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...
by teddydmz | Mar 9, 2017 | Courage, dating, Improv, Mindfulness, practice, tenderness, Thought-Provokers
In Episode #22, Ted and Lisa share a conversational cup of courage. A brief and playful check-in (1:59) leads to defining what they mean by courage (4:27) and together, they wonder if Lisa’s courageous to do improv (8:52). Ted considers the last time he felt...
by teddydmz | Feb 5, 2017 | Burning Man, center of gravity, Improv, Jeopardy, Mindfulness, Miscellaneous, puzzles, Quantified Self
Ted and Lisa welcome special guest (and Jeopardy contestant-to-be) Troy Steinmetz for a conversation about the wisdom of puzzles. They enter a warm-up game midstream to consider different kinds of puzzles (3:47) before Troy gets the group talking about flow and ideal...
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