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Obscure with Michael Ian Black

Episode 17 - You Have Arrived at Your Destination.

Obscure with Michael Ian Black

Misfit Toys

Books, Comedy, Literature, Audiobooks, Arts, Alternative Comedy

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Jude arrives in Christminster, and Michael and comedian Maeve Higgins tell ghost stories. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/michaelianblack See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

from the Jill Schwartz Memorial Library here in the wilds of Connecticut. It's obscure.

0:10.0

I'm Michael Ian Black and it's very exciting here today at the library because we have

0:17.4

completed part the first in Jude theure and we are about to go to part second. I'm at a loss. I don't

0:29.2

know what's going to happen but there's a clue right in the very title page of part second. It says at Christminster.

0:39.2

So it looks like Jude has somehow stumbled his way to his Jerusalem, his city on the hill, his seat of

0:51.4

higher learning, Christ Minster, Jude who has gone through so much already,

0:57.0

to rise above his obscurity is now on his way.

1:02.0

And then there's a, what do you call those things epigraph

1:06.8

I have to tell you that once again I am drinking seltzer

1:10.7

Ruby red grapefruit 100% Natural Celtzer.

1:13.6

And so if I should pause like I just did,

1:18.1

know that it's not because I don't know what to say,

1:21.0

but because I have a gas bubble in my throat and I'm burping I'm burping

1:25.0

selza.

1:26.0

It's an epigraph.

1:32.0

I don't know is that what it's called? The quote before the thing?

1:35.2

And the first one is, save his own soul. He hath no star. And that's attributed to Swinburne, save his own soul, he hath no star.

1:46.0

I honestly, it's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, it's eight words,

1:51.0

and like most poetic sentences.

1:54.1

I don't understand it.

1:56.0

Save his own soul.

1:59.1

Oh, oh, meaning except for his own soul.

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