Paul F. Tompkins on the "Pod F. Tompkast" episode 1:

 Paul F. Tompkins is an improvisational comedian whose short-lived but much beloved podcast, The Pod F. Tomkast, helped spark his particular style of stream-of-consciousness comedy in podcasting. The first (now-famous) episode sounds starts out like an old radio drama including simple music, sound effects and role-playing characters, sort of a mix between Prairie Home Companion and Monty Python, with Paul meandering through different thoughts, allowing himself to go off on any and all tangents along the way. Wandering along to the only (if there is any) through-line theme of his podcasts, the “Great Undiscovered Project” featuring Tompkins' gifted range of celebrity voices (here: Andrew Lloyd Webber and Ice-T) journeying off to another unknown end.

Not as much a conversation as one man going in any and all directions with what’s being said, Paul F. Tompkins' first episode of his first podcast is a true find for anyone who likes to try to understand structure of dialogues. In the next segment of this episode he threads these voices into his "Google Voice Mail Theatre" where Google incorrectly transcribes voicemails, and Paul reads them with a live audience at a club in LA.

One of the earliest podcasts (July 2010) whose style remains unique in the medium, from the gentle piano and barking dog introduction, to the audience's reaction to Google voicemail's disastrous version of the MLK "I Have a Dream" speech, this episode not only features podcast history but also a talent who launched podcasting as entertainment art.Pod F. Tompkast Episode 1

(Paul F. Tompkins)