Rick Andrews
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679 appearances
19 recordings
4 series
first heard Apr 2022
last heard 1 Jul
Rick Andrews’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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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 all the time, I feel like people just like look around a little bit and they're like, hey, look at how that guy walks.
That's interesting.
That sign doesn't make any sense, you know?
Why do they call it Hudson News?
You know, whatever.
Like there's just a kind of curiosity about the present moment that I think does like translate off of the stage a little bit.
I might be like missing a section of my brain, you know, but I do think that like I taught all my classes yesterday, like Sunday is a day that I teach and perform.
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