This is Philosophy versus Improv, where two sages try to teach each other a thing or two, and maybe you, the audience, get something out of it as well.

My name is Mark Linson-Meyer here, post-holiday.

And I am Mary Hines, bringing you the improvisational goodness.

Mark, do we have the same glasses?

Are they like cousin glasses?

I mean, they do have the concentric, the rings.

I feel like yours are a little more widely spaced.

I believe this is a Tumblr.

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Check out the videos.

It's really fun and engaging because you get to see us launching into some of these characters. Mostly, I think the joy is getting to see me crack and break, but still stay in character.

And you're interesting. And see that we're well hydrated.

Your interesting background. You've got little circular mirrors on the side.

Yeah.

Isn't that nifty?

And I've got a poster of Frankenstein here.

That was my swag poster from going to the premiere.

And I got like cacti and succulents.

And I got my snake plant behind me.

Yeah, I got lots of pleasing things for my jewelry box that, oh, here's the thing about this jewelry box. So I grew up in a five-story

Victorian mansion. It was Andrew Jackson's Camp David during his presidency. Henry Clay, Alexander

Hamilton, like, it's known that everybody hung out there.

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