SF 22 - Performing and Infinity with Ellen Adair

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 Get PL+ and join our community!: https://pitcherlist.com/plus [https://pitcherlist.com/plus] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices [https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices]