Welcome to the Best of the Left podcast, though this is an edition of the show, unlike

anything you'll have ever heard from me before.

You know, the music's playing and normally I'd be introducing the sources you're about

to hear from, but this edition only has one source and it comes from somewhere you've

probably never heard of.

And so, you know, it sounds like the show is about to start and I'm going to stop talking,

but no, it's still just me.

I'm just going to keep talking and give a little bit of an introduction to what you're

about to hear and then I'll bring to you the content that I really want to share today.

So to back away up, give a little context for this.

It was, you know, I'm 28 now.

It was within the last six or eight months that I realized I had an interest in theater.

And you know, so it took me all that time.

It was possible that I didn't even see a performance of any kind on a stage, you know, between

the ages of like 10 and 28.

So, you know, I had no idea that I had an interest in it, but about six or eight months ago,

I literally accidentally went to a show in a theater.

And that story is not really important.

I was there with a friend.

I ended up at a theater to where just checking it out.

It turned out a show was about to start.

So we got some rushed tickets for, you know, for half price.

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