PEL Presents PvI#72: Spock Fever w/ Cole Nasrallah and Chris Rathjen
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
It's another TEAM PLAY episode, with our returning champions, star of improv stages and podcasts Chris and College of Southern Nevada philosophy prof Cole receiving NOT THE INFORMATION THEY EXPECT and gettin' all rational and such when consoling a friend and wrangling about a math quiz. Luxuriate in the rich characters and philosophy tools!
Mark philosophizes at partiallyexaminedlife.com. Bill improvises (and teaches) at chicagoimprovstudio.com.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Mark Linsenmeyer, seeing the praises of philosophy today. |
| 0:16.2 | And this is Bill Arnett dancing the song that is improvisation, interpretive dancing, the song. |
| 0:23.9 | Okay, okay, and we have that, this is a team play episode. |
| 0:27.1 | Cole, introduce yourself. |
| 0:28.5 | I'm Cole, Nausralla, I suppose I'm tending my own garden. All right. |
| 0:34.4 | And... |
| 0:35.4 | I'm Chris Rathion and I'm |
| 0:37.1 | manning the watch towers? |
| 0:39.1 | Wow. |
| 0:40.1 | I feel like we're covered all the way around. Yes. |
| 0:43.0 | Thank you both of you for coming back. |
| 0:45.0 | We only allow return guests to experience this heightened experience. |
| 0:49.0 | It's a little too intense, I think, if it's your first time |
| 0:52.0 | to be in the soup with so many elements so many it's like you're in an alphabet soup and not only are the regular letters |
| 0:58.9 | They're Greek letters. What are you gonna do with that? What do you do with that You got a Theta floating next to you? |
| 1:04.0 | Yeah. Yes, you survived the middle school dance that is your first appearance and you know who likes whom and now it's it's time for the freshman year, now it counts dance. |
| 1:16.4 | So uncomfortable. |
| 1:18.6 | Yep. |
| 1:20.6 | Yep. |
| 1:21.6 | So the way the format works is Bill has probably thought of some sort of |
| 1:25.7 | improv lesson or will come up with one on the fly. I have come in well I've |
| 1:29.6 | discussed rather with Cole or philosophy guest. her idea that we're not going to tell you right up front. |
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