S4 Episode 99 - Dithering and Dickering
Obscure with Michael Ian Black
Misfit Toys
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Perhaps we are at the moment of no return. Hard to say, of course, and lo we have had the rug pulled from under our feet so many times over these last almost 100 episodes. Clyde Griffiths is possessed now, a demon steadying his hand as the deadly moment has now arrived. Or has it???
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| 0:00.0 | from the Jill Schwartz Memorial Library here in Sultry, Savannah. |
| 0:12.3 | This is Obscure. Season 4 in American Tragedy. I am your host, your friend, your ear lover, and literary. |
| 0:20.1 | Mansplainer in-chief Michael Ian Black. It is the 6th of July 2025 as I record |
| 0:31.1 | these words. The 4th of July Independence Day celebrations have come and gone. |
| 0:37.9 | They were a bit muted this year in the black households, as I suspect they were in many |
| 0:43.6 | American households. |
| 0:46.8 | Yesterday we went to a post-July 4th party. |
| 0:52.1 | I guess we'll call it a July 5th party because the hostess and host decided that |
| 0:59.5 | fuck those guys. We're going to celebrate. You're not going to take our joy. And so we went to their |
| 1:07.9 | lovely home here in Savannah. |
| 1:11.5 | We had delicious foods. |
| 1:14.0 | We had strawberry shortcake with whipped cream frosting. |
| 1:19.8 | Delicious. |
| 1:21.2 | We chit-chatted about this and that. |
| 1:23.7 | And then I was home by, I want to say nine, maybe even nine-thirty, so it was very, very, very |
| 1:30.3 | late at night. But, yeah, I mean, did it fix my spirits? No, but did it make them, did it, did it |
| 1:39.9 | buoy them a little bit? Perhaps, perhaps it did tomorrow. Martha and I decamp for our summer |
| 1:48.3 | getaway. We're going to the Poconos for two months. We've rented a house there to escape this |
| 1:52.7 | of any heat. I will bring my copy of an American tragedy with me because I know that this is the single most important |
| 2:05.6 | thing that I do in my life and I cannot miss even a single episode if I do, I mean, |
| 2:12.2 | what's going to happen to Clyde? |
| 2:14.9 | Clyde needs my steadying hand to keep him from murdering Robert Alden. |
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