Announcement announcement announcement. Philosophy versus Improv will be recording an episode

live on Wednesday, August 21st, 6 to 7 p.m. in Chicago. The venue is the I.O. Theater,

that's 1501 North Kingsbury Street. This is an absolutely free show. You don't need to buy tickets in

advance. Just come to the I.O. Theater, be there by 6 p.m. Again, that's Wednesday,

August 21st. All of you in Chicago, within driveable distance of Chicago, I will see you there.

This is Philosophy versus Improv, where two sages try to teach each other a thing or two, and maybe you, the audience, get something out of it as well. I'm Mark Lintonmeier. Philosophy. I am Bill Arnett. Improv. Who are you? Oh, I'm David Shield, creator of self-deconstructive nonfiction. Boom. It says it all. Nothing else needed.

You're promoting a book.

Name the book.

I've done a new book and it has a companion film or actually began as a film and has become a companion book.

It's a bit of a mouthful, but I actually like the title and subtitle.

Howie God Here, Melville plus Nietzsche, divided by the square root of Alan Bloom times

jizik squared equals Bannon. And there's a very cool movie poster where it, you know, it has it as a little

math equation. Okay, okay. Which I think is very, some people think it's rather pedantic, but I just

think it's very cool.

Now you realize, I'm not too familiar with Alan Bloom. He can't be negative or zero.

He's a conservative scold, you know, saying that the relativism of the youth today and their left winginess is ruining society. Are we taking the square root of a negative number?

Or dividing by zero?

I know. I was showing it to some of my math.

I teach the universe of Washington I'm showing some of my friends who are math professors

and statistician professors and epidemiology professors.

And they just said, they help me sophisticate the math equation, but it makes no real

sense, you know, obviously.

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