This is

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 Mark Litzenmeyer. I will be your philosophy

navigator to get you out in the further reaches today. And I am Bill Arnett, your improv pilot, who hates authority figures and steers the ship the way he wants a

grizzled senior petty officer who believes the ship belongs to him, even though it's clearly the property of whatever government and entity.

You see when he joined the service, way back when?

Can we just say it's some kind of, you know, space marine ship?

Let's just go right for it.

Something cool and awesome.

Well, Lisa, do you want my backstory?

Do we want to continue or are we okay?

I think we should meet the guests first.

Okay, all right.

Are you sure? We'll get into this. Please introduce yourself. I would be the hapless young cadet, apparently the toe-headed and freckle-faced. No, no, it's been a long time since I've been two-headed or freckle-faced. I'm the

grizzled old cadet. How about that? Oh, Brian Peacock is the name and no I did not make

that up. Okay, it does occur to me that your name will be in the title of the episode.

So we don't actually have to have guests say their names, but it's just it's a tradition.

Oh, okay. Well, I'll take it back then.

Do you have an in-universe name for this tapestry that Bill has begun weaving?

Oh, an end-universe name?

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