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Obscure with Michael Ian Black

S2 Episode 41 - An Unidentified Episode

Obscure with Michael Ian Black

Misfit Toys

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

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Michael gets way off track here. And as always, 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

0:09.6

season two, Frankenstein.

0:12.1

I am your host, your friend, your ear lover, your literary mansplainer in chief and literal

0:19.2

Georgianologist Michael Ian Black.

0:22.6

The news these days is out of my purview.

0:26.7

I no longer pay attention to any news because I am hungover from the last five or six years

0:37.9

of news paying attention to.

0:42.1

So anything that happens in the world for me right now is but a blur.

0:47.7

Yes, I know what's going on in the world and yes, I'm keeping tabs on the headlines

0:52.2

and such, but I am no longer consumed by the news.

0:57.8

It has been a pleasure.

1:01.2

There is one story I'm paying a tremendous amount of attention to.

1:06.6

Maybe you are as well.

1:08.7

It is at propose that we are reading Frankenstein as it does tangentially relate to this news.

1:19.4

And so because I'm devoting all of my research time to it, I thought I'd mention it here.

1:26.7

Just in case it sparks your interest and imagination and delight the way it has mine.

1:32.3

Frankenstein of course is the first acknowledged science fiction novel and we are living in

1:39.3

times of science fiction.

1:41.6

I am referring to the UAP slash UFO phenomena which has been consuming me of late.

1:52.9

The story, the recent story of UFOs begins in 2017 when the New York Times publishes a

1:59.0

couple of articles about the Pentagon acknowledging that they have video recordings that they cannot

2:06.0

explain, of craft moving in ways that are inexplicable to them and they show the video

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