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Laughing Through the End Times. What?

Jul 18, 2013

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Jul 18, 2013
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Kelly Carlin · 12:00 AM

Howdy all! This is my first time hosting. I hope you all like the petit fours and tea. Just kidding. I have chips and beer.
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Kelly Carlin · 12:00 AM

Rick is getting online now. Everyone go pee if you need to.
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Kelly Carlin · 12:01 AM

★ Spotlighted from Scott Sherwood

“I also do and I can hardly wait”

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Kelly Carlin · 12:01 AM

★ Spotlighted from Jordan Birnbaum

“Speaking of "end times," do you think zombies are so popular because everybody feels like one?”

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Kelly Carlin · 12:03 AM

As Jordan has made a very good point. about Zombies. I think about this all the time. WTF is up with all the fucking Zombies??!!
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Kelly Carlin · 12:04 AM

Sorry for the slight delay. Rick is getting it worked out as I type.
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Kelly Carlin · 12:05 AM

I definitely think that our human psyche is dealing with our fear of the end of the world by making Zombie stuff.
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Kelly Carlin · 12:05 AM

Or is it that we are all feeling like the walking dead?
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Kelly Carlin · 12:05 AM

★ Spotlighted from Jordan Birnbaum

“Is that pic of Rick from a movie or did he go to space recently?”

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Kelly Carlin · 12:06 AM

Rick has always been in space. What you see here on earth is a hologram.
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Kelly Carlin · 12:06 AM

★ Spotlighted from Jordan Birnbaum

“It's always about the money - even for the undead.”

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Kelly Carlin · 12:06 AM

★ Spotlighted from Marc Hershon

“Zombies are great casting as bad guys because they don't need personalities...which means you're only hiring extras.”

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Kelly Carlin · 12:07 AM

Marc makes a good point. The accountants run Hollywood and that is why we all feel only half alive out here in LA.
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Kelly Carlin · 12:07 AM

★ Spotlighted from Patrick Ford

“With advanced medical technology people live longer but the brains decay. The zombie apocalypse will not be like the movies. It will be 93 year old mall walkers. They won't eat your brains, but they will go through your pockets for hard candy!”

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Kelly Carlin · 12:07 AM

★ Spotlighted from Emery Emery

“I'm stunned that zombies are such a mainstream phenom. Do the people working in cubicles all day not realize that zombies are a metaphor for the very lives they are trudging through?”

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Kelly Carlin · 12:08 AM

Emery - lol
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Kelly Carlin · 12:08 AM

BTW - I hate zombie shows. I wonder if it's b/c I'm gen X .
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Kelly Carlin · 12:09 AM

I think maybe Rick has been killed by zombies. I fear.
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Rick Overton · 12:09 AM

Zombies are us, if the food system collapses.
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Kelly Carlin · 12:09 AM

Wait! I see his dots coming alive!!
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Kelly Carlin · 12:09 AM

There you are darling!
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Rick Overton · 12:09 AM

Hey Kel!
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Kelly Carlin · 12:10 AM

Hey! WElcome to the brave new world of Tawkers.
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Rick Overton · 12:10 AM

Yay!
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Rick Overton · 12:10 AM

Thank you!! xo
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Kelly Carlin · 12:10 AM

As you can see. We already started with some Zombie talk. Are you a fan of the genre?
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Rick Overton · 12:10 AM

Hey Marc!
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Kelly Carlin · 12:11 AM

★ Spotlighted from Rebecca Westbrook Toker

“I don't dig zombies, either. I'm gen Y (whatever that means). There's so much other stuff we could worry about, why worry about drippy oozing virus people? Why not worry about...the erosion of our civil rights?”

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Rick Overton · 12:11 AM

Sick skinny people all over the world.
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Rick Overton · 12:11 AM

At a distance, you'd never know the dif
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Kelly Carlin · 12:12 AM

Rick - is it the end of the world, or does it just feel like it? I mean a Cheney is running for political office again...
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Rick Overton · 12:12 AM

The end of A world
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Kelly Carlin · 12:13 AM

Ah Yes!
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Rick Overton · 12:13 AM

If you live in the Maple Tree, when it goes down, that's the end of the world. But to every acorn, it's just beginning
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Kelly Carlin · 12:13 AM

Ah, beautiful.
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Kelly Carlin · 12:13 AM

yes. It is the end for some, and I imagine the end of a way of life for many....
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Rick Overton · 12:14 AM

Mike is right
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Rick Overton · 12:14 AM

Oops
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Kelly Carlin · 12:14 AM

I sometimes think that if we needed to let go of some of the complication of our lives that it would be a good thing.
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Kelly Carlin · 12:14 AM

★ Spotlighted from Michael Shapiro

“Acorns are from oak trees. Sorry to be a buzzkill.”

