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SPONTANEANATION with Paul F. Tompkins

Downey, CA (w/ Drew Tarver)

SPONTANEANATION with Paul F. Tompkins

Paul F. Tompkins

Comedy, Improv

4.94.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2018

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Paul F. Tompkins welcomes his listeners back to the professional show known as Spontaneanation! This week, Paul’s special guest and SOLE improvisor is Spontaneanation’s good friend Drew Tarver! Drew chats about his very very happiest memory from childhood, naming the villain of his Lego town “Vagina” as a kid, and moving to New York to work on a new show “The Other Two.” They then improvise a story set in Downey, CA. And as always, Eban (only the best) Schletter scores it all on piano!This episode is brought to you by Mack Weldon ( www.mackweldon.com code: PFT).

Transcript

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0:00.0

Great start.

0:06.1

Solid.

0:07.6

Music comes in.

0:09.6

You know you're in for a professional show.

0:14.6

A lot of shows just start with talking.

0:18.7

Anyone can do that.

0:31.7

You do that in life music happening underneath your talking is something that only occurs in fake situations this is one of the many ways you can tell if you're in a Truman show scenario.

0:49.1

Although I think they put the music in in post in the TV show that was Truman's life.

1:01.5

I don't think they adequately explored the trauma that somebody would experience if they found

1:07.2

out their entire life recorded for a TV show.

1:13.6

I mean, I guess it's a longer movie where he's like,

1:16.2

he's annoyed about it and tries to escape rather than just suffering a complete psychotic break,

1:23.8

which is what would happen.

1:30.2

How about that movie The Game?

1:35.2

Where Michael Douglas is being, you know, put in all these different scenarios.

1:42.3

And it's called The Game.

1:43.8

And so I can't remember in the movie, if he's aware that it's called the game. And so I can't remember in the movie if he's aware that it's a game at any point during what's happening.

1:52.3

Or if he finds out at the, he can't just find out at the end.

1:56.2

There must be a point where he thinks it's a game and then it's, it's still the game,

2:00.1

but he thinks the game is over and then other crazy shit starts to happen to it but then why wouldn't he just

2:04.9

assume like at the point where he's buried alive in Mexico or whatever

2:10.7

at that point is he still, this isn't the game.

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