Episode 72 - If Misery Can Know Happiness.

Obscure with Michael Ian Black

Misfit Toys

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

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Jude and Sue reunite and declare their love for each other. Despite Michael’s prediction, Jude survives the trip and struggles back to Christminster. Later, Michael's wife Martha joins him to talk about regrets. 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 high atop the Jack Jack Memorial Reading Throne here in the Jill Schwartz Memorial Library
0:09.2	within the Wild of Connecticut. This is obscure the podcast in which I read Jude the
0:16.6	obscure out loud and comment on it as I go. I am your host, your friend, your earlover,
0:22.3	your literary mansplainer in chief, Michael
0:25.6	Ian Black. I just had some leftover homemade tomato tart or tomato I suppose since this is of course an anglophilic
0:39.5	literary podcast tomato tart recipe by I know Podcast, Tomato, Tomato, Tart.
0:43.0	Recipe by Eina Garten.
0:46.0	We made it, oh, I don't know.
0:48.0	Actually, Martha made it. I didn't make it.
0:51.0	Because it involved making dough and she's very good at that and I've never
0:58.2	done it so I she handles all the dough duties. I make the dough, she spends it. Just classic husband-wife stuff. But I did have some of the leftovers. Now, the next night I made for
1:18.2	our anniversary dinner a cocoa van from Julia Child's mastering the art of French cooking, which was a considerably more complicated
1:29.8	recipe than her little tomato tart for lunch today, Martha just ate the remaining cocoa
1:40.1	fain.
1:41.7	So I bring this up to make the point that I'm an excellent cook, but also to make the point that the last episode we were discussing, as we often do here on the podcast, the natureee, you know, what would I have lived my life differently?
2:15.0	Did am I too so bound to the letter that I have unwittingly fallen into a trap of my own devising?
2:27.0	What if I had just thrown caution to the wind and just set out to break all the rules, to be an iconoclast, to live in
2:37.7	unbound life. What would that have looked like for me? And the truth of the matter is, I, if I'm really honest with myself, I was never going to be that guy. I like to think I could have been that guy, but you know what? I like domesticity too much. I like
2:57.5	making the occasional Gokovin too much. And so for me, you know, I might have problems with some of the rules. I might have
3:08.0	problems with a lot of shit, but I'm probably not the guy who's going to be squatting in a house on the lower
3:21.0	you know like in a town house on the lower, you know, like in a townhouse on the lower east side, you know, throwing eggs
3:27.8	at the police and causing a ruckus.
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