Episode 7

In the 7th episode of the show, Mike takes drastic actions to keep the audience from getting bored, lest both of them stop listening.

We also take an imaginary tour of our homes in order to answer this week's question: 

If you had to be represented by an object in your home, what would you choose?

Mike chooses comfort, while Eric chooses function.

In the first improvisation, we meet a man and the two loves of his life, both of whom are chairs.  Of a sort.

In the second improvisation, an AWOL faces living conditions possibly worse than the ones he's avoiding on the batllefield.  

Episode 6

Things aren't getting any eaiser for The Conversationalists, as this episode they are forced back in time to relive the romantic encounters of thier youths while answering the question:

If you could relive one romantic date from high school as you would like it to have been, which would you choose?  If you could relive one romantic date from high school as you would like it to have been, which would you choose?

Again, the wordking of the question suggests that is not necessary to elaborate once one has chosen the date that they would change, but Eric and Mike have taken the liberty of doing so anyway.

We learn that Mike was quite the ladykiller in his high school days, having to pick between one, sometimes even two girls to take on as his next paramour.  Eric, however, was not so lucky, and could only pick up the scraps left behind by the all-powerful members of the wrestling team.

In Improv 1, Mike and his two New Year's Eve dates are under attack from the most alliterative group of suitors at the party.

In Improv 2, Eric gets the chance to accompany the girl of his dreams to her boyfriend's wrestling match, and is also introduced to a brand new concept known as the cellular telephone.

Episode 5

In our 5th episode, things take a dark turn when Eric and Mike are confronted with their saddest questions yet:

If you had to die in one of history’s disasters, which one would you pick?

We find out that Mike would want at least a glimpse of the adventures of space travel on his way to the frave, while Eric goes in the opposite direction and chooses to die in a simpler time.

In improv 1, a poems of epic proportions is composed by astronauts on their way to a fiery grave.

In improv 2, a doting wife and her husband (played by Gabby Hayes) take an idyllic stroll into a promising future, only to have it all cut short by the shifting of the tectonic plates.

Episode 4

This episode, the conversation sinks comfortably into Mike's wheelhouse, which is speaking in overmuch detail about movies, with a little too much of an opinion.

We spark of the conversation with this week's horribly worded question from the book "If...Questions for the Game of Life:"

If you had to choose the prize for the best movie in history, what film would win?

After some careful deliberation over exactly what is meant by the question and a judicious decision to rephrase it in human terms, we learn that Mike is a big fan of The Princess Bride, and Eric is partial to Dr. Strangelove: Subtitle, Subtitle, Etc.

In improv #1, we meet Gary the actor, a man of skill, seriousness, and importance.

In improv #2, things get hairy inside the foxhole and the Nazis are creeping in.  Thank goodness for sound fx weapons.

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Episode 3

In the 2nd published episode of The Conversationalists, Eric and Mike answer the question of the day:

If you could be a student of any university in the world right now, where would you enroll?

In our first improvisation, we meet a Blogger who writes blogs for children that are wholly inappropraite for children.

In the second improvisation, a tourist insults college students at the University of Iowa with his gross generalizations.

Mike also cajoles Eric into plugging a standup show that has, as of the publishing of this episode, long since passed. We're still getting the hang of this thing, kids, take it easy.