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Obscure with Michael Ian Black

S2 Episode 28 - A Stranger Knocks

Obscure with Michael Ian Black

Misfit Toys

Books, Comedy, Literature, Audiobooks, Arts, Alternative Comedy

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In which Michael complains more about the book but then something VERY EXCITING happens - bah buh BAAAAAAH - and then he complain some more. 

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, this is obscure

0:10.3

season 2 Frankenstein.

0:12.9

I am your host, your friend, your ear lover.

0:16.1

Literary mansplainer in chief and georgianologist Michael Ian Black.

0:22.8

Spring is in the air here a little bit I mean the temperatures have climbed a smidge

0:28.3

and you get into that mindset where your brain sort of fools itself in to go and think

0:32.2

if they can oh gee spring is here spring is here and then you think oh all the things

0:36.6

I'm going to do in spring oh god I'm going to do so many things which for me amount

0:40.9

to all the things that I do the rest of the year which is not very much.

0:45.5

But you know you can kind of smell it there's a there's a mellowness in the air.

0:50.4

Something furtive is brewing you know you can you can sense little rabbit noses twitching

0:56.7

somewhere out there in the woods getting ready to scamper and hop and make more bunnies

1:03.4

you know it's a it's an exciting time sort of I mean we're an early march I don't know

1:07.8

that spring is coming it might get cold again I might snow again but the inevitability

1:12.3

of the season is upon us and with it hopes are soaring I don't know why but hopes are

1:19.2

soaring and we're continuing here on Frankenstein.

1:25.8

Last time we spoke the big buddy was talking about yeah there's a couple that he learned

1:32.4

there's a couple of his family that he loves and his own realization of his own monstrosity

1:40.3

and the last thing we said was I did not yet entirely know the fatal effects of this miserable

1:45.2

deformity and my hope my own hopes were springing because I thought oh good you know somebody

1:50.5

going to die you know and we know people are going to die but I you know I thought maybe

1:54.3

sooner rather than later that would be terrific maybe young Felix maybe young Agatha maybe

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