This is philosophy versus improv where two sages tried to teach each other a thing or two and

maybe you the audience get something out of it as well. I'm Mark

Myer, your philosophy tutor today.

And I am Bill Arnett, your improv tutor.

Not from the Tudor dynasty? Uh. Okay. All right. Not a Plantagenet or a Hanover or a Windsor.

Plantagen. I have brought a ringer today someone to fill in the cerebral gaps here.

Tamler please introduce yourself to the folks.

My name is Tamler Summers and I am a philosophy professor at the University of Houston

and host of the Very Bad Wizards podcast. I'm sure it's great. I'm sure it's good. You said it's very bad. Oh. You've never heard that

joke. I thought you were like, I'm sure all of that sounds very nice and you know you do you I guess but I'm sure to

your audience that sounds impressive but to our audience who has much higher standards.

Wizards.

We don't believe in Wizards here.

Well, I've recently come out as a,

not a believer in ghosts, but a open to belief in ghosts.

So I'm experimenting in all sorts of new epistemological ways.

All right, okay.

So you think there's something persistent about the self that might continue on after the

mortal coil has shuffled?

I don't think that actually, although I guess then it's like, well then what are the ghosts that's a good that's a good I don't know

But yeah, I kind of don't and I also don't necessarily want to

to that and I don't often understand what it means. Don't don't often...

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