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The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

PEL Presents Philosophy vs. Improv #48: Debates in the Orthaganon

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Mark and Bill act out a couple of scenes of a person trying to convince a stubborn person of something. But there's a twist in the characterization! Also, before you were born, the world did not exist.

Mark philosophizes at partiallyexaminedlife.com.

Bill improvises (and teaches) at chicagoimprovstudio.com.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey all for this and some other episodes.

0:01.9

If you want to see the unedited video of the Zoom call,

0:05.2

go to patreon.com slash philosophy improv and sign up for a small

0:09.6

per episode donation. Thanks.

0:11.4

This is Philosophy versus improv where two stages

0:19.2

try to teach each other a thing or two and maybe you the audience get something out of it as well.

0:24.1

This is Mark Glinton-Mire. I'm a philosophy dude who is here to learn to improv.

0:29.0

And I am Bill Arnet and improv dude here to

0:32.8

muck about enough philosophy pool for a little bit.

0:35.2

We haven't had one without a guest in a while.

0:37.6

During some partial exam and life discussion recently and the listeners will figure out which one.

0:42.8

I actually wanted to start improvving with the people on the call.

0:46.1

I did not dare. The bug has bitten you because it seemed like this was a thing to explore and I

0:52.8

could have you explore it instead. So if this is compatible with what you had in mind for today,

0:59.0

I'm wondering if you would start a scene where you are a character who has some sort of

1:05.3

irrational belief, maybe not irrational, but something that is a strongly held thing that I'm

1:12.1

supposed to argue against. I guess it would be best if it would strike the audience as

1:17.2

quite irrational. Well believe it or not, this might actually

1:21.6

dovetail in with the unpropless and funny how that happens.

1:24.5

Almost as though perhaps our fear that it ever might not is unfounded.

1:31.5

All I ask of you is that in the chat you send me a behavior.

1:37.5

And I think we've talked about behaviors before. This is how we describe other people to each other.

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