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🗓️ 24 June 2025
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Your host begins with tales of glamor and intrigue and film festivals, but such tales are short-lived, are they not? And, truth be told, very little intrigue at hand and almost as little glamor. Meanwhile, intrigue builds in the fetid little brain of our troubled teen, Clyde Griffiths. Will such intrigue lead to... MURDER?!?
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0:00.0 | From the Jill Schwartz Memorial Library here in Sultry, Savannah, this is Obscure Season 4 in American Tragedy. |
0:14.8 | I'm your host, your friend, your ear lover, and literary, mansplainer-in-chief Michael Ian Black, and Sue Pine, finally, on the |
0:23.9 | Jack Jack Memorial Reading Throne, finally back at my place of residence after what seems like |
0:31.1 | weeks and weeks and weeks away. And I guess it has been. And I depart again on Thursday of this coming week for New York City, where I will be |
0:46.2 | interviewing Jim Gaffigan as part of the Tribeca Film Festival. And then on the Sunday of that weekend, at the Tribeca Film Festival, |
0:57.9 | a new film entitled Long Live the State will be premiering. It is a documentary about my old |
1:05.7 | sketch group, The State. I haven't seen it. And I will not be attending. Not out of any animus on my part, but because |
1:13.9 | that night I have a show previously scheduled in Beacon, New York. So I will be hanging out with |
1:22.8 | folks from the state the day prior, and I will be supporting the documentary from afar, but I will not be |
1:30.7 | attending its premiere, which, if I'm perfectly frank, I didn't really want to go to anyway. |
1:38.3 | Not because, again, I have any animus towards the project or the state, but because I think watching a documentary |
1:46.5 | about oneself would be incredibly painful. And so I have little desire to do that. But I was going |
1:56.4 | to attend the premiere and then just, you know, abscond before the actual film began. |
2:03.6 | So that's my plan for the coming week and weeks, the following week, I go to Nantucket |
2:10.7 | for the Nantucket Film Festival, where I've been many times. They often have me host panels |
2:16.5 | and such. When I go there and, you know, do the |
2:19.4 | storytelling hour when I go there, you know, just a terrific fun time. But I'm going to go with |
2:24.1 | at least my son and possibly also my wife. She hasn't quite decided if she wants to do that. |
2:31.0 | And then by the time we get back from that, we turn right around and head right back |
2:36.1 | up the East Coast to, uh, we're going to a July 4th party up in Nyack, New York, and then we're, |
2:43.3 | and then we're going to be living in the Poconos for a couple months. So Michael, when you go to |
2:47.0 | the Poconos, please remember to bring your copy of an American tragedy. That is the |
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