Rick Andrews
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375 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 19 Jul
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Yeah, I really enjoy performing and I find that very satisfying, but it feels like a...
uh i don't know it's like a sugar rush a little bit that kind of fades quickly and um i feel like teaching and watching people get excited and fall in love with something that you are excited about is like feels you know really um meaningful in a nice way and part of what is nice about improv is that i don't know it's not just about like being funny so i think if it was just kind of like i'll teach you how to be funny i don't know that i would feel
like deeply passionate about I think it's it's more about like the sense of like presence and creativity and being playful and being less self-judgmental I think a lot of those are things that help people not like freak out all day long certainly helped me that way so it feels like there's something meaningful that's being delivered in the almost by accident in the act of like learning how to improvise
I think managing uncertainty.
Improv is making up an idea, a scene, a story on the fly.
Right.
And.
the inherent nature of that is that you cannot be in control of where it's going to go.
And I think people's brains do not like change and that kind of disruptive feeling.
And so there's this like protective cognitive shell that we throw around where we lock into ideas or we kind of
disconnect from what's, like, kind of actually going on.
And I think it's not that improv, like, makes you better at, like, knowing what's going to happen.
I think if you watch where the good improv is, it kind of seems like they know where it's going.
But you don't develop this kind of, like, clairvoyance.
You instead just get very comfortable not knowing what's going to happen and, like, managing uncertainty.
But the extra anxiety on top of it of, like, managing that uncertainty of, like, all the stuff that I can't control, I think, becomes that, you know, like, turn it off entirely, but that voice gets quieter, I think.
I've noticed that it's kind of not possible to be bored if you're hanging out with like three or four improvisers.
It's not really like, because if nothing's happening, well, it's kind of not really possible, right?
Like you're sitting at the airport terminal and there's a delay.
Like, you know, instead of people just like complaining the whole time, I feel like people just like look around a little bit and they're like, hey, look at how that guy walks.
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