PEL 2026 Kickoff Nightcap
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
It's another year, and this time we each came in with a short bucket list of philosophical works that we'd like to read before this podcast concludes, whenever that might be.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome, welcome. It's our partially examined life, 2026 kickoff or 2025 retrospective, something like that. |
| 0:10.7 | It's a nightcap recording, but whereas those are usually restricted to partially examined life supporters, this one is going out on the public feed to say thank you to everybody for being faithful listeners |
| 0:22.1 | or or maybe this is the first episode you're ever hearing don't make this the first episode you're |
| 0:27.3 | ever hearing that's not you're going to be disappointed uh i'm mark are we're introducing ourselves |
| 0:31.8 | why not okay i'm set i'm west i'm not sure why we're introducing ourselves. |
| 0:39.9 | I'm Dylan. |
| 0:41.2 | See, now people know the voices if this is the first one. |
| 0:44.3 | They're ever hearing. |
| 0:44.9 | They ignored my warning. |
| 0:46.1 | The thing that I had said maybe we should do today is pretend that we have a very limited |
| 0:50.7 | time left recording this podcast. |
| 0:53.0 | So this is not what should we do next. |
| 0:54.8 | This is if you only could record five more episodes, |
| 0:58.2 | what are the five topics that you really wanted to do |
| 1:02.5 | before you just left the world of philosophy, |
| 1:05.0 | before you became senile, whatever the reason. |
| 1:08.4 | I think we've done them all. |
| 1:10.4 | Well, that's a different condition that i thought |
| 1:12.6 | but that's okay yeah i don't i don't know how to implement that one it's too much pressure yeah that's a |
| 1:17.7 | version of the if i could only bring five philosophy books to a desert island exactly what i bring |
| 1:23.7 | yes yes your bucket list i mean if that were the, it would only be things we've already read. |
| 1:28.9 | That's the problem. |
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