A Suburban High School History Class on The First Day of Black History Month: Live from Largo
SPONTANEANATION with Paul F. Tompkins
Paul F. Tompkins
4.9 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2016
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Paul F. Tompkins welcomes the people right here and people out there, to a LIVE episode of Spontaneanation, recorded at the world-famous Largo at The Coronet! This week, Pauls special guest is returning champion and hip-hop artist Open Mike Eagle! They chat about why Mike might have a long face, what caused the end of Mike's graffiti career, and having his son be a part of some of his live shows. Paul is then joined by Jordan Black, Nyima Funk, and Daniele Gaither to improvise a story set in A Suburban High School History Class on The First Day of Black History Month. And as always, Eban (only the best) Schletter scores it all on piano! SPONTANEANATION LIVE returns to Largo on Saturday, June 4th, with improvisors Nyima Funk, Colleen Smith and Chris Tallman, with special interview guest Robyn Hitchcock! Tickets are available now: bit.ly/SPONT616
This episode is sponsored by Black Tux.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome. |
| 0:17.0 | Welcome all of you. |
| 0:25.4 | Welcome to those right here. Welcome to those out there. |
| 0:33.1 | You know, when you get right down to it, there's only two kinds of people. |
| 0:36.6 | People right here and people out there. |
| 0:42.5 | That's how it was in pioneer times. |
| 0:53.1 | You finally found some patch of dirt. |
| 1:02.2 | You're like, well, guess I got to build my own house do you think the pioneers were mad about that when was when was it that houses were finally already built and for sale? |
| 1:14.4 | Like we've been living with that all of our lives. |
| 1:18.1 | But those houses had to come from someplace. |
| 1:21.7 | I don't think pioneers were hiring contractors. |
| 1:27.5 | Well, let me get on the telegraph. |
| 1:30.2 | Check this guy's rates. |
| 1:34.6 | Oh, first I have to learn dots and dashes. |
| 1:41.1 | If I was a pioneer, I'd be so angry. |
| 1:43.3 | I'd be so mad. I'd be so mad. |
| 1:46.8 | I would constantly be saying, guys, there's got to be a better way than this. |
| 1:54.8 | The pioneer, build his own house. |
| 1:58.7 | Then they get in there. |
| 2:06.8 | And all they do is live in fear of whatever's outside |
| 2:20.6 | so many diseases scarlet fever what at first it sounds cool oh yes |
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