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Rick Overton · 12:14 AM

Yes Kel
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Kelly Carlin · 12:14 AM

We got it.
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Kelly Carlin · 12:15 AM

How is it being a comedian during these shifting times?
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Kelly Carlin · 12:15 AM

★ Spotlighted from Jordan Birnbaum

“does the US Congress count as a complication?”

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Rick Overton · 12:16 AM

A comic now has to invent to survive. No long term plans still work
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Rick Overton · 12:16 AM

It's a guessing game. Maron guessesd well
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Kelly Carlin · 12:16 AM

Do you see yourself playing a role for the culture though? Like someone who can shine a light?
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Rick Overton · 12:17 AM

But the old venues of late nite and such aren't delivering careers like they ued to.
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Kelly Carlin · 12:17 AM

Yes. WE are all hybrids these days.
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Kelly Carlin · 12:17 AM

Tap dancing our way through media.
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Rick Overton · 12:17 AM

I report what I observe for sure. Now, it appears folks are more willing to listen.
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Kelly Carlin · 12:18 AM

More willing to listen than the 90s audiences?
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Rick Overton · 12:18 AM

That's the trade for luxury
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Rick Overton · 12:18 AM

Discomfort opens ears
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Rick Overton · 12:18 AM

And eyes
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Kelly Carlin · 12:18 AM

Yes, and hopefully minds...
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Rick Overton · 12:18 AM

YES!
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Rick Overton · 12:19 AM

★ Spotlighted from Scott Sherwood

“That is why both of you guys are prophets sometimes”

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Rick Overton · 12:19 AM

★ Spotlighted from Marc Hershon

“Sure, Emery - a Carson Tonight Show set could at least get you a headliner gig and grab some real attention.”

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Rick Overton · 12:19 AM

★ Spotlighted from Tawkers Admin

“Hey Tawkers! - Don't forget to "like" the comments you want the Hosts to see. They ONLY see the stuff that gets Overheard.”

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Kelly Carlin · 12:19 AM

But we are also seeing so many people getting really really angry and wanting to turn the clocks back....it's scary being a woman these days.
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Rick Overton · 12:20 AM

Yeah, panic moves from a mindset that is halfway in the tarpit
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Kelly Carlin · 12:20 AM

★ Spotlighted from Marc Hershon

“Scott, of course prophets rarely profit.”

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Rick Overton · 12:20 AM

Flailing and biting as it sinks
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Kelly Carlin · 12:20 AM

And hopefully not taking too many of us down with them!
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Kelly Carlin · 12:20 AM

I think we need a national prevent civil war comedy tour!
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Kelly Carlin · 12:21 AM

Let's get people laughing together again so we can't shoot at each other.
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Rick Overton · 12:21 AM

George was slapped down a lot. He was unstoppable
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Rick Overton · 12:21 AM

Got right back in the scrap!
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Kelly Carlin · 12:21 AM

Yes he did.
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Rick Overton · 12:21 AM

Hicks too. Late nite lock out
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Kelly Carlin · 12:22 AM

Scrappy Irishman.
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Rick Overton · 12:22 AM

Late nite slammed the door when I went political/social
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Kelly Carlin · 12:22 AM

Corporate media.
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Kelly Carlin · 12:22 AM

★ Spotlighted from Michael Shapiro

“But comics are able to do what they do because their discourse is not seen as influential--they're jesters, not policy makers. As soon as they stray, they're slapped down. (Unless it's Al Franken).”

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Kelly Carlin · 12:23 AM

Michael - true and not true on some level.
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Kelly Carlin · 12:23 AM

My dad was hounded by the IRS until the day he died. They never cut a deal on back stuff he owed.
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Rick Overton · 12:23 AM

Michael, I'd say Colbert and Stewart influence policy too
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Kelly Carlin · 12:24 AM

★ Spotlighted from Rebecca Westbrook Toker

“I feel like it's a compliment in this social-political climate to be "excused" from mainstream stardom.”

