Commedia della Morte

Judge John Hodgman

Jesse Thorn

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4.8 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2016

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Jesse brings the case against his dad, Joseph. Joseph insists that his children hire a mime for his funeral (when the time comes). Jesse insists that a funeral is a time for grieving, not miming.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Judge John Hodgman podcast.
0:04.1	I'm Bayliffe Jesse Thorn.
0:05.7	This week, Comedia Delamorte.
0:09.1	Jesse brings the case, not me, against his dad, Joseph.
0:13.2	Joseph?
0:14.2	Sorry.
0:15.8	Joseph insists that his children hire a mime for his funeral
0:20.3	when the time comes.
0:21.8	Jesse insists that a funeral is a time for grieving,
0:25.5	not mimeing.
0:26.8	Who will win? Who will lose? Only one man can decide.
0:30.1	Please rise as Judge John Hodgman enters the courtroom
0:33.5	and offers the obscure cultural reference.
0:37.0	Family hurts us.
0:39.2	It is like a trap. It shortens our life.
0:43.4	It bothers us psychically and socioculturally.
0:46.6	It forces us into a limited level of consciousness.
0:50.2	It robs us of our essential self.
0:52.9	Inkel case ideas in us that are not our own and at the moment
0:56.8	when we find ourselves in the world, all of this collapses
1:00.3	and we have to build a life from scratch.
1:03.6	Generation after generation, each one is victim to the one before.
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