S3 Episode 48 - Dickheads

Obscure with Michael Ian Black

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

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🗓️ 6 December 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Some historical analogies on today's episode of Obscure as Mrs. Dean confronts Cathy Jr. about her budding, star-crossed relationship with young Linton. Tears are shed, promises made and broken, trees examined. Yes, trees.

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0:00.0	From the Jill Schwartz Memorial Library here in Saltree, Savannah, Georgia, this is Obscure
0:14.9	Season 3, Wuthering Heights, I am your host, your friend, your ear lover, your literary
0:22.0	mansplainer in chief and georgianologist Michael Ian Black, southern gentleman Esquire, beginning
0:29.5	today with a audio recommendation. Now, despite the fact that I am a podcast creator, I am not
0:41.6	that much of a podcast listener every now and again, I stumble upon something grand and
0:49.3	I have stumbled upon such a thing for you now. It is certainly not Obscure. By any stretch
0:57.9	of the imagination, but I do believe you will appreciate and enjoy it. This is Rachel Maddowes
1:06.6	new series called Ultra, which is about the Nazi movement in America in the 1940s and it
1:21.1	is very, very compelling listening in particular because of the very obvious parallels that they
1:29.0	draw out to today's political climate. Yes, it is distressing, but it is somewhat illuminating to
1:37.5	discover that this is not the first time our nation has been in the throes. Shall we say
1:46.4	illiberal overseas forces and it is not the first time they have found sympathetic ears in the
1:57.0	corridors of power on the Potomac. So if you haven't listened to it yet, I highly recommend it.
2:05.4	Is it more compelling than the great American novel Wuthering Heights? Well, I don't think so.
2:12.7	I mean, yes, it is, but I don't think so, particularly when we have all kinds of
2:20.2	subterfuge occurring right now. I mean, we've got, in a list of love, we've got a kind of
2:26.2	Montague and Capulet thing arising if the Montague's and Capulets were first cousins because that
2:35.0	is the situation that LinkedIn and young Miss Kathy find themselves in as long distance lovers.
2:43.8	Well, if four miles can be considered a long distance, but it is when you are forbidden from
2:49.4	seeing each other as the Capulets and Montague's were. This is a penpal romance as discovered by our
3:01.4	humble narrator, Mrs. Dean, who has unearthed a trove of love letters between Kathy and
3:10.2	LinkedIn. She has squirreled them away from Kathy. She has intercepted the go between and that is where
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