This is Philosophy versus Improv, where two sages try to teach each other a thing or two,

and maybe you, the audience, gets something out of it as well.

Hello, everyone.

I am Mary Hines, and I am bringing the improvisational prowess.

I'm Mark Lintonmeyer.

I am ostensibly bringing the philosophical prowess,

but we have a special guest who's bringing all sorts of prowess. Please introduce yourself.

Hi, I'm Vicki Eisenstein. I'm a comedian, video producer, an editor, social media, whatever you need,

come to me person. And what is your prowess level? We have our meters for

detecting your own prowess. Let me turn it on. Oh, okay. Calculating prowess. Detecting a lot of,

a lot of prowess coming through. I think on the scale of banana to cantalope, I'm somewhere near

a kiwi. Okay. That makes sense. That makes sense. The tracks.

Yeah. Yeah. Tell us about some of your multi-hyphenates. I know you are a second city person. Is that right?

Yeah. So I have kind of a crazy story of how I fell into performing in all of this. Basically, I went to South Korea after graduating from college and my best friend at the time

was Korean American. So we went together to study Korean and I was so into like K-pop and

K-dramas and all of the pop culture there. And so I ended up there on and off for about five years

and I did a talk show while I was there in

Korean. It was a bunch of foreign girls and then they had a panel of Korean celebrities and

it was hosted by a comedian actually. And so I had a lot of fun on that and I used to have

terrible stage fright and I would not speak in class.

I was the person who was so shy in every single report card, every single parent teacher conference.

It was like, she's smart but she doesn't talk.

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