Death Valley
SPONTANEANATION with Paul F. Tompkins
Paul F. Tompkins
4.9 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2015
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Paul F. Tompkins welcomes friends, strangers, mutual friends, work friends, acquaintances, and moreback to SPONTANEANATION! This week, Paulsspecial guest is Real Time with Bill Maher Executive Producerand playwright Scott Carter! They chat about Scotts fury atMike Wallace of 60 Minutes,being achildhood baseball card grifter,and unpleasant BBQ associations. Paul is then joined by Jessica Chaffin, Michael Oosterom, and Colleen Smith to improvise a story set in Death Valley. As always, Eban Schletter, only the best, scores it all on piano!The next LIVE SPONTANEANATION will be recorded at Largo onSaturday, September 12th, with special guests Kristen Schaal & Superego! Last time, Thomas Lennon and Paul covered a Joy Division song for the live audience ONLY. What will happen before your very eyes next time? Get your tickets now: bit.ly/SPONT915
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome. |
| 0:03.0 | Welcome friends. |
| 0:06.0 | Welcome strangers. |
| 0:08.0 | Welcome mutual friends. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome work friends. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome acquaintances. |
| 0:18.0 | Welcome work friends acquaintances. Welcome work friends acquaintances. |
| 0:24.6 | Welcome work friends acquaintances. Yeah, more enthusiastically than acquaintances. |
| 0:28.6 | I love people's... |
| 0:30.6 | I love my work friend's acquaintances. |
| 0:33.6 | There's something about them. |
| 0:36.6 | They're like fresh, fresh people. |
| 0:41.3 | I can tell my... |
| 0:42.9 | You know how you meet new people |
| 0:44.3 | and you have to tell your whole goddamn life story? |
| 0:48.3 | And you hate yourself. |
| 0:50.4 | And... |
| 0:50.9 | That's when it's time to start lying. |
| 0:56.4 | When you have a new person, you can invent a whole persona. |
| 1:02.3 | Now, this is actually something I've always wanted to do and never had the guts to do. |
| 1:06.4 | But just meet a new person and just completely lie about my life, where I've come from, things that I've done. |
| 1:14.4 | I took a cross-country train trip one time, which I do not recommend because people that take, people that exclusively ride the train, |
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