Philosophy vs. Improv #76: Hello, Larry w/ Lawrence Ware
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
The philosopher and entertainment journalist direct from Mark's Pretty Much Pop podcast joins PvI for an hour of merriment. We talk parenthood, philosophy of race, the RULES of improv (or the singular answer to a philosophy question), old 9th graders, one black Peggy, using racy improv in a classroom setting, and more.
Mark philosophizes at partiallyexaminedlife.com. Bill improvises (and teaches) at chicagoimprovstudio.com.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Philosophy versus Improv, where two sages try to teach each other a thing or two, |
| 0:09.4 | and maybe you, the audience, gets something out of it as well. |
| 0:12.4 | My name is Bill Arnett, Improv Coca-Cola, yet simply an RC when it comes to philosophy. |
| 0:19.2 | Ah, this is Mark Linsenmeyer, a philosophy, a royal crown cola. |
| 0:24.7 | It's the long version. |
| 0:26.7 | It's not a knockoff. |
| 0:27.9 | It's royal. |
| 0:29.7 | And I like you improv. |
| 0:31.4 | We have a special guest today. |
| 0:32.7 | I just asked him earlier today, listen to one of my other podcasts, two of my other podcasts, three of them, |
| 0:40.1 | no, two of my other podcasts will know this man. Yeah, you don't like me that much. Introduce yourself. |
| 0:44.9 | Why don't you record 10 albums you can be on the fourth podcast? It's not going to happen. |
| 0:50.5 | My name is Lawrence. We're coming to you from Oklahoma City, and I have no clever puns on |
| 0:56.1 | sodas. I'll just say that I like Coke Zero. There we go. All right. Okay. It's misleading, |
| 1:02.9 | though. Coke Zero. It's very misleading. It's not no caffeine. No calories, I believe is what it is. |
| 1:09.0 | Yeah. Yeah, but that's already, they already have that. |
| 1:28.7 | That's what Diet Coke is. I don't know. Listen, I don't know why they, it tastes different than Diet Coke. It tastes better to me. That's the reason why I like it. I don't have anything deeper than that. Yeah. I like it better than Coke original and Diet Coke. Wow. I think they use a different sweetener. I think so. |
| 1:29.3 | I'm not sure. |
| 1:30.5 | Yeah. |
| 2:02.4 | I was not, okay, I want the listeners to know that I was not at all prepared for whatever we're going to talk about. I don't, we could be talking about space aliens. We could talk about Schopenhauer. I have no idea what they're going to talk to me about. Mark asked me, because Mark is a good friend of mine, he asked me to jump on. I said, sure, Mark, I got time. I'm here. I have no idea what the hell we're talking about. But let's talk about it. Let's go. All right. So Lawrence, as philosophy professor as head, not in term, head, not co-chair, chair of the Africana Studies. |
| 2:08.0 | I'm associate director of the Center for Africana Studies. So I'm not the head, but I'm the number two guy. You're the heart. I'm the heart, yes. I am the heart. If you were to ask somebody, |
| 2:14.4 | who's the heart of this operation? They say, you know, Lawrence Ware, guy man i love them that's what they're the director's an asshole but i love that |
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