PEL Presents Philosophy vs. Improv #47: What's In the Chili? w/ Rachael Mason
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Rachael was a mentor of Bill's and works with him at the newly reopened iO Theater. So it's like we have TWO improv instructors here. We run some scenes, talk a bit too much about chili, and touch on functionalism, idealism, napism, and other isms. Jump into the marzipan! Brucie and Frucie are waiting for you!
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| 0:30.3 | Hey all for this and some other episodes. If you want to see the unedited video of the |
| 0:34.3 | Zoom call go to patreon.com slash philosophy improv and sign up for a small per episode donation. |
| 0:40.2 | This is philosophy versus improv where two stages try to teach each other a thing or two |
| 0:50.3 | and maybe you the audience gets something out of it as well. |
| 0:53.4 | My name is Bill Arnett and improv, acolyte curious about lighting my philosophy flame. |
| 1:00.0 | This is Mark Linton-Mire. I am an improv flamer. That's not the right word. I like the |
| 1:06.2 | lighting of the flame thing. I think I've got the flame going for philosophy. I'm trying |
| 1:10.1 | to hook up some sort of fuse to get that to blow up the improv as well. And our special |
| 1:16.0 | guest Rachel, your intro can not possibly be more awkward than mine was. Please proceed. |
| 1:20.6 | I'm that guy who stole flame and gave it to humans. |
| 1:24.8 | Prometheus. Yes, that's who I am. I like that. We've talked about having people coming |
| 1:30.0 | on as characters. I didn't even pitch that to you. |
| 1:33.0 | I do sometimes feel like improv is a torch that we pass on to each other. So I'm really |
| 1:41.8 | Rachel Mason. But in a sense all improv teachers are Prometaei. Prometheus is this is. |
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