From the Jill Schwartz Memorial Library here in Soltree, Savannah, Georgia, this is obscure season for an American tragedy.

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

Michael Ian Black, I am shortening the

Appalachians and monarchers that I have assigned to myself because I've grown

weary of them. Although I don't think I will ever tire of literary mansplainer in cheap because look that's what we do here on this

podcast I mansplain and like most mansplains I generally have no idea what I'm talking about, but what I do is I just sort of wade into the waters, you know, until they've covered my head and then when I finally realize I'm drowning in them, I come up gasping for air and hoping to clear my brain fog. The brain fog, I will

say is particularly thick and odious today, having deplained not 24 hours ago from Des Moines Iowa, the city that always

sleeps.

I mean I was walking around Des Moines around 5.30 6 o'clock p.m. on a Saturday night

heading from my hotel to the comedy club where I was performing half a mile walk.

If I saw half a dozen people on my trip

from hotel to Tiki's comedy club,

that would be a surprise to me.

Just nobody's out on the streets in Des Moines. I don't know what they're doing but they're not outside and there doesn't there didn't seem to be a lot of places to just kind of hang out. I don't know if it's been depopulated and in my head I'm spelling a

D. E. S. Populated because it's Des Moines or what but it just nobody was around and

the comedy club was nice and full which was a good thing to see but just like out there on the streets and

you know you're looking in windows and wandering around and you might see somebody walking a dog or something

but it's basically I am legend out there. There's just nothing going on.

It's just a dead zone. Might have just been the neighborhood. I don't know. Maybe there's a

hopping area of Des Moines that I'm just unaware of but yeah at least where I was nothing doing man

Which is fine by me. I mean what do I care? What am I gonna do go out and do stuff that chance. I actually arrived in Des Moines a day earlier, or two days actually earlier.

So I had like a full day of just doing nothing, just being in Des Moines and I could have painted the city red what did I do instead?

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