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Improv Therapy for Parkinson's: The Unexpected Treatment That Actually Works · Living with Parkinson’s | Bryce Perry

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  They told him he had five good years left.
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  That was 15 years ago. He's still standing, still
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  speaking, still living. This is living with Parkinson's,
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  The good, the bad, and the reality.
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  A podcast about what happens when life throws you something
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  incurable and you fight back anyway.
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  Hosted by Bryce Perry, diagnosed at 4015.
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  Years into the battle, This is the truth behind the tremor.
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  Let's begin. Hey, all right, welcome to the
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  podcast. I'm so glad you're here and this
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  is this your first time joining us?
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  My name is Bryce and this is living with Parkinson's, The
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  good, the bad and the Reality. I have a wickedly cool show with
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  show with you. I have a quick, quickly good.
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  What the heck am I trying to say?
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  I have a great show, great podcast for you to watch or
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  listen to. It's a really special episode.
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  And we have, I have a lot of guests and this is the first.
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  I'm really nervous. As you can tell, I'm super
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  nervous. I've never had this many guests
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  on before. And they're backstage right now
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  and they're probably, they're primed and they're working on
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  some stuff because stay tuned. This episode is going to blow
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  you away. This is, have you ever thought
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  about the things that we have to do?
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  So everybody tells us with Parkinson's, we have to
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  exercise, you know, and you hear that?
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  How many times have you heard that you have to exercise?
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  You got to do this. You got to keep your brain
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  smart. You got to, you know what?
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  The only thing is, I can't find anything that's fun or I've been
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  looking for things that are fun to do things that, you know,
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  and, and then don't get me wrong, I, I'm not criticizing or
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  not, not not jumping on those that love to run and walk.
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  And if you find that fun, that's great.
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  I don't, I, I don't. So I'm looking for things that
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  A, are good for me and good for my Parkinson's, right?
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  And B, that are fun and kind of are light and not as heavy
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  because it's, you know, this life with Parkinson's is heavy.
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  And guess what? I found one and it's the coolest
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  thing ever. And they're joining us today.
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  And I, I don't know if you've ever done this before any of
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  you, I want you to make sure in the comments as soon as I bring
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  them up and start talking about this.
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  Have you ever heard of Improv for Parkinson's?
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  And if you have, have you ever tried it?
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  Well, today we're gonna do like We're gonna bring him on.
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  We're gonna find out why Improv for Parkinson's is good for
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  people with Parkinson's and their caregivers.
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  Maybe, possibly, who knows, maybe we'll talk him into that.
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  And B, what was B? What was B?
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  Why is why? Oh, and we were going to
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  actually play and we're going to do some demoing and you can play
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  along at home or, you know, as you're listening or as you're
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  watching, it's going to be a lot of fun.
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  So I'm going to start bringing up my guests here.
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  And again, bear with me here. It's I've never done, I've never
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  had this many people. So this is really cool.
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  And the first person to bring the stage is Rosemary Morrison.
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  Rosemary, welcome to the broadcast.
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  Broadcast and Rosemary's with improv from Work and Wellness.
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  Yeah, there it is, all that cool.
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  I love the swag. I love thank.
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  You thank you for that in Canada featured on.
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  Oh my God. Thanks for having us, Grace.
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  Well, I my pleasure. Well, let's bring up and your,
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  your, your partner in crime here, Dan.
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  Oh. Hello.
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  Dan, how are you from Improv for Work and Wellness?
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  You guys have the same shirt that's.
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  Perfect. One of us is gonna have to
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  change. We're gonna No, I love it.
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  Are you kidding me? I wish.
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  I wish we I was that coordinated with with people, but we're
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  gonna have to do a swag drop, like a swag switch.
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  Yeah, 'cause I got some stuff and we can do that.
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  And guess what, We have another guest and I hope I say her in
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  the last name, right, 'cause you know, I only just call her
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  Morgan. But this is Morgan Buchall from
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  Parkinson, Canada. Did I get it right, Morgan?
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  Almost Morgan Buchall. It's that German last name.
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  Well, you know, Buchall sounds a lot better than what I said
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  right there and then. And then the next person we're
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  going to bring up is actually, I don't know if anybody's bet.
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  Yeah, you bet it better on the other podcast, my wife, Carmen.
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  Hi, Carmen. How are you?
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  Hi. Hi, everybody.
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  Hello. Carmen, Hello, hello.
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  Something went like terribly wrong here because I'm looking
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  at the screen and you're like, my wife's sitting out in the sun
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  somewhere under like a thing. And I'm down in a dungy studio.
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  So like, I don't know where, I don't know how where this thing
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  fell off the rails, but this is gonna be a really cool
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  broadcast. And I'll be honest with you, I
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  brought my wife on on purpose because we were talking about
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  doing this podcast and everybody on this, everybody, if you're
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  watching everybody you see, and if you're listening, everybody
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  you're gonna hear are really talented.
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  And I'm like the, you know, you ever watched Sesame Street?
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  And they had like that one of these things just doesn't
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  belong. And that's me.
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  So I brought, so I like literally brought my wife on so
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  I can kind of like hide behind, hide behind her with this
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  because improv scares the crap out of me.
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  It's like it scares me when I hear, I've watched improv, I've
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  watched on TV, I've seen it, you know, I've done it.
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  But just the thought of if someone said to me, OK, Bryce,
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  all of a sudden we're going to start doing improv.
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  It scares me. And I don't know, like Rosemary,
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  Dan, you know, whoever wants to take a swing at this.
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  Do you ever heard that before or is that just me?
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  Is this just a Bryce thing? We hear it all the time.
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  We hear it all the time. And what's funny is Bryce,
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  you're amazing at it. We've just watched you do it for
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  three minutes. Sounds great.
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  We're on the spot, though, if you're telling me like, hey, it
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  has to be like this. See if I can play outside color
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  outside the lines so inside's hard.
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  We. Welcome outside the lines.
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  You know what, we improvise every day and I think people
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  with PD improvise more than the general population because you
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  don't know if your meds are going to be on or off.
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  You don't know how your body's responding today.
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  So you have to adapt to like curveballs and the improv skills
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  that we teach help you to do it faster.
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  So I, I think you're already greater than improv.
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  And maybe today our objective is going to be to melt that mental
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  block that is hearing you because you're already a pro.
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  I love it. I, I love that because, you
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  know, I'm all about like mindset.
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  Like mindset to me is so important, especially in
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  Parkinson's because I, you know, you can choose.
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  I, I just, I feel like, you know, there's this big
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  isolation. One of the things I find and
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  what I love about this program and what you guys do, it's, it
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  breaks that isolation. Like there the people with
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  Parkinson's don't, you know, we don't want to go out, we don't
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  want to be, we don't want to do things right.
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  And this is something that A, you can learn a new technique.
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  B, it's, it's fun. It's I've watched listen again.
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  I haven't done it, but I've watched it and, and Morgan, how
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  about you? Have you You've done improv
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  before, Morgan. Yeah, not really good.
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  OK, good. So I brought Morgan and my wife
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  on. Well, so I got so I can, I can
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  hide in the weeds, but I think you know Morgan, so you're
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  you're with Parkinson Canada and and you guys we have we have you
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  guys. I'm just going to pretend like I
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  don't know you. I'm like, hey, hey, so you know,
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  Morgan is one of my outstanding members of one of one of my
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  teams and, and we, you know, we met improv, we met Dan and
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  Rosemary a while ago and and you know, we've had a great
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  relationship. And so from a Parkinson's stand,
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  a parks in Canada standpoint, Morgan, what like what do you
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  see people like, I don't know, like just tell me about tell me
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  about your from a total outsider perspective.
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  Tell me about improv and what what do you see?
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  Well honestly I met Rosemary week 1 of me working at
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  Parkinson Canada I. Really.
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  Yes. Yeah, so I was flown out to PEI
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  to do a community engagement and Rosemary just happened to be
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  there on a family trip. And again, I was just absorbing
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  all the information, didn't know really anyone, the community
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  partners, who the community was in general.
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  And then really from there, even in my role beginning at
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  Parkinson Canada, I wasn't really focused on community
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  partners. I was really focused on support
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  groups and the community member side.
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  So little did I know Rosemary was going to be this like huge
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  part of our daily, like my daily work and everything that they
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  do. So everything that I've heard
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  from Improv for Parkinson's and Improv for Work and Wellness has
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  just been positive from creating communities, empowering people,
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  really just getting rid of that social isolation that is so
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  common. I think really Improv for
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  Parkinson's does all of that and you feel really good and
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  empowered right after you leave. So honestly, it's we need more
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  programs like that. And I think to press on
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  something important in the beginning where everyone puts
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  that emphasis on exercise, that exercise is the only beneficial
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  thing you can do for Parkinson's.
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  But there's such a uncharted territory when it comes to art
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  space programming that is just as beneficial and exciting and
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  empowering to be part of as as much as an exercise program.
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  Is it's so true. And you know, Morgan, I didn't
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  even realize that. You're right.
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  It's funny how you know, how things, you know, paths cross.
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  And I'll, and I'll be honest, I I was in, I was in
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  Newfoundlander. No, where were we?
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  We were in Halifax. Halifax.
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  Yeah. And so my, my, my VP called me
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  and she's like, and she was like, hey, I want you to jump on
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  this call and we're just gonna have this, this quick call with
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  this, you know, this improv group or improv improv troupe.
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  She called you like this troupe, right?
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  And I'm like, what? What do you mean an improv
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  troupe? She was, she was, I don't know
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  lots about it, but apparently they were in Barcelona and they,
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  and I'm like, I was in Barcelona.
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  She was, well, didn't you meet them?
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  I'm like, no, I didn't meet them.
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  And like, well, apparently like they like were like, like storm
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  storming places to get to, to perform and stuff.
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  And anyway, they do this thing and I'm like, Oh my God.
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  And, and in my head I'm going like, what do you, what do you
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  get me into? Like, and so I, we're in Halifax
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  and we were walking down like the, the pier or something.
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  And I'm like, OK, Jack, yeah, I'll take it.
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  Like I'll take it. Like I'm going to come on.
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  But like, I'm, I'm only going to be on for a couple of minutes
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  because you know, I'm not, I don't know what the, I don't
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  know what you're even talking about.
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  And it ended up being on, I don't think we're on for like
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  like 45 minutes or an hour. I was just kept walking around
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  because I was so like, from the minute you guys started talking,
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  it just blew me up. My mind was blown.
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  And my, my, my remember, my wife kept looking at me like, like,
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  what are you talking? Like, because she could hear me,
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  but she couldn't hear, you know, everybody else.
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  But, but what I, what she could tell I was really excited.
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  And so it was such a, So what a weird way to meet.
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  And then now I think that's almost been like 2 years ago.
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  I think Rosemary is right. Yeah, it's been a little bit.
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  Yeah, that's. Nuts, Yeah.
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  That was use. Yeah, OK, so let's OK, let's
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  let's talk about improv again and again.
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  It's been a long day already. Let's anyway, so let's talk
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  about that. Rosemary, what do you see that
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  what's why would what are the benefits for somebody with
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  Parkinson's to take improv to join one of your classes?
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  Amazing. Yeah.
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  Well, it's so interesting mentioning that fear bit or
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  people coming to improv and they're really unsure.
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  But a lot of people have come to improv for Parkinson's because
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  like you mentioned at the beginning, Bryce, so looking for
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  something fun, something where they can connect.
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  And one of the biggest reasons that Improv for Parkinson's
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  started was because Dan's husband, John, who's a movement
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  disorder neurologist, was looking for a new way for people
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  with Parkinson's and care partners to cope.
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  So I have been, I've been managing the programs for a
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  while. And this spring I've been
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  teaching a level 1 and now level 2 cohort.
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  So I've. Oh, there's different levels.
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  There's. Different levels.
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  Oh, there's different levels. Yeah.
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  Oh my. Gosh, so.
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  I'm in level 2 with them right now and I'm really seeing the
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  benefits. And I got this really wonderful
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  e-mail, somebody who just wanted to express what the class was
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  doing for that, for that person. And I think one of the biggest
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  things that really stood out to me was what he said about voice.
