Rick Andrews

Now, they put in the caveat here, don't worry.

Adults can still access social media through age checks online.

Like facial recognition, digital IDs, passports, and credit cards.

Oh.

I wonder what they really want out of this, Glenn.

Could it be any more obvious?

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.