S4 Episode 132 - I Don't Want To Do Things
Obscure with Michael Ian Black
Misfit Toys
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Your rambling host details, for no discernible reason, his weeklong schedule (pronounced: sh-edule). He then moves on to using the word "nadir," which is pretentious. Just a terrible waste of time from your host before we get back to the matter at hand, the trial of one Clyde Griffiths.
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| 0:36.7 | From the Jill Schwartz Memorial Library here in the wilds of Connecticut, this is obscure, |
| 0:42.4 | season four in American tragedy. I'm your host, your friend, your ear lover, and literary mansplainer |
| 0:48.8 | in chief, Michael Ian Black, about to depart for Charm City, Baltimore, Maryland. Oh, actually, I mean, I am, yes, |
| 0:59.7 | I don't know why I said that. I do know why, and I'll explain in a second. I'm not going to |
| 1:04.2 | Baltimore. I'm going to Columbus, Ohio, but I'm going there by way of Baltimore, but that's not the reason that Baltimore |
| 1:13.2 | is top of mind. It's top of mind because this week I was in Baltimore for a writers conference, |
| 1:22.6 | the AWP American Writers and publishers conference or something like that. I don't know really what it's called. |
| 1:30.2 | I was doing a panel and a friend of my invited me. So I went down there. I had a fine time. |
| 1:37.5 | I like stuff in convention halls. I don't know why. I have kind of a soft spot for it. |
| 1:43.9 | I like wandering |
| 1:45.0 | big arenas and looking at stuff, wares, merch. I like panels. I like seeing people of a community |
| 1:56.1 | excited to be at a place. I like all of that. And yet, now that I think of it, anytime I've |
| 2:02.8 | ever been to one of those, like any time I've ever been, like, in a big setting, maybe that's |
| 2:10.5 | not true. Ah, okay, here's the exception. Anytime I'm in a big setting like that, like a convention |
| 2:15.6 | or a cruise ship, you know, where there's a lot of people gathered, you know, if they're all like, like I was on the impractical Joker's cruise. |
| 2:24.0 | I was performing on that several years ago. |
| 2:26.5 | And anytime I'm in a big thing like that, I never feel like I'm part of the community, even if I'm there voluntarily. |
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