S3 Episode 42 - Rude Bred Kin
Obscure with Michael Ian Black
Misfit Toys
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Who's to say who is the more rude bred of the kin: the dog hanger Hareton or the poorly mannered Cathy Jr. with her shameful behavior upon learning of her kin? Neither does themself proud, shall we say. And then we've got another cousin trundling to Thrushcross Grange, the sad Edward Gorey character Linton II, pale and wan and probably a fan of Joy Division.
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| 0:00.0 | From the Jill Schwartz Memorial Library, here in Saltree, Savannah, this is Obscure Season |
| 0:15.0 | 3, Wuthering Heights, I am your host, your friend, your your lover, your literary mansplain |
| 0:21.2 | or in chief and georgianologist Michael E. and Black Southern gentleman Esquire, back at you |
| 0:28.2 | with another, you know, few pages of literature deposited right into your ear holes for your |
| 0:40.1 | enjoyment, amusement and betterment because yes, if there's one thing this podcast does above |
| 0:47.6 | all else, it is to create betterment for humanity, nobody more equipped to do that than myself, |
| 0:57.9 | dealing with trolls on Twitter, Twitter trolls, trolls, TW-O-L-L-S because I have made |
| 1:08.7 | the mistake yet again, suggesting that we do something about gun violence in this country |
| 1:14.3 | and my goodness when you say such a thing, the hordes just descend on you like a what, |
| 1:24.3 | like a plague of locusts, they just come out of every orifice that Twitter has to besiege |
| 1:34.7 | and taunt and they say terrible things like you're not funny and you know stick to football |
| 1:43.6 | and you know horrible things like this and it's oh it just, it just is very hurtful, you know, |
| 1:49.9 | just very very hurtful to me. When one suggests that something could be done to reduce |
| 2:01.5 | gun violence in this nation, well they don't care for that at all, there is no amount |
| 2:08.2 | of gun violence that would offend these people and I'm putting the word people in air quotes because |
| 2:16.3 | who knows how many of them are actual people and how many of them are just some sort of |
| 2:24.3 | AI-generated outrage bot, very hard to say. So that's been annoying, you know, the way it is |
| 2:32.2 | when you are online, but otherwise hey, things are pretty good, you know, just to travel update, |
| 2:39.0 | last weekend, Minneapolis, this weekend, Burlington, Vermont, the following weekend, |
| 2:44.7 | you know, the hell scape that is Chicago, Illinois and I am of course being sarcastic |
| 2:53.8 | when I mention Chicago because that is the go-to city for these gun aficionados |
| 3:01.5 | when mentioning how dangerous our nation is and how they need, need these firearms to keep |
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