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  He said the classes where a space where voice was really
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  honored and there was like the community and support in
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  expressing yourself in all these different ways, having fun with
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  it. But that conversation comes up a
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  lot because folks with Parkinson's are dealing with
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  muted voices or, you know, they start to withdraw from
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  conversations because they feel like they're not getting across.
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  Or if they try and speak, it's being misunderstood.
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  And one of my favorite things recently about improper
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  Parkinson's is that we've had a lot of fun with that.
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  We've had some sort of like mischievous, being misunderstood
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  or being misheard as a way to firstly, make sure that people
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  are being heard. And 2nd, just to give
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  participants a little bit more confidence in if you say
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  something and somebody mishears you, that is just an opportunity
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  for a laugh and another chance to connect.
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  And that's one, one benefit that comes up for me right away.
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  I think you know what there's a couple of things you said there.
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  Number one is one of my favorite shows ever was is was 3's
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  companies because there was always a misunderstanding, like
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  like someone misheard something and it turned into this wild,
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  crazy thing. But so so I love that part and
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  you said so much. Part 2 of that is the voicing
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  and Oh no, sorry, was making fun of it and going after it.
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  Like I actually think that, and you saw some of those little
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  clips in the beginning, like I've I've turned this crappy
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  disease and these crappy little things I deal with and I just
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  kind of make fun of them. Like, and I feel like if I make
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  fun of it, it it takes the power away from it, from it being PD
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  and it gives it, it just like, like, you know, when you make
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  fun of something, you feel more powerful than it.
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  I think maybe. Yeah, yeah.
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  And so and so that's so there's Part 2 there.
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  That was the second thing I really liked what you said was
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  because that resonates with me very much.
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  Because again, I feel like why, why like hideaway, like why get,
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  you know, stop going towards it or away from it And let's just
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  like pound on it. And I feel like if I could sit
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  in an hour and just like make, I can make jokes all the time.
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  Like, I wish I had a baby, you know, because I'd be like giving
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  them the milk and I'd be like, well, here's their milkshake.
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  Oh, no, sorry. I wish I had a baby.
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  A grandchild. How about that?
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  How about a grandchild, honey? A grandchild, OK, That we can
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  just sort of give them that we can just like we can just like
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  give them. I'm good with grandbabies,
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  that's it. Yeah, OK, sorry.
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  Let me back up. Yes, exactly.
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  So the grand, that was a big hard definite.
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  I'll tell you what, if if if we ever had a baby, it'd be a
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  miracle from miracle from miracle.
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  Like there's there's impossibilities from happening
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  here to be talking about anyway, But but so that so I feel like,
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  yeah, you know, I'd say like here's your but I'd be like,
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  hey, here's your milkshake, you know, like, or whatever.
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  Ha ha, ha, like, ha ha, like, you know, like a little thing
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  like that anyway. And Dan, let me ask you this and
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  then and then I want to let's let's let's try if you, I don't
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  know, we didn't really plan this out.
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  So OK. And I know you probably.
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  Had some games. Apart Oh yeah, OK, so why we,
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  why don't we do this? So I'm going to like, I'll, I'll
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  throw it to you, right. And then you could like do we'll
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  play a game and then let's come back and talk a little bit about
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  it and then we'll kind of go back and forth like that just so
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  that everybody can get a taste of what it's like.
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  And and listen, Dan and Rose. So if you have, you know, if
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  you're interested in something like this or or or you're you
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  want to know more about them. Stay with us.
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  We'll be right back. Dan, do you have to where do I
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  have to live to go to one of your classes or how do I get
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  involved in that? Is it in person?
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  You know, you could live in a tent.
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  As long as you have Wi-Fi and an iPad, you can join no problem.
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  You can join from anywhere. So the great thing about our
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  classes is that they're just like this.
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  They're virtual. And we started doing that in
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  2020. It was actually the Parkinson's
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  Society of BC who reached out to us and said we think Covid's
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  going to be around for a little while.
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  March 2020. You know, could you do something
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  virtual for people who are isolated in their homes?
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  And you know what I said? Like a terrible improviser, No.
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  No, that's not. That's not a division, no.
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  You got to come in person to do improv, you know, It's something
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  that we do. Together and.
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  They said, will you just try it? Will you just try it out?
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  You know, we really need to reach people who are isolated.
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  We said, OK, so we'll try it. So here we are five years later,
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  running these improv from Parkinson's programs virtually,
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  and we pretty much kick one off every six weeks.
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  You know we're. Reaching people who are far away
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  from us. We're reaching people who can't
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  make it out of their houses. And the great thing is, it's
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  like not that big of a risk. You don't have to encourage to
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  join an improv class. You just got to click a link.
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  And you know what? If you don't like it, just shut
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  your computer. We'll go.
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  Oh. Yeah.
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  Bryce I mean, it's long gone. I'm already in the backyard.
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  I'm in the fetal position into my bedroom.
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  Like that was the worst thing I ever did in my whole like I, I'd
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  be like gone. Like I, I wouldn't stand around
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  here. So OK, so so now and and can so
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  I, we, so we have viewers and we have, I have whatever viewers
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  and, and listeners and watches from all like, you know, just
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  all all over. Can can anybody join?
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  Do you have to be from a certain place?
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  OK, there you go. We've got we've got folks from
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  all over the world. We made a lot of friends in
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  Barcelona when we were there for the World Congress that have
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  kept in touch with us. Soberly.
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  And then we've got a whole bunch of of our American neighbors who
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  join us, and then of course, people from every province.
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  Come in. And, and do improv with us and
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  different levels. You know, we've got people who
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  have had Parkinson's for decades.
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  We have people who are newly diagnosed.
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  And why it works is because you know, we're coming in with that
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  same kind of feeling of a support group that.
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  Everyone has. Something in common with a
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  common challenge. But instead of talking about
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  what our challenges are, we work on creative pursuits together
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  and we exercise the brain. You know when our T-shirts here,
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  we've got the little, the little brain with the migration.
• 19:10
  Oh my God, that's logo. So we know that we know that
• 19:13
  physical exercise slows Parkinson's, and what we've
• 19:16
  really tried to do with this improv for Parkinson's offer is
• 19:21
  have a social exercise that works the brain.
• 19:24
  And you'll see in some of these games today, it's not about
• 19:28
  quick thinking, it's about relaxed thinking and and it's
• 19:32
  about accepting mistakes. One of our improv mindset
• 19:35
  pillars is that we welcome mistakes.
• 19:38
  So we're not trying to get it right, we're not trying to get
• 19:40
  it fast or we're not trying to be perfect.
• 19:42
  We're trying to go at what we call the speed of fun.
• 19:47
  Oh, I like that speed of fun. Fun, right?
• 19:50
  And that might be different for every partner that you work
• 19:52
  with. So you'll see in some of these
• 19:54
  games that we're going to play today.
• 19:56
  I've got my emotion. You're.
• 20:01
  Going to be. Put on, you're going to be put
• 20:04
  on the spot, but your first job is to take a breath and we will
• 20:08
  wait until you have an idea to share.
• 20:11
  And that's the support that this group is going to give that all
• 20:15
  of our classes give because we start off by creating this space
• 20:18
  to say you're not here to be funny.
• 20:21
  You're not here to think quick. You're here to be present and to
• 20:24
  connect with us. And if you've done that, you've
• 20:27
  really hit the mark. So people don't, so they
• 20:29
  shouldn't have any decades. Like I have to be funny to go to
• 20:32
  improv or I have to be enabled. I have to have quick wit to go
• 20:35
  to improv. It just just kind of come as you
• 20:37
  are and we just do it that way. Yeah, I was saying to you last
• 20:42
  time, you know, we used to call this the straight man, but now,
• 20:45
  now we call it the the neutral grounded character in a good in
• 20:49
  a good. Very DEI of you.
• 20:55
  In a good comedy, you need someone who's that neutral,
• 20:57
  grounded character. Yeah, right.
• 20:59
  Who then? Is put beside the wild character
• 21:02
  who's wacky and it makes it funnier, right?
• 21:05
  So who's the wacky person here today?
• 21:07
  Who do you? Think.
• 21:10
  Who said that? Who?
• 21:12
  Said, Oh my God, she didn't even take a breath like she didn't
• 21:16
  even I, I didn't got the question.
• 21:19
  Oh my Lord. Oh my goodness.
• 21:21
  OK, well, there you go. Listen, the truth comes out.
• 21:24
  Sorry, Dan, but that's so you're right.
• 21:26
  So so it appeals to you don't have to be the, the you know, it
• 21:30
  doesn't matter, right? Just come and try and and, but
• 21:33
  maybe there are some could is it possible?
• 21:35
  Is it possible that there's some some funny people that that
• 21:40
  should actually be straight people or straight people?
• 21:42
  Straight man's, straight man's, straight man's.
• 21:44
  Is that what you call it? Straight founded.
• 21:45
  Character Great. Neutral founded.
• 21:48
  Let's just say go earth off the air list.
• 21:50
  Like when they're gone, it's like, but and is there, is it
• 21:53
  possible that there could be people out there that think
• 21:55
  they're maybe they don't think they're funny or they don't
• 21:57
  think they have that quick wit, but actually come in?
• 21:59
  And have you ever seen someone come in who goes like, you know,
• 22:01
  I'm not very funny, but I'm here.
• 22:02
  And then all of a sudden they they find themselves like in in
• 22:05
  the program. You know, if there's something
• 22:08
  in this world that makes you laugh, that is a really good
• 22:12
  indication of your sense of humor.
• 22:14
  So if you come into the class and you and instead of thinking
• 22:17
  I got to be funny, I got to make other people laugh, come into
• 22:20
  the class with the attitude, Let's see if these people can
• 22:23
  make me laugh, you know, and then it will uncover your sense
• 22:28
  of humor. And then once I find out, once
• 22:31
  the teachers find out what makes you laugh, then we've then we've
• 22:34
  got you because we're like, well, let's do that scene about
• 22:37
  chicken soup. And this time it's going to be
• 22:39
  Bryce because he was laughing his head off about that.
• 22:41
  And then you're Oh my gosh, I did think that was hilarious.
• 22:45
  OK, so now I'm. Well, I'll tell you, this is
• 22:49
  this to me, this is like Round 2, because I'm going to tell
• 22:51
  you, we actually, we did the PDIQ in Vancouver last November.
• 22:56
  And actually all of us, I think. Rosemary, did you come to
• 23:00
  dinner? You were at dinner afterwards?
• 23:01
  Yeah, we were all there. So we were all at this dinner.
• 23:03
  And I'll be honest. So, so, and that's why I asked
• 23:05
  my wife to come too, because read this dinner and all, like,
• 23:08
  and, and, and there's Dan and Rosemary.
• 23:10
  That's their home turf. You guys are from Vancouver, BC,
• 23:14
  right? Or, or, or actually go out that
• 23:16
  way, right. Rosemary, I know you're in
• 23:17
  Calgary, Alberta, but but and Dan, you're in Vancouver, but
• 23:20
  we're having dinner in Vancouver and these and, and there's other
• 23:23
  people there like from the I think you're, you're bored.
• 23:25
  Different people there. Well, they start breaking out in
• 23:28
  this improv and they're firing. Everybody's firing things at the
• 23:31
  and, and, and, and my wife's jumping in there and she's
• 23:33
  throwing things out and I'm and I'm and I'm waiting.
• 23:36
  I'm like, no one's going to come up that I've got, I know I'm
• 23:38
  going to be able to do this. I know.
• 23:39
  And I didn't get one like I didn't get, I didn't get a like,
• 23:42
  I, I sat there and, and I'm like, OK, OK.
• 23:45
  And, but nothing came my way. So I, I always wanted to, to be
• 23:48
  able to redeem myself, right? And so I think this is it.
• 23:51
  This is it, right? Morgan, you're with me on that
• 23:53
  one, right? I am because.
• 23:55
  OK, this is Morgan and Bryce's Redemption hour.
• 24:00
  All right, well, let's try. Let's do this.
