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Obscure with Michael Ian Black

S2 Episode 12 - Working the Poll

Obscure with Michael Ian Black

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4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

A blast from the past Election Day episode! Michael gets busy working that poll, and Victor Frankenstein gets busy figuring out the nature of creation. One of them deserves a tip. 

Michael Ian Black reads Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

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0:00.0

from the Jill Schwartz Memorial Library here in the wild of Connecticut.

0:08.0

This is obscure season 2, Frankenstein.

0:13.0

I am your host, your friend, your ear lover,

0:16.0

your prince of pretension, your count of condescension

0:20.0

in literary Mansplainer in chief,

0:22.0

Michael Ian Black, at you with another exciting

0:26.7

episode. Last time we spoke it was election day eve. I was in a bit of a Twitter and I was also on Twitter and the anxiety that I was feeling was no doubt being felt all across this

0:45.8

fair nation and indeed the world as we awaited Election Day 2020.

0:52.3

Well now a week has passed the results have become clear even if they are

0:58.8

being contested somewhat it seems a bit half-heartedly,

1:04.4

by the current commander-in-chief.

1:08.4

And the sense of relief across this great nation and indeed across the world is palpable. It is a good

1:18.2

week at least where I am where you are maybe things have changed, but from where I sit right now, things are pretty good.

1:27.8

I am anticipating a bit of a topsy-turvy ride for the next couple of months before our new president is inaugurated.

1:36.2

But for now, things seem to be pretty good.

1:40.3

As I mentioned, I was a poll worker on election day and then that night I worked the

1:48.0

polls to make a little extra money as I sometimes do Wednesday nights. I dance at a local strip club and it was a how

2:01.0

was it as an experience, in a word, pretty boring. In a word, yawn. It was 14 hours of sitting

2:11.4

there crossing off names as people came in. I was hoping to be a

2:17.2

sticker peeler but I was a name crosser. So people would come in they would check

2:21.4

in and then they would come over to me

2:23.8

and they'd be like, this is who I am, here's my ID,

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