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.

Blessings of the day to you and your time zone.

I am Mary Hines, and I am bringing the improvisationalational prowess and I am joined by my co-host.

I'm Mark Linson-Myer and I will bring some philosophy in the kit bag, but I brought along a ringer,

a professional, professional paid philosopher. Please introduce yourself. Hi, I'm Jenny Hanson. I'm the paid

philosopher, but not paid well. Not paid by us. Not paid by you or yeah, the universe. Making the

medium books. Yeah, paid enough to have a job for the moment. We do. We'll take it. The unicorn,

yeah. And Jenny has done at least five recordings with me over the years. Maybe more than that, maybe six. I don't know. But a number of partially examined life ones. And then you've been on this show. This is, I think, my third time. I'm excited. I have no improv background. I just wing it. I don't know. Like, we'll tell you. I will pause you right there. And I will

repeat back to you your language. You said, I don't know any improv. But my point is, yes,

you do. You wing it. You're an improviser. I could argue, and maybe I'll do it right now,

that everyone is an improviser. but not everyone may have the,

like, sculpted, like, personal training expertise in it with a coach, but it's listening,

it's saying yes, it's trusting your intuition, it's leaping before you know where you're going to

land and jumping with an idea and trusting that you'll know what to do and what to say along the

way.

AKA life, right?

Like, that's how life lives.

Yeah, fair point.

Okay.

You're like, okay, Mary, fine.

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