• 24:01
  Let's let's show everybody a game.
• 24:02
  And again, again, don't forget to make sure you check the link
• 24:05
  in the description below to get all the information about improv
• 24:08
  when their next classes are. And I'm going to challenge you,
• 24:10
  you know what, if you want, if you're, if you're kind of going
• 24:12
  like, I don't know if it's for me, like Dan said, give it a
• 24:14
  try. Click on join a class, try it.
• 24:17
  It's not, you know, it's, it's not going to hurt you.
• 24:19
  What's the worst it's going to do?
• 24:21
  You might be embarrassed for one second, but guess what?
• 24:23
  You'll never see them again, right?
• 24:25
  Unless you come back. And then if you do, you're going
• 24:27
  to start joining community. And I'll tell you what though,
• 24:29
  let's let's, let's show, let's do some, let's do some, let's
• 24:32
  just do it. Let's just see what let's show
• 24:34
  people what it's like and I don't and by the way, let's
• 24:36
  let's back up real quick. We didn't pre talk about what
• 24:39
  these games. We didn't we don't know what's
• 24:41
  going on right? You know we don't know anything.
• 24:44
  No one gave us answers. I wish they did.
• 24:46
  I tried they wouldn't. I tried to bribe them.
• 24:48
  They wouldn't give me that give me anything.
• 24:50
  So all right, let's see. Let's take it away, guys.
• 24:54
  OK. So we're going to, yeah,
• 24:57
  Rosemary's got one. I want to warm us up first.
• 24:59
  Rosemary. And then you start with this
• 25:01
  first game because we always, we always like to warm up.
• 25:04
  So in our classes we do a bit of an introduction.
• 25:07
  The classes, by the way, they're in a six part series and then
• 25:10
  that's it. It's not something you have to
• 25:12
  join and stick with for a year or anything.
• 25:14
  It's six part series. You learn the approach of
• 25:17
  improv. Really, our courses are like
• 25:19
  communication courses and we use improv to improve communication.
• 25:24
  So you know, it's six weeks. OK, so we warm up.
• 25:27
  So I'm going to spin the emotion wheel and I want you to try it
• 25:30
  first to feel the emotion. And then this is the one of the
• 25:33
  amazing things about virtual meetings.
• 25:35
  You'll see your face, so show the emotion.
• 25:39
  And this is great for PD because often the masking stops you from
• 25:43
  being able to show what you feel and that disconnects you from
• 25:46
  who you're with. So this is a chance to get big,
• 25:49
  to get silly with it and to start from that internal feeling
• 25:52
  and to make sure that your face is matching.
• 25:55
  I used to say to people when I was teaching if they had a
• 25:58
  really grumpy face, you know, how do you like the class?
• 26:00
  And they'd say, I love it. And I would say tell your face.
• 26:06
  So here we go. We can call this game tell your
• 26:08
  face. The motion that we're going to
• 26:11
  go with is happy, happy. So something that makes.
• 26:15
  Me feel happy. Oh, so we're all doing it.
• 26:17
  This isn't a warm. Up, yes.
• 26:21
  OK. Real though.
• 26:22
  Bryce, I'm always happy. Happy.
• 26:30
  And then what is? That right?
• 26:32
  Yeah. Well, this makes me happy.
• 26:33
  This make me laugh. Okay, now to neutral.
• 26:37
  Imagine like to blank canvas back to neutral.
• 26:41
  And this is a very useful tool because we often if we feel sad,
• 26:44
  it's like we'll just be happy. That's too much of a switch.
• 26:48
  But if you know neutral to say what's neutral, how can I just
• 26:51
  wash the emotion away and be a blank canvas?
• 26:54
  That's easier to change emotion so we always go back to neutral
• 26:57
  in the middle. OK, that's.
• 26:58
  Easy for a person with Parkinson's because it's just
• 27:00
  that's like normal, right? It's like normal, just normal
• 27:03
  face. Weepy, weepy.
• 27:07
  All right. Weepy.
• 27:08
  Something that makes you weepy. Morgan, that was really good.
• 27:12
  That made me. I, I, I, I looked down to see
• 27:16
  what you were doing and and I was like, so good that I started
• 27:18
  to smile. I was sorry.
• 27:19
  So I was going to go weepy, but it was like, that was so good.
• 27:22
  OK, sorry. That's good.
• 27:23
  Let's see your weepy Let's see your weepy, Bryce.
• 27:25
  OK. I oh.
• 27:30
  Good. OK, back to neutral.
• 27:31
  Back to neutral. OK, This is like the Jim Carrey
• 27:36
  in the mask, you know, here we go.
• 27:40
  Back to neutral. And the last one now is going to
• 27:42
  be guilty. Guilty.
• 27:47
  That's my normal look. I don't know what guilty looks
• 27:51
  like. What does guilty look like like?
• 27:53
  Look, look at us. I don't know.
• 27:54
  We're trying. OK.
• 27:59
  Guilty. OK, good.
• 28:00
  And Doctor Glenn Canvas. OK, so now we have now we're
• 28:05
  warmed up because these characters that we're going to
• 28:07
  play today and that we're going to play with might be in an
• 28:10
  emotional state. So being able to change your
• 28:13
  emotion and show your emotion, that's going to be key to
• 28:16
  creating together. OK, we're warmed up and I'll
• 28:19
  hand it to Rosemary. Great.
• 28:21
  OK, I want us to do one thing. I want everybody to take a deep
• 28:25
  breath in and lower your expectation.
• 28:32
  OK, We love to start off with that one.
• 28:36
  Or I love to also say there's no expectation to be funny, only to
• 28:42
  permission to have fun. So giving that to the group,
• 28:46
  this is called that makes me think of this is one of my all
• 28:50
  time favourites of improv because I think it's a great
• 28:54
  place to start and get our brains going.
• 28:57
  And I won't say much more on it before I explain.
• 29:00
  So we're going to go around our sort of circle here.
• 29:05
  It'll go me and then Dan and then Morgan, Carmen, Bryce back
• 29:10
  to me. Perfect.
• 29:12
  Every person is going to say one word that the word is making
• 29:17
  them think of. So it'll kind of go like this.
• 29:18
  If I start off with a random word, looking around my space, I
• 29:22
  see lamp. So I'm going to take lamp, and
• 29:25
  then I would pass that along to the next person.
• 29:27
  The next person would take lamp and say lamp, the connecting
• 29:31
  phrase that makes me think of, and a new word, lamp, that makes
• 29:36
  me think of light. So now light is our word, and
• 29:39
  the next person would take that light that makes me think of
• 29:43
  dark and the next person and so on and so forth.
• 29:46
  So you use that makes me think of as your connector.
• 29:49
  You'll take the word that comes before you.
• 29:51
  Just accept it and then add on to it with a new word that it
• 29:55
  makes you think of. One thing I will add to this
• 29:58
  game. If you can't think of anything,
• 30:01
  that's OK. You can say I don't know if you
• 30:05
  can't even explain why you thought of that thing.
• 30:09
  Doesn't matter. Whatever it is is wonderful.
• 30:12
  So let's just start off. Let's give it a try.
• 30:15
  I'm going to start off with Watch, Watch and we'll go to
• 30:18
  Dan. Watch makes me think of being
• 30:22
  late. Nice.
• 30:26
  Being late makes me think of panic.
• 30:29
  Yeah, panic. Makes me think of room.
• 30:38
  Room makes me think of bed. Bed.
• 30:46
  Bed makes me think of sleeping. Sleeping makes me think of a
• 30:51
  coma. Oh.
• 30:57
  No, a coma makes me think of a hospital.
• 31:03
  A hospital makes me think of Robin Williams.
• 31:11
  Robin Williams makes me think of Mork.
• 31:16
  Mork. Yeah, Mork and Mindy.
• 31:22
  What makes me think of Mindy? Oh, I gave you that one.
• 31:28
  I gave you that one. Mindy makes me think of
• 31:32
  peppermints. Oh.
• 31:36
  Oh, peppermint makes me think. Of.
• 31:40
  Tea, that is. Tea makes me think of coffee.
• 31:44
  Coffee makes me think of my wife.
• 31:51
  Nice. Okay, I'm gonna pause this
• 31:53
  quickly. Because you didn't have an
• 31:55
  answer for. That we're gonna go up to we're
• 32:00
  gonna go up to level 2 where we're gonna take out the phrase
• 32:04
  that makes me think of. So this time it'll just go word,
• 32:08
  word, word, word, word. And we'll keep going around like
• 32:12
  that. So I'll pick up from where you
• 32:14
  were. You said my wife.
• 32:16
  I will say, oh, wedding. Oh.
• 32:21
  Ring. Oh.
• 32:24
  Telephone. Oh, switch it up.
• 32:29
  Rotary. Nice.
• 32:34
  Speeches. Oh, a podium.
• 32:39
  Microphone. PDIQ.
• 32:45
  Tired. Tired, tired marathon.
• 32:58
  Oh, triathlon. Swimming.
• 33:02
  Yeah, the Olympics. Nice.
• 33:05
  Tired. Can you reuse words?
• 33:13
  Everything makes my wife tired. That's very funny.
• 33:16
  Tired. Tired.
• 33:17
  OK, Tired snoring. Oh, sleep apnea.
• 33:27
  Jose. Uh huh, Uh huh.
• 33:34
  My neighbor. Sorry, Morgan, did you say
• 33:40
  neighbor? Neighbor Jose with sleep apnea.
• 33:53
  Too close, I got a. Good one for that.
• 33:55
  Too close. Too close for Oh no, that's not
• 33:59
  good. Yeah, that could be it.
• 34:01
  It could be for comfort. Yeah, that's fantastic.
• 34:04
  OK, amazing. And we'll end it there.
• 34:07
  Let's give a round of applause. We borrow from American Sign
• 34:10
  Language because on Zoom we can have a little light up of our
• 34:14
  screens. I like that.
• 34:15
  I like that. Called.
• 34:16
  That makes me think of. OK, So what does that do?
• 34:20
  OK, that that was fun that that wasn't too hard, right?
• 34:24
  You know, so let's Morgan like that's was that OK?
• 34:27
  Yeah, no, that was great. Like it you're still, you're
• 34:30
  having to recall, but at the same time there's not that added
• 34:34
  pressure of like if I did with something, then I'm going to
• 34:38
  look stupid because they really the answers could be anything.
• 34:41
  Yeah, and I, I wasn't trying to be funny like it to me when I
• 34:43
  was coming around all in my head, I kept saying, I just want
• 34:46
  to come up with a word, like just a word that makes sense,
• 34:48
  Right. And then and what was
• 34:50
  interesting, but like you just said something with that recall.
• 34:52
  And I think that's such an important thing for people with
• 34:54
  Parkinson's to continue to, to exercise that muscle.
• 34:58
  That recall muscle reminds me many of sweets therapy and where
• 35:02
  they made me recall the same sentence every day over and over
• 35:06
  again. And she said, there's 10 phrases
• 35:10
  that you say every single day. And I had to keep repeating
• 35:12
  them. So it was like, good morning,
• 35:13
  goodnight. And I got up to, I got like,
• 35:16
  good morning, goodnight, I love you.
• 35:17
  And then I'm like, oh, I know what I say.
• 35:20
  I don't know what I want for. I don't know what I want for
• 35:22
  dinner. Like it was like, cuz I said
• 35:24
  every single day. But so I think that recall is so
• 35:26
  important. So that's a really cool thing
• 35:28
  for people with Parkinson's to like, that's an awesome thing.
• 35:31
  Interesting. OK, All right.
• 35:33
  Well, let's try another one. Let's do another one.
• 35:35
  Oh yeah. I just want to point out what's
• 35:37
  happening too in that game. You can't plan.
• 35:40
  So you think about anxiety. You think about worry, right?
• 35:44
  What is anxiety? It's worrying about the future.
• 35:47
  So in this game, you could spend three people's answers trying to
• 35:52
  plan what you're going to say. Oh, I'm going to say duck, and
• 35:55
  then I'm going to say car tire. But it won't actually resonate
• 35:58
  with what the person has given you.
