Myrrh

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

Alex Schmidt

Society & Culture, Comedy, History

4.7 • 720 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Alex Schmidt is joined by comedy podcaster/creator Jesse Thorn for a look at why myrrh is secretly incredibly fascinating.

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0:00.0	MIR.
0:02.2	Known for being a gift.
0:04.3	Famous for being for Jesus.
0:07.5	Nobody thinks much about it, so let's have some fun.
0:10.7	Let's find out why being alive is more
0:41.6	interesting than people think it is. My name is Alex Schmidt and I'm not alone. Jesse Thorne is my
0:50.5	guest today and I sort of assume you know that name.
0:54.6	If you like podcasting, if you like funny things, if you just like, you know, having fun,
0:59.5	having maximum fun, so to speak.
1:01.7	If you have never heard a show from the wonderful independent artist collective that is
1:06.3	known as Maximum Fun, I'm very excited for you to get to check that out and have just an enormous
1:12.3	endless pile of joy fall upon you.
1:14.9	And if you have heard Maximum Fun shows, you probably know who Jesse Thorne is.
1:18.2	You also may know him from non-max fun stuff because in addition to making Jordan Jesse go
1:23.7	and making Judge John Hodgman and guesting on a bunch of things. He also hosts Bullseye,
1:29.0	which is a co-production of Maximum Fun and NPR. He made a whole other incredible podcast about
1:34.2	the art of interviewing. It's called The Turnaround, and he's done many, many more things from there.
1:39.6	There is a decent chance Jesse Thorne is the podcaster I have heard the most. Just full stop.
1:46.4	Like, he's that great and that prolific. And so it's a real joy to have him on this podcast for
1:52.8	a really special episode. Also, I've gathered all of our zip codes and used internet resources
1:58.1	like native dash land.ca to acknowledge that I recorded this on the traditional
2:03.4	land of the Canarsi and Lanapi peoples, acknowledged Jesse recorded this on the traditional land
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