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Obscure with Michael Ian Black

S3 Episode 44 - 90% of Everything

Obscure with Michael Ian Black

Misfit Toys

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

4.91.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Today's episode starts with a little monologue about cargo because - if this world is going to hell - don't we want to watch it burn with a steaming cup of English Breakfast tea in hand? You bet we do. What better place to receive such goods than a port city like the sultry Savannah? 

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0:00.0

From the Jill Schwartz Memorial Library here in Sultry, Sarana Georgia, this is obscure

0:14.6

season 3, Wuthering Heights, I am your host, your friend, your ear lover, your literary

0:20.4

main splinter in chief and to Georgia,ologist Michael E. and Black, Southern gentleman

0:25.9

Esquire, going on a Savannah River cruise in a couple of weeks, never been on one of those,

0:32.6

my mom's cousin is coming into town, we're going to go on a Savannah River cruise, you

0:37.5

know, up and down, the mighty Savannah River. Don't know what sites we will see, you know,

0:43.0

there's a huge port here, it's a port city, maybe people don't know that, maybe they do,

0:47.7

third largest port apparently, in the United States and I like ports, I like seeing the

0:53.2

big container ships go floating on by, you know, if you walk down to the river sometimes,

0:59.4

you can see some of the container ships and they feel so close, you feel like you can

1:04.5

reach out and just touch them, they're that close to the banks and you don't get a

1:09.6

sense of the size of them until you're up right up to them and you see they're just like,

1:15.1

you know, they're just like skyscrapers floating by, leading with goods from all over the

1:21.7

world, you know, piled high on the deck and you look at that and you think, oh my, you know,

1:26.7

this is this is the, the supply chain issues right here, you know, just these boats coming back

1:33.0

and forth and you know, if there's not dock workers and there's not, you know, people are laid

1:37.6

up with COVID or whatever, you know, things don't, things don't move, I read a very interesting book

1:42.8

about this called something like it, I think the book is called like 99% of everything or

1:47.7

something like that, but it's about the shipping industry. These are these cargo ships and

1:52.6

and their history and what they do and the people on them and they're very interesting cargo

1:58.4

logistics routing, you know, tracking things just goods moving across the globe, I find this stuff

2:06.9

interesting logistics. How do you get something from point A to point B to point C? Things you

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