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The Rolling Stone Article and a Friend's Father's Funeral
from Father Kump · #48
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3 minTim jokes about wanting people at a funeral to congratulate him on being named one of Rolling Stone's ten comics to know, fantasizing about a second memorial service to milk the attention.
- 2:28Tim describes his ex-wife hitting him when he was drinking, back when he was a runner doing five miles a day at noon at the morgue.
- 3:24Tim attended a funeral for a good friend's father, and wishes Rolling Stone's "ten comics to know" article had come out before it.
- 3:36Tim wanted people at the funeral to congratulate him on the Rolling Stone feature instead of just grieving.
- 4:15Tim asks whether funeral attendees even read Rolling Stone or follow social media.
- 4:27Tim proposes organizing a second memorial service, a candlelight vigil, so people can talk to him about the Rolling Stone article.
- 4:43He jokes that Rolling Stone will dominate his life for the next six months and says he's going to start reading at funerals.
- 5:07Tim argues that people who claim they don't care about accomplishments are lunatics, especially if they care about someone.