Wisconsin Dells Water Park
SPONTANEANATION with Paul F. Tompkins
Paul F. Tompkins
4.9 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2018
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Paul F. Tompkins welcomes everyone including riddle lovers back to Spontaneanation! This time out, Pauls special guest is actress and comedian Maribeth Monroe of Workaholics and The Good Place! Maribeth chats about her most embarrassing superstition, being tormented by her older brothers growing up, and purgatory. Then, they are joined by improvisers Nancy Hayden and Jaime Moyer, to improvise a story set in Wisconsin Dells Water Park. And as always, Eban (only the best) Schletter scores it all on piano!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, everybody. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. I'm talking over the music. Or is the music playing under me? It's one of those riddles. Riddles. They're as old as the Sphinx. |
| 0:23.8 | The Sphinx, of course, was a lion thing with a human head. |
| 0:33.4 | It asked you a riddle because you wanted to get somewhere. |
| 0:39.4 | Look, I remember what the riddle was. |
| 0:41.7 | I don't remember what the point of it was. |
| 0:44.7 | Why was the Sphinx given out riddles? |
| 0:48.5 | And did it only have that one riddle? |
| 0:51.7 | And really only one person solved it is that the story there's too many |
| 0:59.7 | there's too many mythologies guys and we should have consolidated them all into one a while ago |
| 1:08.9 | so it's just the story of, you know what I mean? |
| 1:12.8 | Do we need Jason and the Argonauts when we have |
| 1:20.3 | the Lord of the Rings? |
| 1:24.2 | That was a close one. |
| 1:26.7 | It was a real nose dive, but I feel like I pulled it out at the very last second. |
| 1:32.3 | Hey, I'm still mad that they made The Hobbit into three movies. |
| 1:37.4 | I don't. |
| 1:38.9 | I mean, no one needs me to relitigate that. |
| 1:43.8 | But when I saw that movie, I saw the first Hobbit movie. |
| 1:47.7 | And I was so excited because I loved that book when I was a kid. |
| 1:50.5 | I thought, this will be fun, light, entertaining film. |
| 1:55.7 | Went to the movies. |
| 1:56.9 | So long, I briefly fell asleep. |
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