• 36:00
  So you have to choose to enjoy listening to the way that it has
• 36:05
  morphed, you know, those three people after you and then be
• 36:10
  present for whatever the person gives you.
• 36:12
  And so how we how we can apply that to life is that you can
• 36:16
  spend your whole day worrying about when your medication is
• 36:19
  going to wear off. Or you can start to develop the
• 36:22
  confidence to say, I can enjoy this on period right now.
• 36:25
  And I know that when it when I go off, I got this.
• 36:29
  I'll deal with that when I cross that bridge.
• 36:31
  You know, we spent so much of our life anticipating and in
• 36:34
  anxiety for the future. And this game is one of those
• 36:38
  examples of, you know, the moment is here for you to enjoy
• 36:42
  and you can choose to enjoy and trust that when I get that word
• 36:46
  from Rosemary, something else is going to come into my mind.
• 36:50
  And that actually causes the the humor, right?
• 36:54
  So it's this is a game that we we introduced early on to invite
• 36:59
  people to be present, invite people to enjoy the moment and
• 37:02
  trust that you don't have to play and you don't have to
• 37:05
  anticipate as much about the future.
• 37:08
  Love you. Entrust yourself to respond.
• 37:10
  Yeah, I love it. Yeah.
• 37:12
  I always say wherever you are, be there, right?
• 37:15
  And so this keeps you right in that zone.
• 37:17
  I love that. I love it.
• 37:18
  Yeah. OK.
• 37:19
  I'm ready for another one because I feel like I did good
• 37:22
  on that one. And and I don't want my
• 37:25
  confidence to wane here. OK, here's one that we invented
• 37:30
  in the pandemic because we were all on Zoom.
• 37:33
  This one is called Zoom Magic. So we're going to give gifts to
• 37:37
  each other that are going to transform through the magic of
• 37:40
  the Internet. So I might start out here with
• 37:43
  this little lip balm, right? And so I'm going to say,
• 37:46
  Rosemary, I've got you this lip balm.
• 37:48
  And as I bring it to my camera, she will put her gift that's
• 37:53
  from her space up to her camera and it will morph, right?
• 37:57
  And then and then she'll say, oh, thank you for this.
• 38:01
  OK, OK, so let's start with this lip balm and I'll say, Rosemary,
• 38:04
  I got you something. But it will change.
• 38:06
  Oh, I got you something. Gosh damn.
• 38:11
  Wow, thank you. A spool of thread.
• 38:16
  Well, I got you that. I got you that, Rosemary,
• 38:19
  because you hold everything together just.
• 38:24
  Like friends? I thought that would be good for
• 38:26
  you. Thank you.
• 38:28
  Thank you so much. OK, so I get so you will.
• 38:34
  The person receiving takes their gift and then it's the
• 38:36
  justification piece. I just want to shout that out.
• 38:40
  So Dan then has to explain exactly.
• 38:43
  Why are you giving that gift to you?
• 38:45
  Yeah. So Morgan here.
• 38:48
  I actually I have something else I have something else for.
• 38:52
  You here. There you go.
• 38:55
  Oh wow, look. At all that.
• 38:58
  Fun stuff this I have questions. Yes.
• 39:03
  You know, Morgan, we were having that conversation about local
• 39:10
  unsolved mysteries and how you wanted to have a board with all
• 39:16
  the clues and the red string. And I thought thumbtacks are
• 39:20
  really the first step for that. So helpful.
• 39:24
  You know, I've moved to this new place and really needed some new
• 39:27
  pushpins. Perfect, perfect, perfect.
• 39:30
  Awesome. Actually, Bryce here.
• 39:35
  I have a gift for. You so.
• 39:39
  Oh, so so she's OK. So Oh well, thank you for that
• 39:45
  toilet paper. Why do the toilet paper right
• 39:52
  there? I know Morgan just gave it to
• 39:55
  me. I'm not sure why she gave me
• 39:56
  political people. Oh my God.
• 40:01
  You know, I I just thought it might be helpful to wipe up all
• 40:05
  the shit that comes out of your mouth sometimes.
• 40:16
  Oh my God, that was so good. That was beautiful.
• 40:22
  I thought that was bad. OK, so now do I get?
• 40:26
  So now I I'm giving the. Carmen, Yeah.
• 40:28
  I got to give her the what I got.
• 40:30
  Yep, and then it will morph. It'll morph.
• 40:32
  Oh, OK. All right, so Carmen, I'm going
• 40:34
  to give you this toilet paper or I'm going to give this to you.
• 40:37
  And it turns into oh. Thank you a scrunchie.
• 40:42
  Oh, a scrunchie. I gave that to you because I
• 40:46
  love when your hair is tied up. No, let me back up.
• 40:52
  I I gave, I gave you that. I gave you that scrunchie
• 40:56
  because you have such beautiful hair and and and and sometimes I
• 41:01
  like, I like it in a ponytail, OK.
• 41:06
  Thank you. Perfect.
• 41:06
  Yeah, Yeah. Thank you, honey.
• 41:09
  That was a hard one. My brain was going somewhere
• 41:11
  else, and then I pulled. It back.
• 41:13
  Got to keep it PG baby. Well, Morgan got me fired up
• 41:18
  with swear words, so I was excited.
• 41:22
  OK. Oh, so Dan, I got you.
• 41:27
  OK. Oh.
• 41:31
  Oh. So, Dan, yeah, I got your
• 41:35
  battery because I remember you saying that sometimes you run
• 41:38
  out of batteries for all your toys and knickknacks, etcetera.
• 41:42
  So I thought, you know you could reuse or use a battery, right?
• 41:46
  In there, Great. That's perfect.
• 41:49
  Very nice. Great.
• 41:51
  Very nice. You.
• 41:54
  Just pulled that out of the air. I love it.
• 41:57
  OK, I love. It yeah.
• 41:59
  I won't be able to type for a while now until I put.
• 42:03
  The battery back. Put it back in my keyboard.
• 42:06
  OK, so this, this is a fun game because first of all, we get to
• 42:09
  be creative with what we have. So how often in how often with
• 42:13
  PD do you got to work what with what you have, right?
• 42:16
  So it's like whatever was in reach, you have to use.
• 42:19
  So #1 resourcefulness and then #2 you had to justify what
• 42:24
  happened. I didn't know what Rosemary was
• 42:27
  going to pull out of her space there, but I had to make believe
• 42:30
  like I had given it to her and give a justification for that.
• 42:34
  And everyone did so well justifying why they had given
• 42:37
  this this mystery gift. Yes, that is so cool.
• 42:41
  And I think, yeah. And you know what?
• 42:44
  It's something, you know, it's simple when you explain it, it's
• 42:48
  simple. And to be honest with you, I was
• 42:52
  looking around because I was like, Oh my gosh.
• 42:53
  So OK, we have to find something.
• 42:54
  We have to find something. And I'm like, well, what's
• 42:57
  funny? Like I kept, I kept thinking
• 42:59
  what's funny about it? But like, I think that it
• 43:02
  doesn't matter. It didn't really matter what we
• 43:03
  gave, did it? No, no, because sometimes the
• 43:07
  justification will just keep the game going and it will be really
• 43:10
  sweet. Like, you know, you said to
• 43:12
  Carmen, I like when your hair is tied back.
• 43:14
  That's why I give you that scrunchie.
• 43:15
  And it was like, oh, that was a great 1, you know?
• 43:17
  And then sometimes Morgan's like, you know, that toilet
• 43:20
  paper is to wipe out all the shit that comes.
• 43:21
  Over you it's like she just went for it.
• 43:26
  Did you see her like she got like, Oh my God, I get, I'm just
• 43:29
  gonna hammer this one down and it's and, but, and I think
• 43:32
  that's really cool. And I think that the, the
• 43:34
  boundaries of what we're in it, it, it, it lends to just let
• 43:39
  things go right? Like it just like, you know, and
• 43:41
  I think so the thing I really like about this is that you
• 43:46
  can't prepare like you said. I mean, I mean, here's the one
• 43:49
  thing I hate about it is you can't prepare right?
• 43:52
  But now that we're into it, and I'm really glad that you
• 43:55
  couldn't compare and we're all on the same level because we
• 43:57
  both, we all had to do this, come up with something and we
• 44:00
  didn't know what was going to be around the corner.
• 44:02
  And even when you prepare, things rarely go as planned.
• 44:07
  Right. You have to amend your
• 44:08
  preparation. Your preparation serves you to
• 44:10
  be agile. And so this comes to our second
• 44:13
  mindset. We said the first one was
• 44:15
  embrace mistakes. We welcome mistakes.
• 44:17
  This one is seek positivity, right?
• 44:20
  You don't know what that person is going to pull out of their
• 44:23
  space, but then you say why you gave it to them.
• 44:26
  And So what you're doing is seeking positivity.
• 44:28
  Life is full of these unexpected things.
• 44:31
  Things don't go. Normally, normally unless you
• 44:33
  unless you talk shit all the time, then that was that was a
• 44:35
  little bit not positive, but you're right and you're right.
• 44:40
  And you had to pivot onto that side.
• 44:41
  And I think like I was actually really excited.
• 44:44
  Like it was really neat because I felt like I got to hear
• 44:47
  somebody was going to say something about me.
• 44:49
  Like to me like, like it was, I don't know, it was just, it was
• 44:51
  really, it was weird. It was weirdly cool.
• 44:54
  But I wouldn't ever think if you someone explained that to me
• 44:57
  over the phone and said, OK, here's what I'd be like, Oh, OK,
• 44:59
  you know, whatever. But when you're doing it and
• 45:01
  seeing it and I think seen what and, and maybe in the comments
• 45:05
  it or you know, if you're, if you're, if you have, you've
• 45:08
  never seen improv or heard of improv before or, or maybe
• 45:11
  you've heard of it, but you haven't seen it at this level.
• 45:13
  You know, what did you, what would you know?
• 45:17
  How did that make you? It was, it was simple.
• 45:19
  I can't even explain it, but it was cool.
• 45:21
  And I feel, and I'm already feeling better.
• 45:24
  I was really, really tired today.
• 45:25
  Like we had a very long week. I was traveling all week and
• 45:27
  I've been so tired. And I was like, yeah, it was,
• 45:30
  I'm exhausted. Like my body's exhausted.
• 45:33
  My brain's exhausted. I've talked so much and yet I'm
• 45:37
  feeling like, like, like I want, I want more.
• 45:39
  Like I'm like, I'm excited. Like I'm like, what's next?
• 45:41
  Like is there like, it's like so cool.
• 45:43
  It's really neat. I love that.
• 45:45
  I think that's one of the biggest benefits of the class,
• 45:48
  as well as just just that boost of Wellness that like mood
• 45:53
  change. I taught a workshop last week
• 45:57
  for a smaller group who have been through our Improv
• 46:00
  Parkinson's program, and one of the people joined the program
• 46:04
  and was like, I'm really frustrated with life right now.
• 46:07
  There are some things happening that I'm feeling super
• 46:10
  frustrated about, but I know because I know how improv class
• 46:15
  makes me feel. I knew that all I had to do was
• 46:17
  show up and by the end of the class, she had a smile on her
• 46:21
  face. We were all laughing, you know,
• 46:25
  or people who are really people who are really having a hard
• 46:29
  time with. What I often see is people
• 46:32
  having a really frustrating time dealing with all of the
• 46:37
  different appointments and everything that comes with
• 46:39
  having Parkinson's and the frustration that comes out of
• 46:43
  that and the exhaustion that comes out of that.
• 46:45
  But what people will say to me is I, you know, I kept this in
• 46:49
  my schedule as much as I can. You know, sometimes you have to
• 46:52
  go to the appointment, sometimes you can schedule around it.
• 46:56
  But people show up because they're like, I know, I know
• 46:58
  what this does for me. I know how it's going to make me
• 47:00
  feel. And it's so consistent too.
• 47:03
  Even sometimes as a teacher, I'm, I wake up in the morning,
• 47:06
  I'm like, Oh no, they're gonna teach class.
