37: Bigger Esther (The Book of Esther and Greek Esther)

Apocrypals

Chris Sims

Comedy, History

4.9 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2019

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Get ready to put on your costume, give money to the poor, and get tore up from the floor up, Theophiloi, because it's Purim time! Join us for the story of Esther, a uniquely God-free entry into Bible about a beautiful queen outfoxing Haman (BOOOO!) to the point where he gets severely impaled. It's a good one.

Topics of discussion: a Lent Madness update, St. Joseph's Day, some bitterness about an old job, the Jewish Hero Corps, Ruth : Wheat :: Esther : Impalement, the Persian Wu-Tang Clan, a re-evaluation of Vashti, Haman's pockets (booo!), Esther's surprising similarity to Goku, a delicious villain humiliation, a not inconsiderable number of fairly preventable deaths, does Dogpile exist?

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0:00.0	For if you keep silence at such a time as this, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another quarter, but you and your father's family will perish.
0:07.6	Who knows?
0:08.6	Perhaps you have come to royal dignity for just such a time as this.
0:12.4	The Book of Esther, chapter 4, verse 14. Hello, friends and neighbors, and welcome to Apocopalus.
0:42.7	It's the podcast where two nonbelievers read through the Bible and we try not to be jerks about it.
0:46.5	My name is Chris Sims.
0:47.4	With me as always is my co-host.
0:49.3	The other set of footprints, the other half of the Sons of Thunder.
0:52.9	Benito Serrano.
0:53.8	Benito, how are you?
0:55.0	Very good, Chris. How are you, man? You having a good one? No. Yeah, having a bad,
1:00.4	have a bad one. Yeah, I'm having a bad one. I'm having a rough one. I did two comic book
1:05.2	conventions back to back, which if you don't know, those are like petri dishes you can live in.
1:12.6	Yeah, sure.
1:13.6	And there are also major reasons why the show doesn't come out on Sunday, like this week.
1:18.4	Yep.
1:19.5	Well, fortunately, I have two more for the rest of the year so far.
1:25.1	I have one in June.
1:26.3	I'm going to have one in November.
1:27.5	So that should not be that specifically should not be an issue going forward.
1:33.9	I will say that yesterday, the day after the con, I went to bed at 6 p.m.
1:41.7	And I got up at 8 this morning, which is a strong 14 hour sleep.
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