Monster Baby #80 Let go. Appreciate more. Use everything. (And happy birthday, Monster Baby!)

by | Apr 19, 2020 | Brené Brown, Coronavirus, COVID-19, George Carlin, Improv, improv wisdom, leftovers, Mindfulness, Miscellaneous, Patricia Ryan Madson, positive thinking, Robert Poynton, Uncategorized

It’s a Monster Baby birthday: time to consider some improv wisdom! On the 4thanniversary of Monster Baby’s first episode, Lisa and Ted celebrate by going through a recent blog post from their mentor, Patricia Ryan Madson. They start with the obligatory COVID...

Monster Baby #79 Half-Baked Ideas

by | Apr 15, 2020 | addiction, Contemplation, Coronavirus, ghosts, half-baked ideas, Humor, Lists, Miscellaneous, museum, Nerf, sex robots, This American Life, Uncategorized, Virtual Reality, Zoom

Photo by Mohamed Hassan from pxhere.com. That’s the thing about half-baked ideas: they could be gems; they could be duds. In a bit of frivolous departure from their usual deliberations, Ted and Lisa take up the fun task of considering a few half-baked ideas for...

Monster Baby #78 Extroversion Introversion

by | Apr 5, 2020 | Carl Jung, Coronavirus, eggs, extroversion, extrovert, Improv, Inclusion and Social Justice, introversion, introvert, Keith Johnstone, Mindfulness, status, Uncategorized

Are you an extrovert or an introvert? Are you sure? In their continued adjustment to living with the reality of a world-sweeping pandemic, Ted and Lisa turn their attention to one of their most noticeable differences. They start the episode by acknowledging the...

Monster Baby #77 Living Under Lockdown

by | Mar 25, 2020 | Care Bears, Contemplation, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Creativity, Improv, isolation, Mindfulness, Mindset, Miscellaneous, pivot, quarantine, shelter in place, Three Things, Virtual Reality, Wild West

How do you make sense of living under lockdown? As citizens of the San Francisco Bay Area, Ted and Lisa have been holed up in their respective homes as the coronavirus crisis continues to unfold. Recorded over Zoom, they start this episode by considering their usual...

Monster Baby #75 Sorting Through Super Tuesday

by | Feb 27, 2020 | 2020 Primaries, Amy Klobuchar, Artistic Director, BATS Improv, Bernie Sanders, China, Coronavirus, Democratic Election, Elizabeth Warren, Improv, Inclusion and Social Justice, Joe Biden, Mike Bloomberg, Mindfulness, Pete Buttigieg, Super Tuesday, Thought-Provokers

Which way to go? (Thanks for the image, Robin Higgins!) Presidential Primary season’s swirling into hurricane mode: how do we make sense of it all? Just before the big Super Tuesday Democratic Primary elections, Ted and Lisa take stock of their feelings and leanings....