PEL Presents PMP#175: Podcast of the Planet of the Apes

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

Casey, Paskin, Philosophy, Linsenmayer, Society & Culture, Alwan

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

We discuss the ten films that all started with the 1968 Charlton Heston vehicle (based on Pierre Boulle's 1963 novel) through the latest offering, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. What psychologically are these films about? Which parts of this sprawling franchise are worth your time?

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0:00.0	This is pretty much pop a culture podcast a podcast that evolved from men?
0:13.7	Today we're discussing the Planet of the Apes franchise.
0:18.0	It started in 1968, they're now a crap load of films, including the one that we all bothered to watch,
0:24.7	Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.
0:26.7	I'm Mark Linton Meyer, technically a chimpanzee, but spiritually an orangutan.
0:32.0	I'm Al Baker and I hate every ape I see
0:36.0	from Chimpan A to Chimpan Z.
0:39.0	You have a lovely voice, man.
0:43.0	That's a lovely voice.
0:44.0	You do!
0:45.0	On Sarah and Bruck, and as Shakespeare said in Twelfth Night,
0:49.0	Be not afraid of aepness.
0:51.0	Some are born apes.
0:52.0	Some achieve aepness and others have aateness thrust upon them.
0:57.0	Wow.
0:58.0	My name is Lawrence Ware coming to you from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and the original Planet of the Apes.
1:03.8	Is it racist?
1:05.3	I'm not sure we will discuss.
1:09.4	It is an ongoing thing.
1:10.4	It's certainly not necessarily that it is racist but like
1:13.9	dealing with racism. Yeah. These are two literal races. Race as we have
1:20.1	discussed on the partial examined life is probably a social fiction and there's not, you know, it's, there's not, not sharp distinctions, but between ape and man, those are, okay, those are not socially constructed distinctions.
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