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Rick Overton · 12:24 AM

★ Spotlighted from Rebecca Westbrook Toker

“If you're palatable enough for late-night, you're not saying enough.”

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Kelly Carlin · 12:24 AM

Agreed Rebecca. And yet...to pay the bills is a good thing. Such a fine line.
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Kelly Carlin · 12:24 AM

★ Spotlighted from Shoq Value

“But on the other hand, Funny or Die and such are beginning to fuse viral comedy and activism.”

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Rick Overton · 12:25 AM

And I'd love to be mak'n some of the big FOD bucks, I tell ya!
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Rick Overton · 12:25 AM

LOL
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Kelly Carlin · 12:25 AM

Rick - What keeps you inspired?
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Rick Overton · 12:25 AM

But good on e'm!
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Rick Overton · 12:25 AM

You do, Kel!
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Kelly Carlin · 12:26 AM

lol - shucks...
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Kelly Carlin · 12:26 AM

What makes you keep fighting the good fight>
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Kelly Carlin · 12:26 AM

★ Spotlighted from Michael Shapiro

“I'm not so sure, Rick. Can you give me an example? Not that I don't think The Daily Show isn't important, but it's not going to influence policy--and Stewart, when he's targeted by the right wing, is always careful to point out that he's a comedian.”

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Rick Overton · 12:27 AM

The news isn't inspiring, but good people are. I employ media news to to defend my beloved friends
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Rick Overton · 12:27 AM

And those I don't know
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Rick Overton · 12:27 AM

Yes, Mike. Jon is careful.
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Rick Overton · 12:28 AM

But he can destroy the careers of other media influences, thus slightly shifting things all around.
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Rick Overton · 12:28 AM

Tucker Carlson
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Rick Overton · 12:28 AM

Jim Kramer
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Kelly Carlin · 12:28 AM

yes
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Kelly Carlin · 12:29 AM

It seems that Jon has some ear of the culture and he is seen as a moral authority. Is this too much responsibility? My dad used to say that he too was just a comic. Just wanting to make people laugh.
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Kelly Carlin · 12:29 AM

This used to make me mad. I wanted him to own more of his power.
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Kelly Carlin · 12:30 AM

★ Spotlighted from Shoq Value

“In the same that this Tawkers app takes an obvious application and makes it new, the same could be done with political comedy.”

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Rick Overton · 12:30 AM

Saying one is just a comic is the graceful way to handle it
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Kelly Carlin · 12:30 AM

Ah.
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Rick Overton · 12:30 AM

Winkedy wik
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Kelly Carlin · 12:30 AM

Yes, Shoq. You never know how evolution will emerge...
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Kelly Carlin · 12:30 AM

lol
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Rick Overton · 12:30 AM

Shields up!
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Kelly Carlin · 12:31 AM

On your podcast Overview, you get deep. How are you enjoying this new forum for yourself?
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Rick Overton · 12:31 AM

I love to take the alarm clock apart.
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Kelly Carlin · 12:31 AM

And you do it well.
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Rick Overton · 12:32 AM

Kel, I've learned a great deal from you on this! Thanks!!
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Kelly Carlin · 12:32 AM

Isn't it nice to have the space to drill down and not HAVE to do the funny?
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Rick Overton · 12:32 AM

Your engaging and intelligent interviews are a great example of how it's done!
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Rick Overton · 12:32 AM

Absolutely!
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Kelly Carlin · 12:33 AM

What are you learning about yourself as you do these longer conversations with your guests? Are you discovering something new?
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Kelly Carlin · 12:33 AM

★ Spotlighted from Marc Hershon

“Gotta run, but this has been a very cool new experience! I plan to do more Tawking soon! Take care...”

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Rick Overton · 12:34 AM

I'm sure learning about the guests and their world views.
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Rick Overton · 12:34 AM

It's worldly travel from one spot
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Rick Overton · 12:34 AM

Bye Marc. See ya in a few!!!
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Rick Overton · 12:35 AM

★ Spotlighted from Patrick Ford

“What about comics not in MSM like Lee Camp? Is his voice loud enough?”

