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Obscure with Michael Ian Black

S3 Episode 55 - It's the guns, stupid

Obscure with Michael Ian Black

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

4.91.8K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Hey stupid, it's the guns. Today's episode explores the difference and distinction between fictionalized violence and the real sort. One of them is highly entertaining, the other not so much. PLUS: more American contretemps between Heathcliff and the rest of the gang. 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

From the Jill Schwartz Memorial Library here in Sultries of Anna-Georgia, this is Obscure

0:12.7

Season 3, Wuthering Heights.

0:15.6

I am your host, your friend, your ear lover, your literary mansplanner in chief and georgianologist

0:22.9

Michael E. and Black Southern gentleman Esquaw beginning today's episode with a little

0:31.4

red on my face.

0:32.8

I got an email from esteemed producer Robin Lin who said, are you recording this week?

0:40.8

Now today's Wednesday we release on Fridays and I had to admit to Robin that I had plumb

0:46.8

for God.

0:47.8

I had plumb for God to record.

0:50.6

What I mean, here we are in the throes of passion with Kathy Jr. and Kid and the other

0:58.2

people and everybody else and they just want their story to be told and what am I doing?

1:04.4

Loafing around and goofing off.

1:05.9

I mean, that's irresponsible of me, very, very irresponsible.

1:11.6

Also beginning today with a bit of frustration, I mean, we had a few mass shootings in the

1:18.4

past few days and well, I don't want to talk about it.

1:23.8

But right before I started recording, I got into a Twitter conversation with a person

1:32.6

here on the old Twitter and frustrating me because any time I post about guns, which

1:38.8

of course I'd be doing in the wake of a mass shooting, I get the same arguments from

1:43.3

people.

1:44.3

It's not the guns.

1:45.3

It's not the guns.

1:47.3

And then occasionally I will respond.

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