Salem, Oregon Comic Shop
SPONTANEANATION with Paul F. Tompkins
Paul F. Tompkins
4.9 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2016
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Paul F. Tompkins welcomes friends and lovers to this weeks episode of Spontaneanation! This week, Pauls special return guest is the hilarious Ron Funches! They chat about what Ron bought with his own money as a child, the grisly aspects of working at a cannery, and the unique way employees were punished at a telemarketing job he once had. Paul is then joined by Jordan Black, Jeremy Carter, and Jean Villepique, to improvise a story set in a Salem, Oregon Comic Shop. And as always, Eban (only the best) Schletter scores it all on piano!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome friends, welcome lovers. |
| 0:08.7 | That's right. I welcome both. Sometimes they're the same thing. Sometimes they should be. |
| 0:16.6 | Sometimes a lover should be a friend. Sometimes a friend should be a lover. |
| 0:21.6 | Sometimes don't get friendly with lovers. |
| 0:23.6 | Keep them at arm's length, even during the love part. |
| 0:27.6 | It can be very sensual. |
| 0:29.6 | Oh, it'll drive you crazy. |
| 0:32.6 | You can't touch each other except for at arm's length. |
| 0:36.6 | Leaving room for the Holy spirit oh guys this is |
| 0:40.7 | getting me turned on i am so sexually aroused by the idea of holy ghosts you have no idea |
| 0:51.3 | guys isn't that weird? |
| 0:54.7 | Holy ghost? |
| 0:57.4 | When I was a kid, they changed it over to Holy Spirit, because that sounded more spiritual, I guess. |
| 1:05.3 | And I was shocked when I discovered that people routinely said, holy ghost. |
| 1:11.1 | I think somebody realized, that makes this sound made up if we say holy ghost. |
| 1:18.2 | Let's change it, make it more mysterious. |
| 1:21.8 | But ghost implies unfinished business. |
| 1:28.3 | So who was the Holy Ghost before? |
| 1:31.6 | What is the business that it has that it needs to accomplish |
| 1:36.2 | before it can stop haunting the earth? |
| 1:39.1 | And also, what? |
| 1:41.6 | We'll never know. |
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