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Kelly Carlin · 12:35 AM

I want to get back to this culture feeling like it's on the edge of something. Are you hopeful or nervous about the next ten years?
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Kelly Carlin · 12:35 AM

Lee is getting louder! Which I love...more and more are finding him.
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Rick Overton · 12:36 AM

I'm intentionally optimistic
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Kelly Carlin · 12:36 AM

★ Spotlighted from Jordan Birnbaum

“What was it you once said, Rick? Something like, "Remember that a helicopter looks like chaos to a monkey."”

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Rick Overton · 12:36 AM

By choice
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Kelly Carlin · 12:36 AM

I think that is how I would desribe myself too. I believe in the evolution of something.
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Rick Overton · 12:36 AM

An experiment in circumstantial m,odification
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Kelly Carlin · 12:37 AM

yes. like the rest of life. lol
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Rick Overton · 12:37 AM

Life-Prov
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Rick Overton · 12:37 AM

Yes and
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Rick Overton · 12:37 AM

Rather than "Aaaaaaand scene"
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Kelly Carlin · 12:37 AM

Life-Prov!! LOVE that!
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Kelly Carlin · 12:37 AM

lol
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Kelly Carlin · 12:37 AM

Perfect.
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Rick Overton · 12:37 AM

Death Prov
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Kelly Carlin · 12:38 AM

One of the things that I was taught was to always ask, "What is needed now?"
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Rick Overton · 12:38 AM

Whose Timeline Is It Anyway?
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Rick Overton · 12:38 AM

Motehr Of Improv
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Rick Overton · 12:38 AM

Typing too fast
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Kelly Carlin · 12:38 AM

I wonder a lot about how we don't teach that to kids. Being in the moment. Learning to be WITH the moment.
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Kelly Carlin · 12:39 AM

Learning to TRUST the moment.
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Kelly Carlin · 12:39 AM

★ Spotlighted from Scott Sherwood

“Kelly that is my motto”

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Rick Overton · 12:39 AM

Lots we no longer teach them
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Kelly Carlin · 12:39 AM

We can teach them now. I feel like I had to teach myself, and that is why I like to pass it on to even the grown ups now.
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Rick Overton · 12:39 AM

I call it "Instinctillectualism"
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Kelly Carlin · 12:40 AM

wow.
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Kelly Carlin · 12:40 AM

great word.
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Rick Overton · 12:40 AM

xo
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Kelly Carlin · 12:40 AM

break it down for us.
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Rick Overton · 12:40 AM

In a burning house, who will get out first. The family or the cat?
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Kelly Carlin · 12:40 AM

lol
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Kelly Carlin · 12:41 AM

So the body, the instincts know more than we BIG brained humans want to let on...
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Kelly Carlin · 12:41 AM

This is SOOO where I am at in my life now.
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Kelly Carlin · 12:41 AM

★ Spotlighted from Michael Shapiro

“I believe it was the cat who set the house on fire to begin with.”

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Kelly Carlin · 12:41 AM

Trusting my deep instincts and intuitions.
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Rick Overton · 12:41 AM

Brain only people can't create anything. They are thieves, even form their own memories.
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Rick Overton · 12:42 AM

from their
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Rick Overton · 12:42 AM

Your gut gives inspiration
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Kelly Carlin · 12:42 AM

It seems that we have things backwards in this Age of Enlightenment -
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Kelly Carlin · 12:43 AM

Reason is to be used by the whole being.
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Kelly Carlin · 12:43 AM

Not the other way around.
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Rick Overton · 12:43 AM

Read up on some of the greatest creators in history, and minds in science
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Kelly Carlin · 12:43 AM

Yes!
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Rick Overton · 12:43 AM

Reason is terrified of instict
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Kelly Carlin · 12:43 AM

The in the shower AHA moments...
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Rick Overton · 12:43 AM

Yup
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Kelly Carlin · 12:43 AM

when the Gestalt of our being takes all the pieces and forms the whole.
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Rick Overton · 12:44 AM

Improv goes too fast to have been thought
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Rick Overton · 12:44 AM

A DSL download
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Rick Overton · 12:44 AM

Thought is dial up
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Kelly Carlin · 12:44 AM

So we worship the all-mighty thinking when we should be trusting KNOWING
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Kelly Carlin · 12:44 AM

★ Spotlighted from Jordan Birnbaum

“ya gotta have heart.”

