S4 Episode 37 - Hayseeds!
Obscure with Michael Ian Black
Misfit Toys
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
A sibling spat, if not an outright rivalry, is emerging between the Lycurgus Griffiths children over the arrival of the hayseed Clyde. And you know what happens when hayseeds show up - allergies!!!
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| 0:00.0 | From the Jil Schwartz Memorial Library here in Soltree, Savannah, Georgia, this is obscure season for an American tragedy. |
| 0:15.9 | I am your host, your friend, your ear lover, and literary Mansplainer in chief. |
| 0:22.6 | Michael Ian Black, you could probably hear just through my, |
| 0:25.0 | these first few words. |
| 0:27.8 | I'm suffering mightily. |
| 0:30.6 | Oh man, I'm recording this on the day of the eclipse and somehow that eclipse brought with it just horrible. |
| 0:37.0 | Hey fever, I've been sneezing all day. I know I started last episode by complaining about my allergies, but then we were on that cruise for a week and out there in international waters wasn't a problem. |
| 0:47.5 | Come back here to this damn city filled with trees and pollen and Spanish moss, spores everywhere clogging up my nasal |
| 0:58.6 | passages and making me sneeze and my eyes water and a sniffle and I probably sound horrendous and what are you |
| 1:07.4 | going to do? What are you going to do? Not much other than take allergy pills which is what I've been doing. |
| 1:14.0 | They don't seem to be helping very much. |
| 1:17.0 | So I told you the last time I was going on this cruise |
| 1:20.0 | and we did, it was a poker cruise, I think I mentioned, and the idea was a poker cruise I think I mentioned and the idea of a poker cruise is you get on the boat you play poker all day |
| 1:26.8 | You look out the port hole windows at the sea going by and you're betting and making money hand over fist out there on the boat although of |
| 1:34.9 | course that's not what happened with me the problem well first of all the cruise is |
| 1:38.1 | great I mean I just had a great time the there were two main drawbacks with the cruise. The first was the comedy shows of which I was |
| 1:46.0 | apart were just terrible from start to finish. I'm not saying the comedians were bad, but it was just a terrible |
| 1:51.5 | environment for comedy. |
| 1:53.0 | Poker players from all over the world assembling on a boat with no interest in or really |
| 2:00.0 | understanding of comedy. |
| 2:02.1 | The shows were poorly attended and the response to all of us was at best |
| 2:08.6 | mediocre. We did have a couple good shows. I performed like I feel like eight times on this goddamn boat. |
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