34. Paul F. Tompkins (Comedian) – A Tiny, Cosmic Threat
Think Again - a Big Think Podcast
Big Think / Panoply
4.6 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2016
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Huh, have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like? |
| 0:04.0 | Not much to it, is there? |
| 0:06.0 | Unless, of course, it's a Walker's sandwich. |
| 0:11.0 | Mmm, that is good. |
| 0:13.0 | Now that's what Asani should sound like. |
| 0:15.0 | Go all crisp in with walkers. |
| 0:18.0 | Delicious. |
| 0:20.0 | Hey there, I'm Jason Gatz and you're listening to Think Again, a Big Think podcast. |
| 0:29.5 | Since 2008, Big Think has been sharing big ideas from the most creative thinkers of our time. |
| 0:35.5 | The Think Again podcast straps us into a rocket and shoots |
| 0:38.4 | us out of our comfort zone. We surprise some of the smartest people you know with ideas they're |
| 0:42.8 | not prepared to discuss. I'm very excited to be joined today by Paul F. Tompkins. He's a shockingly |
| 0:48.3 | well-dressed comedian and actor who has appeared in many things such as Mr. Show, the film There |
| 0:54.0 | Will Be Blood, and over a billion podcasts, |
| 0:56.3 | including his own totally improvised and very, very funny spontaneous nation, which I said correctly. |
| 1:02.5 | Yes, he did. |
| 1:04.0 | Where he makes crazy stuff up with a piano and people snickering in the background. |
| 1:09.4 | Welcome to think again, Paul. |
| 1:12.5 | That is maybe the most perfect summation of the show that I've ever heard. Thank you. Thank you very much. I don't know if you |
| 1:18.4 | guys can see us out there, but Paul, who is normally a very well-dressed man, is actually... |
| 1:22.5 | Shockingly so. Yeah, is wearing a track suit today, which is surprising, whereas I am in a |
| 1:27.4 | tuxedo. I just came from Little Italy. Yeah. I was sitting in the coffee shop, me and my gibrage. I don't know. I'm trying to make up an Italian word. Yeah, jabrage sounds a talk about. Debrage. Yeah, well, so, but that's okay. That's okay. It's okay. It's allowed here. Yeah. |
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