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Obscure with Michael Ian Black

S4 Episode 32 - The 60 Year Old Bellhop

Obscure with Michael Ian Black

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

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Clyde is about to meet his uncle, Samuel Griffith, who has come to Chicago and is staying at the very club in which Clyde's employ is now secured. But how to approach the Great Man? Would his uncle find him nothing more than an aged bellhop in laughable circumstances? Listen on and find out! 

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0:00.0

From the Jill Schwartz Memorial Library here in sultury, Savannah, Georgia, this is obscure

0:12.0

season four in American tragedy.

0:15.9

I am your host, your friend, your lover, and literary

0:18.9

man's planner-in-chief, Michael Ian Black.

0:21.1

Oh dear, oh dear, about to sneeze. The first sneezes started yesterday and I thought

0:30.6

to myself, oh dear, spring has sprung in Savannah. Now, February, which is the month in which I am recording this,

0:38.3

is when spring really starts to pop up here in subtropical savanna months earlier than it does in the

0:49.2

wild of Connecticut. Usually my allergies wouldn't kick in in Connecticut until, oh I don't know,

0:57.0

May, mid-May, but now we're in February and you've heard me sneezing. I suspect the sneezing will only increase in

1:05.9

duration and intensity as the coming weeks roll on. So there may be future episodes of this podcast where it

1:15.7

consists of nothing but me sneezing for half an hour to 40 minutes get ready

1:21.5

for that nothing too much going on. In my world I did go to the club that I told you I joined.

1:28.0

Been there several times and yesterday I was lounging by the pool. That's something you can do at my club, you can lounge by the pool, and that's what I was doing

1:36.6

in February of 2024, a sentence I would not have been able to utter in Connecticut not only because I am not there in February of 2024 but because it would be too cold and if I'm being perfectly honest I did get a little chilly here in Savannah and

1:54.6

eventually had to leave because I was chilly but it was still nice to be poolside.

1:58.9

As for an American tragedy, Drieser basically kind of tipped his hand at the end of the last

2:06.7

episode.

2:07.7

He knows what's in store for Clyde and he basically told us, look guys, I'm warning you right now.

2:14.0

Clyde, he's going to meet his uncle and Samuel,

2:18.0

he's going to go to like Curges.

2:19.8

But in the end, nothing good can come of this.

2:22.1

Listen to the this listen to the

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