PEL Presents PvI#57: Happier Cancer w/ Monica McCarthy
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Monica is an actor and writer who ran a live-on-stage philosophy podcast called The Happier Hour, and so naturally we talk about happiness, or flourishing (eudaimonia).
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| 0:00.0 | Would you like to take a philosophy course from me, this fall? |
| 0:04.1 | Learn more at partiallyexaminedlife.com slash class. |
| 0:07.5 | This episode is sponsored by Hello Fresh America's Number 1 Meal Kit. |
| 0:16.8 | This is Philosophy vs Improv where two stages |
| 0:20.0 | try to teach each other a thing or two |
| 0:21.8 | and maybe you the audience gets something out of it as well. |
| 0:24.8 | My name is Bill Arnett, an Improv CEO |
| 0:27.8 | yet in the mail room of philosophy. |
| 0:29.9 | This is Mark Linton-Meyer, a philosophy. |
| 0:32.6 | I would say upper-middle management, |
| 0:34.7 | definitely entry-level intern unpaid in improvisation |
| 0:39.6 | and our special guest today, Monica, |
| 0:41.4 | introduce yourself in whatever way you see fit. |
| 0:44.1 | Sure, I'm Monica McCarthy. |
| 0:45.9 | I'm an Improv slash philosopher, fan girl, maybe we could say. |
| 0:50.9 | There we go. |
| 0:53.1 | I had listened to your The Happier Hour podcast, |
| 0:56.0 | which I'll admit, I was not up enough |
| 0:58.3 | to realize that it doesn't exist anymore. |
| 1:00.6 | So, but you had a philosophy podcast |
| 1:02.9 | that was a stage show first and foremost. |
| 1:06.3 | Can you say a little about that before we? |
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