Perry's Nut House in Belfast, Maine
SPONTANEANATION with Paul F. Tompkins
Paul F. Tompkins
4.9 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2017
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Paul F. Tompkins welcomes sweater weather loving listeners back to Spontaneanation! This time out, Pauls special return guest/author/humorist is John Hodgman! John chats about whether he knows his neighbors or if he tries to avoid them, humor stories set in Maine Bert & I, and his new book Vacationland. Then, they are joined by improvisers Ego Nwodim and Jaime Moyer, to improvise a story set in Perrys Nut House in Belfast, Maine. And as always, Eban (only the best) Schletter scores it all on piano!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome, everybody. Welcome. Do you know that I'm glad you're here? |
| 0:21.9 | Do you know it now? Hmm that I'm glad you're here? Do you know it now? |
| 0:24.6 | I haven't actually said I'm glad you're here. |
| 0:26.9 | I just asked you a question that implied that I am. |
| 0:30.9 | But I am glad you're here. |
| 0:34.8 | Listen. |
| 0:43.3 | I worry sometimes that if people aren't listening to this, I don't exist. |
| 0:48.3 | Like I'm in a cold place, cold void, cold dark void. |
| 0:55.4 | And I'm just waiting to be listened to so that I can be alive. Now, I know that sounds very sad. |
| 0:59.3 | It's actually not that bad. |
| 1:01.4 | I'm one of those people that's like I love sweater weather. |
| 1:08.5 | You can always put another sweater on. |
| 1:11.1 | In the summer, it gets hot. |
| 1:14.1 | There's only so many clothes you can take off. |
| 1:18.4 | That's the, when you, on a summer night, when it's so hot, |
| 1:23.4 | and you take all of your clothes off and it's still hot, that's like, hey, what now? |
| 1:34.2 | Am I going to peel my skin off like that Robbie Williams video? |
| 1:38.2 | You should check that video out if you haven't seen. |
| 1:40.2 | It's very good. |
| 1:42.0 | I think it really holds up. |
| 1:44.1 | I mean, major spoiler just now in what I was talking about. |
| 1:49.0 | But I think it'll still be effective. |
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