• 47:09
  And as soon as I see them, even through Zoom, I feel so
• 47:13
  connected. We have such a laugh together
• 47:16
  and the rest of my day is so much better than had I not had a
• 47:20
  class at the start. I think if I saw that in my
• 47:23
  calendar and it's one of those things I'd be like, that'd be
• 47:25
  the one I'd be looking forward to like through the week.
• 47:27
  I could look at all the other appointments I have and go like,
• 47:29
  oh, at least that one, you know, and I'm, and I'm thinking too,
• 47:32
  you guys are building a community.
• 47:33
  You know, Morgan, I mean, I'll ask you this symbol too.
• 47:36
  Like let's talk about community in Parkinson's, right?
• 47:39
  And, and, and, you know, at Parkinson Canada, that's
• 47:42
  something that what's your role again?
• 47:44
  What's what's what's? Community.
• 47:46
  Partnerships, community partnerships, community
• 47:49
  partnerships. So you're so partnerships is is
• 47:51
  huge, right, But the community is, is massive.
• 47:54
  And I think, I don't know, speak to the community side and what
• 47:57
  you see, you know, improv doing in that realm.
• 48:01
  I mean, Rosemary and Dan, they know backs.
• 48:04
  It's breaking. I know, that's why I'm asking
• 48:07
  you though. Step out of your comfort zone
• 48:11
  and join something that maybe you once loved and you kind of
• 48:15
  stepped away from it because of a diagnosis or even just loss of
• 48:18
  community. It's, it's huge to join
• 48:21
  something that's bigger than just yourself and contribute to
• 48:24
  a group mission. That's, that's community, right?
• 48:29
  Having participating in things that you all have something in
• 48:32
  common. I mean, that's community in
• 48:33
  itself. And I think it's so easy to see
• 48:37
  the benefits of being part of a community.
• 48:39
  But then you also see as soon as you withdraw, you see those
• 48:43
  implications that not having a community really has.
• 48:47
  So it's huge and community could be anything.
• 48:49
  It could be your neighborhood, it could be your improv group
• 48:51
  that you're a part of. It could be an online community.
• 48:54
  I think the community looks different for everyone, but just
• 48:58
  finding where you kind of fit in, I think is is huge and it's
• 49:01
  scary. It is really scary to.
• 49:03
  Keep. Me exposed to situations like
• 49:05
  this, even just watching a YouTube video or a stream about
• 49:10
  something you're interested in that's it's it's something just
• 49:13
  to get out of your bubble a little bit.
• 49:15
  And I think even too with Parkinson's, it's a very unique,
• 49:19
  a unique disease, right? You're, it's different for
• 49:21
  everyone. It's different at every stage of
• 49:24
  the journey. And I think stepping out and
• 49:27
  kind of coming out to the community and saying you have
• 49:30
  Parkinson's, that's daunting in itself.
• 49:33
  So I think finding these community groups and programs
• 49:37
  is, is huge in kind of mitigating that socialized,
• 49:40
  isolated, the ice. Wow, struggling with the.
• 49:44
  You're catching my disease. That's why that's.
• 49:48
  And really find something that is bigger than yourself because
• 49:50
  it matters. It really does.
• 49:51
  Having people that you can connect with and even from a
• 49:54
  care partner point of view, having having a group of other
• 49:57
  care partners that relate to your circumstances and the
• 50:00
  things that you're going through, it's huge.
• 50:02
  It matters just as much as the person living with Parkinson's.
• 50:05
  That's so true. You know, Carmen, I don't know,
• 50:06
  like I'm sure she would tell you if she, you know, if well, she's
• 50:11
  right here actually, but she's on mute.
• 50:12
  But you know, like she would say, yeah, that'd be great.
• 50:15
  But Bryce is different than everybody else.
• 50:17
  Probably I'm probably that person.
• 50:18
  But but there is there is something to be said, for
• 50:20
  example, like in this PDIQ, for example, it's something wild
• 50:24
  happens when you have people that are like you OK, maybe
• 50:29
  again, we're all different. Everybody has different swamps
• 50:31
  out. And Carmen, I'm going to ask you
• 50:32
  about this as well because you know, like for example, PDIQ, we
• 50:36
  were we were booked out this weekend.
• 50:37
  We're in Montreal, QC, full house.
• 50:39
  You couldn't move and it was just full of people just like
• 50:43
  me, right? People with PD and care
• 50:45
  partners. And it's, do you, do you think
• 50:48
  that's important, Carmen? Yeah, I think as unique as all
• 50:53
  of you are, the the similarities are all there as well.
• 50:57
  So your experiences are very similar in different ways, if
• 51:01
  that makes sense. So when you talk, when you do
• 51:03
  your little shorts and you talk about struggling to put your
• 51:06
  shoes on or struggling to put your socks on, all of you with
• 51:10
  PDI think at some point in time, if you will have that same
• 51:14
  issue, if you don't have it already.
• 51:16
  And but just how or the why for you might be different.
• 51:19
  Is it stiffness or is it tremors or you know, there's very,
• 51:23
  there's all these variations of that same problem that all of
• 51:27
  you would have, but it's the same problem.
• 51:29
  So it unites you in it being in a, in a format like that unites
• 51:35
  all of you and you feel safe in the space to be who you want to
• 51:38
  be. And that was one thing that, I
• 51:40
  mean, I, I'll, you know, you might talk about it, but you,
• 51:42
  you've mentioned it a couple of times when we were in Barcelona.
• 51:45
  I think that was an enlightening for you because you went to the
• 51:48
  world of Congress and it was probably one of the first times
• 51:51
  that you'd ever been in a space where a lot of the people there,
• 51:56
  a percentage I don't know, had PD.
• 51:59
  And it was, I think it was a moment for you where you
• 52:04
  realize, OK, this is a safe space for all people with PD.
• 52:07
  And I think that's what PDIQ also provides.
• 52:10
  It's like a safe space for all of you and care partners and
• 52:14
  everyone that works there or is working there, the volunteers,
• 52:16
  they all understand it. So I think that's the uniqueness
• 52:20
  of that. And I think it's important.
• 52:21
  I think that you there's there's strength in numbers, solidarity
• 52:24
  in your fight of the disease, right that we from a care
• 52:28
  partner or working from Parkinson's or being on improv,
• 52:31
  we don't we can't experience that.
• 52:33
  It's only for you. Well, there's a stigma to it
• 52:35
  too, right? Like you're always and and and
• 52:37
  we, we try to hide. We try to, you know, if you look
• 52:40
  everybody, you know, you hold your hands, you're trying to
• 52:42
  because you're wherever you are, you're thinking, OK, what it,
• 52:44
  you know, they're going to look at me, they're going to stare at
• 52:47
  me, whatever it might be. But when I you're right to to
• 52:50
  your point in Barcelona, I was blown away.
• 52:52
  I was in this auditorium and there was like people ripping
• 52:54
  around with these, you know, they were walking crazy and
• 52:57
  everybody was no one was hiding their symptoms.
• 52:59
  And it was like this free space where, you know, you could just
• 53:04
  be you and it didn't matter, You know, it just didn't matter.
• 53:07
  And I think, and I think that's what you guys are creating in,
• 53:10
  in your groups and I, you know, in with the, with the improv, I,
• 53:13
  I see that community like you're building these really you're,
• 53:16
  you're building people, but you're building a community.
• 53:18
  And I feel like, you know, if, if people would take a chance,
• 53:22
  right, people like who maybe you're like, maybe like me and
• 53:24
  go like, I don't know, when they take this chance, you know, you
• 53:27
  find more than just like you're not, you're not going there to
• 53:30
  become a comedian, right? You're going there to, to, you
• 53:33
  know, just to maybe maybe take a light off for an hour and, and
• 53:36
  maybe take it easy. But then, but but I think you're
• 53:37
  they're do you find? Are they becoming friends in
• 53:40
  these groups? Like, are they?
• 53:41
  There's a community, you see that's awesome.
• 53:44
  I love that, absolutely. We just got invited to a BBQ.
• 53:51
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we got it.
• 53:53
  We're going to a BBQ with three of our original crew members.
• 53:57
  And people tell us stories all the time about getting together.
• 54:00
  People have gotten together in New York who have taken the the
• 54:03
  course together. And so we're we're about to go
• 54:06
  to a barbecue. And, you know, three of the
• 54:09
  three of the performers are actually John's patients, my
• 54:11
  husband's patients. And so I said, yeah, are you
• 54:14
  going to come to this BBQ? He goes, I don't know.
• 54:16
  It's kind of awkward. They're my patients.
• 54:18
  And I said, yeah, but you know, they're the, they're the troop
• 54:21
  members. You know they are, They become.
• 54:23
  Friends and so. He goes, OK, I'll go.
• 54:27
  It's like running into, did you ever have the unique?
• 54:29
  You run into your teacher when you're like in school and you
• 54:32
  run into your teacher and it feels awkward.
• 54:34
  I bet you it's the same kind of feeling to run into your teacher
• 54:38
  at Walmart. I I don't know.
• 54:40
  I would say beside, I would say beside your husband at when we
• 54:43
  were out for dinner and all of us and we're and we were talking
• 54:45
  about something. And also I heard this like blah,
• 54:47
  blah, blah, blah, race car, NASCAR blah.
• 54:48
  And someone yelling at the waitress and and and I go,
• 54:51
  what's any? And he reads, he says, Oh my
• 54:54
  God, here they go. You can't take you just can't,
• 54:56
  you can't, you can't go any you get these guys to people
• 54:59
  together and you just can't go anywhere.
• 55:00
  Just want to have supper, whatever.
• 55:02
  They're going to be bitter. And then it was so funny, but he
• 55:05
  was saying it like it was fun. But he goes, oh boy.
• 55:07
  And I said, oh, they just, he said this is going to go on all
• 55:11
  night now. Yeah, he.
• 55:13
  Was right. He was right.
• 55:15
  So funny. Yeah.
• 55:18
  And that's also how I Sorry, Morgan, that's how I was in PEI
• 55:23
  and came to the PDIQ is because one of our troupe members from
• 55:27
  so we have level 1, we have level 2.
• 55:29
  And then there's the PD performance troupe who basically
• 55:32
  got bit by the improv bug and didn't want to stop.
• 55:34
  So they practice with a coach and do performances, but one of
• 55:39
  them was in PEI. So we met up and we were
• 55:42
  chatting with Parkinson Canada. So I actually went with her and
• 55:45
  then that's how we, that's how I was there as well and then ran
• 55:48
  into Morgan. Yeah, power of community,
• 55:52
  though, I think that like Carmen, even Bryce and Rosemary,
• 55:55
  you just touched on something so important too, where that's
• 55:58
  that's community in itself. It's building these safe spaces
• 56:01
  for people to show up authentically, no matter what
• 56:04
  time of day it is, what their symptoms might look like in that
• 56:08
  moment, and really just rally around them and create this
• 56:11
  tight bond of like trust, empowerment, and just again,
• 56:15
  that's community. And I think that's a huge part
• 56:17
  of what my job is, finding these awesome programs like improper
• 56:20
  Parkinson's and building on to those, really those programs and
• 56:26
  making sure that people know that these things are accessible
• 56:28
  and they're out there. And there's people that are
• 56:31
  going through something exactly like you.
• 56:34
  So like, take a chance, step out of your comfort zone and you
• 56:37
  might find something that's you're going to a BBQ.
• 56:42
  And and when you go to the BBQ, what are you taking on the bar?
• 56:44
  No, I'm just kidding. What do you take with you?
