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Obscure with Michael Ian Black

S4 Episode 36 - This Little Muskrat

Obscure with Michael Ian Black

Misfit Toys

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

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Reporting from the docks today as your host gets ready to depart upon the high seas. Yes, it's a maritime adventure on this week's episode of Obscure. Your host is a guest of the Valiant Lady, the subject of our book the guest of the Griffiths Collar Company. Clyde finishes his tour of the factory and then takes his own tour of the fine residential neighborhoods of Lycurgus.

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0:00.0

From the Jill Schwartz Memorial Library here in Soltree, Savannah, this is obscure.

0:12.5

Season 4 in American Tragedy.

0:14.9

I'm your host, your friend, your ear lover,

0:16.8

and literary Mansplainer in chief,

0:20.3

Michael Ian Black, feeling quite sneezy.

0:23.6

Allergy season has sprung here in the deep south

0:28.8

where everything blooms far earlier than I am used to. I lived above the Mason-Dixon line and so if I

0:36.5

start sneezing and gasping for air and you hear certain wet sounds emanating from my nostrils you will understand the cause.

0:46.7

I'm recording this on a Saturday.

0:49.6

I usually record on Sundays, but Sunday tomorrow is both Easter and the day that the wife and I are heading

0:57.9

off on a poker cruise, which maybe I mentioned before me about it, maybe I didn't't but the way this thing came about is that I've got a friend who's a professional poker player and one of the one of the more visible ones and he said that he was pimping the cruise on his Twitter feed

1:17.0

because the people who sponsor him are putting on this cruise.

1:21.0

And so I said to him, hey, hey buddy, can you hook me up with the poker

1:25.0

cruise people? Maybe I can weedle my way onto the ship. So he did, and I wrote to them and I

1:30.3

said, hey, I'm Michaeline Black. Black very famous can I come be on your ship and

1:35.2

perform you know as a comedian and not only did they say yes they were like you

1:38.8

bring Martha and we'll pay you money and the whole thing. So it's a fabulous excursion for us.

1:45.1

We fly to Miami, very early in the morning,

1:47.7

sit around for several hours, then we embark,

1:51.2

or we begin the embarkation process as they say when you are

1:56.0

cruising and then we're off and we go to I mean it doesn't even matter where we're

2:01.1

going because I don't I don't have any interest in the destinations

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