In Defense of the Pun

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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On The Gist, Good Friday is actually pretty great, from a cosmic perspective. In the interview, Aparna Nancherla tells us how to go from introverted kid ("my mom was very afraid of how unassertive I was") to making it in comedy. In the Spiel, a deep dive into the world of acronyms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Let me be explicit right now in this podcast.
0:03.2	There's some explicit language.
0:04.8	["Band Warms Up with The Bands of the Sun"]
0:08.6	It's Friday, March 30th, 2018, from slated to the gist of Mike Pesca.
0:13.7	That means it's good Friday.
0:15.6	Good Friday.
0:16.6	You used to ask my dad, Dad, he's Catholic.
0:19.1	Dad, what's so good about it?
0:20.9	But what makes it good Friday, my dad would say, oh,
0:23.8	it's the day Jesus was nailed to the cross.
0:27.3	He said, Nailed to the cross.
0:29.5	He said, oh, not just Nailed to the cross.
0:31.6	The day was marched through the streets and taunted and made to wear a crown of thorns and tormented.
0:38.5	What?
0:39.3	What?
0:40.3	How in the world is that good?
0:42.5	And he would explain, well, my boy, he never said.
0:45.5	What it did was it allowed Jesus to rise from the dead.
0:49.0	And with his resurrection, first of its kind, this allowed for every soul, every person,
0:55.0	ever born to ascend to heaven.
0:57.2	If they were worthy, he died for our sins.
1:00.3	It was the greatest achievement before or since in the history of mankind.
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