S3 Episode 46 - Strongman
Obscure with Michael Ian Black
Misfit Toys
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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There are people who blow into town with a heaping load of attitude and make life miserable for everybody else. Somehow these people end up running things a lot of the time. It's curious, perhaps, but the past and present certainly bare the truth of it out. Alas.
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| 0:00.0 | From the Jill Schwartz Memorial Library here in SoulTree, Savannah, this is Obscure Season |
| 0:14.2 | 3, what the ring heights, I am your host, your friend, your lover, literary mansplainer |
| 0:20.7 | in chief, and Georgianologist Michael Ian Black, Southern gentleman S. Quah, and it |
| 0:27.6 | is this SoulTree, a SoulTree November Day in Savannah, I guess it's SoulTree all over |
| 0:37.0 | the nation right now, but here in Savannah where it is 80 degrees in humid, I am less than |
| 0:42.8 | pleased as I anxiously await the drop in temps so I can bust out my fall wardrobe, you |
| 0:52.2 | know all the cardigans and the Hound's tooth checks and the moon boots and all the rest |
| 1:03.1 | very disorienting when it is 80 degrees in November, climate change does not seem to care how |
| 1:10.9 | cute I look in a lightweight sweater and that is one reason to oppose this change in climate |
| 1:20.7 | and so I oppose it, it is also election night eve 2022, I have no idea what's going to happen |
| 1:29.7 | tomorrow, I don't know that anybody quite does, I'm neither optimistic nor pessimistic, I'm just |
| 1:36.6 | ecstic, the fact of the matter is my friend Louis Pitesman on Twitter wrote this, I'm going to |
| 1:45.3 | paraphrase what he said, something like Americans are flirting with a soft fascism and whether it's |
| 1:55.7 | this election or the next or perhaps the one after we are likely to get it and the question really |
| 2:03.5 | is just what happens after that, you know, what happens, we sort of dabbled with it in very gentle |
| 2:12.3 | ways during the last administration and when I say gentle, I'm only using that on the sliding |
| 2:18.0 | scale of fascism, not on the sliding scale of democracy and you know I think fascist is a word |
| 2:25.7 | that gets tossed around a lot, maybe not entirely fairly but I don't know what else to call it, |
| 2:34.2 | you want to call it Christian nationalism right, I mean maybe that's where we're heading but it's |
| 2:39.7 | you know that's a distinction without a difference as far as I'm concerned but it's ugly out there |
| 2:45.4 | and it seems to me it will only get uglier whether it's tomorrow or in two years or in four, I don't |
| 2:54.7 | know but we are headed I believe for dark times and it's just a question of how that will play out, |
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