PEL Presents PMP#208: An Ed Gein Halloween
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
It's a special two-hander where Mark and Lawrence reflect on the appeal of horror and how the new Monster: Ed Gein Netflix show has to contribute, given that it is not merely a (very loose) presentation of real events, and itself a horror drama, but also a commentary on the Hollywood properties influenced by the Ed Gein murders, including Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Silence of the Lambs. We bring this up to date by including discussion of the Terrifier films as well as the work of Rob Zombie.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's show is sponsored by Claude. |
| 0:02.5 | Learn about it at Claude.a.ai slash PMP. |
| 0:10.6 | Hey, this is pretty much Poppeculture podcast, a little Halloween minisode. |
| 0:20.5 | It's just me? Mark Litts and Meyer, I should say, host of several other podcasts, including |
| 0:25.3 | the partial exam and music and philosopher's improv and close reads philosophy with Mark |
| 0:29.7 | and Wes. |
| 0:30.5 | Holy crap. Keep going. How many more do you host? Well, I mean, I do some teaching still |
| 0:36.6 | over the internet, so it's kind of like a, uh, I do some teaching still, you know, through over the internet. |
| 0:38.4 | So it's kind of like a podcast. |
| 0:40.3 | And then you do the podcast, Mark talks about porn. |
| 0:43.6 | No. |
| 0:46.1 | This is Lawrence's wishcast. |
| 0:47.9 | All right. |
| 0:48.1 | Well, introduce yourself for people that. |
| 0:50.9 | My name is Lawrence Ware, professor of Philosophy, podcaster, extraordinaire. |
| 0:56.4 | I am a very confused man right now. |
| 0:59.1 | We can talk about why I'm confused. |
| 1:00.7 | Yes, so this was going to be a regular Pretty Much Pop episode. |
| 1:03.6 | Again, if you folks are not subscribed to the Pretty Much Pop podcast, |
| 1:06.9 | and I don't mean listening to it through the partial exam and life feed. |
| 1:09.5 | I mean to subscribe to it directly. |
| 1:30.5 | Do so at the links through Pretty Much Pop.com. We're going to talk about this Ed Gein, Monsters, miniseries. But there are other two co-hosts. Well, at least one of them simply would- She didn't have the stomach for it. Yeah, yeah. She just did not want to dwell on this. But I had already put the time into this. I was like, all right, we're going to have a half hour discussion or something with just us that, you know, you're the connoisseur in this area. But you are fresh. Minutes before |
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