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Obscure with Michael Ian Black

S3 Episode 1 - ...And Just Like That

Obscure with Michael Ian Black

Misfit Toys

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

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

We're off and funning! It's a brand new season of Obscure. New book, new author, no Samantha! 

Michael Ian Black mansplains literature.

"Episode 0" and other great bonus content can be found at https://www.patreon.com/michaelianblack

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0:00.0

From the Jill Schwartz Memorial Library here in Sultry, Savannah, this is Obscure Season

0:13.7

3, Wuthering Heights.

0:16.2

I am loathed to even say the name of the book out loud because I have stirred up so much

0:21.4

controversy in this election, much to my chagrin, but I have started this season with

0:28.0

a massive fuck up.

0:30.7

And if you want to hear me fuck up in real time and who wouldn't, I would encourage you

0:35.9

to go to patreon.com slash michaelianblack and listen to what I'm calling episode zero

0:44.3

because I just could not think of that as the official start to the season.

0:51.0

But the gist of it is that I promised an American title to all of you.

0:57.0

And I thought this book and I thought the Bronze Tays were American.

1:02.3

I mean I don't know what to tell you.

1:04.5

I'm literally illiterate.

1:09.2

So you know, like William to come to Sherman, I make an announcement and I say I'm going

1:16.6

to do something and well then you just march forward and you just do the thing, you

1:19.8

know.

1:20.8

But at the same time, like Colin Powell, you don't want to go into battle under false

1:25.0

pretenses.

1:26.0

So it's a real conundrum.

1:27.8

So I spent the week agonizing.

1:29.6

This is michaelianblack by the way, your friend, your host, your era lover, your literary

1:35.1

mansplain or in chief and georgionologist and host of obscure.

1:40.2

Just trying to figure out what to do.

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