A Covered Wagon Fording A River
SPONTANEANATION with Paul F. Tompkins
Paul F. Tompkins
4.9 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2017
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Paul F. Tompkins welcomes ladies and gentlemen back to Spontaneanation! This week, Pauls special guest is actor and comedian Ennis Esmer of Red Oaks and Blindspot! They chat about when it was the last time Ennis vomited, running home fast after getting drunk when he lived on a college campus, and loving to sleep in his clothes. Paul is then joined by Jean Villepique, Chris Tallman, and Josh Dean, to improvise a story set in A Covered Wagon Fording A River. And as always, Eban (only the best) Schletter scores it all on piano!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends. It is me, Paul. Before we get to the episode, and by the way, thank you for listening to the episode, or at least beginning to listen to the episode, which you've done just now. Before we get to the episode, I wanted to just give you some guidelines for location submissions. As you know, or maybe you don't, we do improv at the end of the show and the way we had been doing |
| 0:24.5 | it was we would get a location from our interview guest after the interview off mic i would ask |
| 0:29.3 | our guest for the um suggestion of a location and we just took whatever the interview guest gave us |
| 0:36.1 | and that was our location. |
| 0:42.2 | And then recently, we thought it would be fun if we got a location from the audience. |
| 0:46.0 | Some people had wanted to submit locations early on. And, you know, the way we were doing it was very clean, very simple. |
| 0:49.8 | And what I liked about it was that there was no argument about the location. |
| 0:53.3 | It was just, here's what you got, and you got to do it. |
| 0:57.0 | So with the audience throwing out locations, that means we get many suggestions and we have |
| 1:02.0 | to kind of sift through them. |
| 1:03.2 | And I do that with the improvisers off mic before we begin the improv. |
| 1:07.8 | And what we found is it's adding too much time to the recording because some of |
| 1:15.5 | these locations are not helpful. And so I thought I would give you some guidelines. Okay, |
| 1:21.8 | these are very simple. Number one, we're not going to do any meta suggestions. And I know it seems |
| 1:26.9 | like it might be fun, but you have to remember that we're not going to do any meta suggestions. And I know it seems like it might be fun, |
| 1:28.1 | but you have to remember that we're hoping and assuming that at least one new person is listening |
| 1:34.2 | every week who is not familiar with the podcast. And we don't want to alienate people who don't know |
| 1:40.3 | the regulars on the show or they don't know stuff about Earwolf. It wouldn't be that much |
| 1:45.5 | fun for them because we want to be inclusive of everyone and we don't want to just play to |
| 1:51.2 | the people that are already listening and do a bunch of in jokes and stuff like that. We also don't |
| 1:55.5 | want to do the work of working around and not doing in jokes and making it something different. |
| 2:00.6 | So that stuff just isn't |
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