Jo Miller
It’s episode 4! We made it past the originally planned trilogy! And it’s a good one, with Jo Miller, writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Jo and I get into every day operations at TDS as well as what it was like to work on Earth: The Book while we were doing the show at the same time. (Spoiler Alert: it was a lot of work.) Jo also talks about how her education in Medieval History actually comes in handy in her career as a comedy writer. Who knew!? Hope you enjoy this one, BlocHeads. Thanks for tuning in. Listen via iTunes.
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Gabriele_Kaufrausch
December 25, 2012Firstly, thanks for including the nazi thing at the end: As a young German, my sense of guilt is always quickly fading away between my yearly visits of memorials and concentration camp sites- it was about time to bring it back to a more natural level ;-)
Joking aside, very nice episode, great guest. Very interesting. Thanks for recording it.
j.r. havlan
December 28, 2012you’re very welcome gabriele, and than YOU for listening. and what’s more – thank you for acknowledging even the slightest bit of guilt over the (so-called) holocaust. we do our best to serve as a reminder since there’s not much else out there to help us remember. at least not that i see.
Gabriele_Kaufrausch
January 22, 2013This may not be the place to get too deep into it but i can assure you that there’s quite a lot of activity going on in Germany with regard to not forgetting what our grandparents and great grandparents did to your people.
The only thing that might be discouraging to some is that people like Henryk M. Broder and a few other known people with Jewish background are constantly criticizing almost every aspect of remembrance. So if there’s food served at the (often remote) concentration camp sites for the school classes visiting and staying there for a day, it’s considered inappropriate by them. Or if there’s a memorial somewhere, it’s almost impossible to not insult somebody by selecting some music or words for a speech because some element of it always turns out to have been used against the Jewish community by someone in the past.
So it’s a fine line at times and the safest thing is to not publicly do anything at all. Everyone has to find their own approach, i guess. Like in comedy :-)
The point is: I’m not to judge (and don’t know) your approach to remembrance, may it be the Nazi gunmen for comedic purposes or more elaborate forms in other situations. In case you ever travelled to Europe and searched for more abstract forms of it i’d be happy to assist you and give you travel tips :-)