PEL Presents PvI#113: Mary and Mark Pick Their Battles
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
What is it worth raising an objection over, and how hard do you fight? We hear (and act out) Mary's roommate-searching trauma, plus Mary for President, curiosity about bellicose Twitter, respect vs. reverence, rationality and religion, dealing with QAnon believers, family Thanksgiving, giving someone else a name, vegetarianism, and the angel of philosophy.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Philosophy versus Improv, where two sages try to teach each other a thing or two, |
| 0:09.6 | and maybe you, the audience, gets something out of it as well. |
| 0:12.8 | This is Mark Linsonmeyer on the philosophy team today. |
| 0:16.0 | And this is Mary Hines for Team Imporv. |
| 0:19.9 | Imporv. |
| 0:21.0 | Imporv. Iorv. Imporv. |
| 0:21.8 | I improvised improv. |
| 0:25.2 | What would be the equivalent of philosophy? |
| 0:27.7 | No, phasolophi. |
| 0:31.4 | I like philosophy. |
| 0:32.8 | I think I should, I need to write it down if I'm going to come down with a good anagram here. |
| 0:37.4 | It wasn't a competition, but that's okay. |
| 0:40.0 | I like philosophy, dabbling philosophy. |
| 0:43.5 | Well, this is not something I'm going to pick a battle over because my topic today that I was thinking was picking your battles. |
| 0:51.3 | And there are a number of different ways that we could talk about this |
| 0:55.6 | but you know given the past two episodes can we fight to the death is that how we want to do it |
| 1:00.5 | i don't i'm not picking that battle i mean yes yes you're not only pick what you're going to |
| 1:06.7 | sure what you're going to pick on but you got to pick how how far you're're going to go with it. That's part of picking the battle. How deep is the battle is going to be? I remember when I was coming up, I mean, I still am because we're always growing in life and stuff. But don't sweat the small stuff because it's all small stuff and chicken soup for the soul. I remember that one. |
| 1:27.5 | Like, don't sweat the small stuff because it's all small stuff. |
| 1:29.9 | I don't know if I agree, but that's just like what popped into my brain. |
| 1:34.7 | Well, sweating it, worrying about it, whether, you know, you're stoic about it is a different |
| 1:39.7 | issue, although related to, are you going to raise an objection? |
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