This is Philosophy vs Improv where two stages try to teach each other a thing or two and

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

I'm Mark Linton-Marie, a philosophy ideator trying to gain some idea of improv and I'm

Bill Arnet, an improv python would love to be more than a philosophy gardener snake.

We have a special guest today.

Cole introduce yourself.

I'm Cole Masralla.

I'm a professor of philosophy, mostly critical thinking.

Welcome Cole.

I had seen you on a YouTube thing.

I know that you were okay showing your face and talking semi-extemporaneously in front

of people.

And so you were lured into this web which you were just telling us that you're incredibly

nervous about.

I'm very nervous about this.

I could do like stand up, but improv is terrifying to me.

Well, Mark, what I always say at this juncture that we're always doing stand up.

No, we've already been improvising.

What is your stand up background then, Cole, that you think you can do it?

Does that mean you've actually done it?

You've been on a stage?

I have done when I was younger.

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