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The Great Creators with Guy Raz
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The Importance of Improvising
When you, when you graduated, you knew that that's what you want to keep doing. You wanted to be involved in improv in some form of fashion. And for boom, it's kind of confusing. It's called boom Chicago, but it was based on Amsterdam. Yeah. So with Chicago guys who moved to Amsterdam and came to with the aid of both their own ambition and legalized weed came to the conclusion that an improv theater like Second City would work in Amsterdam because everybody spoke English. They tried to come up with a name where it meant the same in every language. The problem is they did not realize that boom, which is how you pronounce boom and Dutch means tree. so right
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