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Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

Frankenstein (1818 novel)

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

Alex Schmidt

Society & Culture, Comedy, History

4.7720 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why the novel Frankenstein is secretly incredibly fascinating.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The novel Frankenstein, known for being movies.

0:04.6

Famous for being Halloween.

0:07.7

Nobody thinks much about it, so let's have some fun.

0:10.5

Let's find out why the novel is more interesting than people think it is. My name is Alex Schmidt, and I'm not alone because I'm joined by my co-host Katie Golden. Katie, what is your relationship to or opinion of the novel Frankenstein? I mean, it's really interesting.

0:54.6

Alex, did you know that Frankenstein is the doctor and not the monster?

1:01.7

Wait, what?

1:02.3

Huh?

1:03.0

Excuse me?

1:03.8

Yeah.

1:04.3

Excuse me.

1:05.1

So, like, when you're like, when you're like, oh, no, look at Frankenstein, you could easily be pointing to a doctor

1:12.8

because Frankenstein is the doctor, not the monster. A lot of people don't know this.

1:18.9

Okay. Could I, and this is totally hypothetical, could I take this piece of information and use it

1:25.4

to try to be superior to other people, in particular

1:27.8

on the internet.

1:29.0

I mean, you can, but because you learned it from me, I'm sort of at the top of the superiority

1:34.7

hierarchy, so just keep that in my...

1:37.3

No, I like it.

1:39.4

I've never read the book.

1:40.9

I've heard it's, you know, I've heard it's a little weird. But like the, yeah, I have

1:47.7

seen, I have seen Young Frankenstein, which is, it's a great movie. It's a Mel Brooks classics.

1:55.6

I always love that. It's so good. It was interesting because I actually watched young

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