• 56:49
  You've already learning that it's like, but OK, so that's so
• 56:51
  powerful because again, yeah. And you know, you're listening,
• 56:56
  watching, whether you're newly diagnosed or whether you're, you
• 56:59
  know, midway through this journey or 15 years into like me
• 57:02
  or longer. There's always because we never
• 57:06
  know, right? We never know day-to-day or
• 57:08
  what's coming around the corner and what's going to affect us or
• 57:10
  what's going to happen next. I think from, from the minute
• 57:13
  you're diagnosed, you're in this really weird zone of looking for
• 57:17
  answers and trying to, you know, what's going to make me feel
• 57:20
  better and what's going to prolong this and having to come
• 57:22
  up with these like crazy this like things that you crazily
• 57:26
  have to think about, like, you know, thinking about getting
• 57:29
  your brain, you know, your head. I called the Frankenstein thing
• 57:32
  and I kick and I'm, it's on my brain right now because I, I
• 57:35
  came up again on the waiting list and it was like we were
• 57:37
  sitting in the doctor last week with the doctor and he's like,
• 57:39
  uh huh, OK. And I'm like, no, no, no, not
• 57:42
  ready yet, not ready yet, not ready yet.
• 57:44
  And, and, and I'm like, this is the third time now.
• 57:46
  Like this is about a three-year waiting list.
• 57:48
  So I've gone on it three Times Now.
• 57:50
  And I know my, my, my luck's running out.
• 57:53
  I know one of these times I'm going to have to be like, Oh my
• 57:54
  God. And, and I had a conversation in
• 57:58
  Toronto with, it's funny because I had a conversation, he was
• 58:04
  really, he was like, he had DBS and he's just loving it.
• 58:06
  And he's like telling me how great it was.
• 58:08
  And, and I, and I said, I don't know if I'm just a big chicken
• 58:11
  or I'm just waiting for the, you know, like the technology to get
• 58:15
  better. I just, I'm not there yet.
• 58:17
  And he, and, and, and I told him I was a big chicken, right?
• 58:20
  And, and, and he and he and he said, yeah, well, it's not that
• 58:23
  bad, you know, and he shows, you know, 89 staples and, you know,
• 58:26
  could feel the scalp being pulled back.
• 58:28
  And I'm just literally passing out at the table like this.
• 58:30
  Like, you know, and that's it. That's probably not working for
• 58:32
  me. But but anyway, we have all
• 58:34
  these huge decisions, these massive in our minds, these life
• 58:38
  changing decisions. And then again, like you said,
• 58:39
  where we don't do this, do this, do this, do exercise in your.
• 58:42
  I live my life what I call in a three hour cycle.
• 58:44
  I'm every three hours taking my meds, like down to the point you
• 58:47
  said earlier. And yeah, any escape from
• 58:49
  reality that that we could literally do that We that's just
• 58:53
  kind of fun. But yeah, has benefits like,
• 58:58
  like the like the benefit side to me blows my mind because to
• 59:01
  be honest with you guys, I'll be honest, if there was no benefit
• 59:03
  to park, I would still be the biggest advocate because I I
• 59:07
  still think you need to be able to have a moment to just get out
• 59:11
  of the seriousness of it and just be yourself.
• 59:12
  But but the benefits side, the memory recall, the I think the
• 59:16
  kind of the community and getting out of isolation and
• 59:18
  just, and having like even speech therapy, like again,
• 59:21
  repeating things and speaking out loud and, and just, Oh my
• 59:25
  God, it's amazing. I'm like, I'm such a, I'm such a
• 59:28
  fan. I I think about myself walking
• 59:30
  the thing going, Oh my gosh, who are these people I have to talk
• 59:32
  to into what? And I'm thinking in my head like
• 59:35
  I saw, you know what I saw in my head, You know, those some
• 59:37
  gestures like improv, like, you know, I'm like, I'm going to be
• 59:40
  talking to these like people, these gestures I want to talk
• 59:42
  about like come out with some improv thing.
• 59:44
  And So what it's like, I'm just such a fan of what you guys do
• 59:48
  and it's amazing. It's amazing.
• 59:50
  Do we have another game or no or is that it like or?
• 59:53
  Oh yeah, I want to, I want to spend our last game making fun
• 59:56
  of Parkinson's because I think part of taking, part of taking
• 1:00:00
  the power back is like laughing at our situation and, and taking
• 1:00:04
  the power back, right. So we'll start.
• 1:00:07
  Out with. Just a game that gets us going
• 1:00:10
  on what we know about a topic or an occupation.
• 1:00:15
  So I'm going to say an occupation and anyone can say
• 1:00:18
  yes and and just say something we know about that something we
• 1:00:22
  know about that occupation. So this is someone and I've got
• 1:00:25
  this app called the suggestion app.
• 1:00:30
  OK, so it's occupation is human resources.
• 1:00:33
  So what do we know about human resources?
• 1:00:35
  So I'll say yes, and they deal with complaints.
• 1:00:43
  Yes, and they're often short. Short name to HR.
• 1:00:50
  Yes, and they are usually the Union's nemesis.
• 1:00:56
  Yes, and they take care of the hiring process.
• 1:01:02
  Yes and yes, and they also take care of sexual harassment
• 1:01:08
  complaints. OK, perfect.
• 1:01:11
  So these are all things that we know about HR.
• 1:01:14
  I'm going to give us another profession now, and I want us to
• 1:01:17
  do that same exercise in our brains around what do we know
• 1:01:20
  about it? But this time, we're going to
• 1:01:22
  layer on what that might have in common with Parkinson's disease,
• 1:01:28
  right? So taking prices, it might be
• 1:01:30
  like Parkinson's disease is like HR.
• 1:01:33
  There's a lot of sexual complaints.
• 1:01:36
  Oh, I love it. OK.
• 1:01:40
  I wish I could have. You know, when you said that,
• 1:01:43
  I'm like, you're so good at this.
• 1:01:44
  Like, it was so brilliant. All right.
• 1:01:46
  And. You did that one right, You.
• 1:01:48
  So your brain is doing two things. 1 is coming up with what
• 1:01:51
  you know about that profession. Yeah.
• 1:01:53
  And then we're going to match it with anything we know about
• 1:01:55
  Parkinson's disease. I don't love that.
• 1:01:57
  So maybe tremor, maybe pills, maybe Constipation, maybe
• 1:02:01
  frustration, you know, whatever. And then that's going to be how
• 1:02:05
  we make fun of of PD I. Love it.
• 1:02:07
  And if you're watching or listening, play along in the
• 1:02:09
  comments, just play along. Like throw one in there because
• 1:02:12
  oh, I want to read them. These are somebody OK, All
• 1:02:14
  right. OK, here's the occupation and
• 1:02:17
  the joke formula is Parkinson's is like, so Parkinson's is like
• 1:02:22
  a travel guide. Parkinson's is like a travel
• 1:02:27
  guide. I'll start off.
• 1:02:29
  Parkinson's is like a travel guide because you're going to go
• 1:02:32
  to places that you didn't expect.
• 1:02:35
  Good one. Oh, we keep going.
• 1:02:38
  So we all, we keep the good. Ones now we can riff on travel
• 1:02:40
  guide. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:02:43
  Tour guide. Parkinson's is like a travel
• 1:02:47
  guide. Suddenly you're on a journey
• 1:02:50
  with a whole bunch of new people.
• 1:02:54
  Holy mackerel, you guys. Those are so good.
• 1:02:59
  OK, it's. OK, Parkinson's is like a travel
• 1:03:03
  guide because, you know, every trip never is in a straight
• 1:03:10
  line. Yeah.
• 1:03:13
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Parkinson's is like a travel
• 1:03:21
  guide. Yeah, it's like AI thought I had
• 1:03:28
  one really good and I just wouldn't formulate in my head
• 1:03:30
  that's. OK.
• 1:03:32
  OK, let me try a different 10 Morgan.
• 1:03:34
  Do you have 1 Morgan? Parkinson's is like a travel
• 1:03:36
  guide because sometimes the coordination doesn't go to plan.
• 1:03:44
  Very good. All right, I think I know this
• 1:03:46
  one OK. Parkinson's is like a travel
• 1:03:48
  guide because no, see, I can't, I can't, I can't pull this one
• 1:03:53
  together. It was I was, you know what I
• 1:03:54
  wanted to say? When I think a travel guide, I'm
• 1:03:56
  thinking of like the person in the bus, like giving me a tour.
• 1:03:59
  I'm thinking of a tour guide. I think that's the problem.
• 1:04:01
  It's like a tour guide. Is it like a tour guide?
• 1:04:03
  So it's like a tour guide because.
• 1:04:05
  Because yeah, so I don't know. See, I can't come up with one.
• 1:04:11
  What's the idea that you're working with?
• 1:04:13
  We'll help you out. Well, I'm thinking like, OK, so
• 1:04:15
  the tour guide is is giving you, telling you all the highlights,
• 1:04:18
  right? And telling you what's to what's
• 1:04:19
  coming. But so, but that's not like
• 1:04:21
  Parkinson, because you don't know what the hell is going to
• 1:04:22
  happen. So that doesn't make sense.
• 1:04:24
  There you go. Parkinson's is.
• 1:04:25
  Yeah, Parkinson's is the reverse of a travel guide.
• 1:04:28
  You. Can I know so I can do opposite?
• 1:04:30
  And this is where the beauty is, where you can break the rules,
• 1:04:33
  you know, because we have so many rules to follow.
• 1:04:36
  And my God, people with PD have so many instructions to follow.
• 1:04:39
  And part of the joy of improv is that we love to break the rules.
• 1:04:42
  We love to break the games. So if you go, Parkinson's is not
• 1:04:46
  like a tour guide because you never know what the hell is
• 1:04:49
  happening. Yeah, that's what I that's what
• 1:04:50
  I wanted to say. So I'm allowed to do that.
• 1:04:53
  I'm allowed to do that. OK, let's do another one.
• 1:04:54
  I'm ready. I'm ready.
• 1:04:55
  I'm. Just one more here we go, here
• 1:04:57
  we go. So Parkinson's is like mechanic.
• 1:05:06
  Parkinson's is like a mechanic because you never know where the
• 1:05:09
  tool's gonna go. Parkinson's is like a mechanic
• 1:05:20
  because you're gonna spend the rest of your life in a Body
• 1:05:22
  Shop. Oh my God.
• 1:05:37
  Parkinson's is like a mechanic because sometimes you have to
• 1:05:42
  call the mechanic to put the wheel back on the car.
• 1:05:48
  It's a thinker. It's a thinker.
• 1:05:56
  Parkinson's is like a mechanic because as a mechanic has to oil
• 1:06:00
  up and Lube his wheels and tools, so does a person with
• 1:06:04
  Parkinson's. Yes, OK, nice, nice.
• 1:06:09
  I could have said it funnier, but.
• 1:06:12
  As perfect as is perfect as is. Parkinson's is like a mechanic
• 1:06:17
  because you're going to be investigating a lot of strange
• 1:06:20
  noises. Oh.
• 1:06:24
  Oh, that's true. That's a good one.
• 1:06:27
  That's a good one. It's like a mechanic cause the
• 1:06:30
  final bill is never what the estimate said.
• 1:06:36
  Nice, nice. What the heck?
• 1:06:38
  That's all. That's really good.
• 1:06:39
  I was gonna say they. I was gonna say Parkins like a
• 1:06:41
  mechanic because they RIP you off.
• 1:06:43
  Hey. Yes, yes, yes.
• 1:06:48
  I like that. Amazing.
• 1:06:53
  Parkinson's is like a mechanic. You're totally filthy, but you
• 1:06:57
  have no idea what caused. It God.
• 1:07:09
  Oh my God. OK, one more, let's get another.
• 1:07:13
  Yeah, let's try another one. That's good.
• 1:07:15
  One more occupation here, OK? I remember play along, put it in
• 1:07:19
  the comments. There's so many.
• 1:07:21
  There's so many out there. A locksmith.
• 1:07:25
  Locksmith. Parkinson's.
• 1:07:27
  Is like a locksmith. Parkinson's is like a locksmith
• 1:07:33
  who's kind of gone off the rails.
• 1:07:35
  The call to the door seems to keep changing.
• 1:07:39
  Every day there's a new password to.
• 1:07:41
  Get. In that was good.
• 1:07:45
  Parkinson's is like a locksmith because it's always no see.
• 1:07:49
  Parkinson's is not Parkinson's is not like a locksmith because
• 1:07:54
  because it they're because they're they're always stuck.
• 1:07:57
  No, I what's this? The lock's stuck, right?
