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🗓️ 9 September 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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The episode begins with a delightful recounting of a water adventure, which segues PERFECTLY into the horror show unfolding over there on Big Bittern. Highs and low on another cromulent episode of Obscure.
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| 0:00.0 | Your first great love story is free when you sign up for a free 30-day trial at audible.co. |
| 0:05.5 | U.K. slash Wondery. That's audible.com. UK slash Wondery. |
| 0:16.3 | From the former honeymoon capital of the world, not Niagara Falls. |
| 0:24.8 | The Poconos. This is obscure season four in American tragedy. I'm your host, your friend, |
| 0:29.5 | your ear lover, and literary mansplainer in chief Michael Ian Black yesterday. |
| 0:37.1 | Or was it two days ago? |
| 0:38.3 | No, it was yesterday. |
| 0:39.3 | No, two days ago. |
| 0:40.3 | The wife and I went over to the Delaware water gap for a two and a half hour kayaking excursion. |
| 0:51.3 | Well, she rented some kayaks. We went to the adventure sports place and paid our money and |
| 0:59.6 | they gave us some kayaks and life jackets and paddles and off we went. I shouldn't say they gave us |
| 1:06.3 | the kayaks. We met them at the launching place on the river, the Delaware water, |
| 1:12.6 | or the Delaware River there, and they push you into the kayaks. |
| 1:16.6 | We didn't fasten no kayaks to our car, nothing like that. |
| 1:20.6 | We ain't handy with ropes like that. |
| 1:23.6 | You think I'm going to be out there tying sail or nots? |
| 1:26.6 | No, I don't know how to do that there tie in sail or nots? |
| 1:29.0 | No, I don't know how to do that. |
| 1:32.9 | And in fact, as we were launching our kayaks, |
| 1:37.6 | I happened to see a fella probably around my age, |
| 1:42.0 | but just, you know, you ever see those sinewy, mussely guys who just don't have an ounce of fat on them. And they look like they |
| 1:46.0 | lived their life out of doors, trapping and hunting and kayaking and paddleboarding and |
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