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We're talking about yes, and, on accepting people's ideas, building on those ideas with
something connected. Right now we're going to do an exercise where we get to kind of
play with both concepts, one of listening and accepting and one of blocking or shooting
down people's ideas, the stuff you don't really want to do when you're improvising on stage.
So in this game I'm going to be accepting offers and Shannon is going to be blocking
offers. So I'm going to make an open offer, Shannon's going to shut that down and make
his own offer, and then I'm going to accept that offer and add on to that and so on and
so forth. You'll see it, you'll see it. So yeah, let's get started. I'm accepting and
you're blocking is that right? Hey, you want to go to prom with me? No I don't dance. You're
right you don't dance, maybe we could just go eat instead. I don't eat either. I only
exist on air. I love air! Oh, yeah, maybe we could get some flavored air together? Air
only comes in air flavor dummy. But I don't even hang out with other people ever. Yeah,
you don't hang out with other people, you know what that's a great idea, maybe we could
just be alone and that way we could be separate. I don't like to be separate. Don't you understand?
I'm complicated. You are complicated, I'll never understand women. I'm not a girl! Alright,
scene. Good. So it's a challenging game but it's a fun exercise and you can kind of mess
with each other because you know they're going to block your ideas. So if I said something
like, Okay, let's never hang out again. You're going to say something like: No, I'll never
leave you. Alright, good, so you can kind of play with your partner that way because
you know they're going to block your ideas. So that's a game just practicing accepting
ideas and blocking ideas and offering ideas and it's called one blocks and one accepts.