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The Midnight Air

The Legend of The North Pond Hermit

The Midnight Air

All Things Comedy

Comedy

51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The Legend of The North Pond Hermit! Plus tales from my weekend in Wisconsin, your emails, and this week’s Holi-Days like International Nude Day! And we close things out as we always do, with The Tribune! Premium Subscribers can stick around after the show for a Midnight Movie Club where I discuss F1 and Superman!

Thank you to Aaron Brungardt for engineering, mixing, and production expertise, Geoffrey Tice for artwork, Bobby TBD for theme music, and All Things Comedy for their support, production, and distribution.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, welcome to another episode of the Midnight Air with me, Daniel Van Kirk. This is for, I mean, if you're listening to the night that it drops, it can be for whenever you want it to be. But I am recording this the night of July 14th. Hub City Comedy Week is this week. We'll get into that in a second. I do want to give you a rundown, though, of everything we have coming up on today's show. I'm going to talk about Green Lake, Wisconsin,

0:43.8

my time at the cabin, a crazy thing. Not, yeah, bizarre. Just a fun conversation I had at the flea market

0:52.6

up at Wisconsin. And then I will go through our

0:55.9

holidays of the week. Obviously, we will read the Tribune to find out what's going on in Germania

1:01.1

butts and news. Shout out Rhonda Goldsmith. And I've got emails from all of you. Plus, our big topic

1:10.1

is going to be about the North Pond Hermit.

1:14.0

I don't know if you heard about this.

1:15.4

It happened around like 2013, 2014, but it started way before that.

1:18.4

We'll get into it in just a little bit.

1:21.0

And, sorry to yell.

1:24.0

If you are a premium subscriber to this show, there's a little bit of bonus for you over in the

1:30.7

Patreon feed because I'm going to be talking about the movies F1 and the movie Superman.

1:37.6

We're not going to do a ton of time.

1:39.1

I'm going to really try and keep it spoiler-free, but you can always save it until after you've seen

1:43.3

those things.

1:43.8

All right, let's jump into this show. First of all, I want to let you know where I'm going to be, and I

1:48.0

already mentioned it, Hub City Comedy Week, is this week, y'all, starting tomorrow, Tuesday,

1:56.1

the 15th, and then going through Saturday. I've got shows like headline views where comics start their set

2:03.4

with pop culture and news headlines that are submitted by the audience. We've got the Chicago

2:11.5

Comedy Party where comedians tell stories about their time living in Chicago, whether that is

2:17.0

happening right now or for like me

2:18.8

was a while ago. Then we've also got tell mom what you did, where moms will listen to a comedian's set.

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