54. LIVE! Sarah Jones (actor/playwright) –
Think Again - a Big Think Podcast
Big Think / Panoply
4.6 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2016
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, I'm Jason Gots and you're listening to Think Again, a Big Think podcast. |
| 0:09.0 | Today's episode is a very special one. This was our first ever live performance, |
| 0:14.0 | which we did back in June as part of NYC Podfest 2016. |
| 0:20.0 | And my guest was Sarah Jones, who is an incredibly talented performer. |
| 0:25.1 | She's an actress and a playwright who plays multiple characters, |
| 0:29.2 | becomes them, really. |
| 0:31.1 | And I give her a full introduction in a moment. |
| 0:33.5 | But what I want you to understand before you start listening |
| 0:37.2 | is that throughout the show, she puts on a pair of glasses |
| 0:41.3 | or puts on a baseball cap and becomes entirely different people. |
| 0:47.3 | And she responds as them to the surprise topics. |
| 0:51.3 | It's an amazing, amazing experience to be up there with her. |
| 0:55.0 | And I had no idea what she was going to do before she did it. |
| 0:59.0 | So I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. |
| 1:05.0 | Hello. Welcome. |
| 1:08.0 | This journey to this stage began about a year ago, but I should go back before that. In 2008, Big Think was founded as a kind of a YouTube for big ideas. The idea was to gather some of the smartest, most creative, most interesting, emerging ideas from people in all fields, sciences, |
| 1:28.3 | arts, etc. and put them out there on the internet in extremely engaging form. |
| 1:34.3 | And it's grown into a kind of living encyclopedia, you could say, of emerging ideas. |
| 1:42.3 | And for me, the best ideas, the most creative moments, |
| 1:46.0 | the most interesting moments between human beings, |
| 1:49.0 | happen in kind of synaptic connections between surprises, |
| 1:54.0 | between disconnects, when you are kind of out of your comfort zone. |
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