S2 Episode 08 - The Full Leno
Obscure with Michael Ian Black
Misfit Toys
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Somehow, after 7 episodes, Michael only now begins the actual story of Frankenstein. "Hey Shakespeare, why are you only starting Frankenstein's story now?" And we meet an angel from heaven.
Michael Ian Black reads Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
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| 0:00.0 | from the Jill Schwartz Memorial Library here in the wilds of Connecticut. |
| 0:09.2 | This is obscure season 2, to Frankenstein. |
| 0:14.0 | I am your host, your friend, your ear lover, |
| 0:16.9 | your literary mansplainer in chief |
| 0:18.9 | and Georgianologist Michael Ian Black, It is a big day here on obscure because we have finished what seems to have been the introduction to Frankenstein. |
| 0:36.6 | At the time I was reading it, I didn't realize it was the introduction. |
| 0:40.0 | It was Walton going on and on and on about his whole thing and I didn't it was all |
| 0:43.0 | whole thing and I didn't know like that was all going to be |
| 0:46.7 | prelude to a kiss the kiss of course being the tale of Frankenstein but that's what happens when you don't know anything |
| 0:56.2 | about the book that you're getting into and to celebrate today I decided to go |
| 1:02.0 | full Leno. What's full Leno. |
| 1:04.1 | What's full Leno? |
| 1:05.1 | Denum on Denum. |
| 1:06.2 | I'm wearing Denum on Denim pants, blue t-shirt, |
| 1:11.2 | denum shirt, denim shirt, |
| 1:12.4 | because that is for me the height of literary fashion. |
| 1:18.0 | Oh but what about corduroy with patches on the sleeves? No, that's hack. I'm not hack. I'm a guy who wants to be |
| 1:26.5 | comfortable when sitting on the Jack Jack Memorial Reading Couch and paging through a work of classic Georgian literature, Denim on Denim. |
| 1:37.2 | Plus it's autumn, you know what I mean? |
| 1:39.6 | Autumn is Denim on Denim weather. |
| 1:41.4 | The leaves are turning here in the wilds of Connecticut |
| 1:44.0 | parading from the trees in long lines twirling like baton majors as they |
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