• 1:08:01
  So how, Hey, help me. OK, let's help me with one
• 1:08:03
  second. How would I put that together?
• 1:08:05
  I want to say to, here's what I'm thinking to myself.
• 1:08:07
  The locksmith unlocks like stuck doors, right?
• 1:08:11
  And a piece of person with Parkinson's is stuck all the
• 1:08:13
  time. So.
• 1:08:14
  So how would I? How would I?
• 1:08:17
  Someone help me throw that together into a line just for my
• 1:08:20
  brain? So how could you?
• 1:08:23
  How could you word that right? Yeah.
• 1:08:24
  What would I say it's? Like a locksmith, you're always
• 1:08:28
  getting called to get things moving or you can't turn the
• 1:08:31
  key. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:08:33
  So this is where it's like that, yes.
• 1:08:34
  And thing around what do what do locksmiths do?
• 1:08:37
  Well, they open locked doors. They, they can fit a key, they
• 1:08:41
  can pick a lock. They, they come at night.
• 1:08:45
  Maybe there's a joke about that 24 hours, you know, maybe
• 1:08:49
  there's a joke about how expensive they are.
• 1:08:52
  Maybe there's a joke about. Is locksmith a hard one?
• 1:08:57
  Well, they, you know, we, this is the beauty of this game.
• 1:09:00
  We can take any suggestion. It doesn't even have to be a
• 1:09:02
  profession, you know, we could take a store or an object.
• 1:09:06
  And this is where the game is exercising that muscle in our
• 1:09:10
  minds to find an alternate path or an alternate word.
• 1:09:15
  And one of our one of our teachers.
• 1:09:18
  So in every class, we've got someone from the Parkinson's
• 1:09:20
  troop helping to teach the class.
• 1:09:23
  And one of the teachers name is Peter and he calls this
• 1:09:26
  neuroplasticity. He says what's what's his
• 1:09:29
  challenges in Parkinson's is word search because he was a
• 1:09:33
  lawyer and he's got this amazing vocabulary.
• 1:09:35
  He says why use a 5 cent word when you can have a $0.25 word.
• 1:09:40
  One of his frustrations is he doesn't remember all these
• 1:09:42
  amazing words that he knows. And what improv has helped him
• 1:09:45
  to do is say I can't think of that word.
• 1:09:49
  What's an alternate? How could I say this in a
• 1:09:51
  different way? But this game is actually
• 1:09:53
  helping us do. That I struggle with that,
• 1:09:55
  that's a big one for me. And you know, I often times, and
• 1:09:59
  I used to, I used to think I'm like, how many edit these
• 1:10:01
  podcasts? I'm going to load podcasts.
• 1:10:02
  I'm like, I, I forget the podcast's name sometimes.
• 1:10:05
  It's just, and I know what it is.
• 1:10:06
  It's stupid, but but I just let it go because it's just, it's
• 1:10:09
  real, right? It's like, hey, this happens and
• 1:10:11
  it's OK. It's not going to harm you.
• 1:10:13
  So sorry, I totally derailed that, that last part.
• 1:10:16
  Did anybody else have a locksmith one or, or can we
• 1:10:19
  pivot to something better? Can we?
• 1:10:21
  Can you give us an? Easier one.
• 1:10:24
  Sure I want. I want to get one, I want to get
• 1:10:26
  one, but I can't. Thing.
• 1:10:29
  OK, let's do. Let's do a different one.
• 1:10:31
  How about we do a location this time?
• 1:10:34
  Great. Parkinson's Parkinson's is like
• 1:10:37
  a race track. Like a race.
• 1:10:40
  Track how is. It's like a race track.
• 1:10:44
  I'm cheering from the sidelines. That's good.
• 1:10:51
  Thank you. Thank you.
• 1:10:53
  Parkinson's is like a race track where your pickers pit crew is
• 1:10:58
  always on coffee break. Oh.
• 1:11:01
  That's a good one, you that's. Awesome.
• 1:11:04
  Oh. My God.
• 1:11:07
  Parkinson's is like a race track because I never remember how
• 1:11:11
  many laps I've done. Yes.
• 1:11:16
  Parkinson's is like a race track because there may be unexplained
• 1:11:20
  skid marks. That was fine.
• 1:11:22
  I just had that. I was just about.
• 1:11:24
  I was going to say, Oh my God, Dan stole it.
• 1:11:27
  Dan stole it. Now I got a pivot in my own
• 1:11:30
  pivot. That was I was going to say, I
• 1:11:32
  thought I was so brilliant. I was going to say is it has
• 1:11:34
  skid marks just like my legs. OK, Good.
• 1:11:38
  I love it. I love it.
• 1:11:40
  That was awesome. We stole it.
• 1:11:42
  OK, OK. Keep going.
• 1:11:47
  Come on, guys. You guys got to throw some more
• 1:11:49
  out there because this reason a lot here, right?
• 1:11:50
  There's got to be a lot. Parkinson's is like a
• 1:11:57
  Parkinson's is like dragging on a race track with four flat
• 1:12:00
  tires. Oh yeah.
• 1:12:04
  Morgan is getting really good at this game.
• 1:12:08
  That was good. That was good.
• 1:12:11
  Markinson's is like a racetrack. Feels like going around in
• 1:12:15
  circles. It's still yours again.
• 1:12:23
  Oh, man, OK, yes, that's was that's I was going around and
• 1:12:26
  around and around. OK, all right, OK, let's keep
• 1:12:28
  going. Let's keep going.
• 1:12:29
  We're going to go to La Adela, so I get one.
• 1:12:32
  Yes, we will. Yes, we will.
• 1:12:33
  But everybody has to keep moving.
• 1:12:35
  It has to keep going. Parkinson's is like a racetrack
• 1:12:42
  where the driver forgot to put a seat belt on.
• 1:12:48
  Uh huh. Uh huh.
• 1:12:54
  Uh huh. OK, Parkinson's is like a
• 1:12:56
  racetrack. You're driving around and you're
• 1:12:59
  thinking, was there a prize involved?
• 1:13:10
  Oh my God, that's so funny. Oh my God, that is so good.
• 1:13:15
  Parkinson's is like a race track.
• 1:13:17
  There may be a crash involved. There may.
• 1:13:21
  Be there may be it could be a fiery crash involved that is
• 1:13:27
  good. Rice takes mine.
• 1:13:29
  Rice takes mine and makes them better.
• 1:13:42
  Oh, my gosh, that is so good. Parkinson's is like a racetrack.
• 1:13:47
  So because it's. Yeah, it's.
• 1:13:50
  I'm waiting for my wife to have a good one.
• 1:13:51
  You got one with me? No.
• 1:13:54
  You want to go because I have one.
• 1:13:56
  No, you go. I'm going to have a really good
• 1:13:57
  one. I'm going to have a good one.
• 1:13:58
  Coming where they forget to put get Parkinson's is like a
• 1:14:02
  racetrack where they forgot to put gas in the car.
• 1:14:06
  Wow. Yeah, I've got 1.
• 1:14:10
  Parkinson's is like a race track.
• 1:14:13
  Doping is allowed. I love that.
• 1:14:19
  Rosemary, that was really good. Thank you.
• 1:14:22
  That was really. Good.
• 1:14:23
  But I gotta say I when, when it comes to these sort of joke
• 1:14:27
  games, as an improviser myself, Dan and I perform in Vancouver,
• 1:14:31
  The joke game was one of the scariest things when I started
• 1:14:34
  doing improv. And you get to the good ones by
• 1:14:37
  going through the bad ones. Sometimes I will stand up at the
• 1:14:41
  mic and work through a joke for like 3 minutes.
• 1:14:46
  I'm standing or, or when I end them and I'm like, that one was
• 1:14:49
  a thinker. It's because the joke wasn't
• 1:14:52
  good and I just got to walk away.
• 1:14:54
  Just. Wait for the next one.
• 1:14:56
  Yeah, and that's part of it too. You know, you just kind of have
• 1:14:58
  fun. And in risking it being a bad
• 1:15:02
  joke, it doesn't matter. You know, we're all having fun
• 1:15:05
  with it together. Well, you know what, when I get
• 1:15:07
  up in the morning sometimes and like it's really funny because
• 1:15:10
  my day to days are different. So some mornings I can't, I
• 1:15:13
  can't even get out of bed. But if I have to like go to the
• 1:15:16
  restroom, I mean, I fly. So Parkinson's, it's like a
• 1:15:20
  racetrack because it's all gas, no brakes.
• 1:15:24
  Yes, yes, yes, yes. Boom.
• 1:15:29
  Like plumper cars. Boom.
• 1:15:32
  Boom, boom. Yes, yes, yes.
• 1:15:34
  My God, thank. You, Bryce, this is for you.
• 1:15:37
  All right, I got the race car. I got the race car.
• 1:15:42
  I was trying to come up with one with like the the girls that
• 1:15:44
  come out and just leave the flags I had, I had, you know,
• 1:15:48
  but I just couldn't get I couldn't, I couldn't, I couldn't
• 1:15:50
  relate that to Parkinson's at all.
• 1:15:51
  That was just in my. I got one for that.
• 1:15:54
  Parkinson's is like the racetrack where the checkered
• 1:15:57
  flag is waving, but you're still stuck tying your shoes.
• 1:16:08
  Oh my God, you guys, this is amazing.
• 1:16:16
  This is so much fun. I I don't know, why wouldn't
• 1:16:18
  everybody? Why wouldn't every person with
• 1:16:21
  Parkinson's and without Parkinson's do this?
• 1:16:23
  I mean, it's a great, you know, I could imagine this would be
• 1:16:25
  good for caregivers too, just to kind of get some, you know,
• 1:16:28
  dessert. Is there any thoughts of of do
• 1:16:30
  you have classes for other Do other people other than just
• 1:16:33
  people with Parkinson's? Yeah, yeah, we do so in our
• 1:16:37
  Parkinson's classes. Care partners are certainly
• 1:16:39
  welcome, but we're working towards having a care partners
• 1:16:42
  group because we've we've heard the need and we want to respond
• 1:16:47
  to it. And then as improv for Wellness,
• 1:16:49
  we also offer classes. We run a brain health class with
• 1:16:55
  the BC Brain Wellness program, which is a whole mix of folks.
• 1:16:59
  Sometimes some are living with chronic brain injuries or
• 1:17:04
  varying mental illnesses or neurodivergences.
• 1:17:07
  We also have run programs for people who stutter.
• 1:17:12
  We've also run programs for people with Alzheimer's and
• 1:17:16
  other forms of dementia. A couple months ago, I did one
• 1:17:20
  where the group was experiencing different levels of expressive
• 1:17:26
  and receptive aphasia because they were all recovering from
• 1:17:30
  strokes. We also, on the other side of
• 1:17:34
  improv for work and Wellness, do team builders and communication
• 1:17:39
  courses. So yeah, we're trying to bring
• 1:17:41
  improv to a whole group, whole different groups of people, and
• 1:17:47
  take it towards them because improv is so adaptive and there
• 1:17:50
  are, you know, you can teach similar games in different ways
• 1:17:53
  or talk about it in different ways and really bring out the
• 1:17:57
  benefits for that specific community.
• 1:17:59
  So yeah. Did you say at the beginning,
• 1:18:02
  and so do you have people with Parkinson's and their partners
• 1:18:04
  come to together? Yeah, Yeah.
• 1:18:06
  We do often have care partners come in.
• 1:18:08
  In the class that I'm teaching right now.
• 1:18:09
  We have a a pair of the person with Parkinson's and their
• 1:18:14
  partner and also care partner. Really does the does the partner
• 1:18:17
  because the partner knows that the person with Parkinson's has
• 1:18:21
  a you know, a progressive non curable brain disorder?
• 1:18:26
  Do they let them win sometimes? Do you think do better than
• 1:18:31
  them? He's he's going down the path,
• 1:18:34
  you know. So when I look at him and say,
• 1:18:40
  honey, can you please take out the garbage today and then wait,
• 1:18:44
  the day goes by and it hasn't been taken out and I'll say,
• 1:18:49
  dear, you forgot to take the garbage out.
