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Obscure with Michael Ian Black

S3 Episode 37 - Buonasera

Obscure with Michael Ian Black

Misfit Toys

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

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🗓️ 20 September 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Your host is off to Roma, Catherine is dead, and Heathcliff is feeling all sorry for himself. Plus, Michael explains why the saying "there's no such thing as a free lunch" is demonstrably false.

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0:00.0

From the Jill Schwartz Memorial Library here in Sultry, Savannah, Georgia, this is obscure

0:13.8

season three, weathering heights.

0:16.4

I am your host, your friend, your earlover, your literary mansplainer in chief, and Georgia

0:23.7

andologist Michael Ian Black, southern gentleman, Esquia, about to depart for Rome, Italy.

0:36.5

We've been meaning to go to Rome for years, or Italy, I should say, for years, and kept

0:42.8

getting put off for various reasons, and now finally we are going.

0:48.2

So I leave for the old world, in just a couple of hours from now, but before that I thought,

0:56.0

hey, I should probably record an episode of weathering heights.

1:02.6

It is with great, great relief that I tell you that Catherine is dead, God am I happy

1:10.7

about that.

1:11.7

You know, we've been waiting for her to die pretty much from the beginning of the book,

1:15.4

and now finally she's dead, she's ready to haunt the moors, she's ready to haunt

1:19.6

weathering heights, she's ready to scare our narrator Lockwood, like all kinds of good

1:23.8

things can finally take place now that she has expired, somehow she also gave birth

1:31.2

before it expiring.

1:33.1

None of us understood that she was pregnant.

1:36.6

It was brought to my attention, wait, I'll read the exact quote from where we are to gather

1:45.9

that she was with childs, okay, where is that, where is that information, okay.

1:54.2

So Monica Newman found it, it's in chapter 13, quote, and there was a double cause to

1:59.6

desire it for on her existence, depended that of another.

2:04.0

We cherish the hope that in a little while, Mr. Linton's heart would be gladdened and

2:10.0

his land secured from a stranger's grape by the birth of an heir.

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