The Dead Parent Olympics | Jessimae Peluso

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Jessimae Peluso

Health & Fitness, Comedy Interviews, Comedy, Mental Health

4.6 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Ep.2: The Dead Parent Olympics Okay. If you’ve lost a parent or even just had a complicated relationship with one, this episode might hit you straight in the gut… but in like, a warm hug meets a gut-punch kind of way. This episode is for all of us in the “Dead Dad’s Club” and the “Dead Mom’s Club” and especially for those of us who didn’t get a trophy for surviving the worst moments of our lives. Jessimae talks about the bizarre things that happen when your parents die-the competition, the weird flexes, the dark jokes that only make sense after your whole world falls apart. She's sharing stories I’ve never told before… like the FaceTime goodbye that was anything but graceful, and the hospice goodbye that haunts her in the best and worst ways. It’s raw, it’s ridiculous, and yeah we even roast her dead parents because they’d expect nothing less! This isn’t therapy, but it might feel like the grief support group you wish had wine and didn’t suck. You in? Email us! [email protected] FOLLOW JESSIMAE FOR MORE FUN IN YOUR LIFE! SUBSCRIBE TO THE DYING LAUGHING POD: ⁠⁠https://found.ee/DyingLaughing⁠⁠ SUPPORT THE FAN CLUB: ⁠⁠https://found.ee/JessimaePeluso-Patreon⁠⁠ SEE JESSIMAE LIVE: ⁠⁠https://found.ee/jessimaetour⁠⁠ CHECK OUT JESSIMAE’S WEBSITE: ⁠⁠https://found.ee/Jessimae⁠⁠ FOLLOW JESSIMAE ON IG: ⁠⁠ https://found.ee/InstaJess⁠⁠ BOOK A CAMEO: ⁠⁠https://found.ee/cameo-with-jessimae⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome to Dying Laughing with Jesse May. I am your host and grief guru, Jesse May Paluso. This is episode two, the Dead Parent Olympics. Yes, both of my parents are dead AF, and I have often felt like George Clooney in the movie Gravity, just floating completely untethered through life without them. So if you yourself are in the dead parents club, the dead dad's club, or the dead mom's club, or both,
0:25.8	this episode is for you.
0:28.0	There aren't always funerals, there isn't always closure, and definitely no manual.
0:32.8	So that's why we're here to talk about the unique identity that comes with being a full grown orphan.
0:39.6	And it's just an odd experience. So I hope you guys enjoy this episode and be sure to email me
0:46.0	with your comments, questions, and concerns. Jesse May-Peluso Comedy at gmail.com. Don't forget,
0:52.2	you can call into the podcast, 513-916-0930 with any questions,
0:57.9	and you have a chance to have those be played on the actual episodes coming up. And if you'd
1:02.9	like to come see me live, check me out. I'm also a stand-up comedian, jessie Mae.com, for tickets.
1:08.4	And a portion of those ticket sales go towards the Alzheimer's charity foundations that I love
1:14.2	and I'm an ambassador for that is the Alzheimer's Association of Southern California.
1:18.9	And always Seth Rogan and Lauren Rogan's Hilarity for Charity.
1:23.2	Hope you guys enjoy this episode, the Dead Parent Olympics.
1:32.8	Here we go.
1:33.7	Hey, everybody.
1:36.3	Welcome to Dying Laughing with Jesse May.
1:39.6	This is episode two, the Dead Parent Olympics.
1:45.7	And I have to tell you, if grief is a competition, I'm taking gold because Nance, no pants,
1:51.7	Nance and Joey P, they dead. They so dead. I am bringing home gold, bitch. Both parents,
1:59.3	no funeral, a FaceTime goodbye with my mom, and a hospice death. So welcome to the Dead Parent Olympics.
2:03.6	The opening ceremony starts now. This is basically me talking about what it's like to be an orphan. That's essentially what I am. I don't know if anyone
2:07.7	else is out there is an orphan or feels like an orphan. It's basically an unsolicited trauma
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