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Episode 31: Are We Always Just Acting?

Episode 31: Are We Always Just Acting?

FromTerrifying Questions


Episode 31: Are We Always Just Acting?

FromTerrifying Questions

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Length:
55 minutes
Released:
Oct 16, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Is everything we do a kind of performance? Are we always reading from a script? And what makes bad acting bad? Do psychopaths make good actors? Do politicians make good psychopaths? And why do presidential candidates emphasize what they’re saying by pointing with their thumbs? TV actor Kevin Sussman joins Taylor and Eric to talk through these disturbing mysteries. 
Released:
Oct 16, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (50)

Eric Kaplan, a comedy writer (Futurama, Big Bang Theory) and doctor of philosophy, and Taylor Carman (Barnard College, Columbia University), a distinguished but humble authority on matters of existence and existentialism, host a philosophy podcast that addresses the most unsettling questions concerning human life and the nature of things and finds a path to courage using comedy, imagination, and far-ranging intellectual philosophical investigation. Along the way they grapple with the deep uncanniness of being.