This is Phil

Philosophy versus Improv, where two sages

trying to teach each other a thing or two,

and maybe you, the audience, get something out of it as well.

My name is Bill Arnnet, an improv CEO, yet tragically

stuck down in the mailroom of philosophy. This is Mark Lindenmeier. I'm a philosophy independent contractor. I like to think of myself as the CEO of my own company, but there's really no difference. And so, likewise, with improv, I have no organizational. So I'd like to consider myself the highest possible for a one-man thing.

Our guest, please introduce yourself.

Hi, I'm Johnny Thompson.

I am a writer Big Think and I'm a philosophy author and I, anything I over plan things and then I ignore them.

So yeah I've got I've got scripts and I've got notes come up here and then when push a couple

shove I'd to get on with it really. Yes we sometimes said whenever you're creating

you're always improvising you're just doing it on the paper and then maybe fixing it

later or whatever your mode is. Improv is at least half the creative process so it's

never foreign to anyone who is a

writer or researcher anyone who is producing output. Yeah exactly you throw some

stuff at the wall and some of it might look good some kind of of more than not.

Oh boy, I tell you that whole notion of starting things and putting things down and picking things back up again.

I'm the same way and I'm sure under some stack of papers I've got like a teleportation chamber

an unfinished one screw left to be tightened. I didn't know you were holding back on me

but I'm not I couldn't get that last screw tightened.

So, uh...

Fair enough.

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