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Obscure with Michael Ian Black

S4 Episode 52 - In This Dead Summertime

Obscure with Michael Ian Black

Misfit Toys

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

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The heat is rising out there in Lycurgus. Nothing to do in the stultifying heat but rent a boat and head on out to Crum Lake and eat some goddamned watermelon, which is how your host has been spending about 40% of his time when not reading classic works of literature and commenting on them out loud.

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0:00.0

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

0:12.5

Season 4 in American Tragedy,

0:15.0

I'm your host, your friend,

0:16.1

your lover and literary Mansplainer in chief,

0:19.1

Michael Ian Black, with a rare nighttime recording it's I mean gosh it's very late for me it's it's 8.20 into PM and I just had a

0:31.8

B. I didn't, but I recognize that PM and B.M. went together and so I thought I would really delight you with that imagery.

0:41.0

Just got back from our local taco joint. The boy and I went for tacos tonight and I made the classic mistake. I made the classic mistake. I made the classic mistake. Well, is mistake I don't know but I did the

0:56.4

classic thing where you order the chips and guock and then by the time your

1:01.1

tacos come you're full So I and and I anticipated this.

1:07.2

So I only ordered two tacos and friends you're not going to believe what happened.

1:14.7

I was only able to eat one, one, and done.

1:18.0

And then, after that, you know, on the way to the taco join,

1:21.1

I'd said to Elijah, I said, hey, kid, maybe on the way back I'll pick up a

1:24.6

watermelon, because we've been eating a lot of watermelon here.

1:28.2

You know, it's summertime and you got them summer fruits and boy I love a good

1:31.9

watermelon. And he said, that's a good idea and I said don't let me forget and then on the way out he reminded me and what did we do we went to the supermarket bought myself a $6 seedless watermelon immediately when I got home cut it up

1:47.0

cubed it put it away letting it chill and when I'm done with this by God I'm going to go to town on that pink delicious flesh.

1:56.0

Love a good watermelon. I'll be honest, this one doesn't look like a particularly good watermelon,

2:00.0

but anytime you get a chilled watermelon, even if it's not a very flavorful watermelon it's going to be pretty good.

2:06.0

You know, it's like pizza.

2:08.0

Even bad pizza is, well sometimes it's terrible.

2:12.0

So I mean that's, that's, that's, that's, oh, oh, is well sometimes it's terrible.

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