4.7 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2023
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Comedy Historian and generally pretty brilliant guy Kliph Nesteroff talks about the history of censorship in entertainment and much of the BS that is happening now has been going on since the 19th century and throughout American history. Great conversation!
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0:00.0 | Hey Fitzdog radio listeners, it's me, Gregory Sebastian Fitzimmons. |
0:14.4 | That was my confirmation name. |
0:16.6 | Parents ever gave me a middle name. |
0:18.5 | Don't know why. |
0:20.0 | I think my parents were a little rushed. |
0:24.3 | I think rushed is a way to describe their parenting. |
0:28.6 | My father was starting his career as a radio broadcaster and we moved around the country a bit when me and my brother were like young. |
0:38.0 | And we made it. But anyway, I got no middle name. |
0:42.9 | So for my confirmation as a good Catholic boy, |
0:45.7 | I picked a saint's name and I picked Saint Sebastian, |
0:49.7 | who was a martyr, who was shot full of arrows in Rome and did not renounce his belief in the |
0:55.2 | Lord Jesus Christ. And yet here I am in 2003 saying that I think that Jesus Christ was a good dude but not the Messiah. |
1:07.0 | Whoa what? I don't know sometimes I believe he's magic a little bit but in general I think we're making kind of a big deal out of one guy. |
1:23.7 | Is there anyone more famous? |
1:25.3 | I guess Mohammed, I guess Mohammed and Jesus, |
1:30.3 | they're kind of neck and neck |
1:32.2 | as the most influential people in history. |
1:35.0 | Am I missing somebody? |
1:37.0 | Sebastian Manis Galco? |
1:40.0 | I don't know. |
1:43.0 | Eliza Schlesinger. |
1:48.0 | Anyway, I'm very excited. |
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