S4 Episode 101 - Machinations!
Obscure with Michael Ian Black
Misfit Toys
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
There's been a murder (maybe) in these here parts and political machinations are afoot! The coroner, upon suspecting foul play, has some ideas in that big head of his. While murder is never welcome, when it arrives, one would be a fool not to use it to one's advantage...
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| 0:00.0 | Searching for a romantic summer getaway. Escape with Rich Girl Summer, the new Audible original |
| 0:05.2 | from Lily Chew. The exquisitely talented Philippa Sue, returning to narrate her fifth |
| 0:10.2 | Lily Chew title. This time, Philippa is joined by her real-life husband, Stephen Pasquale, |
| 0:15.5 | set in Toronto's wealthy cottage country, aka the Hamptons of Canada, rich girl Summer follows the story of Valerie, |
| 0:22.1 | a down-on-her-luck event planner posing as a socialite's long-lost daughter, while piecing |
| 0:26.5 | together the secrets surrounding a mysterious family and falling deeper and deeper in love with the |
| 0:31.7 | impossibly hard to read and infuriatingly handsome family assistant, Nico. Caught between pretending to belong |
| 0:38.2 | and unexpectedly finding where she truly fits in, |
| 0:41.3 | Valerie learns her summer is about to get far more complicated |
| 0:44.0 | than she ever planned. |
| 0:45.8 | She's in over her head and head over heels. |
| 0:48.5 | Listen to Rich Girl Summer, now on Audible. |
| 0:51.2 | Go to audible.com slash rich girl summer. |
| 0:53.3 | Music Now on Audible. Go to audible.com slash rich girl summer. |
| 1:07.1 | From the former honeymoon capital of these here, United States, this is obscure season four in American tragedy. |
| 1:08.9 | I am your host, your friend, your earlover, and literary mansplainer |
| 1:12.1 | in chief, Michael Ian Black, Supine, this time on the master bed in the master boudoir here in our |
| 1:21.5 | Poconos cabin. We have been here for, oh, a couple of weeks now. And tonight, very fun thing we're going to do. |
| 1:29.6 | We're going to head over to Philadelphia, the city Brotherly Love, to see some of my brothers |
| 1:34.6 | perform in the middle-aged dad jam band. |
| 1:39.7 | They've got a show in Philadelphia. |
| 1:41.1 | I will also be singing a tune. |
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