I'm pulling out the parking lot. We all know what that means.

It's time for the drive to work and I drop my son off at camp.

Okay. So today I'm talking about topical blend.

So some of you know exactly what I'm talking about, some have no idea.

So today is talking about something I do in my column. I'm making magic column. So every Monday

on the website, I read a column, which I've written for, I think, 15 years now. 15 years, wow.

And anyway, back in college, I used to do improv, aka improvisation.

Improvisational acting.

So what improvisational theater is, is you get up on the stage with nothing prepared,

you ask the audience for certain topics, and then you make a scene based upon, you're made up on the spot based upon the audience suggestions.

And the way the audience knows you're making it up on the spot is you're using their suggestions to make the scene.

Usually the way improv works is there's a format, there's formats.

So like you ask for very specific things and there's a certain way the improv

works. There are a lot of different formats. They're, they're fun. And one of the things that

I and my team love doing was inventing new formats for improv and trying new things and asking

for cool suggestions from the audience. One of my favorite, by the way, that we created was we should call Talk Show, and the thing

we would ask from the audience were bumper stickers, and we would build characters around

the bumper stickers.

And then we would ask for pet peeves, and that would be the topics we would talk about

in the talk show.

Anyway.

So I, in my college, I started an improv troupe in college called Uncontrolled Substance, which I started my sophomore year and ran the rest of my college.

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