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🗓️ 28 May 2024
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Clyde has come a'calling to visit the Samuel Griffiths clan, those Lycurgus sophisticates to whom he is related. He's much impressed with the Griffiths manse and the fine specimens within, save for Gilbert Griffiths, his snooty cousin. It's a tale of manners on this week's splendid episode of Obscure.
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0:00.0 | From the Jill Schwartz Memorial Library here in Solchry, Savannah, Georgia, this is obscure season 4. |
0:15.0 | In American Tragedy, I'm your host, your friend, your ear lover and literary. |
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0:37.0 | final witness, I don't know about finest, but final witness, and then the defense will make their case. So that's somewhat interesting, |
0:46.5 | although also somewhat dispiriting to see the shambles that our American political system has become a little bit dispiriting. |
1:00.0 | But what are you going to do? What are you going to do? Vote? Grow up. I'm not going to vote. What am I a |
1:06.7 | what am I a a voter? Yeah, I mean yeah, I guess I am. |
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1:24.7 | Anna later this afternoon it'll be good to have her around for the next several weeks |
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2:11.0 | out-lied sounds like out Clyde and Clyde is in fact out in the better part of |
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