from this article. Just look at that goddamned liar in the middle of the picture His deceit is captured perfectly!
Audio editing by Tyler Hislop.
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2021-09-0237 minPhilosophy vs. ImprovHere Ought to Be Dragons
Mark and Bill do impressions of people you don’t know. The is-ought distinction is bravely explored. Does pretending to be cavemen help? Magic business is afoot. Childhood speaks.
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2021-08-2640 minPhilosophy vs. ImprovMeritocracy Now!
Does it make sense to try to have everyone get what they “deserve”? We act out the desert machine but yet get no predictable cake.
Judgebot 5000 enters our lives. Is this our first really good episode? Maybe.
To hear more about meritocracy, try the Partially Examined Life’s recent interview with the great Michael Sandel.
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2021-08-1937 minPhilosophy vs. ImprovLet's Have Made a Deal!
We try to be boring. Bill tries to make a discovery amidst the canards. Mark tries to be a good meta-dupe. But is our success in these attempts guaranteed by the deal you have already made with us by listening to this? It is not.
With our first celebrity guest, the final judge is unveiled!
In the post-game, we talk Conan O’Brien (sound effects) and talk shows in general, plus Joe Pera Talks With You. Why has Mark not yet read Bill’s book?
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2021-08-1251 minPhilosophy vs. ImprovWhat Is Bread? Are You Bread?
Two micro scenes and a mystery number of interruptions reveal our underlying definitions. How will we overcome the lag between our words and become like-minded? How many beats in an heirloom beet if an heirloom hair-looms beets? Many lessons are learned that are not THE lesson, necessitating some difficult multi-tasking.
In the post-game, Bill starts something we can’t finish about libertarianism, watermelon is revealed, and we have recommendations: Brad Neely’s Harry Potter videos, Shelly Kagan’s Yale course on Death.
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2021-08-0544 minPhilosophy vs. ImprovDeath at Not a Doctor's Office
Is death something to be feared? What’s next? What are the DETAILS? Do not adjust your listening device or call an ambulance. That sound you hear is not ground hum nor tinnitus but is the sound of improvisation.
Warning: We talk about suicide a bit. If you’re feeling depressed, don’t call the lava demon hotline, as it is a scam.
We make a few references in this one that might be clarified by some clips if you’re confused: It’s sad when Hulk has to leave. Watch Richard Pryor on Norm and Kirk D...
2021-07-2947 minPhilosophy vs. ImprovEquality of Ignorance
Bill starts us with a scene: Behold the Doctor’s Office, where anything can happen, and often DOES. Is this whole thing a bad idea? Do you think you’re BETTER than this idea? Do you? If you need to tell yourself that, that’s OK.
In the post-game, we talk a little about Stoicism (listen to PEL about it, ego issues, and ephemeral art. Our recommendations include: Bobby Huff time-corrects Van Halen and Philosophize This!
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2021-07-1948 minPhilosophy vs. ImprovReal Lava Accommodation
Mark starts us off this time: What is reality? Bill pushes back, which is rather his point this round. Hilarity ensues, given that the world is just a construct of our minds and we want it to do so. Hilarity doesn’t really do much else besides ensuing, does it? Lazy bastard.
Learn more about Kant’s phenomena vs. noumena in this very old episode Partially Examined Life episode. We return to the topic (in part) in our current two-episode run on Kant’s follower Fichte.
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2021-07-1839 minPhilosophy vs. ImprovWe Have Always Already Been Improvising
The gauntlet has been thrown. In this first episode, Mark Linsenmayer and Bill Arnett channel their respective muses to try to enlighten each other about something having to do with ethics on the one hand and the continuity of improvisation with regular life on the other. Which lesson shall produce the most profound effect? Does this format make any sense at all?
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2021-07-1739 min
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy PodcastPretty Much Pop #71: Rap Battles w/ Sacrifice (Tyler Hislop)Tyler (PEL and PMP's audio editor) rejoins Mark, Erica, and Brian to explain one of his passions. How is it a battle and what are the rules? What's the appeal? How does it relate to free-stylin', rap albums, and insult comedy? Does it make sense as a "free speech zone"?
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2020-12-0900 minPretty Much Pop: A Culture PodcastPMP#71: Rap Battles w/ Sacrifice (Tyler Hislop)Tyler (PMP's audio editor) rejoins Mark, Erica, and Brian to explain one of his passions. How is it a battle and what are the rules? What's the appeal? How does it relate to free-stylin', rap albums, and insult comedy? Does it make sense as a "free speech zone"?
