by teddydmz | Aug 10, 2018 | Alan Alda, Bobby McFerrin, class clown, Contemplation, Humor, Improv, Martin deMott, Mindfulness, therapy, Thought-Provokers
The conversation with Joe Bill goes wider and deeper. When legendary improvisor Joe Bill arrived in San Francisco to teach and perform, Ted and Lisa seized the opportunity and wrangled up a whirring, stirring conversation about improv, psychology, surviving...
by teddydmz | Aug 9, 2018 | artist, Contemplation, Del Close, engineer, Humor, Improv, Jill Bernard, Keith Johnstone, LSD, Mindfulness, Patti Stiles, psychoactive drugs, Thought-Provokers, Viola Spolin
Joe Bill’s an improv luminary with a brilliant mind that careens joyfully between gutter-level explicitness and spiritual truth—oh wait, are they different? When Joe came to San Francisco to teach and perform, Ted and Lisa cranked up the podcast for a two-part...
by teddydmz | Jun 22, 2018 | clown, Clown Neutral, Emotion, emotional sounds, Improv, Inside Out, Mindfulness, Pixar, Thought-Provokers
Pull out the pillows and the tissue paper—Monster Baby Episode #47 gets emotional. Or, more accurately, gets into emotions. Lisa and Ted start with some reflections on Lisa’s end of term teaching improv at Stanford (2:27) and working through some “leftovers” from last...
by teddydmz | Apr 27, 2018 | esteem, five languages of love, Improv, KeithJohnstone, Mindfulness, pecking order, power, privilege, rank, Stanford, status, Teaching, Thought-Provokers
Ted and Lisa are working the levers of status: who’s got it, how it’s communicated, how we get good at playing with it—and more. On this, the Monster Baby Podcast’s 2nd birthday, our intrepid pair starts by giving away a scholarship slot for their upcoming Mindful...
by teddydmz | Feb 5, 2018 | Dickens, expectations, genius, Great Expectations, Improv, Mindfulness, process, Stevie Wonder, Thought-Provokers
Responding to a listener question (thanks, Shannon!), Ted and Lisa start to explore the world of expectations. Some initial responses (1:56) give way to another question: if we don’t have expectations, can we be disappointed? (6:04) Lisa delineates between...
by teddydmz | Jan 23, 2018 | abstinence, Facebook, fasting, Hulk, Improv, Instagram, Mindfulness, sharks, teetotaler, Thought-Provokers
How did the Monster Baby Facebook fast go? Lisa starts with her results and notices the power of habit, voyeurism and what it means to think in status updates (5:03). Ted reports about noticing loneliness and boredom but also renewed mental clarity and lessened need...
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