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Obscure with Michael Ian Black

S4 Episode 21 - A User, An Abuser, Perhaps One Day A Boozer

Obscure with Michael Ian Black

Misfit Toys

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

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

As we barrel through the holiday season, your curmudgeonly host grouches about all things consumerist. It is, after all, the corrosive acid of consumerism eating up our hero Clyde Griffiths as he weighs the request by his beloved to acquire for her a little fur coat. If only she were the only one making financial demands upon him... 

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from the city of

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city

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from the Pacific Northwest the city of Seattle, this is obscure season for an American

0:18.8

tragedy. I am your host, your friend, your ear lover, your literary mansplsplainer-in-chief and Georgianologist Michael Ian Black

0:27.0

international man of misery traveling the rails you know riding the rails like Johnny Cash and any old hobo as we take our

0:36.4

traveling little state sketch group from all across this great nation of ours and

0:41.8

this will be the last show,

0:44.4

this show in Seattle for a few months.

0:46.2

Anyway, we will return in April,

0:50.6

but for a few months, we are going on hiatus which you know fun with me it's

0:57.0

always great to be with my friends but gee whiz I I get tired, bopping around this nation.

1:05.6

It's exhausting.

1:06.9

Being the Pack a Deck Age that I am,

1:09.1

Pack a Deck a Deck, that doesn't make sense.

1:10.6

Deck of Cars Age that I am, 52, deck of cards.

1:15.0

Yeah, so we're here for, I'm here for one day and then I go to Des Moines in Iowa for a few days and then I get to go home to Old Savannah and you know

1:29.8

looking forward to that. I like being home. The of the year is coming, you know, we're rapidly

1:35.0

galloping into December. This is of 2023 as I record. Who knows what unseen horrors are heading my way or the way of the world, but right now

1:45.1

we're galloping towards the end of the year. Everything gets a little quiet this time of year.

1:52.0

I will get quiet as well as I hibernate in Savannah

1:57.4

waiting for the holidays to come, the holidays to go. It is, let us say, my least favorite time of the year. I really don't

2:07.1

like the holiday season for all the reasons I dislike Christmas which are myriad.

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