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2020-12-0245 min
Subtext: Conversations about Classic Books and FilmsWorrying about the Future in Mike Nichols’ “The Graduate” (1967)
Benjamin Braddock is a little worried about his future. He’s a recent college graduate who moves back in with his upper-middle-class parents and feels smothered by their vapid, materialistic lifestyle. But he begins an affair with a woman from his parents’ circle… And then he falls in love with her daughter. Like Benjamin, we wonder what the future can and should hold for us. Can it be free of the negative trappings of our society and culture, of our parents’ influence, of the past? Wes and Erin analyze Mike Nichols’ 1967 film “The Graduate.”
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2020-10-051h 21
Subtext: Conversations about Classic Books and FilmsSlouching Towards Bethlehem in W.B. Yeats’ “The Second Coming”: Part 2
Wes and Erin continue their discussion of W.B. Yeats’ “The Second Coming.” In Part 1, they analyzed the first stanza of the poem, in particular Yeats’ use of “gyre”; the meaning of the phrases “things fall apart” and “the center cannot hold”; and the conflict between aristocratic and revolutionary values. In Part 2, they discuss — with a little help from Nietzsche — the anti-redemption of the second stanza, and the meaning of Yeats’ vision of a “rough beast” slouching towards Bethlehem.
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2020-09-2843 min
Subtext: Conversations about Classic Books and FilmsThings Fall Apart in W.B. Yeats’ “The Second Coming”: Part 1
In 1919, the world seemed to have descended into anarchy. World War I had killed millions and profoundly altered the international order. Four empires, along with their aristocracies, had disintegrated. Russia was in a state of civil war, and Ireland was on the verge of its own. It’s these events that helped inspire William Butler Yeats’ poem “The Second Coming,” which famously tells us that “things fall apart,” that “the center cannot hold,” and that a new historical epoch is upon us. Just what rough beast is it that slouches, as Yeats has it, toward Bethlehem? Wes & Erin give their analysis o...
2020-09-2136 min
Subtext: Conversations about Classic Books and FilmsFilial Ingratitude in in Shakespeare’s “King Lear”
Do we owe parents our gratitude for our upbringing? What if they haven’t done such a great job? And anyway, perhaps we inevitably resent all the forces that have shaped the characters that confine and limit us. If so, the quest for filial gratitude is ultimately hopeless. It could even be a kind of madness: a foolish attempt to transcend the same formative forces that we resent in our parents, to be “unaccommodated,” free of the “plague of custom.” Wes and Erin give an analysis of William Shakespeare’s King Lear.
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2020-09-141h 25
Subtext: Conversations about Classic Books and FilmsThe Acceptance of Mortality in Keats’s “To Autumn”
In this third and final installment of our series on Keats’s odes, we’re looking at To Autumn, the poet’s last major work before his death at the age of 25. Keats’s elegiac meditation on the season also serves as a metaphor for his favorite subject matter, artistic creation itself. What parallels does Keats find between art-making and the bounty, harvest, and barrenness of autumn? And what can the poem teach us about loss and our own mortality? Wes and Erin analyze.
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2020-08-3156 min
Subtext: Conversations about Classic Books and FilmsEscape into Art in Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale”
Second in our series on the odes of John Keats is Ode to a Nightingale, in which Keats imagines a journey into the realm of negative capability, a concept introduced in our previous episode on Ode to a Grecian Urn. Keats hears a nightingale’s song and it inspires him to ponder such questions as, what makes an ideal artist? How might we access the world of artistic creation? How does art unite humanity across the ages? Wes and Erin discuss whether artists, however inspired, can escape the anxieties of a potential audience.
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2020-08-241h 24
Subtext: Conversations about Classic Books and FilmsTruth as Beauty in Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
The poet John Keats is famous for the concept of “negative capability,” his description of the ability to tolerate the world’s uncertainty without resorting to easy answers. Literary minds in particular should be more attuned to beauty than facts and reason. In fact, truth in the highest sense is the same thing as beauty, he tells us at the end of his poem Ode on a Grecian Urn. What does that mean? Is it true? Wes and Erin discuss these questions, and how it is that aesthetic judgments can communicate a kind of truth that is not strictly descri...
