Episode 73 - Weddings Be Funerals.

Obscure with Michael Ian Black

Misfit Toys

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

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Ghosts continue to haunt Jude, and Michael can relate. Meanwhile, Sue continues to doubt both herself and her choices and finally decides who to share a bed with. 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 jackjack memorial reading thrown here in the Jill Schwartz
0:09.9	Memorial Library within the Wilds of Connecticut.
0:15.0	This is obscure, the podcast in which I read Jude the obscure out loud
0:21.6	and comment on it as I go.
0:24.3	I am your host, your friend, your ear lover, your literary mansplainer in chief Michael
0:28.6	Ian Black.
0:30.4	We are very, very quickly nearing the end. This is episode 73 of 75.
0:38.0	And it's impossible not to reflect backwards on this journey for me.
0:45.0	Look, it's been a silly podcast, right?
0:48.3	Just a podcast, just a silly podcast, a dumb idea, read this book out loud, comment on it as you go.
0:58.1	But as we near the end, as you near the end of anything, it is impossible not to reflect and my reflections right now are more of the
1:09.6	spirit than anything else when last we left Jude he was tottering almost
1:16.4	spectrally along the cobblestone streets of Christminster Arabella at his
1:21.9	side remarking that he of Christminster Arabella at his side,
1:23.0	remarking that he was almost seeing ghosts,
1:29.7	but that he doesn't believe in half of them anymore. And I'm not sure how much to share about
1:35.7	what's going on in my own life right now. I will keep it somewhat brief, but I am
1:41.0	dealing with a friend who is dying and so he's as I record this kind of in
1:51.7	that liminal state between life and death and I've known him for
2:07.0	almost I've known him for, oh, almost 20 years, I guess. And he lives in the town in which I live here in the wilds of Connecticut.
2:10.4	And my wife and I and his family and all his friends have been helping and doing our
2:17.2	best to support his family in this time And so those words of seeing and hearing ghosts and whether or not
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