• 1:18:52
  He'll turn to me, hand to God, and we'll say, honey, I don't
• 1:18:57
  know if you know, but I have this progressive, horrible
• 1:19:01
  neurological disorder that. Sometimes affect my memory.
• 1:19:05
  Do you? Freaking believe the guy.
• 1:19:07
  He does that to me honestly. Oh.
• 1:19:09
  My God. I know.
• 1:19:12
  So that's where he was going with this.
• 1:19:14
  Yeah, she did it back to me. Yeah, coming back from Montreal
• 1:19:18
  or wherever heck we were. Yeah.
• 1:19:20
  I don't remember what you said. I don't know, but I said you
• 1:19:22
  can't use that. It's mine.
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  You said, do you know I'm married to somebody who has a I
• 1:19:29
  like, you can't use that. That's mine.
• 1:19:33
  Oh my gosh. Parkinson's with Bryce is like a
• 1:19:36
  race track. All the trash bins are full at
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  the end of the event. I love it.
• 1:19:47
  I love that. Oh my God.
• 1:19:48
  You know this has been so much fun.
• 1:19:50
  I'll tell you I'd like to leave not leave things, but again, if
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  you want to find out more, we're going to have all this stuff in
• 1:19:55
  the description below. I implore you like click on
• 1:19:57
  that. I mean there's courses and
• 1:19:58
  classes starting you know these level ones, 2 threes people
• 1:20:01
  check it out. What do you have to lose?
• 1:20:05
  You know it could be fun. It should be fun.
• 1:20:06
  It This was fun and this is coming from someone who.
• 1:20:09
  Was really nervous about today. Like there is no way.
• 1:20:12
  Like I'm like Morgan Carmen, everybody like like come,
• 1:20:16
  because I'm not going on with these two people, these two, Dan
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  and Rosemary, and I'm gonna just look like a like, they'll be
• 1:20:21
  like, oh, it's like a racetrack and I'll be like right.
• 1:20:26
  And you know, I was looking for support, but I mean, you guys
• 1:20:29
  were amazing at this. Unbelievable.
• 1:20:31
  But I want everybody just one last thing, like a final thought
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  or statement, something that you want to say, something we didn't
• 1:20:40
  bring up or something that you want people to know.
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  Rosemary, I'm gonna start with you.
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  Well, the first thing I want to say is that on the note of
• 1:20:49
  there's nothing to lose, our classes are all free thanks to
• 1:20:53
  the support of Parkinson Canada who have been incredible
• 1:20:57
  supporters of the program. And recently in the last year,
• 1:20:59
  we applied for the Care Fund, as you know, and the Care Fund has
• 1:21:02
  been helping us reach folks across Canada and beyond.
• 1:21:07
  So if you're out there and you're like, I don't know, and
• 1:21:10
  maybe it'll cost, it's also free.
• 1:21:13
  Thank you, Parkinson, Canada. Amazing.
• 1:21:15
  So just when you and when you sign up, just say Bryce sent you
• 1:21:17
  and then it's free. That's what you said, but no,
• 1:21:22
  that's awesome. Yes, and, and I wanna say that
• 1:21:25
  for people who are unsure about improv, they can always talk to
• 1:21:29
  us too. I'm the manager of the programs
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  and a lot of times during registration, sometimes people
• 1:21:34
  will just send me an e-mail and they're like, what is improv?
• 1:21:37
  I'm so scared of this. I don't know what it is and I'm
• 1:21:40
  more than willing to chat with you about it and, you know, talk
• 1:21:44
  through it and see if I can get you into the class.
• 1:21:48
  Rosary has been trying for 2 1/2 years with me now and we're
• 1:21:50
  close, right we're. Close I so close, I said Bryce
• 1:21:54
  is the final boss. So into your proper Parkinsons.
• 1:22:00
  Like the final level, the final boss to beat.
• 1:22:03
  So if you're listening to the podcast, please put in the
• 1:22:06
  comments. Bryce, you need to.
• 1:22:09
  Take I'm. Getting the community together
• 1:22:13
  to peer pressure you. Oh my God, I need to have those
• 1:22:16
  buttons. You know, we're like, we're just
• 1:22:19
  like off the air just for a second.
• 1:22:22
  That's awesome, Rosemary. I really like I really like you.
• 1:22:25
  Oh, I really like. You, I really like you and I
• 1:22:28
  forgot the last time we had a meeting, we were talking and you
• 1:22:30
  went I thought, I thought, I'm like I said, I was thinking in
• 1:22:33
  my head, oh, Rosemary's doing this from home because her
• 1:22:36
  mother just came over and thought said something to her.
• 1:22:38
  But I think you were in a coffee shop and stuff like that.
• 1:22:41
  You're too loud, I. Was I was, it's a coffee shop
• 1:22:44
  that I always go to and I always, always take meetings and
• 1:22:47
  the owner is a good friend of mine.
• 1:22:49
  Somebody else was there without headphones and complaints.
• 1:22:53
  Oh no. Well, that's terrible.
• 1:22:54
  Rotten whatever we embrace mistakes meeting.
• 1:22:58
  Love that. I love it.
• 1:23:00
  I love it, Dan. I would leave people with the
• 1:23:04
  thought that improv is about teamwork, and teamwork means
• 1:23:08
  that you're not alone. So your care partner, your
• 1:23:12
  caregivers, they're part of your team and you can become a better
• 1:23:16
  team player for the team that is helping you function with PD.
• 1:23:21
  And so when we get into this spontaneous creation, the skills
• 1:23:24
  that it takes, listening, spontaneity, teamwork, being
• 1:23:29
  present, these are all teamwork skills.
• 1:23:31
  So you can become a better team member and you can help the
• 1:23:35
  members of your team and join the new team that's going to
• 1:23:38
  take the class together with you.
• 1:23:40
  It's all about teamwork. We're in it together.
• 1:23:43
  Love that. I love it.
• 1:23:45
  How about you, Morgan? I'm.
• 1:23:50
  Just here. Now I'm just getting here.
• 1:23:51
  For the ride, you're still thinking of the ones for the
• 1:23:54
  racetrack, Yeah. I have too.
• 1:23:57
  I have too. I want to end with the pockets
• 1:23:58
  like with like a real zinger and I've tried my best to come up
• 1:24:01
  with like just like I. Do it all the time, no.
• 1:24:05
  I think I would say just take a chance.
• 1:24:08
  You'll never know what what you can find out there in terms of
• 1:24:12
  community and just making friends that are living like you
• 1:24:17
  and have similar interests to you.
• 1:24:19
  I mean, we've come across so many people who have said thank
• 1:24:22
  you for the programs that we've provided and partnered with.
• 1:24:25
  So again, you have nothing to lose if, if you hate it at the
• 1:24:28
  end of the day, just shut your computer.
• 1:24:30
  So that's, that's my encouragement.
• 1:24:33
  It's. Just.
• 1:24:34
  Take a chance, step out of your comfort zone.
• 1:24:36
  You never know what you you might like.
• 1:24:38
  That's nice, Carmen. Me too.
• 1:24:43
  Well, you're on the podcast. I, I think that first of all,
• 1:24:48
  improv was, is my my all time favorite thing.
• 1:24:52
  So I was rooting for you from day one.
• 1:24:55
  I've always said it's amazing and you're my heroes and I love
• 1:24:59
  it. She cries every time.
• 1:25:00
  Every time. Every time I watch.
• 1:25:03
  Videos and and you're doing the care fun videos.
• 1:25:05
  She's just bawling all the. Time I was very happy when you
• 1:25:07
  guys got it. So I was like, yeah, so I'm your
• 1:25:10
  biggest fan and I think that I hope that Bryce is encouraged to
• 1:25:16
  go and do it because again, it's part of the community, but it
• 1:25:20
  just it keeps it gets your brain going.
• 1:25:22
  And I've always said to Bryce, I mean, I I want him to do things
• 1:25:26
  that gets his brain going. So doing these podcasts are
• 1:25:28
  really good for him. And I tried to show him sudoku.
• 1:25:32
  And then once he gets expert at it, he doesn't want to do it
• 1:25:34
  anymore because it's like, you know, so but I I want to
• 1:25:38
  stimulate him and I want him and I think everybody that with PD
• 1:25:41
  needs that something and they should reach out to if they
• 1:25:44
  don't reach out to Parkinson Canada, certainly reach out to
• 1:25:46
  you guys and do the improv. So that's what I would say.
• 1:25:50
  I love it. Well, thank you.
• 1:25:52
  Thanks everybody for being on today.
• 1:25:54
  This is really fun. It's really cool.
• 1:25:56
  You know, in this podcast, I'm usually by myself and it's
• 1:25:58
  lonely and boring and down in my studio and I'm just no, I'm just
• 1:26:01
  teasing, but it was so much fun. I love what you guys do.
• 1:26:04
  I love that that were associated with you guys and yeah, it's I'm
• 1:26:11
  I'm I'll challenge my wife and Morgan because I think the three
• 1:26:14
  of us were always saying, you know, you're your biggest fan,
• 1:26:16
  So we're all be your big fan. So because we just we'd love
• 1:26:20
  what you guys are doing. We love the the feedback we get
• 1:26:23
  from people that have gone through and are, you know, have
• 1:26:26
  gone through the program and, and what they're saying is
• 1:26:29
  amazing. Like the feedback is just
• 1:26:33
  incredible. So so you know what if you want
• 1:26:36
  some more information like I said go to the links in the
• 1:26:38
  description below description below as Rosemary said she's
• 1:26:40
  available to you 24/7, 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.
• 1:26:43
  Just just make sure you don't call her when she's at the
• 1:26:46
  coffee shop because talking right loud there, but she's
• 1:26:50
  available to answer any of your questions.
• 1:26:52
  And remember, if you want to join for free, mention price,
• 1:26:56
  price when you register it. That way they'll know that you
• 1:26:59
  get your friends of mine. But I would just encourage you
• 1:27:02
  wherever you are, virtually, just start.
• 1:27:04
  You know, you have to start somewhere.
• 1:27:06
  And if not now, don't say you know what, maybe next week and
• 1:27:08
  every next month, maybe you know, if my question back would
• 1:27:11
  be if not now, then when? Right?
• 1:27:14
  There's no time like the presents, there's no time to
• 1:27:16
  drop in. And maybe this is your push.
• 1:27:18
  Maybe this is that gentle nudge where you can say, I'll give it
• 1:27:21
  a chance. I'll breakthrough that, that
• 1:27:23
  isolation, I'll breakthrough that, that that barrier that's
• 1:27:27
  holding me back. And you know what, maybe the
• 1:27:30
  next thing you know, you'll be in level 2, Level 3 and then
• 1:27:32
  maybe by the time I decided to take it, you'll be the
• 1:27:34
  instructor. So which would be so cool.
• 1:27:38
  But anyway, thank you guys appreciate it, Morgan, thank
• 1:27:39
  you. What you do at Parks of Canada,
• 1:27:41
  we're going to put the care Finder in there as well, where
• 1:27:43
  we can find the different programs in your area if you're
• 1:27:45
  in Canada. But, and, and, and thank you,
• 1:27:49
  the viewers, my listeners, thank you for, I don't know why you're
• 1:27:52
  taking this ride with me because I'm just, you're just don't even
• 1:27:55
  know what I'm doing, but we're good for doing it.
• 1:27:57
  So thank you for following it. And if you haven't already, make
• 1:28:00
  sure you join Bryce's inner circle.
• 1:28:02
  That's where we go deeper. It's deeper than just the videos
• 1:28:05
  where we have, you know, a monthly zoom call.
• 1:28:07
  It's a private community where you can chat, where you can, you
• 1:28:10
  know, get support, get some help.
• 1:28:13
  And, you know, who knows, maybe with some of these, one of these
• 1:28:15
  days, you'll find one of these characters in there.
• 1:28:16
  We'll we'll bring in and do like a special inner circle thing as
• 1:28:20
  well. So anyway, thanks again,
• 1:28:23
  everybody. Have a good day and I'll see you
• 1:28:24
  on the next podcast. All right, bye, bye.