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🗓️ 1 October 2024
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Danger abounds as Clyde and Roberta dance along a pinhead! How do they navigate this treacherous impasse at which they've found themselves? It's well-nigh impossible. Impossible! Desire is the streetcar upon which they find themselves riding, and you know what happens when Tennessee Williams writes a play about it. These two poor kids want each other in the wurst (purposeful misspelling) way.
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0:00.0 | From the Jill Schwartz Memorial Library here in sultry, Savannah, this is obscure season |
0:12.3 | four in American tragedy. I am your host, your |
0:16.6 | ear lover and literary. Mansplainer in chief Michael Ian Black, squeezing in this recording. |
0:27.2 | On a Monday morning before I depart for Jacksonville, Florida, where I'm going to spend the day. |
0:34.3 | Playing poker, it's been weeks now, since I've had a chance to sit down at the card table |
0:38.9 | and battle wit's against my fellow degenerate gamblers weeks where I have been stuck in New York |
0:46.7 | doing press and making a television show and receiving awards and such, you know me always receiving awards well it takes time away from my real |
0:56.8 | passion which is sitting around very quietly a group of men at a and sometimes women at a at a poker table and slowly bleeding |
1:06.5 | money that is my passion and is when I need to be doing most of the time but here we are in sultry savanna trying to get this |
1:14.9 | recording out without any further delay I was unable to record last week |
1:22.4 | because of all the aforementioned award receiving and press doing and television show shooting. |
1:29.5 | So I'm a little bit behind and you know the last thing you want to do is get behind with |
1:34.2 | Robin on your butt she will chastise you she will go to you she will strike you with |
1:40.1 | guilt so I said well before I go off to Jacksonville, better sit in my butt down and check |
1:48.2 | in with Clyde and Roberta. And so that's what we're going to do. And you know know last time they had about as big a fight as they've ever had because |
1:59.9 | Clyde is basically saying hey we've been dating for a while it's getting cold |
2:04.3 | out why won't you let me visit you in your room and Roberta is saying I'm not going to |
2:08.8 | let you visit my room because that would be improper and it's on and it's almost |
2:12.0 | certainly going to lead to demonic activity. |
2:14.7 | And demonic activity, I think we all understand what that means. |
2:18.4 | And so they had a little bit of a row. |
2:19.7 | Now it's not just, it's not just, my friends, I say it's not just that Clyde wants sex, although he clearly does, it's that all his own |
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