Episode 81 - Paul F. Tompkins
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Higher Ground
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2017
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
This week, Sam sits down with comedian, actor, and TV writer Paul F. Tompkins. Paul is a longtime standup comic who has appeared in everything from Mr. Show with Bob and David to two Paul Thomas Anderson films--more on both of those in the episode. Besides his prolific standup career, Paul's current projects include roles on Bob's Burgers and Bojack Horseman and a podcast hosting gig of his own. Here, he and Sam talk about his early dream of being a household name, the ways he's changed since his first stand-up special, the all-encompassing weight of his parents' unhealthy marriage, and everyone's odd habit of reading into the way he dresses. http://talkeasypod.com/
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| 1:07.0 | I have to just say the past is the past and I don't do things that way anymore. |
| 1:17.3 | You know, I'm able to catch myself now and say, well, wait, why do you really not want to do this and really think it through and sometimes the answer is well I just |
| 1:25.2 | don't want to do it and sometimes the answer is I am a little scared of this you know |
| 1:28.9 | and you know we have we have an infinite capacity to trick ourselves and to to tell ourselves |
| 1:36.7 | lies and justify those lies and so I was able to believe |
| 1:42.0 | that of this idea is beneath me or this project is an equality project or |
| 1:47.1 | whatever and you know stuff like that is it's embarrassing when I think about it because you you I want to tell people like, |
| 1:55.0 | I want to tell people like, hey, I was scared all the time |
| 1:58.0 | and I know I my way of expressing it was that I was better than everyone else or I was you |
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