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Obscure with Michael Ian Black

S2 Episode 54 - I Have the Power!

Obscure with Michael Ian Black

Misfit Toys

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

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Michael bought himself a mighty sword and spent the last few days unleashing total destruction. Plus he complains more about his dogs. And of course, continues to read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

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0:00.0

From the southern branch of the Jill Schwartz Memorial Library here in Saltree, Savannah,

0:09.6

this is obscure season 2, Frankenstein.

0:12.6

I am your host, your friend, your heirlover, literary mansplainer in chief, and Georgianologist

0:18.2

Michael, Ian Black, feeling this week all powerful.

0:23.8

I, as you know, have been watching a lot of YouTube videos about such ephemera as RVs,

0:31.7

et cetera, et cetera.

0:33.6

And one of the things that RVs has led me to is RV maintenance and such, which has led

0:40.4

me to kind of DIY stuff, which reminded me that I bought a house, and so I was like, hey,

0:46.4

maybe I don't need to pay everybody to do everything for me.

0:49.4

Maybe I can, in fact, do some things for myself.

0:52.8

So I googled, like, what, basically, like, what tools should I have, just as a human

1:01.0

being, what tools should I have, and, you know, because there's idiots like me out there,

1:09.4

somebody, some DIYer had compiled a list of tools that somebody like me should have,

1:14.9

and I was like, well, I'll just get one of these.

1:16.9

So the one that looked the most appealing to me is called the Sawzall, and it does what

1:23.0

the name implies.

1:24.2

It implies its sawz all, like, whatever you need to saw, it'll saw it.

1:29.5

It's called the Morginera term for it as a reciprocating saw, and look, I'm probably telling

1:35.4

you people things that you already know.

1:37.4

I don't know anything, you know, I never built nothing, I never, you know, did nothing

1:45.0

with my hands.

1:46.2

You know, I just, I just don't know how to do anything, you know, I didn't grow up with

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