S2 Episode 32 - A Gamble!

Obscure with Michael Ian Black

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🗓️ 22 June 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Big Buddy and Michael both contemplate taking gambles: Michael with his poker stash, his with his VERY LIFE!!! An exciting tale from both of them.

Michael Ian Black reads Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

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0:00.0	From the Jill Schwartz Memorial Library here in the wilds of Connecticut, this is Obscure,
0:09.6	Season 2, Frankenstein, I am your host, your friend, your earliver, your literary mansplainer
0:15.8	in chief, and Georgianologist Michael E. Black, returned from an ill-advised trip.
0:25.4	Why ill-advised? Because I put myself in harm's way and I did it purposefully. Why Michael,
0:32.3	why would you jeopardize yourself when you are so valuable to about four people? Because
0:41.2	I think I reached my limit with the pandemic. I think I just had to get out. I had to get
0:46.6	out of the house. I mean, look, Moderna fam, what up? I got my first vackey and I'm Moderna
0:55.3	fam, 100% all the way. So with sore arm, this past Sunday, it was going to be a rainy day here
1:04.9	in the wilds of Connecticut and I just thought to myself, I have to go. I have to leave here.
1:10.3	It's been too long. I just have to, in worse, I have to go and I have to play poker and I have to
1:16.7	put myself in a situation that I know is not optimal for remaining safe from COVID, but I was
1:25.1	like, look, they're doing good protections there and I'm talking when I say they are, I mean,
1:30.2	Mohegan Sun, because you know that is about an hour and a half for me. You know, you have to wear
1:35.8	masks. You have to sanitize. They've got plastic barriers between the players. I was like,
1:40.2	fuck it. I'm going to go play poker. I just got to get out of the house. I got to drive somewhere.
1:46.6	So that's what I did. I went to Mohegan Sun, double masked, played myself some poker,
1:54.5	and it's not, look, I'm not, I'm not even trying to toot my own horn, guys. You know me. I mean,
2:01.4	that's the last thing I want to do, but I walked out of there with 50 more dollars than when I arrived.
2:11.2	Okay. Two Jackson's and a Hamilton. When I walked out, I was just waving them around. Just like,
2:21.8	hey, y'all, look at me. Two Jackson's and a Hamilton that I didn't even have when I walked into
2:28.4	this place, but it was very relaxing. That was the thing that was so wonderful about the experience.
2:34.7	I was sitting. I was surrounded by loose sight. I was masked and I just playing cards for a few
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