S4 Episode 98 - What a lousy Independence Day but a fine day for a MURDER
Obscure with Michael Ian Black
Misfit Toys
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
An airport adventure begins this week's episode but your host is happy to assure you that, while his family's was waylaid in NYC attempting to return home to the Deep South. An overnight stay at JFK ensued, with a detour to Minneapolis, before heading, finally to Savannah. And yet... AND YET! Our trip was still better than Roberta Alden's elopement.
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| 1:10.2 | I'm here host, your friend, your earlover, and literary mansplainer-in-chief, Michael, Ian Black, Supine. |
| 1:18.1 | As always on the Jack Jack Memorial Reading Throne, I'm recording on the 4th of July, the 249th edition of this American Independence Day. And what a lousy independence day it is here in |
| 1:33.1 | 2025 as the Constitution is fed through a shredder and then sent off to be recycled. |
| 1:47.0 | Well, maybe not even. I'm just trying to think, can they get a couple of pennies? If they recycle the Constitution, if so, they will do it. We were in Nantucket over the |
| 1:55.2 | week end for the Nantucket Film Festival, all of which was splendid and fun. And I always like going there. If you've never been to Nantucket Film Festival, all of which was splendid and fun, and I always like going there. |
| 2:03.1 | If you've never been to Nantucket, well, there's any number of poems written about it. |
| 2:10.0 | You can just look them up. Generally, they're limericks, and always, always terrific and |
| 2:16.2 | illuminating. Well, we were there and had a fine time, but on the way home, |
| 2:20.2 | we were scheduled to leave on Monday morn. We arrived at the airport, Monday morning in Antuckett, |
| 2:27.5 | flew to LaGuardia Airport, hung out in the Delta Sky Club, waiting for our connecting flight to Savannah, which did not ever come. |
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