S3 Episode 3 - Christmas Complaints

Obscure with Michael Ian Black

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🗓️ 25 January 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Recorded at Christmas, and Michael's not a fan. He doesn't like anything about it, save the Christmas goose. Not the ritualized gift giving or the hauling in of trees or the decorating of said tree or the various holiday obligations.

And, as always Michael Ian Black reads Wuthering Heights.

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0:00.0	From the Jill Schwartz Memorial Library here in Saltree, Savannah, Georgia, this is Obscure
0:14.4	Season 3, Wuthering Heights, I am your host, your friend, your ear lover, your literary
0:21.7	mansplainer in chief and Georgianologist Michael Ian Black. It has turned chilly here in Saltree,
0:31.9	Savannah, less Saltree, I suppose. Now a cold front has blown in the past week or so has
0:39.8	been, you know, mid to upper 70s. I record this just a couple weeks. I record this a week
0:47.7	ahead of Christmas, but the past couple of weeks, you know, in December, it has been Saltree,
0:53.2	and I haven't known quite how to feel about that. Now that it's turned a little cold, you know,
0:59.3	and when I say cold, I mean like in the 40s, I kind of miss the 70s. You know, I've been here
1:03.8	what four or five months, my blood has already thinned. You know, it gets below 60. I got to put on my
1:10.8	seersucker jacket, go strung it out, protect it against the elements. Christmas is coming, maybe my
1:18.0	least favorite holiday of the calendar year. I find it stressful. I find it not particularly
1:25.6	enjoyable in theory or in execution. There's just too much. It's just too much. It overwhelms me
1:36.0	with mostly dread and guilt. The dread that I'm going to screw up somehow, the guilt that I have
1:45.4	screwed up. You know, maybe I got somebody the wrong gift, the wrong thing. You know, it just
1:50.5	shouldn't be like that. They're just the idea of gift giving to me, ritualized gift giving is just
1:58.4	abhorrent. Somebody on Twitter was saying, you know, speaking as an adult about Christmas,
2:04.8	it's one thing to give gifts to children who do not have jobs and have no money and cannot
2:13.2	purchase their own items. Quite another to give gifts to an adult. When most of the time,
2:21.5	you're not going to get them the thing that they want. You're going to screw it up. You know,
2:25.6	and then everybody has to do the dance of, do you like it? I love it. Really? No, I really
2:30.0	love it. It's perfect. It's exactly what I want it because I saved the gift receipt. I just said
2:34.5	I love it. Didn't I just say I love it? Okay. Well, if you don't for any reason or if it doesn't fit
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