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Obscure with Michael Ian Black

S3 Episode 58 - Up, Up, and Away

Obscure with Michael Ian Black

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4.91.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

We’re shooting down stuff faster than the aliens can send it up there. Michael briefly recaps the airborne events of the previous week and then, at long last, somebody dies in the great American novel, “Wuthering Heights”

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0:00.0

From the Jill Schwartz Memorial Library, here in Sultry, Savannah, Georgia, this is obscure

0:12.1

season 3, weathering heights I am your host, your friend, your earlover, your literary

0:18.0

mansplainer in chief, and Georgiaologist Michael Ian Black, Southern Gentlemen Esquire.

0:24.9

I will remember season 1, I devoted one episode to discussing UFOs, or as they are, now

0:35.1

called UAP and man, if we had a bananza week for UAP slash UFO stuff in the news, mostly

0:48.6

because the US is going around shooting them down.

0:51.0

When we shoot down four of them, for UFOs, my goodness.

0:56.2

Now, if you're asking for my expert opinion about what we shot down, my expert opinion

1:01.6

will tell you that we probably shot down some drones, or some such thing, or balloons

1:08.0

or nothing particularly extraterrestrial.

1:12.8

However, what's been captivating about this story for those UFOlogists, such as myself,

1:21.8

who follow these things, is not so much that we shot these things down, but that if

1:31.1

you compare, the story seems to me to be to compare our reaction to these things versus

1:40.2

our reaction to many other things that we see in the sky.

1:45.8

Now, on one hand, you can say, well, the US is being very secretive about these things,

1:51.1

and although I think there's maybe supposed to be a press conference today, it is Valentine's

1:54.8

Day, by the way, happy Valentine's Day to those who observe, and then there is, I forgot

2:01.0

what I was even saying, that we see how the US responds to these intrusions over our

2:07.2

airspace, and then we recognize that these sorts of intrusions happen happening for literally

2:13.6

decades, and we haven't seen this level of engagement before, so what's the, what, why?

2:19.0

Why?

2:20.0

Well, some people are saying, well, they tune the radars differently, and so because they

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