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This is philosophy versus improv where two stages 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. You're improv

ringleader today. Improv ringleader. Why do I keep saying that? Why do I say that last time a ringleader of sorts, but trained in philosophy?

Yes, and my name is Bill Arnet.

The true improv ringmaster, yet a philosophy

elephant cleaner up behind her to keep the circus metaphor going. All right. This is team play. We got two guests who don't even know each other.

We've had two guests before, but they've always come together. Jenny introduce yourself. I'm Jenny Hansen.

I'm the tiger that needs to be detained in the circus.

Okay.

Well, I mean, we're trained to have these sort of ferocious debates and you're a philosophy professor.

Philosophy professor at St. Lawrence University

appear in the frozen tundra of Northern New York. Yes, near the Canadian border.

All right. And I am out of our fire man in a bear suit selling merchandise, but I'm not having a great year. Not a lot of commissions.

I am a podcaster. I do a few improv podcasts. I teach improv at UIC here in Chicago.

I'm so sorry to hear that the circus stuff is not selling well. Can you elaborate on that to start a song? Yes.

So listen, I'm so happy that PETA kind of came down hard on the elephant thing because I think I agree with that. Hey, I agree.

But they replaced it with holograms, much like they did with two pocket Abba.

So it's a lot of holograms of animals. And I think that the kids just aren't having as good of a time.

Therefore, they're not lingering for merch.

But thanks to the elephant keeper's union, I am still kept on to shovel hologram manure.

And that was the only thing the room I didn't want to bring up, Bill. I'm glad you did. Thank you.

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