Paul F. Tompkins
speaker
211 appearances
17 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard May 2025
Paul F. Tompkins’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's very much like the original origin story of Lex Luthor that Superman blew out his hair. Superman was responsible for him going prematurely bald, and he became a supervillain because of this.
I mean, join the club rush. Yeah, we all hate school. It's trash. It never occurred to me to relate to the guy on the radio. Like, how come he gets to have fun? This grown adult. And I have to go to school.
and handed to this ream of paper that has information on it so it's true. But Lujac was not a political guy, right? He was just a DJ?
It's so wild to think about someone being alive at that time. And not having a strong feeling either way about anything that's going on.
That is like a kind of privilege that I can't even begin to fathom.
The idea that you would say, Martin Luther King, who is that again? Which guy? Bobby who got killed? You know what? Dimly aware that RFK was assassinated.
I mean, look, he has undeniably great voice. Great voice. Very good at imparting information, like actual factual information. This movie is for sure playing here at this time. Day of the time. Dolphin, absolutely. I can't wait to see it. Yeah, I'm not. It's the exciting movie day of the dolphin. But that he's just straight reading things that you cannot misinterpret in any way.
If only he'd stuck to that. But yeah, I... It's so – I guess I don't want to get ahead of us and get ahead of ourselves, but the idea that this guy would not be content doing just this is, like, when does it – the idea that it turns, like – I don't know. I'm sorry. We'll get to that.
You know, I had a conversation with a friend of mine who who also does podcasts and radio and.
for neither of us it is our thing our first thing but we shared a uh we we had a conversation where we we shared our love of being good at reading copy like when you have to do ads there is something that's weirdly satisfying about like oh i sound like a guy on the radio like i'm doing a good job at reading this and making it sound natural and whatever and it's like there it like there's isn't that enough isn't that enough that there's there's
It is a good feeling when you nail an ad read. Yeah.
Yeah, it could be both. It could be both. There is a kind of lording it over like, you know what, this is a dumb job, but you're still not allowed to do it.
Yeah.
Yeah. As a boy growing up in Philadelphia. Yeah. I dreamed of advertising for missiles.
Here's what sucks. Raytheon is such a cool name.
It's so good.
I'm sorry. I don't know if you'll know or not. Like, talk radio... How much of a thing is it at this point of people calling in to radio stations to have conversations with broadcasters?
The original idea of the DJ was maybe a personality, but his main thrust was, I'm giving you this music that you crave, and that's why you like me, is because I'm going to maybe get tracks before other people get them, and you're going to hear this stuff first. But there's still a thing of... it's not about my personality necessarily.
It's mainly about, I am the, I, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm the Santa Claus of music. I'm giving you these things. Yes. And that's why you like me.
Is that being I don't know if that's being good at insulting people. Yeah, that's not really it. So that's just that's just being cool. Ready to insult. Yeah.
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