Good morning everybody. It is the 26th of March 2023. And I hope you're doing well. I hope you're

having a great, great weekend. Thank you so much for joining me today. Do you want, you can let me know

if you want deep or shallow to start? Of course, happy to take your questions and comments. This is

a chat after all. Happy to take your questions and comments. But do you want deep or do you want

shallow? All right, just hit S for shallow, D for deep. And I will be your willing philosophy

slave, bruises on both my knees for you. All right, people looking for the shallow, people looking

for the shallow. All right, so, okay, here's the shallow. Let me ask you this. So today, today,

haven't helped me. I'm going to go and see a movie. I haven't seen a movie in a theater in quite

some time. I'm going to go and see a movie. All right, let me ask you this. Isn't it the case

that movies as a whole are either manic or depressed? I mean, they're kind of bipolar, aren't they?

Because either you have this completely frantic superhero monster mayhem buildings exploding,

skies cracking CGI or G, you either have that or the other thing you have is these endless

poses and slow non-action. It's either hysterical or it's just hypnotically depressed.

I was noticing this while watching something the other day. I just found myself getting

annoyed, bored and irritated. And so one of the reasons why is that when I was in theater school,

one of the things we were taught, because actors love to take these long meaty pauses to show off

their deep acting skills and the inner monologue that is unspoken and all that kind of stuff.

And we were constantly told, we were constantly told, stop taking so many pauses. Unless you're

in a pinter play, which I was a couple of times, so you have this thing called the pinter pauses.

But in general, it was like stop taking so many pauses. Stop indulging. Keep it moving, keep it

moving, keep it brisk. And I also remember I had a director. He was in charge of the school,

in charge of the school. And I was playing Gloucester in King Lear, the guy who's like the really bad guy

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