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🗓️ 16 July 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Ok look, that's not a great title. The pun is nonsensical, but how else to convey that this is the first episode in which your host reviews the old-timey Zagnut bar. In the world of Clyde and Roberta Alden, we're further exploring the inner life of our young heroine and tracing the history that led her to Lycurgus.
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0:00.0 | From the Jil Schwartz Memorial Library here in Saltree, Savannah, Georgia. This is obscure season 4 in American Tragedy. |
0:16.4 | I'm your host, your friend, your lover and literary, Mansplainer in chief just completing the digestion of a little bit of honey candy. |
0:26.8 | I was driving not a week ago and you know I've got the I've got the robot car and sometimes that |
0:34.2 | robot car needs you to juicer up so I plugged her in at a place that I |
0:38.4 | sometimes plug her in and normally when I stopped there and Martha was with me and |
0:42.2 | I said to Martha hey I'm going to run over to the to the gas station and they got the |
0:47.8 | Chevron or something right across the way and you know I'm going to pick up some snacks or a drink or something like that you want anything? |
0:53.6 | And she's like, oh, we just eat lunch. |
0:54.9 | I'm like, fuck you. |
0:56.9 | You think I'm going to plug in my car and not get snacks? |
1:00.4 | Are you out of your goddamn mind? |
1:02.6 | However, what I said to myself is, hey, you know what, Michael? |
1:06.6 | Rather than go to the gas station that you always go to when you plug in your car |
1:11.1 | on this particular section of the I-95 what you might want to do. |
1:15.1 | Keep walking because right over yonder there's a cracker barrel and what do they have in |
1:20.5 | cracker barrels? Those fun general stores where they sell all kinds of things, |
1:24.7 | wind chimes and sweatshirts and trucker caps and folksy art sayings painted on wooden hearts, things like that. and then they also have like an old-fashioned |
1:35.8 | candy shopy you know just sort of built right in there you can get all kinds of |
1:39.2 | old-fashioned candies and so that's what I did I bought myself a bag a bit of honey because that's a favorite candy of mine from when I was a yute. |
1:48.0 | And then I bought from Earth up thinking, you know, she just said she doesn't want anything, but you know, because I love her, and |
1:56.8 | food is my love language, I'm going to buy her a zag nut bar, and I'll tell you why. Martha is a gal who loves a butter finger you know that |
2:06.4 | crispy peanut buttery toffee thing that gets in your teeth and is is is one of the quicker routes to oral surgery. They did not have a |
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