SF 22 - Performing and Infinity with Ellen Adair
Episode description
1:30 – Zach is weary of society and also on a delay
4 – How are you?
5:30 – We are all just hurtling through space on a tiny rock
8:15 – A pair of life coaches
9 – The podcast has in fact started and we are seven minutes and 30 seconds into it
10:15 – The Ellen Adair story begins in Philadelphia, which is how one becomes a Phillies fan, as few people willingly choose it
12:30 – Ben lobs out possibly the worst borough-related joke ever told
15 – Nepotism, etc
16:30 – Ellen Adair is NOT Ellen Adair’s *full* name
19 – On the day that we recorded this podcast, someone named Ellen Adair died in South Carolina, but not THAT one
21:30 – A story about Kirk Douglas leads to the pronouncement that whiteness is a construct
24:30 – We are all Declan McManus
27 – We would ALL be so lucky as to perform Death of a Salesman in a Bennigans?
27:30 – Why acting? Transformation!
30 – Ben can’t get his Shakespeare plays about English kings straight
32 – Acting, part two: externality and infinity!
35:15 – The Arthur Miller Special
39 – Possibly the first religious turn Shaggin’ Flies has taken
45 – We are all wearing masks and performing, whether it be stage, gender, or interpersonally
51:30 – The difference between stage acting and screen acting
57 – Poetry!
1:00 – Zach is lost and returned
1:05 – Watching the super bowl with Dylan Baker
1:12:15 – Meeting Jim Thome > Meeting Barack Obama
1:13 – Baseball drawings! (ellendrawsbaseball@gmail.com)
1:17 – Why baseball? It is the beauty of renaissance painting combined with the apollonian perfection of Newtonian physics
1:25 – The clarity of the drama
1:29:00 – Favorite Phillies players (Jimmy Rollins love)
1:32 – Ballparks
1:38:30 – Order of Operations Trifecta
1:53 – Baseball movies
2:00 – Ghosts, multiple
2:04 – Making rules about seeing ghosts or not
2:12 – Superpowers
2:15 – The Full Count!
- Ellen’s Book Recommendation: Cloud Atlas (shoutout Ulysses!)
- Ellen’s Food Recommendation: Bún
- Ellen’s Movies/TV Recommendation: Maniac
- Ellen’s Music Recommendation: 4Keus
- Ellen’s Miscellaneous Recommendation: Thinking of life in terms of narrative
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