2020-08-171h 08
Subtext: Conversations about Classic Books and FilmsMastery and Repetition in “Groundhog Day” (1993)
When egotistical weatherman Phil Connors gets trapped in a time loop in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, he gets drunk, steals money, manipulates women, binges on breakfast food, plays God… and finally grows up. The story charts Phil’s development over the course of thousands of repeated February 2nds. Along the way, it raises questions about our own capacity for growth. How do we go about improving ourselves? How can we escape boredom? Achieve fulfillment? Wes and Erin analyze the 1993 film Groundhog Day.
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2020-08-101h 00
Subtext: Conversations about Classic Books and FilmsLove and Wit in Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing”
At the center of every courting ritual, there’s a great unknown. How do we know when we’ve met someone we can love? How do we know the other person is actually who they seem to be? In the beginning, all we have to go on is surface appearances, which amount to a kind of hearsay. The question is how to get beyond them. Wes and Erin analyze Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, which seems to suggest that witty banter is more than just good fun, and has an important role to play in getting to know others...
2020-08-041h 29
Subtext: Conversations about Classic Books and Films(post)script: Debut
How did it all begin? Where is it going? What’s the point of anything, anyway?
With (post)script, get to know your quirky hosts, their existential doubts, and all the behind-the-scenes drama that’s concealed by their staid demeanors, not to mention an ample Patreon paywall. Actually, we’re giving you this debut episode of (post)script — and every fifth one thereafter — for free.
Wes talks about his experiences with alien abduction, and Erin cautions against the use of mayonnaise. Erin then recounts her former life as deep sea fisherman, and Wes reminisces about his Fleetw...
2020-08-0114 min
Subtext: Conversations about Classic Books and FilmsExpediency and Intimacy in Billy Wilder’s “The Apartment” (1960)
You know, it’s that old story of boy meets girl … girl is dating boy’s married boss … girl tries to commit suicide … boy saves girl’s life …. Okay, that sounds pretty dark. But somehow it’s the basis for a classic romantic comedy, Billy Wilder’s 1960 film, The Apartment. The film raises the question of how we distinguish authentic relationships from relationships of utility and convenience. What cultivates human intimacy? What compromises it? When are we just using people? Wes and Erin analyze.
Cover art is based on a French poster for the film.
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2020-07-2757 min
Subtext: Conversations about Classic Books and FilmsMarital Economics in Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice”
An advantageous marriage is Elizabeth Bennet’s only potential escape from a foolish mother, a disinterested father, three very silly sisters, and a house that’s entailed away to her idiotic cousin Mr. Collins. But she turns down fabulously wealthy Mr. Darcy because he’s prideful—and maybe a little prejudiced. But then, so is she. How do we know if two people are well-suited to each other? What makes a successful match? Is Mr. Collins actually the perfect man? Wes and Erin give their analysis of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.
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2020-07-201h 20Pretty Much Pop: A Culture PodcastPMP#21: Role-Playing Video GamesWhat constitutes a video RPG? Is there any actual role-playing involved? Our editor Tyler Hislop rejoins Mark, Erica, and Brian to discuss those video games that are supposed to make you feel like your choices matter, with comparisons to MMO RPGs, table-top role-playing, and more.
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2019-12-0350 minPretty Much Pop: A Culture PodcastPMP#1: Pop Culture vs. High CultureWhat is pop culture? Does it make sense to distinguish it from high culture, or can something be both?
Welcome to this new pop culture podcast hosted by Mark Linsenmayer, Erica Spyres, and Brian Hirt. This episode also features Tyler Hislop, our editor. For more, see prettymuchpop.com.
End song: "High Rollin' Cult" written by Mark just for this release, featuring Erica. Theme music by Mark and Erica.
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2017-01-1805 minNakedly Examined Music PodcastNEM#24: Tyler Hislop (Sacrifice): Copious RhymesTyler can rap endlessly, and has filled up ten lengthy albums full of his machine-gunned musings on life and politics, usually over his own soundscapes, but sometimes using sampled or preexisting backgrounds, usually alone but often with another rapper or two. This is an exceptionally clear, insightful introduction to indie hip-hop to those like me that have seldom listened to this form outside of radio or TV. Oh, and Tyler is the editor for this podcast, so he actually knows the format!
We discuss mostly tracks from his 2015 album Long Way Down, including “Negative Space” and the titl...
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The Vagabond ForagerOde to Green Spirits (feat. Taiyamo Denku and Dane Curley)Ode to Green Spirits (feat. Taiyamo Denku and Dane Curley) by Tyler Hislop (Sacrifice_MC)
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