S2 Episode 40 - Contact Dermatitis, Ennui, and Doubt
Obscure with Michael Ian Black
Misfit Toys
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🗓️ 17 August 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Things kick off with an explosion and end with a bang. Actually, Michael doesn't remember how they end, but they definitely start with an explosion. The Big Buddy and his trusty sidekick arrive in England for, apparently, no reason, and then decide to try the haggis up north.
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 |
| 0:10.0 | Season 2, Frankenstein, I am your host, your friend, your ear lover, your literary mansplainer |
| 0:16.3 | in chief and literal, Georgianologist, Michael Ian Black about to sneeze, oh jeez, |
| 0:23.6 | oh jeez, help us there, oh it has been an allergy season for the ages, I feel like we're |
| 0:34.8 | a month into this allergy season and it just doesn't end, I mean I took a pill this morning, |
| 0:41.3 | I also took something from my allergies, rimshot that's a good joke, yeah I've just been |
| 0:47.6 | sneezing and I'm finding like a weird dermatitis bumps on my body, you know, from contact |
| 0:57.1 | with nature, I'm not allowed to touch nature, when I do, I break out, it really doesn't |
| 1:02.0 | matter what kind of nature, anything in the natural world, if I touch it I get a rash, |
| 1:07.9 | you know, could be anything, maybe I'm exact, maybe I'm slightly exaggerating, but I obviously |
| 1:15.3 | touch something because I got little bumps on me, little itchy bumps and that isn't necessarily, |
| 1:20.8 | I mean that is an allergic reaction, but that's a different kind of allergy from the allergies, |
| 1:24.8 | I'm currently experiencing and will no doubtedly experience again during the course of this podcast |
| 1:31.4 | as I erupt into another volcanic sneeze, please ignore any sniffles that you may hear during |
| 1:40.9 | the course of this podcast, but nature can be a brutal mistress, we were talking about nature |
| 1:48.4 | last time in a much more gentle context, you know, just how nature reflects our own eye, |
| 1:57.2 | meaning like whatever we bring to the table, nature will show us right back, whatever our |
| 2:03.8 | experience is, nature will mirror, it's not that the natural world is doing anything in particular, |
| 2:09.6 | but we're finding in the natural world that which we are experiencing internally. So the fact |
| 2:16.0 | that I'm sneezing and rebelling against nature, I don't know what that says about me right now, |
| 2:21.3 | because I don't feel particularly rebellious, if anything, I feel a little sleepy, it's early here |
| 2:27.6 | in the Gilles' Schwartz Memorial Library, around 9.30 in the AM, I usually record, somewhat later in the |
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