Dr. Junius Johnson

Well, listen, Paradiso is crazy.

We're going to just dive right into this.

And I think the first thing that is important to say, I'll take you all the way back to our first guest, Catherine Illingworth, who was mad at me for having her do the Inferno when it's her least favorite of all of the canticles.

And you heard our last guest, Heidi, say that Purgatorio was her favorite of the canticle.

For none of us is Inferno our favorite one.

It's everyone's least favorite, not because it's not amazing.

It's so very good, but just because they just keep getting better.

And for me, my favorite is Paradiso.

And I think that for me, that's almost a litmus test of a true dentista is Paradiso.

do you like Paradiso more than the others?

Because I think Dante would say that Paradiso was not only his favorite, but also the point of the thing.

It's the reason for which the whole thing was written.

But it's the least taught of the three today for a variety of reasons.

The chief one, I think, is that most people would find it boring.

There's just, you know, what's going on?

Nobody's suffering.

There's no pain.

There's no tension.

It's just stuff, you know?

And then the second reason is it's the most studied.