Episode 426 – Paul F. Tompkins
Released 4/1/2009
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Intro: This is NOT episode 226! Sing along with Jimmy, right outta the box! I Wanna Go Back (Eddie Money)
2:15 Danielle “drove back” to the studio for the beginning of this episode to thank the listeners (including Heidi Stewart) for gifts
4:00 Jimmy is wearing his therapy-day shirt, the same shirt he wore “last week”
4:30 Paul is very patient and silent while Jimmy indulges in clock-talk during the intro

Paul F. Tompkins
5:30 “That was interminable!”
5:45 Talking to seat-mates on a plane
6:45 You CAN judge a book by its cover
7:45 Jimmy’s back-hurtin’, ice-pack-sittin’, talkin’, hintin’, surgery-havin’, seat-mate
15:45 Dr. Tatoff
16:30 Tower Video, Kneeling busses and elephant graveyards
19:00 Paul’s day job
20:00 Paul and Jimmy were drunk under different circumstances
21:00 Able-bodied wheelchair user
21:30 Toad the Wet Sprocket vs. Spin Doctors in a chicken fight
22:30 Francine Dancer

Francine Dancer
24:00 Matt and Jimmy’s Pre-school Panic cult membership
26:15 Re-introducing Paul F. Tompkins
30:00 Paul’s tiredness and sleep schedule
30:45 Paul has strong opinions about Cadbury Eggs
32:15 Andrew suggests that Paul make his own candy egg (perhaps in a bathtub)
33:30 Bathtub Gin Blossoms
34:15 Sing along with Jimmy: Hey Jealousy / Allison Road (Gin Blossoms)
35:00 Uncomfortable suicide talk
35:45 Paul’s work day as on-air talent and producer
37:30 Time to mock the listener
37:45 Paul makes mocking faces, oblivious to the cameras capturing his expression

Body language
38:10 “You know what I thought that was? A big stick bug.”
39:00 Life with Chuck Nice
40:30 Sizz-mergency!
41:30 Quincy says “Maybe it was murrrder!!!”
42:15 Andrew’s problem with Medium
43:00 Why don’t people in movies listen to the experts?
45:00 Randy Quaid, Johnny Quest, Tron, and the Bridges
47:00 How many Hitlers in the phone book?
48:00 Vic Hitler, Jr.: narcoleptic stand-up comedian
49:00 Matt clunks it up
49:30 Frunions and Mrunchos
50:00 The cast of Hill Street Blues
51:15 Sing along with Jimmy: Der Kommissar (After the Fire, featuring Falco)
51:30 Andrew greets Malcolm McDowell
54:00 Matt and Jeff Goldblum
54:45 Break time!
55:15 End-of-season stress threatens to destroy relationships
56:00 Jimmy reads autograph seeking Russian e-mail: “I am proud of you, and you for me.”
56:30 Andrew: “He copied that letter off a t-shirt in Japan.”
57:45 International mail and phone calls
58:30 Matt explains telephone technology
59:00 Paul’s New York domicile

Armisen / Paterson
59:45 Brutal New York winter
1:00:30 Fred Armisen as David Paterson
1:03:15 The deaf guy on Amazing Race: “Gross.”
1:03:45 Clap-along time!
1:04:00 Sinister deaf guy
1:08:00 The Cult and The Divinyls
1:08:45 Rip Taylor sings!
1:09:00 “You guys seem tired.”
1:09:45 Flying with Billy Bush
1:11:45 “Excuse me, aren’t you Mr. Hutchinson from Best Week Ever?”
1:16:00 Andrew is forbidden from using the word “pud” again
1:18:00 “Welcome to Best Week Ever with Paul F. Tompkins, I’m your host, Mr. Hutchinson.”
1:19:00 Dropping out of high school vs. dropping out of college
1:20:00 Stupid Question of the Week: Brian Bieber, Sioux Fall, SD: What is your most irrational fear?
1:22:30 Sing along with Jimmy: Cruel to be Kind (Nick Lowe)
1:26:00 Why is The Octomom being covered by the Show Biz reporter?
1:28:30 Paul needs to get his friends on Twitter
1:29:30 Matt channels the spirit of Pat Francis
1:31:30 Imaginary people during the UCB show that didn’t happen yet
1:32:00 Los Angeles misses PFT
1:33:30 Matt’s sister loves PFT’s Letters to Magazine
1:34:00 Jimmy recaps the season
1:35:30 Season 5 might not happen! Sign up and find out!
1:36:45 On behalf of Matt Belknap – Johnny Clunkafuck
Oonnnn the podcast!
1:37:15 How to sign up for season 5
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This is my FAV episode off all time, I’ve listened to it 10 times. I’m listening to it right now. NO LIE. Thanks for Noting-up this ep.