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Rick Overton · 12:44 AM

And feeling. The thing antidepressants shuts off
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Rick Overton · 12:45 AM

It's our inner compass
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Kelly Carlin · 12:45 AM

Yes. So...how does laughter work into all of this? How does laughter help us with all of this imbalance?
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Rick Overton · 12:45 AM

it shrinks the thing we're scared of.
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Rick Overton · 12:46 AM

Nobody likes being laughed at. They'
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Rick Overton · 12:46 AM

re shrinking
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Rick Overton · 12:46 AM

Mockery is hated for that reason
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Rick Overton · 12:46 AM

Social stature reduction
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Kelly Carlin · 12:47 AM

And when we laugh, it is a spontaneous act that has used reason to figure out what is funny, but it comes from a deeper place...
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Kelly Carlin · 12:47 AM

something has short-circuited.
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Rick Overton · 12:47 AM

Reason is instict's bitch
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Kelly Carlin · 12:47 AM

lol
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Rick Overton · 12:48 AM

The reason only people seem lost. They are.
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Rick Overton · 12:48 AM

Faking it with tough guy stuff. But tough guy + scared.
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Rick Overton · 12:48 AM

Tough guy = scared
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Kelly Carlin · 12:49 AM

So wrapping this up....
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Kelly Carlin · 12:49 AM

Zombie or Werewolf? Which would you rather be?
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Rick Overton · 12:49 AM

Werewolf. I'm a dog lover
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Rick Overton · 12:50 AM

AaaahOOOOO
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Kelly Carlin · 12:50 AM

And that whole howling at the moon thing...
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Kelly Carlin · 12:50 AM

yes...
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Rick Overton · 12:50 AM

Werewolves Of LA
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Kelly Carlin · 12:50 AM

Howling at the Capital Building...
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Kelly Carlin · 12:50 AM

★ Spotlighted from Michael Shapiro

“This whole Cartesian dualism thing is very 1950s, you know. Neuroscience (and philosophy) has moved on from that into a more integrated sense of cognition.”

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Rick Overton · 12:50 AM

Hang'n with the coyotes by the Hollywood sign
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Rick Overton · 12:51 AM

How poetic
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Kelly Carlin · 12:51 AM

Thank you Michael. yes! The whole point. xo
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Kelly Carlin · 12:51 AM

Howwwlllll
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Kelly Carlin · 12:51 AM

So Rick...have fun in San Francisco up at the Throckmorton this weekend!
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Rick Overton · 12:52 AM

Thanks Kel!
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Kelly Carlin · 12:52 AM

Howl at the redwoods for me...
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Kelly Carlin · 12:52 AM

And THANK YOU for doing this...
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Rick Overton · 12:52 AM

I'll hug one for ya
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Kelly Carlin · 12:52 AM

It is always a great pleasure to hang with you in any medium.
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Rick Overton · 12:52 AM

Of pee on one for territroy
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Kelly Carlin · 12:52 AM

lol
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Rick Overton · 12:53 AM

Same here Sister Kel! xo
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Rick Overton · 12:53 AM

You are a beacon.
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Kelly Carlin · 12:53 AM

Thank you all who came onto the forum and added your thoughts.
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Kelly Carlin · 12:53 AM

This place is pretty cool. I'll see you all in a few weeks.
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Rick Overton · 12:53 AM

I am a bacon, gross until sizzling hit.
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Rick Overton · 12:53 AM

hot
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Kelly Carlin · 12:53 AM

I'm going to try and get Rain Pryor as my next play date.
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Rick Overton · 12:54 AM

See you soon. This is making me work on typing!
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Rick Overton · 12:54 AM

Yes!
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Kelly Carlin · 12:54 AM

And let's give Rick a hand for typing!
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Kelly Carlin · 12:54 AM

xoxo
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Rick Overton · 12:54 AM

xoxo
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Kelly Carlin · 12:54 AM

See you all soon.
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Rick Overton · 12:54 AM

BYE ALL
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Kelly Carlin · 12:54 AM

★ Spotlighted from Kit Nowell

“Very cool- thanks!”

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Kelly Carlin · 12:54 AM

★ Spotlighted from Michael Shapiro

“Thanks Kelly and Rick!”

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Kelly Carlin · 12:54 AM

★ Spotlighted from Jordan Birnbaum

“Thank you - that was so much fun!”

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Kelly Carlin · 12:54 AM

★ Spotlighted from Jordan Birnbaum

“Fastest. Hour. Ever.”