The Belly of a Whale
SPONTANEANATION with Paul F. Tompkins
Paul F. Tompkins
4.9 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2017
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Paul F. Tompkins welcomes all back to Spontaneanation! This time out, Pauls special guests are Beth Newell and Sarah Pappalardo, editors and co-founders of Reductress! Beth and Sarah chat about whether or not theyve ever stolen anything, being propositioned by an older man while bagging groceries as a teenager, and the one time babysitting for a mother who got accusatory when she asked how they knew her child was constipated. Then, they are joined by improvisers Ryan Gaul, Amanda Lund, and Jordan Black, to improvise a story set in The Belly of a Whale. And as always, Eban (only the best) Schletter scores it all on piano!
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| 0:00.0 | I did it. |
| 0:24.5 | I didn't talk through the whole thing. |
| 0:27.8 | So that you could hear it in all its glory. |
| 0:31.1 | I know some people... |
| 0:33.1 | I know some people don't like when I talk over music. |
| 0:38.9 | I know I'm doing it right now. |
| 0:42.6 | But there's something about music by itself that I just think it needs me. |
| 0:56.1 | Why is the one time I went to see some so-called classical music. |
| 1:04.1 | They played zero fogat. |
| 1:09.1 | And there were no singing parts. |
| 1:15.5 | I don't know how to describe it. |
| 1:16.6 | It was like they would start a song and you would think, |
| 1:20.1 | oh, any moment now, the singer will come out and just know. |
| 1:26.1 | And I was like, |
| 1:30.0 | obviously there's been a car accident. |
| 1:31.5 | We should check on that singer. |
| 1:32.9 | Why are they just playing? |
| 1:34.0 | He's clearly not... Or is she? |
| 1:38.4 | Clearly, the singer is not showing up. |
| 1:41.2 | And these guys are just playing like, |
| 1:46.1 | this is not a big deal. |
| 1:50.9 | Then about the eighth song I caught on, oh, there's not going to be a singer. |
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