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SPONTANEANATION with Paul F. Tompkins

The Childhood Home of Fred Rogers

SPONTANEANATION with Paul F. Tompkins

Paul F. Tompkins

Comedy, Improv

4.94.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2016

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Paul F. Tompkins welcomes everyone on the spot to this weeks episode of Spontaneanation! This week, Pauls special guest is writer/author Kathryn Borel! They chat about who played the role of Kathryn's high school mentor, how Canada is forced to notice what happens in the United States, and the shame that comes with pronouncing words in public incorrectly. Paul is then joined by Hal Lublin, Jennifer Marie Kelley, and Mary Sohn, to improvise a story set in The Childhood Home of Fred Rogers. And as always, Eban (only the best) Schletter scores it all on piano!
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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome.

0:02.0

Welcome everyone.

0:07.0

Welcome all of you.

0:09.0

I welcome you.

0:10.0

Guess what?

0:11.0

I started but wasn't ready to start.

0:14.0

I checked in with everyone in the room.

0:16.0

Are you ready to go?

0:18.0

Everyone said yes and I'm like, let's go.

0:20.0

Then as soon as I started talking, I realized I got nothing to say.

0:27.3

What kind of a world is this, folks, where you're on the spot 24-7, this gotcha culture

0:37.5

we live in

0:38.1

where you're supposed to be

0:38.8

ready to

0:39.3

say things

0:41.0

at a moment's notice

0:43.4

you

0:44.7

say jump and I say

0:46.6

how hi

0:47.2

that's not a good

0:49.3

example because

0:50.1

that's a classic

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