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New Orleans Jazz Funerals

from Growing Up Gottschee with Dan St. Germain · #122

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3 min

The group discusses New Orleans jazz funeral parades and bounce houses as a dark joke, debating whether the celebratory tradition holds up when the deceased died violently, and reminiscing about visiting New Orleans.

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  • 51:16People now want companies to help them get the best buyout for their rent control apartments.
  • 51:42Tim claims everyone he knows makes $400,000 a month on Patreon; the show doesn't have one.
  • 51:58He's starting a pro wrestling podcast that no one will listen to, with a guest who doesn't even watch wrestling.
  • 52:23New Orleans jazz funerals celebrate people even if they were brutally murdered.
  • 52:38Tim jokes that if a child is killed, they still have a fun parade with a bounce house by the casket.
  • 52:54New Orleans is his favorite place, though he's never been there and it's very dark and poor.
  • 53:20He doesn't drink beer, only vodka and gin martinis, and occasionally misses the martinis now.
  • 53:39Tim argues that drinking in your current age isn't as fun as you remember it being.
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