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The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

PEL Presents PMP#26: We Watch "Watchmen" w/ David Pizarro (Very Bad Wizards)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

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

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Covering Alan Moore's 1986 graphic novel, the new HBO series and the 2009 film.

Mark, Erica, and Brian are joined by David, psych prof at Cornell and host of Very Bad Wizards. How does Moore's style translate to the screen? How well did the show handle politics? Should there be a second season?

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This podcast is part of the Partially Examined Life network and is curated by openculture.com.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is pretty much pop a culture podcast watching the watchmen that watch us watching them as they watch us watching them watching us

0:14.6

Today we're talking about the watchman franchise such as it is I'm Mark Linton Meyer wearing a mask not out of fear or cruelty but out of unwee

0:22.3

This is Eric Aspires and I am on a nerd high just finished reading the novel finally and also finished our

0:31.6

Wars last night so oh my and I'm Brian Hurt and what I find totally unbelievable about watchmen is that this TV show

0:40.2

ever got made seriously it's a miracle and it's beautiful and our guest I am David Pizarro and talking to you guys is like

0:47.8

looking at battery do you experience things in linear time Dave or do you already know how this is gonna go I wish it were still 1985

1:01.8

I was my peak hey did you see that the trailer for Wonder Woman 84 I haven't yet I read a little bit about it but I was avoiding the trailer

1:09.2

It's good yeah I got quite excited by it you know it feels a little like nostalgic like they were doing the 90s with Captain Marvel

1:16.8

I'm excited there's a there's a place for the the 80s for her I'm excited to have a good DC movie oh yes

1:24.4

There's something so tragic watching Steve Trevor walk around with a fanny pack on it's just

1:30.9

There's a lot of 80s service going on which is all right by me so we should introduce

1:37.6

So Dave you are on the very bad Wizards podcast you've been on part of the same life before I've not been on your podcast

1:44.0

I'm not sure why that hasn't happened yet but I don't feel that

1:49.3

Time is not linear in my mind you've already been on the podcast

1:53.6

You know because they trash us on the podcast it's 2023 mark is on the podcast

2:01.1

Well our listeners know that mark starts every podcast by airing his beefs

2:06.2

With our guests how they've wrong them so what else you got yeah so watchman we

2:13.2

I'd but Dave is actually one of the first people when we're doing this podcast that I said he would be entertaining talking about pop culture topics because

2:21.4

They already do that in fact this whole podcast is sort of a stealing your idea a little bit that they do some philosophy stuff some psychology stuff

2:28.5

But they also do talk about particular black mirror episodes and things on that and we don't do that on partially examin life

2:34.5

So much so having this extra outlet to be able to do that

2:37.6

I knew that I wanted to get David involved he said

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