Hello and welcome.

I'm David Kern.

We need a funeral dirge as our opening music here.

Yeah, Logan, we're going to have to put something a little more dower in.

So I am David Kern.

This is Close Reads, and I am joined by Tim McIntosh and Angelina Stanford, whose voices you just heard.

Wow, that is how messed up today is.

You forgot to give me top billing.

I can't even.

All right, we want anybody to start over again?

If we do that, it's too risky.

We can't do it. Push, push through. Keep going.

I'm going to try. Let me grab a tissue. So we are here to talk about Murder on the Orient Express,

the movie episode. Now, we already did this for an hour and a half earlier today, and then we started

another show, and we have had continuous technical difficulties. So we're, at this point, our fingers are crossed, we're knocking on wood, we're doing all kinds

of other things that involve rabbit's feet and salt and so forth. And we're going to give it a go.

Hopefully we will have an episode up to you tonight. So if not, we're all on the floor,

curled up in the fetal position.

I'm normally there, so it's fine.

I mean, it's just, you know, business as usual here.

We should probably talk about dessert now, huh?

That was the smoothest segue ever.

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