An Urban Spelunkers Meeting
SPONTANEANATION with Paul F. Tompkins
Paul F. Tompkins
4.9 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2015
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Paul F. Tompkins welcomes weary travelers, refreshed travelers, and sleepy travelers back to Spontaneanation! This week Paulsspecial guest is author/star of stage and screen John Hodgman! They chat about naming cars, newspapers, Gasoline Alley, car culture, and his great grandmother. Paul is then joined by Shulie Cowen, Colleen Smith, and Chris Tallman to improvise a story set in an Urban Spelunkers Meeting in an Abandoned Subway Station. As always, the unbelievable Eban Schletter scores it all on piano!The next LIVE Spontaneanation happens at Largo on Saturday, July 11th! GET YOUR TICKETS NOW! bit.ly/SPONT715
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome all of you. |
| 0:10.0 | Weary travelers. |
| 0:13.0 | Refresh travelers. |
| 0:15.0 | Sleepy travelers. |
| 0:18.0 | Irish travelers, the gypsy folk of Ireland. |
| 0:23.3 | Welcome to you all to spontaneous nation. |
| 0:28.6 | Oh, there's extra fanfare. |
| 0:31.3 | All right. |
| 0:34.0 | Thought I knew when that was over, but... Life is full of surprises. |
| 0:39.3 | Hmm... life. |
| 0:42.3 | That's all we got, guys. |
| 0:45.3 | We just got life. |
| 0:47.3 | Now you may say, Paul, what about the afterlife? |
| 0:51.3 | Well, we don't got that. |
| 0:53.3 | We don't know that we got that. We don't know that we got that. |
| 0:56.7 | We'll find out if we got that. |
| 0:59.7 | And then I tell you what, if you, |
| 1:02.4 | if you should die before this podcast is over, |
| 1:06.7 | and you encounter proof of the afterlife, |
| 1:09.6 | and it's allowed, I afterlife. And it's allowed. |
| 1:12.6 | I would like you to tweet us, tell us. |
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