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Obscure with Michael Ian Black

Episode 75 - The End.

Obscure with Michael Ian Black

Misfit Toys

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

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Death comes for Jude, while Michael welcomes a new life. 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 At Top, the Jack Jack Memorial Reading Throne here in the Jill Schwartz Memorial Library

0:08.9

within the wild of Connecticut Kit.

0:13.0

This is obscure, the podcast in which I read Jude the obscure out loud and comment on it as I go.

0:21.0

I am your host, your

0:23.0

literary Mansplainer in chief, Michael Ian Black,

0:28.0

and this is our final episode together. We have reached the end of Jude the Obscuer, page 484 we begin here on my 1988 Penguin Classics edition of Jude The Obscure. We have followed Jude through all of his follies and that

0:58.6

pun is of course intentional both from Hardy and myself. And now we find ourselves at the end of the line.

1:09.2

The book is nearing its end. Jude is nearing his end. Arabella is procuring for herself the security of

1:18.1

her own future as she seduces the Artful Villner, quack physician who has been tending to our own Jude.

1:31.1

Sue is ensconced with her husband, Philitson she has given herself to him.

1:37.4

Oh God, she said, before doing the nasty, and we can only presume they've been doing the nasty and we can only presume they've been doing the nasty and for

1:46.6

sue we can presume it has been nasty as for me things have been changing in my life as well. We have gone through some downs together, you and I over the last 10 episodes or so but like in all things there is

2:08.9

sunshine anew sitting beside me is a 11 week old maybe 10 week old puppy named squash he is a

2:21.8

rescue from somewhere down south. We got him via Brooklyn.

2:27.0

Too early to say whether he will be a shitty little rat dog one way or the other, but he is a little fella.

2:33.7

Half Dachshund, we think, because he is long and getting longer.

2:39.1

Half, perhaps, mini-pin or something. He has Jack Jack's, some of Jack's facial features and two very

2:48.2

floppy ears. Squash has been, as you can well imagine, very annoying with the teething and the biting

2:58.6

and just the constant puncturing of flesh that puppies do.

3:04.7

He is not house-trained.

3:06.7

He has been piddling and pooping.

3:08.7

Wherever he sees fit, he has been whining in the mornings because we keep him kenneled and so we have been

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