PEL Presents Constellary Tales #6: Philip K. Dick's "Minority Report" w/ Mark Linsenmayer
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
PEL's Mark Linsenmayer joins hosts Ken Gerber and Brian Hirt to weigh in on the philosophical implications of precognitive crime fighting in Philip K. Dick's "The Minority Report." Brian quizzes Mark and Ken on PKD movie trivia.
Get more Constellary Tales podcasts, and read original sf in the magazine at constellary.com. Listen to PEL #175 on Blade Runner.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey partially examined life listeners, Mark here. |
| 0:08.6 | I'm pleased to introduce a special cross posting of the latest episode of our latest |
| 0:12.9 | addition to the partially examined life podcast network Constellary Tales. |
| 0:16.8 | The episode is on Philip K. Dick and serves as a nice follow up to our episode on him, |
| 0:21.2 | number 175 on Blade Runner. |
| 0:23.2 | This one is on Minority Report, I am the guest. |
| 0:25.6 | You should know that the two hosts of this have a long history with PEL Ken Gerber drew |
| 0:30.7 | the PEL logo and his brother Brian Hurt has been one of my best friends since middle school |
| 0:36.3 | and was a person I had asked to be a host of partially examined life before I was clear |
| 0:41.0 | that this would actually be a philosophy podcast. |
| 0:43.8 | So I encourage them to get this thing going and they are brilliant guys, great writers |
| 0:48.2 | themselves. |
| 0:49.2 | I hope you all go subscribe, you can get their episodes straight from partially examined |
| 0:52.7 | life.com in the recent episodes tab or better yet go straight to constellary.com or find |
| 0:58.9 | them on Apple Podcasts or other places. |
| 1:01.2 | Hope you enjoy. |
| 1:06.2 | Hello and welcome to the Constellary Tales podcast. |
| 1:18.3 | This is episode number six. |
| 1:20.2 | I'm Ken Gerber. |
| 1:21.9 | And I'm Brian Hurt. |
| 1:23.6 | In addition to hosting the show, Brian and I are the publishers and editors of Constellary |
| 1:28.4 | Tales. |
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