by teddydmz | Jul 27, 2017 | Digging deeper, Girl Scouts, Glacier National Park, Improv, life choices, Manhattan, Mindfulness, Moments, Patsy Rodenburg, poetry, Thought-Provokers
Lisa and Ted reach across the country to dig deeper into life’s offerings. Lisa shares some perspective from her time at Girl Scout camp and Ted relays a story or two from his trip across country on his way to a training program in Manhattan (1:56) and then the pair...
by teddydmz | Jun 16, 2017 | Contemplation, Double Bounce, Hell, Humor, Improv, Mindfulness, Patricia Ryan Madson, Reality, Spirituality, woo woo
What’s spirituality got to do with it anyway? Ted and Lisa take on the thorny task of exploring the realms of spirit and what they have to do with mindfulness and improv. Lisa starts by explaining the Double Bounce Theory and why her coffee and exercise routine might...
by teddydmz | Jun 5, 2017 | accepting, Advance-Color-Emotion, Beautiful Anonymous, Chris Gethard, curiosity, Improv, Improv games, limericks, Mindfulness, noticing, Thought-Provokers
Ted and Lisa get curious about curiosity in Monster Baby Episode #26! They laugh their way through the opening challenge of a few Line-at-a-Time Limericks (1:48) and then enter their topic in earnest around the five-minute mark (5:29). They ask whether curiosity is...
by teddydmz | May 16, 2017 | andy goldsworthy, Be Average, Buddhism, Hamilton, Improv, improv wisdom, Mindfulness, Patricia Ryan Madson
In Episode #25, Ted and Lisa dive into the paradoxical wisdom in the Improv maxim “Be Average.” They start with a chat about the San Francisco production of Hamilton and time they each spent with Moms (1:53) before introducing the subject of the day (6:48). They...
by teddydmz | Apr 26, 2017 | acronyms, charisma, ensemble, Gratitude, Improv, Mindfulness, Patsy Rodenburg, presence, present, Shakespeare, Theatre
Time to get present, y’all! Celebrating the one-year anniversary of the first Monster Baby podcast, Ted and Lisa offer Episode #24, a deep dive into presence and its role in our lives. A new warm-up creates some crazy acronyms (1:14) before the co-hosts check in about...
by teddydmz | Apr 2, 2017 | Cafe Gratitude, Celestine Prophecy, Gratitude, Improv, Mindfulness, Pronoia, Rob Brezsny, Thich Nhat Hanh
Episode #23 finds Ted and Lisa taking on an attitude of gratitude. A humorous warm-up (1:46) gets the ball rolling before the co-hosts start to clarify how gratitude differs from simply acknowledging what we like (6:18). They touch on gratitude’s relationship to...
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