from the Jill Schwartz Memorial Library here in the wild of Connecticut.

This is obscure season 2 Frankenstein. I'm your host, your earlover, your literary Mansplaner in

chief Michael Ian Black and I am thrilled to welcome everybody to a second season of obscure.

All of you who are joining me out there on Patreon.

Thank you so much.

All of you who have not yet subscribed to Patreon.

You can go to Patreon.com backslash Michael Ian Black and get yourself hooked up

because we're doing all kinds of cool shit. I don't know what I started to say it the word shit started to come out I don't know

Australian and then did it ended up being kind of Valley Girl,

circa 1983, but more like somebody trying

to do a Valley Girl impersonation,

like a 50-year-old man like me,

trying to do a Valley Girl impersonation. That's what it sounded like. So I apologize and if you were to stop listening to this entire podcast because of that alone, I would totally understand. But on Patreon, there's all kinds of extra stuff. There's bonus

episodes, there's book club, and then there's additional bonus content, and it's cheap cheap so I would encourage you to subscribe but for those

of you already there welcome on what I expect to be a scintillating journey.

Now, there may be some among you, some new listeners,

some curious about whether or not

you should subscribe to this podcast. So I'm going to lay

out exactly what this is and make the most compelling argument I possibly can as to why you should subscribe.

And the way to subscribe is by going to Patreon.com backslash Michael Ian Black. So the first question, what is

obscure? It is a podcast in which I read classic works of literature out loud and comment on them as I go.

Well, Michael, you may be thinking to yourself, that sounds horrible.

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